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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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Livestock carrierPolitics

A case of Covid 19 confirmed aboard the Cattle Ship

Cattle-export ship brings virus to NT

An entire crew aboard a livestock ship from Indonesia and three port staff are in isolation in the NT after one of the ship’s crew members tested positive for COVID-19.

Joseph Lam

LIVE: CORONAVIRUS PANDEMICNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 29, 2020. NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant provides an COVID-19 update at St Leonards in Sydney Australia. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

State of anxiety over spreading cases

NSW health authorities are alarmed by a number of unconnected coronavirus cases outside Sydney’s northern beaches.

Peter Lalor, Ellie Dudley and Joseph Lam

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

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