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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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Bondi clusterNation

Covid hot spot, Joh Bailey hairdresser, Knox Street, Double Bay, today.Picture: Justin Lloyd.

High society hair scare

Sydney’s socialite set nervous after hairdresser Joh Bailey’s salon declared a Covid-19 exposure site.

Nicholas Jensen and Ellie Dudley

vaccine rolloutNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 21: A pedestrian is seen wearing mask at Bondi Junction on June 21, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. A cluster of COVID-19 cases in Sydney's eastern suburbs continues to grow, causing the government to impose restrictions including mandatory indoor mask-wearing in several jurisdictions. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is urging people to get tested to stop the spread and limit further restrictions. (Photo by Brook Mitchell/Getty Images)

Health experts call for equitable supply

Health experts warn supplying states with additional vaccines will only disrupt the national rollout and pit state against state.

Nicholas Jensen

interviewBooks

This photo taken on February 6, 2020 shows a laboratory technician working on samples from people to be tested for the new coronavirus at

Admin state ‘every bit as harmful as Covid’

The greatest tale of pandemic incompetence belongs not to ineffectual leaders or bureaucratic droids but to China itself, says Niall Ferguson.

Nicholas Jensen

warring familiesNation

Bilal Hamze, 25, who is facing two counts of shoot with intent to murder, is granted bail for a second time despite an appeal by the DPP and police to keep him off the streets

‘Major escalation’ in family feud

Fears of a revived gangland war have engulfed Australia’s top law enforcement agencies following the brutal murder of crime boss Bilal Hamze.

Nicholas Jensen

NSW PoliticsPolitics

A picture posted to the Instagram page of Mary Berejiklian (R) showing her sister, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian (C) and Sydney based lawyer Arthur Moses SC.

Sister blows lid on Berejiklian’s new love

For weeks just a rumour, Gladys Berejiklian’s sister Mary has revealed the NSW Premier is in a relationship with Arthur Moses SC.

Nicholas Jensen

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 17, 2021: Protesters gather at Australian parliament before Witness K sentencing in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Witness K spared jail for Timor spy leak

The former Australian spy has been handed a three-month suspended sentence for disclosing classified information, with the court finding he was motivated by justice and not personal gain.

Nicholas Jensen

CONTROVERSIAL TRIPNation

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 16, 2021: Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton speaking at a press conference in Melbourne. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Geraghty

Sutton’s Canberra travel ‘unacceptable’

Victoria’s chief health officer attended an awards event in Canberra despite strict restrictions being imposed on Melburnians.

Nicholas Jensen

LIVE: COVID-19 PANDEMICPolitics

Victoria travel alert as Sydney cluster grows

Travellers from parts of Sydney will be forced to take a Covid test and isolate; authorities add new exposure sites amid four positive cases.

Joseph Lam, Rachel Baxendale and Nicholas Jensen

Sydney Covid caseNation

(FILES) In this file photo Hospital clinicians work to test patients for the coronavirus, Covid-19 at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts on March 18, 2020, as the hospital has set up three tents in the parking garage where patients who have been pre-screened can show up for testing. - A new antibody testing study published on June 15, 2021 has found further evidence that the coronavirus was present in the United States from at least December 2019, weeks before the first confirmed case was announced on January 21. The National Institutes of Health study analyzed 24,000 stored blood samples contributed by volunteers across the country from January 2 to March 18, 2020. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP)

Aircrew driver case ‘a serious breach’

NSW’s 43 day streak of zero locally acquired cases has come to an end, after a man tested positive for Covid-19 near Bondi Junction.

Nicholas Jensen

Covid-19Nation

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos, JUNE 16, 2021. A large line forms Waratah Lane in the Melbourne CBD which went around the block for COVID testing. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Crosling

Hotspot status cans holidays in the sun

Melburnians are likely to remain locked out of Queensland ahead of the beginning of the school holidays.

Rachel Baxendale and Nicholas Jensen

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