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David Ross is a Sydney-based journalist at The Australian. He previously worked at the European Parliament and as a freelance journalist, writing for many publications including Myanmar Business Today where he was an Australian correspondent. He has a Masters in Journalism from The University of Melbourne.

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Contact tracers scramble with fresh outbreaks

Sydney’s latest COVID-19 outbreak is entering new territory as cases crop up in the city’s southwest.

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Australian evacuees from the coronavirus-struck cruise ship Diamond Princess deplane a Qantas flight from Japan at Darwin International Airport in Darwin, Thursday, February 20, 2020. Hundreds of Australians evacuated from the Diamond Princess will be quarantined at a workers camp in Howard Springs. (AAP Image/Helen Orr) NO ARCHIVING

NT facility to quarantine returning Aussies

Qantas charter flights to repatriate stranded Australians from UK, India with Howard Springs to be used for quarantine.

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A2Z Medical Centre in Lakemba which has been closed due to 2 positive COVID tests. Picture: Jonathan Ng

NSW ‘on verge’ of return to crisis

NSW is nearing a tipping point, with Premier Gladys Berejiklian warning the state is ‘on the verge of being where it was’ in March.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos OCTOBER 6, 2020: A pedestrian walks past closed shops along Swanston Street. Melbourne's retail heart has been closed after the Coronavirus pandemic forced the city into lockdown. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw

Defaults rising as recession hits hard

Australia’s business bankruptcies have jumped for the first time since June.

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29/6/20: NSW Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane holds a press conference at NSW Parliament. He said that he is not a suspect in AFP espionage probe. John Feder/Thje Australian.

MP must hand over documents

NSW parliamentarian Shaoquett Moselmane will be forced to hand over to police 107 documents seized in a raid in June.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos OCTOBER 13, 2020 - Disgraced financial planner Sam Henderson with his partner leave the Downing Centre in Sydney on Tuesday, October 13, 2020.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Christian Gilles

Financial planner awaits sentence

Financial planner Sam Henderson misrepresented his qualifications for seven years.

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PM is not an inclusive leader: Albo

Labor leader Anthony Albanese has sharpened his attack on the government for failing to control national borders in a wide-ranging appearance on QandA on Monday.

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