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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 PANDEMICPolitics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 30, 2021 -NSW Minister for Digital and Customer Service Victor Dominello provides a COVID update on Wednesday from the NSW Ministry of Health in St Leonards.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Christian Gilles

Bungle forces MP back into isolation

NSW Health has reclassified Victor Dominello as a close contact after he spent several days in the community.

Jess Malcolm, Max Maddison, Lydia Lynch and Rhiannon Down

COVID-19 PANDEMICPolitics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 28: A pedestrian moves along an almost empty street in the CBD on June 28, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. Lockdown restrictions continue across Great Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Wollongong as NSW health authorities work to contain a growing COVID-19 cluster. From 6pm on Saturday 26 June, all residents in areas subject to stay-at-home orders are only permitted to leave their homes for essential reasons, including purchasing essential goods, accessing or providing care/healthcare, work, education and exercise. The restrictions will remain in place until midnight on Friday 9 July. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

Qld’s Delta fear as state hits lockdown

An unvaccinated hospital receptionist who worked while infectious has the rampant strain, forcing millions into lockdown.

Lydia Lynch, Jess Malcolm and Max Maddison

COVID-19 PANDEMICPolitics

2/5/2021WA Premier Mark McGowan holds a press conference to talk about Covid at Dumas HousePic Colin Murty The Australian

Perth lockdown announced

WA Premier Mark McGowan calls a four-day lockdown of Perth and Peel regions amid alarm over a new, Sydney-linked case.

Paul Garvey, Rhiannon Down and Richard Ferguson

Nation

13/5/2021WA premier Mark McGowan and WA Health minister Roger Cook at Parliament House.Pic Colin Murty The Australian

Perth ordered to stay at home

Perth and the southern region of Peel will enter a snap four-day lockdown after a third case of the Delta variant was detected in Western Australia on Monday.

Rhiannon Down

exclusiveNation

TO GO WITH STORY BY NAJIB KHAZZAKA(FILES) A picture dated 12 November 2004 shows Hezbollah militants marching during a rally marking Jerusalem Day in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon. Hezbollah, whose attacks on Israeli soldiers resulted in the capture of two this week, possess a fair stock of firepower, fed by Iran and Syria, whose interests they are known to serve in the Middle East. AFP PHOTO/ANWAR AMRO

Calls to expand terror status

The chair of the intelligence and security committee has called on the federal government to expand its listing of Lebanese political party and militant group Hezbollah as a terrorist group.

Rhiannon Down

COVID-19 PANDEMICPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 21, 2021: Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison during Question Time (in quarantine) at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

PM calls urgent leaders’ meeting amid Covid chaos

WA has become the latest state to tighten its borders, joining SA and Darwin with new controls; NSW battles a case surge.

Angelica Snowden, Ellie Dudley, Rhiannon Down and Richard Ferguson

Covid VACCINENation

BANGKOK, THAILAND - JUNE 07: A health workers prepares a syringe for administering the AstraZeneca Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine to people at the mass vaccination site inside the Siam Paragon shopping mall on June 07, 2021 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand began rolling out its long-anticipated mass vaccination program on Monday. The government has said it will vaccinate around 70 percent of its population by the end of the year, with either Sinovac or AstraZeneca vaccines. The government has also announced plans to acquire Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines to bolster its program. (Photo by Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images)

Johnson & Johnson jab approved by TGA

The Therapeutic Goods Administration has given provisional approval to the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, making it the third coronavirus jab to receive regulatory approval in Australia.

Rhiannon Down

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMICNation

25/6/21: Indigo cafe in Double Bay gets a deep clean after a Covid-19 Casual Contact. John Feder/The Australian

Billions at stake as workers flee CBD

The lockdown in Sydney will have an impact far beyond those directly affected, business and industry leaders have warned.

Nicholas Jensen and Rhiannon Down

DOCUMENTS RELEASEDPolitics

PERTH , AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 8 , 2021 Prime Minister Scott Morrison speech in Perth.. Christian Porter. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Sharon Smith

Court releases Porter rape allegation papers

The detailed dossier compiled by the woman who accused Christian Porter of attacking her in 1988 is among a trove of documents released by the Federal Court.

Rhiannon Down

ARCHAEOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHNation

Project leader, Matthias Meyer, in the ancient DNA clean lab at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Credit: MPI EVA

Researchers track ancient human history

Australian archaeologists used DNA technology to trace modern day humans’ ancient roots using more than 700 sediment samples dating back 300,000 years.

Rhiannon Down

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