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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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LIVE: COVID-19 PANDEMICNation

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - JANUARY 7, 2021.The Hotel Grand Chancellor in Spring Hill, Brisbane. A worker of the hotel and a quarantining child who recently returned from overseas have tested positive to coronavirus.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dan Peled

Brisbane hotel worker catches UK strain

A cleaner who contracted COVID-19 at a Brisbane quarantine hotel and has been moving about the community for days is carrying the highly infectious UK strain.

Rhiannon Down

LIVE: CORONAVIRUS CRISISNation

Federal Member for Kingsford Smith Matt Thistlethwaite is seen during a media press conference at Yara Bay Sailing Club in Phillip Bay, Sydney, Sunday, November 17, 2019. The NSW Government has proposed a mega ship terminal at Yarra Bay. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

Labor MP begs Andrews to release constituents

Federal Labor’s Matt Thistlethwaite has pleaded with the Andrews government to allow his constituents to leave quarantine and return to Sydney to care for their children.

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Australian of the YearMusic

WEEKEND TELEGRAPH - 1/11/20*** MUST CHECK WITH WEEKEND PIC EDITOR JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE PUBLISHING ***Jimmy Barnes pictured at his southern highlands home during COVID-19. Jimmy has a new book coming out. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

Working Class Man kept country smiling

Rock icon Jimmy Barnes has been entertaining Australians for more than four decades and didn’t miss a beat in 2020.

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LIVE: CORONAVIRUS CRISISNation

PERTH, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 1 2020: The Premier of Western Australia, Mark McGowan speaks to the media at Perth airport about opening the borders with other states. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Tony McDonough

Fears for children as UK strain hits Perth

A highly infectious UK strain of COVID-19 that has been detected in three people in hotel quarantine in Perth has raised fears over the effect on children.

Rhiannon Down and Richard Ferguson

LIVE: CORONAVIRUS PANDEMICNation

Spectators watch on from the Members Pavilion on day 4 of the third Test Match between Australia and New Zealand at the SCG in Sydney, Monday, January 6, 2020. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY, IMAGES TO BE USED FOR NEWS REPORTING PURPOSES ONLY, NO COMMERCIAL USE WHATSOEVER, NO USE IN BOOKS WITHOUT PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT FROM AAP

SCG Test crowd cut, 63 Sydney suburbs on alert

Virus fragments in sewage plants spark Covid alerts for thousands as cricket officials limit crowd to 12,000 for Thursday’s Test amid fears of spread.

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Politics

The Leader of the Australian Labor Party, Anthony Albanese, is in Sydney today with the Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations and Manager of Opposition Business, Tony Burke, and will hold a press conference.Anthony Albanese addressing the media.Photo: Tim Pascoe

Albanese steps up pressure on jabs

Anthony Albanese is ramping up his calls for an accelerated rollout of a coronavirus vaccine before March, as federal health officials say they hope to beat their current deadlines.

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POLICE MINISTER ‘FURIOUS’Nation

Human Nature concert at The Coliseum, Rooty Hill Picture: Twitter

Outrage over packed concert, over-capacity wedding

An RSL concert and a wedding with 700 guests collide to increase virus fears in Sydney’s west.

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broken collarboneArts

Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Ainsley Melham in Pippin. Pic: David Hooley. Supplied for Elizabeth Fortescue

Kerri-Anne Kennerley in on-stage trapeze fall

Performer Kerri-Anne Kennerley is recovering in hospital after she suffered a serious fall on stage, forcing her to bow out of her role in musical Pippin.

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Mystery Victorian casesNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 30, 2020. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian provides a COVID-19 update at St Leonards in Sydney Australia. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

Restrictions tighten as Covid spreads

The NSW government has imposed stricter restrictions on Sydney as Victoria recorded three community coronavirus transmissions.

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NSW OUTBREAKNation

30/12/20: People from the Wollongong area line up for testing at the Wollongong Hospital. John Feder/The Australian.

Worshippers and shoppers head the queues

Health authorities in Wollongong struggling to process hundreds of tests for residents.

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