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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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New Year’s EveNation

Front-row seats still available for $800

Any other year, New Year’s Eve at Circular Quay’s Cafe Sydney would have been booked up by September. This year is different.

Kieran Gair and Joseph Lam

LIVE: CORONAVIRUS CRISISNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 28, 2020. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian provides a COVID-19 update at a press conference at Martin Place in Sydney Australia. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

Five cases, new rules for NYE, lockdown stays

Gladys Berejiklian has announced five new cases from 15,000 tests, updated rules for New Year’s Eve and ordered the northern beaches to remain locked down into January.

Ellie Dudley and Joseph Lam

LIVE: CORONAVIRUS PANDEMICNation

A crowd of mostly backpackers hold an impromptu party at Bronte Beach on Christmas Day with police in attendance to move the large crowd on who were breaching the Covid-19 social distancing rules. Picture: Toby Zerna

Police break up large Sydney beach party

Police have broken up a mass Christmas party at Bronte Beach as more NSW venues join the COVID-19 hotspot list.

Ellie Dudley, Daniel Sankey and Rhiannon Down

‘repeated violations’Nation

Pete Evans in a Youtube video promoting the proposed Nightcap on Minjungbul community.

Pete Evans booted off Facebook

Celebrity chef and conspiracy theorist banned from Facebook after he repeatedly shared COVID-19 misinformation.

Joseph Lam

auditPolitics

Auditor-General of NSW Margaret Crawford is seen at an Inquiry by a NSW parliamentary committee into the delayed Sydney Light Rail project in Sydney, Monday, August 20, 2018. (AAP Image/Brendan Esposito) NO ARCHIVING

TAFE’s savings program falls short

The NSW government’s radical overhaul of TAFE has failed to meet its savings target by more than $260m, an audit has found.

Joseph Lam

‘more doses, more quickly’Politics

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos December 14th, 2020:Anthony Albanese, MP and Leader of the Australian Labor party visits the bus manufacturer Volgren in Dandenong South in Melbourne today.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Wayne Taylor

Albanese pushing for a faster rollout

Anthony Albanese has called for a faster rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and urged the Morrison government to obtain more doses.

Joseph Lam

’planetary kiss’Science

20/12/20 The Great Conjunction photographed on the 20/12/20 (due to predicted overcast conditions) with Jupiter and Saturn shown in the same frame. Also shown are Jupiter's Galilean moons and possibly Saturn's largest moon Titan also shown. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Jupiter, Saturn align as Christmas star

The two largest planets in the solar system were so close on Monday they appeared as one. But in reality, they were hundreds of millions of kilometres apart.

Joseph Lam

Science

(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 02, 2018 shows a man exhaling smoke from an electronic cigarette in Washington, DC. - The number of patients suffering from probable lung injury cases associated with e-cigarette use has surged to 1,080, US health authorities said Thursday, while the death toll from the outbreak now stands at 18. (Photo by EVA HAMBACH / AFP)

Nicotine e-smokes OK ‘with a script’

The purchase of nicotine-based e-cigarettes at chemists with a doctor’s script has been finalised, set to come into effect late next year.

Joseph Lam

CoronavirusNation

The Health Direct mobile application. Picture: Health Direct

Hotline’s plea to go online

Inundated with phone calls, Australia’s national coronavirus hotline has made a desperate plea for callers to use its digital platforms.

Joseph Lam

LIVE: CORONAVIRUS PANDEMICNation

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 13: WA Premier Mark McGowan addresses the media with a COVID-19 update on November 13, 2020 in Perth, Australia. Western Australia's borders will reopen from midnight tonight with travellers from all states and territories permitted to enter WA having to meet exemption criteria put in place during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. Travellers from Victoria and New South Wales will be required to self-quarantine for 14 days and take a COVID-19 test on day 11, while all other travellers will be required to undergo a health screening and temperature check on arrival and declare they haven't come from Victoria or NSW. Travel arrangements also need to be registered on the G2G Pass app. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

WA halts entry from NSW as Qld, Vic act too

WA Premier Mark McGowan says NSW is playing ‘whack a mole’ with the virus and has closed the border with NSW, while Queensland and Victoria have raised hurdles.

Christine Kellett and Joseph Lam

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