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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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global food forumEconomics

The Hon Dan Tehan MP, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment pictured at the Global Food Forum dinner held at Quay restaurant in Sydney, Monday 31 May, 2021. Picture: Nikki Short

Beijing ‘wine war’ headed to WTO

The Morrison government could bring a fresh World Trade Organisation action against China over punishing wine tariffs in a matter of ‘weeks’.

Rhiannon Down

GLOBAL FOOD FORUMRetail

Woolworths Managing Director, Natalie Davis, speaking at the Global Food Forum held in Sydney, Tuesday 1 June, 2021. Picture: Nikki Short

Balancing act as Woolies eyes rising costs

Woolworths says it’s playing a balancing act in trying to deal with higher costs in areas like shipping and not lifting prices for shopppers.

Rhiannon Down and Eli Greenblat

Global Food ForumRetail

31/05/2017: McDonald's CEO Andrew Gregory speaking about the company's profits in Australia and the success of their drive through operation, McCafe coffee and gourmet burgers. Photographed at a McDonald's restuarant in Thornleigh on Wednesday. Hollie Adams/The Australian

Macca’s big plan: 40 new stores a year

McDonald’s Australian CEO says the chain is speeding up plans for new stores, and has weighed in on whether there’s room for plant-based burgers on the menu.

Rhiannon Down and Eli Greenblat

HEALTH BREAKTHROUGHNation

27/05/2021 Diabetes sufferer Maureen Thomson, 64, in Kadina, SA.

Low-carb diet key to fighting diabetes

Grandmother-of-six Maureen Thomson felt like she was on a backward slide when it came to taking control of her diabetes – until a leading-edge new diet turned her fortunes around.

Rhiannon Down

COVID-19 PANDEMICPolitics

Melbourne Lockdown CBD. Collins St. Picture: Tony Gough

Exposure sites reveal Victoria’s Covid web

As the list of exposure sites tops 150, the former head of the AMA warns there is a ‘serious challenge’ to get on top of the outbreak.

Rhiannon Down

Aged-care bungleNation

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 28: A detail shot of the syringe containing the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Royal Exhibition Building COVID-19 Vaccination Centre on May 28, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. All Victorians aged 40 and over are eligible to receive either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines as the Commonwealth COVID-19 vaccination program expands in the state. The vaccine program expansion comes as Victoria enters its first day of a seven-day lockdown following a COVID-19 cluster outbreak in Melbourne's northern suburbs. From midnight, all Victorian residents are subject to stay home orders, and are only allowed to leave home for five reasons: care and caregiving, exercise, work and to buy groceries, or to get vaccinated. The lockdown is effective from 11:59 pm Thursday 27 May to 11:59 pm Thursday 3 June 2021. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

Hot-spot care residents get jab

Residents at an aged care home in Melbourne’s inner west have received their Covid-19 vaccine following a commonwealth scheduling bungle.

Angelica Snowden and Rhiannon Down

JURY DIVIDEDNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MAY, 26, 2021: Steve Barrett leaves the Supreme Court in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett

Jury discharged in veteran journalist’s trial

A jury has been discharged after they were unable to reach a verdict in the trial of journalist Steve Barrett who was jointly accused of blackmailing a $105m tax fraud syndicate.

KIERAN GAIR and Rhiannon Down

LIVE: POLITICS NOWPolitics

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 11: Victoria's Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton speaks to media on May 11, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. A Victorian man has tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday after staying in hotel quarantine in South Australia. The man in his 30s recently returned from overseas and completed mandatory hotel quarantine in SA before returning to Melbourne on 4 May. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Covid alert after exposure site bungle

Victorian health officials missed listing a Woolworths as a virus exposure site earlier in the month, with anyone who visited now being urged to isolate.

Rachel Baxendale and Rhiannon Down

HOMICIDE SQUAD INVESTIGATINGNation

Gunnedah Police Station. Picture Nathan Edwards

Indigenous man dies after being tasered by police

An Indigenous man died on Thursday after being pepper-sprayed and tasered by police in the NSW country town of Gunnedah.

Ellie Dudley

SYDNEY TRAGEDYNation

A six month-old baby boy has died and a woman has been arrested in Sydney‘s southwest this afternoon., The infant boy was found unresponsive at a home on Seaborn Ave, Oran Park about 4pm on Thursday after police responded to a concern for welfare call., Paramedics rushed to the scene to treat the baby and give him CPR before racing the him to Campbelltown Hospital in a critical condition., Despite best effort the boy was unable to be revived. Must Credit: TNV

Baby found dead in Sydney’s southwest

A six-month old baby boy has been found dead in a home in Sydney’s southwest, and a woman arrested at the scene.

Ellie Dudley

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