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Christine Kellett is The Australian’s digital director. She was previously content director, The Weekend Australian’s digital editor and has been a news editor, chief of staff and senior reporter at titles including The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times and news.com.au.

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PERTH, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 14: Premier elect Mark McGowan and family arrive for breakfast in Rockingham on March 14, 2021 in Perth, Australia. Labor leader Mark McGowan has won the West Australian state election for a second term, in a landslide victory. (Photo by Will Russell/Getty Images)

Closed borders worked for me: McGowan basks in win

As Singapore travel bubble is considered by federal government, returned Labor Premier says he won’t hesitate to cut off WA again.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 28: Container RAP81400PC holding the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is removed from the Emirates airlines plane as the first vaccination doses into the country arrives at Sydney International airport on February 28, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second vaccine to arrive in Australia. 300,000 doses arrived in today's shipment. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) will now batch-test the vaccines to ensure they meet Australia's strict quality standards. (Photo by Edwina Pickles - Pool/Getty Images)

Vaccine rollout ramped up after target missed

Australia’s rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine will begin by March 8, after the first shipment touched down in Sydney on Sunday.

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AstraZeneca Covid 19 vaccine first arrival in Australia arriving at Sydney International airport. Then transported to nearby truck and onto a secret location. Photograph by Edwina Pickles. Taken on 28th Feb 2021. (POOL)

‘Myth busters’ join anti-vaxxer crackdown

Australians to get a more accurate timeline for vaccine; Greg Hunt reveals Home Affairs ‘myth-busting unit’; first 300,000 AZ doses arrive.

Adeshola Ore

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Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull pictured during his appearance at Adelaide writers week, on Sunday February 28, 2020.Picture: Alan Noble / Twitter @scruzin

Rape accuser left behind a trail of her misery

Trove of documents and recordings left behind by woman allegedly raped by man now a cabinet minister surfaces, as Malcolm Turnbull reveals she sought his help.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 20: Pete Evans is seen at an anti-vaccination rally at Hyde Park on February 20, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. Evans is a controversial celebrity chef and conspiracy theorist who was recently banned fromÃÂ InstagramÃÂ and Facebook for sharing misinformation about the coronavirus and vaccines. The protestors are demonstrating against mandatory COVID-19 vaccines. The COVID-19 vaccine is due to be rolled out to frontline health workers across Australia from next week. The Australian government has purchased enough vaccines for all Australians to be vaccinated, should they choose to do so. While vaccinations are not mandatory, some industries might require workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment. (Photo by Brook Mitchell/Getty Images)

‘Ignore the anti-vaxxers’, health authorities urge

Disgraced celebrity chef Pete Evans vows to ‘speak his truth’ as dissenters arrested in nationwide protests targeting roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine.

Daniel Sankey and Nicholas Jensen

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WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - FEBRUARY 14: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks with media on February 14, 2021 in Wellington, New Zealand. Auckland is now at Level three with the rest of the country on level two. Three new locally acquired COVID-19 cases have been recorded in Auckland on Sunday with genomic testing underway to confirm if the cases are linked to any of the more infectious coronavirus strains. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/Getty Images)

Auckland hit with snap lockdown

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ordered New Zealand’s largest city into a three-day lockdown from midnight on Sunday (10pm AEDT) after three cases emerged in the community.

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PERTH, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 04: Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan speaks to the media during a press conference at Dumas House on February 4, 2021 in Perth, Australia. Parts of Western Australia entered a five-day lockdown on February 1, after a hotel quarantine worker tested positive to highly infectious Covid-19 strain. (Matt Jelonek-Pool/Getty Images)

WA refuses to ease limits on NSW, Victoria

People from NSW still face 14 days of quarantine, despite the state not recording a new community case in 21 days.

Victoria Laurie, Christine Kellett and Jess Malcolm

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ISTANBUL, TURKEY - FEBRUARY 05: Mobile vaccination team member, nurse Meral Karatas, administers the Chinese Sinovac's Coronavac vaccine to 80 year old Meliha Terlikcioglu, during a house call on February 5, 2021 in Istanbul, Turkey. Since shipments of the Chinese Sinovac's Coronavac vaccine arrived in Turkey on December 30, 2020, medical teams have been working house to house to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to elderly and vulnerable citizens who are unable to attend a vaccination clinic or hospital or who are fearful to venture outside. Citizens over 75 years old who qualify for the vaccine are able to book an appointment online for one of the health ministryÃ¢â¬â¢s mobile vaccinations teams, who then come to their homes and administer the vaccine. Turkey's official drug and medical equipment body approved the Chinese Sinovac Coronavac vaccine for emergency use against the novel coronavirus on the 13th of January 2020. According to data from TurkeyÃ¢â¬â¢s Health Ministry the countryÃ¢â¬â¢s death toll from the coronavirus has reached 26,467 and the number of infections has topped 2.5 million since mid-March 2020. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

AstraZeneca vaccine effective against UK strain

An Oxford study finds the Covid-19 vaccine to be 75% effective against the UK variant.

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PERTH, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 08: Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan speaks during a press conference at Dumas House on January 8, 2021 in Perth, Australia. Western Australia will reintroduce a hard border with Queensland and require all individuals who have arrived in WA from Queensland since January 2 to quarantine as Brisbane enters a three-day lockdown after a cleaner working at a quarantine hotel tested positive for the UK Covid-19 strain. (Photo by Matt Jelonek/Getty Images)

Ministers face quarantine in Canberra

West Australian federal MPs and their staff will have to quarantine in Canberra after Perth went into a five-day lockdown with a plane-load of politicians stranded on a flight.

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Nurse Francine Millward (L) adminsters an injection of Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre set up at Thornton Little Theatre managed by Wyre Council in Thornton-Cleveleys, northwest England, on January 29, 2021 as Britain's coronavirus vaccination campaign continues. - Britain on Friday claimed its streamlined approach to developing Covid vaccines and support for biotech firms helped it to steal a march on other countries still struggling to implement a roll-out. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP)

Doses still begin next month, confirms govt

As a promise on Australian delivery is restated, a preview of research being published soon says vaccination is already easing the pandemic.

Rhiannon Down and Jacquelin Magnay

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