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Joseph Lam is a technology and property reporter at The Australian. He joined the national daily in 2019 after he cut his teeth as a freelancer across publications in Australia, Hong Kong and Thailand.

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‘he will be charged’Nation

The man in seen attempting to resist arrest while one officer is on the ground. Source: The Daily Telegraph

Sydney carpark rampage caught on video

Shocking vision shows a man, 20, crashing his van into multiple cars at a packed Sydney shopping centre before allegedly assaulting police.

Joseph Lam

COVID-19 PANDEMICNation

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA- NewsWire Photos JANUARY 20, 2021. Tennis players and coaching staff return from training to a quarantine hotel in Melbourne for the Australian Open: Picture: NCA NewsWire/ David Crosling

Tennis Australia to foot $40m quarantine bill

Tennis Australia has clarified comments by its CEO Craig Tiley, after he claimed taxpayers would be chipping in to pay for player quarantine.

Jess Malcolm and Olivia Caisley

exclusiveScience

Breakthrough: CBD oil kills gonorrhoea bacteria

Groundbreaking new research has found synthetic cannabidiol can kill bacteria associated with gonorrhoea, meningitis and legionnaires disease.

Joseph Lam

COVID-19 PANDEMICNation

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 18: Australian Open signage is seen at Melbourne Park on January 18, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne Park will host WTA and ATP events along with the ATP in the lead up to the 2021 Australian Open. Melbourne Park is currently under strict lockdown due to players quarantine conditions travelling from overseas into Australia. (Photo by Mike Owen/Getty Images)

Tennis doubts on player positives

Tennis Australia has queried whether two Australian Open tennis players have tested positive to COVID-19.

Joseph Lam, Jess Malcolm and Rachel Baxendale

Back to workNation

Newly engaged couple Stephanie Coughlan and Josh Morris (C) celebrate their announcement in Centennial Park with friends and family (L-R) Kelly Ryan, Bryce Stickland, Carolyn Corrigan (mother of the bride to be and Mayor of Mosman) and Fern Shannon. Josh who works for a bank in the city is returning to work tomorrow in more of a capacity after months of working from home. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Back to work welcome but industry wary

As Australia’s two largest CBDs prepare to reach about 50 per cent capacity this week there are mixed feelings among workers.

Joseph Lam

COVID-19 PANDEMICNation

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JANUARY 12, 2021: Emma Cassar, Commissioner for COVID 19 Quarantine Victoria, speaks at the National Tennis Centre about quarantine measures for the upcoming Australian tennis Open in Melbourne. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw

Aus Open crisis worsens amid fifth case

A third flight of players to Melbourne for the Australian Open will be forced into a strict 14 day quarantine after a fifth case of Covid emerged.

Joseph Lam, Courtney Walsh and Remy Varga

LIVE: COVID-19 PANDEMICNation

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos January 12, 2021: South Australian Chief Public Health Officer, Nicola Spurrier speaks to the media at the State Administration Centre in Adelaide. NCA NewsWire / David Mariuz

Travel bosses support ‘no jab, no fly’

Australia’s peak travel and tourism bodies are backing Qantas chief Alan Joyce’s controversial call for all international passengers to be vaccinated before they can fly.

Rachel Baxendale and Joseph Lam

COVID-19 PANDEMICNation

(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 9, 2020 People walk by the Pfizer world headquarters in New York. - Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla sold $5.6 million of his stock in the US pharmaceutical company on the same day it announced promising results for its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, filings showed November 11. The company, however, has reportedly said the sale was part of a pre-arranged periodic divestment plan when the stock reaches a certain price. (Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP)

Pfizer boosts its output by 2bn doses

Pfizer says its has produced more of its Covid vaccine than can be used ‘right now’ and plans to dramatically increase production of the vaccine over the course of the year.

Natasha Robinson, Rhiannon Down and Joseph Lam

COVID-19 PANDEMICNation

Guests in quarantine at Hotel Grand Chancellor getting transported in ambulances to other hotels. Pics Tara Croser.

Police probe mystery UK variant spread

Authorities are investigating how the UK variant of COVID-19 was spread from a returned traveller in hotel quarantine to a cleaner, her partner and two other guests.

Sarah Elks, Natasha Robinson and Joseph Lam

COVID-19 PANDEMICNation

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 08: Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan speaks during a press conference on Covid-19 following the National Cabinet meeting on January 8, 2021 in Perth, Australia. Australia's national cabinet met today to discuss concerns about the UK variant of the Covid-19 strain as Brisbane enters a three-day lockdown after a cleaner working at a quarantine hotel tested positive for strain. (Photo by Matt Jelonek/Getty Images)

‘Calm down’: WA Premier defends border comments

Mark McGowan has dismissed the furore over his latest comments on NSW’s handling of the pandemic as ‘a matter of semantics’.

Paul Garvey, Patrick Commins and Rachel Baxendale

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