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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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Buyers shrug off lockdown fears

Auction clearance rates remain high across the nation’s capital cities including in Sydney where the market shrugged off lockdown fears.

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LIVE: covid crisisNation

aerial of Rockhampton CBD. Photo: Chris Ison / The Morning Bulletin

Infected woman flew to Rockhampton

A positive case who flew from Brisbane to Rockhampon while infectious with Covid-19 on July 28 has sparked frantic contact-tracing.

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LIVE: COVID-19 PANDEMICPolitics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - JULY, 29, 2021:NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian speaks to the media during a COVID-19 press conference in Sydney. New South Wales has recorded 239 new locally transmitted coronavirus cases overnight, at least 70 of which were infectious during their time in the community. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Bianca De Marchi

ADF to boost Sydney Covid-19 compliance

NSW calls in 300 troops and Gladys Berejiklian introduces tough new measures as state hits 239 cases, 70 of which were infectious in the community.

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ExclusiveNation

Aged-care protection ‘proof jabs save lives’

Only six cases of the Delta strain of Covid-19 have been recorded among aged-care residents.

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vaccinesPolitics

Greystanes resident Sky Carr (41) at the local Community Centre about to receive the AstraZeneca vaccination. Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) has bolstered access to AstraZeneca vaccinations with walk-in pop up clinics across several suburbs and extra appointments at Blacktown Hospital. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Pop-up clinics bolstering rollout

Pop-up vaccination clinics opened across Sydney’s hard-hit western suburbs offering the AstraZeneca jabs to walk-ins but, bizarrely, turned away anyone aged under 40.

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LIVE: COVID-19 PANDEMICPolitics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JULY 26: NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian removes a face mask to speak during a COVID-19 update and press conference on July 26, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. Lockdown restrictions remain in place as NSW continues to record new community COVID-19 cases and work to stop the spread of the highly infectious delta coronavirus strain in the community. Greater Sydney including the Central Coast, Blue Mountains, Wollongong and Shellharbour require all non-essential retail to close. Businesses can still operate click and collect, takeaway and home delivery. In addition to stay at home orders, residents in the local government areas of Fairfield, Canterbury-Bankstown, Blacktown, Cumberland and Liverpool cannot leave their areas for work except for emergency services and healthcare workers. Where those workers do need to leave their local government area for work, they are required to be tested every three days, even if they do not have symptoms. Residents of Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Wollongong are subject to stay-at-home orders with people are only permitted to leave their homes for essential reasons. Essential reasons include purchasing essential goods, accessing or providing care or healthcare, essential work, education or exercise. Exercise is restricted to within the local government area and no further than 10km from home and with a maximum of two people per group. Browsing in shops is prohibited and only one person per household can leave home for shopping per day. Outdoor public gatherings are limited to two people, while funerals are limited to 10 people only. The restrictions are expected to remain in place until 11:59 pm on Friday 30 July. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams Pool/Getty Images)

Delta strain kills elderly pair as NSW toll hits 10

A man and woman in their 80s have died after contracting the Delta Covid-19 variant in Sydney.

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Youngest victimNation

Smiling student cut down by Covid

Adriana Midori Takara is one of the youngest people in Australia to die from Covid-19.

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exclusiveNation

Rallies were plotted on social media

The violent protests that swept through Sydney’s CBD might have taken police by surprise, but they had been planned for weeks.

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vaccination rolloutNation

Cobin Lu, 27, is a food delivery driver on the front line and wants to be included in the jab rollout essential workers group. He says he doesn't want AZ because of the bad press around the jab with the rare health risks. He and his company EASI are calling for delivery drivers to be included in the jab rollout on par with airport workers etc due to the risk they face. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Jabs ‘essential’ for food deliverers

While many of Sydney’s five million inhabitants have been staying home during lockdown, delivery driver Cobin Li has been on the frontline visiting restaurants and cafes and knocking on doors.

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‘freedom’ protestsNation

A protester (L) tries to push away a police horse in Sydney on July 24, 2021, as thousands of people gathered to demonstrate against the city's month-long stay-at-home orders. (Photo by Steven SAPHORE / AFP)

‘I need to work…trust me there are more of me’

Encrypted warnings of a ‘CBD takeover’ began circulating days ago, but few could have anticipated what was about to unfold.

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