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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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Medical pioneerNation

Geoffrey Edelsten is speaking to the Herald Sun about his US bankruptcy, life after Brynne and a potential challenge to his 1990 conviction.

Eccentric Edelsten’s final chapter at an end

Businessman, former doctor and one-time Sydney Swans owner Geoffrey Walter Edelsten lived an unpredictable life of curious chapters, each more eccentric than the last.

Alan Howe

Q+A wrapMedia

The audience watching Federal opposition leader Tony Abbott during the ABC's Q & A television program at the Casula Powerhouse in Sydney, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010, during the 2010 election campaign. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

‘We are being confronted by a great power’

Lockdowns, vaccines and China were the main subjects of concern on this week’s edition of the ABC’s panel program.

Nicholas Jensen

Nation

Sex assault reports up 60pc in a month

Reports of sexual assault skyrocket across parts of NSW as thousands of young women report historic incidents of abuse.

Nicholas Jensen

COVID-19 PANDEMICPolitics

Prime Minister Scott Morrison visits the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to see their AstraZeneca batch release assessment process and thank them for their efforts over many months to assess and approve Australia's Covid-19 vaccines. Picture: Adam Taylor

Singapore travel bubble to focus on students

A travel bubble between Australia and Singapore will focus on early pilot programs for students and set-up a mutual recognition of digital vaccination certificates.

Nicholas Jensen, Lydia Lynch, Joseph Lam and Geoff Chambers

LIVE: COVID-19 PANDEMICPolitics

Infected woman’s journey across three states

Cafes, pubs, petrol stations, a cinema and Bunnings among stops in NSW and Queensland visited by woman who fled Melbourne, taking Covid to the Sunshine Coast.

Joseph Lam, Rachel Baxendale and Adeshola Ore

SCIENCEScience

Crocosaurus Cove has had a baby boom, amongst them are Cupid the Bearded Dragon who was born on Valentines day .Picture Katrina Bridgeford.

Robot lizards solve predator-prey riddle

Scientists from UNSW believe they have solved the perennial puzzle of what deters some wild predators from certain species of prey.

Nicholas Jensen

Nation

NSW to build a second mass vaccination hub

The government is preparing to open a second hub, after officials enlisted an empty warehouse to accelerate its inoculation drive.

Nicholas Jensen

Politics

** MUST CREDIT NZ HERALD ** Quarantine free travel between New Zealand and Australia begins, Auckland Airport. 19 April 2021 New Zealand Herald photograph by Michael CraigRGP 20Apr21 - WGP 20Apr21 - HBG 20Apr21 - NAG 20Apr21 -

NZ scrambles to get citizens out of Victoria

The New Zealand government is preparing to repatriate potentially thousands of stranded citizens and essential workers from Victoria.

Nicholas Jensen

Science

(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 6, 2021 a box containing vials of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is pictured at the Foch hospital in Suresnes, on the start of a vaccination campaign for health workers with the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine. - Canada's most populous province of Ontario on May 11, 2021 suspended use of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine as a first dose, citing new data showing increased risks of blood clotting. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP)

Eight more cases of rare clotting: TGA

TGA reports eight further cases of blood clotting linked to AstraZeneca, as it urges Australians to reject the inoculation jitters and embrace the jab.

Nicholas Jensen

Bombshell emailsScience

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss the on-going federal response to Covid-19 on May 11, 2021 at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Greg Nash / POOL / AFP)

What Fauci knew about Covid origins

Anthony Fauci was told as early as February 2020 that Covid-19 exhibited unusual viral characteristics which could have been engineered in a lab.

Nicholas Jensen

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