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Nicholas Jensen is commentary editor at The Australian. He previously worked as a reporter in the masthead’s NSW bureau. He studied history at the University of Melbourne, where he obtained a BA (Hons), and holds an MPhil in British and European History from the University of Oxford.

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LIVE: COVID-19 PANDEMICPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MAY 12: Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Shadow Minister for Finance Katy Gallagher during a press conference in the Senate Courtyard at Parliament House on May 12, 2021 in Canberra, Australia. The Morrison government's third budget, handed down on Tuesday, has an increased focus on women, with almost $354 million in funding allocated for women's health, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg also outlined more than $10 billion in spending on major infrastructure projects across Australia aimed to help create local jobs and boost productivity in the COVID-affected national economy. Aged care will receive more than $10 billion over the next four years, in direct response to the findings of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. (Photo by Sam Mooy/Getty Images)

Senator in isolation as daughter tests positive

Labor Senator Katy Gallagher is in mandatory isolation after her daughter tested positive to Covid-19.

Nicholas Jensen, Rachel Baxendale and Max Maddison

MelbournePolitics

Curfew is pointless: police, experts

Melburnians will be living under a 9pm-5am curfew for at least the next 16 days, despite scepticism from epidemiologists and opposition from the police.

Rachel Baxendale

LOCKDOWN RESTRICTIONSPolitics

Royal Sydney Golf Course. Picture: Supplied

Elite golf club’s tip to beat 5km bunker

Members of Sydney’s most exclusive golf club cut off from the green by the city’s 5km limit advised to come in water taxi.

Nicholas Jensen

LIVE: COVID-19 PANDEMICPolitics

Cash to meet employers, unions over workplace rollout

Michaelia Cash will discuss how businesses can comply with health and safety obligations without mandating the jab in workplaces.

Nicholas Jensen and Rachel Baxendale

Covax-19Science

Prime Minister Scott Morrison visit to CSL serum lab to inspect COVID-19 Immunoglobulin being produced in Parkville Melbourne. PM Morrison walks past vials of AstraZeneca vaccine. Picture: David Caird POOL IMAGES

Aussie-made vaccine shows promise in trials

An Australian-made vaccine has progressed to the final stages of a human clinical trial, after achieving strong preliminary results showing its efficacy in resisting Covid-19 and preventing lung infection.

Nicholas Jensen

pickingNation

News 11.8.21 AUS Allison and Michael Peters, a Grey Nomad couple from Queensland, who are currently working at Don's Fort avocado packing house n ear Childers. . Pic John Wilson Story Nicholas Jensen

Grey nomads have pick of the jobs

Since international borders slammed shut, Australia’s horticulture sector has been riddled by labour shortages. But an unlikely crew of travellers has come to the rescue.

Nicholas Jensen

Politics

Risk of being an also-ran in drugs race

As the government looks to expand its armoury of coronavirus treatments, a new battleground has emerged in the supply of effective Covid-19 therapies.

Nicholas Jensen

Politics

Antiviral drug adds to war on disease

The Morrison government has secured shipment of more than 7000 doses of Sotrovimab, as it attempts to broaden its armoury of effective Covid-19 treatments.

Nicholas Jensen

CORONAVIRUSNation

06/08/2021 Brisbane circus group Circa Tubular Bells premiered a new show at London's Royal Festival Hall. Source: Manuel Harlan

Circus makes pandemic history

After a year of lockdown cancellations, Brisbane’s Circa Contemporary Circus has become the first major Australian arts company to return to the international stage

Nicholas Jensen

coronavirusNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 02: A staff member holds up protective sheeting as patients are transported from the Hardi Aged Care Nursing Home Facility at Summer Hill on August 02, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. Hundreds of Australian Defence Force personnel will assist the police to ensure health orders restricting movement and requiring masks outdoors are adhered to. Greater Sydney is in lockdown through August 28th to contain the highly contagious Covid-19 delta variant. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

Deadly Delta spin-offs ‘a possibility’

As the variant continues to drive global cases, infectious disease experts are warning that more transmissible and vaccine-resistant strains could emerge where inoculation levels remain low.

Nicholas Jensen

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