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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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Covid-19 pandemicNation

A health worker prepares the AstraZeneca Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a makeshift mass vaccination clinic in Denpasar on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on July 6, 2021, as the Southeast Asian nation battles an unprecedented wave of new infections. (Photo by SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP)

Covid jabs offer top protection

An Australian study into the body’s immune response to Covid-19 has found that vaccination offers the best protection against the virus compared to the body’s response after becoming infected.

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Coronavirus crisisNation

Pictured is St Joseph's College in Hunters Hill today.

Apology over private school Pfizer ‘error’

Vaccines given to 163 students at an elite Sydney college were meant only for its indigenous students, it’s been revealed.

Yoni Bashan, Jess Malcolm and Rhiannon Down

Covid-19 pandemicNation

Just before 3 am on Saturday morning emergency services were called to the Meriton Apartments located on Crescent St Waterloo after a man had fallen 6 metres onto the ground. The man was found in amongst bushes below a tree. Its believed the man has either fallen from a balcony or has climbed the tree and fallen when trying to access a balcony well off the ground. The man appeared to be conscious throughout. He was taken to St Vincents Hospital for further treatment Picture: Gordon McComiskie

600 health workers in isolation

More than 600 health workers across two major Sydney hospitals have been forced into isolation after an unvaccinated student nurse worked shifts while infected with Covid-19.

Rhiannon Down, Jess Malcolm and Max Maddison

INTERNATIONAL PUSHNation

The Far Northern Reefs of the Great Barrier Reef are still in excellent condition.

‘Frustrated’ Ley lobbies to reverse reef call

Environment Minister Sussan Ley has begun lobbying UNESCO against classifying the Great Barrier Reef as ‘in danger’.

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Politics

Alisdair France runs the Bondi Trattoria. He says the NSW government needs to give very clear directions about whether businesses can re-open on the weekend. He says the government has not made it clear and it will affect business if it's a last minute decision. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Restaurants issue plea for early orders

The nation’s peak hospitality body is calling on the NSW government to outline its plans for the state’s lockdown by Thursday.

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‘significant bite’Nation

The shark attack victim is young Joe Hoffman. Crescent Head shark bite: Authorities confirm man bitten by great white shark, A man has been flown to John Hunter Hospital after he was bitten by a three-metre great white shark while surfing on the state’s Mid-North Coast. The shark attack victim arrives at John Hunter Hospital from Crescent Head. Picture by Peter Lorimer.

Shark attacks surfer on NSW north coast

A man in his 20s sustained serious injuries after he was attacked by a shark while surfing off the NSW mid-north coast.

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exclusiveNation

02/07/2021: Confident and excited about the future, despite covid, sisters L-R Holly Creak 23 and Ashley Creak 25 , pregnant with her first child, at a friends home in Wooloowin, Brisbane. The sisters who work together at the NPAQ (Nurses Professional Association of Queensland) are both remarkably optimistic about the future for themselves and for the upcoming baby. Pic Lyndon Mechielsen / The Australian

Support grows for vax freedoms

A majority of Australians believe people who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 should be exempt from border restrictions, according to a national survey.

Paige Taylor and Rhiannon Down

FESTIVAL DEATHSScience

SUMMER FESTIVALS .. Country Music Festival in Tamworth NSW .. awards ceremony photo

Deadly dangers of festival drug use

A study of overdoses at music festivals, during a “horror” period for drug-related deaths, has found that users can suffer long term organ damage from dangerously high body temperatures.

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SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGHScience

New comprehensive AI chest X-ray solution launched to support radiologists. Annalise CXR in use.

AI smart X-ray ‘game changer’

State-of-the-art chest X-ray software developed by Australian scientists will aid practitioners to make more accurate interpretations of medical images, using world-leading artificial intelligence.

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COVID-19 PANDEMICPolitics

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 28, 2021: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews tours the Arden Metro Station in North Melbourne on his first day back at work after suffering a serious spinal injury in March. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw

Victoria’s new alert over NSW border areas

Victoria changes the rules for the NSW border region on ‘health advice’; a record day of jabs takes the national total to almost 8 million.

Jess Malcolm, Rachel Baxendale and Rhiannon Down

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