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Rhiannon Down is a political reporter in The Australian’s Canberra bureau. She began her career at the paper in the Sydney bureau, where she covered mostly courts and crime, after joining the newspaper as a cadet.

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The Royal Children's Hospital surgical team and staff who helped in the separation of conjoined twins Krishna and Trishna. Anaesthetist Andrew Davidson with gas mask.

Board to grill anti-vax doctor

A Sydney doctor has been hauled before the NSW Medical Board after he questioned evidence behind Covid-19 vaccines and promoted unapproved treatments.

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Covid-19Politics

Cases climb amid low jab uptake

Low indigenous vaccination rates across regional NSW continue to plague attempts by health authorities to fight the spread of Delta in the bush.

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Indigenous areas on high alert as case numbers rise

Covid-19 case numbers continue to climb in NSW’s west including in largely Indigenous Wilcannia, which now has almost 50 cases.

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Nurse immuniser Kelie Lee (C) prepares to administer the AstraZeneca vaccine to a patient at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination clinic at the Bankstown Sports Club during a lockdown to curb an outbreak of cases in Sydney, Australia, August 25, 2021. REUTERS/Loren Elliott

Health system strains under Delta’s weight

Sydney’s hospitals are in a state of crisis after a second major hospital suspended it’s intake of Covid-19 patients, amid reports of significant bed blocks and looming PPE shortages.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos, AUGUST, 24, 2021: Members of the public hide from the rain under umbrellas as they line up to receive their COVID-19 vaccination at the NSW Health Vaccination Centre at Sydney Olympic Park. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Bianca De Marchi

Wet and wild end to record heatwave

A cold front has settled off the NSW coast forming a low pressure system that is predicted to have dumped a month’s worth of rain in just one day on some areas.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JANUARY 11, 2021.Covid-19 testing clinic at Emerton after nearby Mount Druitt Hospital in Western Sydney underwent a deep cleaning after a positive COVID-19 case attended the emergency department .Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

Woman in 30s with Covid-19 dies in Sydney

This brings the total number of deaths since the beginning of the current outbreak to 75.

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Contact tracers ‘have lost the battle with Delta’

The Delta variant has already defeated NSW contact tracers, public health experts say, with more cases every day than they can investigate.

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Hospitals in ‘dire’ need of more ICU beds

Two-thirds of Westmead Hospital’s intensive care beds are taken up by Covid-19 patients, forcing the Sydney hospital to send patients around NSW.

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Twin brothers Matthew and Simon Dodd have shaved mullets to raise money for mental health after their friend died from suicide in June this year. Pictured in Gladesville, Sydney, Friday 20 August 2021. Picture: Nikki Short

Mullets for Munz cuts through on suicide

A group of Sydney schoolmates are sacrificing style for substance for the Black Dog Institute’s Mullets for Mental Health campaign, after losing a friend to suicide.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos, AUGUST, 17, 2021: Greg Hunt and Paul Kelly during a press conference at Parliament House. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Gary Ramage

Feds dig in on opening plan as divisions emerge

As Delta surges to 917 cases, CMO says ‘absolutely not’ to suggestions the modelling behind national freedom plan may need a rethink.

Richard Ferguson, Remy Varga and Joseph Lam

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