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Joseph LamAudience growth producer

Joseph Lam is an audience producer, responsible for growing readership and amplifying The Australian’s journalism across multiple platforms. Based in Sydney, he has previously been the masthead’s technology journalist, general news reporter and digital producer. Joe is from Central Queensland and joined the national daily in 2019, having trained as a combat engineer in the ADF. Follow his work on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook @editorialjoe

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(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

LIVE: CORONAVIRUS CRISISNation

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 20: Clinical nurse Wendy Dickinson receives a BCG injection in the trial clinic at Sir Charles Gairdner hospital on April 20, 2020 in Perth, Australia. Healthcare workers in Western Australia are participating in a new trial to test whether an existing tuberculosis vaccine can help reduce their chances of contracting COVID-19. 2000 frontline staff from Fiona Stanley, Sir Charles Gairdner and Perth Children's Hospital are taking part in the research trial, which will see half of participants receiving the existing Bacillus Calmette-GuÃ©rin (BCG) vaccine in addition to their flu vaccine, while the other half receive the regular flu shot. The BCG vaccine was originally developed to work against tuberculosis, but it is hoped it might help reduce the chance of contracting coronavirus as well as lessen the severity of symptoms and boost immunity in the long term. The BRACE trial is being led by by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

Local vax rollout planned as US leaders line up

Australia’s vaccine rollout plans have been detailed as Joe Biden and three former US presidents say they will receive a Covid jab publicly.

Joseph Lam, Adam Creighton and Tom Dusevic

QandAMedia

How has 2020 changed you?

In 2020 Australians faced one crisis after another from bushfires to the global coronavirus pandemic and an election which kept the world on its toes.

Joseph Lam

LIVE: PoliticsNowNation

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA-NCA NewsWire Photos 30 NOVEMBER 2020: The Prime Minister Scott Morrison during a virtual press conference from his quarantined accommodation at the Lodge in Canberra.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

‘Afghan lives matter’: China’s outcry widens

China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has asked whether Australia believes the murder of innocent civilians is justified, urging Scott Morrison to ‘bring the culprits to justice’.

Richard Ferguson and Max Maddison

LIVE: CORONAVIRUS PANDEMICNation

Oxford vaccine ‘up to 90pc effective’

Australia’s preferred vaccine, the Oxford AstraZeneca jab, also appears to reduce the transmission of the coronavirus, eagerly awaited stage-three data shows.

Ewin Hannan, Richard Ferguson and Angelica Snowden

Nation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 05 2020:NSW Ambulance Services in Sydney Australia, on OCTOBER 05 2020. Picture: NCA Newswire / Gaye Gerard

Student stabbed at school

Teen is hospitalised after being stabbed in the back at a high school in Sydney’s west.

Angelica Snowden

LIVE: CORONAVIRUS CRISISNation

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos November 18, 2020: South Australian Chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier is seen during a COVID announcement at the State Administration Centre in Adelaide. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Mariuz

Police guard supermarkets as lockdown looms

Officers will assist supermarket staff to avoid panic buying in South Australia, Police Commissioner Grant Stevens warned.

David Penberthy and Angelica Snowden

RCEPNation

Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is pictured on the screen (R) as he addresses his counterparts during the 4th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Summit at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit being held online in Hanoi on November 15, 2020. (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP)

Regional partnership forms world’s largest trade bloc

Australia has joined 14 Asian countries to create the world’s largest trade bloc, in a move exporters hope will improve strained relations with China.

Patrick Commins

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