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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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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.

MAX MADDISON and Angelica Snowden

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.

Rhiannon Down

WILD WEATHERNation

Gloomy weather in Sydney Tuesday, 29 December, 2020. Picture: Nikki Short

New year washout for soggy east coast

Wild weather will continue to batter Australia’s eastern seaboard, but authorities warn the deluge will do little to counter the looming threat of summer bushfires.

Rhiannon Down

Road toll hits 22Nation

Surf life saving flags will no longer be in place to not promote people going to the beach.

Drownings spike as we holiday at home

The number of summer drownings in Australia has surged this year as more holidaymakers flock to local beaches and waterways in the absence of overseas travel.

Rhiannon Down

locked downNation

** FEES APPLY - EXCLUSIVE TO THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE AUSTRALIAN ONLY ** 27 DECEMBER 2020 SYDNEY AU WWW.MATRIXPICTURES.COM.AU EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Heiress Francesca Packer is seen with a fit friend in her 'Matt Black' Aston Martin in exercise gear in Double Bay today. Note: All editorial images subject to the following: For editorial use only. Additional clearance required for commercial, wireless, internet or promotional use.Images may not be altered or modified. Matrix Media Group makes no representations or warranties regarding names, trademarks or logos appearing in the images.

Packer grandkid laps up sunshine

Even the globe-trotting granddaughter of media tycoon Kerry Packer has been forced to spend her holidays at home.

Rhiannon Down

New Year’s EveNation

Capturing fireworks is all about timing and position - timing to capture the explosion and position to get the right light like this shot at Darling Harbour in Sydney. PHoto: RYAN FOWLER

Councils rebel over fireworks ‘disaster’

Sydney’s midnight fireworks spectacular will go ahead on New Year’s Eve but many revellers will not be able to party on the harbour.

Stephen Rice and Rhiannon Down

Queen’s SpeechThe World

WINDSOR, ENGLAND: (EMBARGOED UNTIL 15.00 IN YOUR LOCAL TIME ZONE ON 25TH DECEMBER 2020) No use after 24 January 2021 without the prior written consent of The Communications Secretary to The Queen at Buckingham Palace. In this pool image released on December 25th, Queen Elizabeth II records her annual Christmas broadcast in Windsor Castle, Windsor, England. (Photo by Victoria Jones - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Queen points out pandemic’s socially distant paradox

The Queen has used her Christmas Day address to preach unity and thank health workers for their pivotal role during the coronavirus pandemic.

Rhiannon Down

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Claire Fealy sits alongside husband Will and her 20 month old twins Charlotte and Dianna at home in Belrose, New South Wales, Friday, 25 December 2020. Ms Fealy is celebrating Christmas away from her mum for the first time because she lives in the red zone on the northern beaches. Picture - Sam Mooy/The Australian Newspaper.

Divided families go hi-tech to share the joy

Even amid a pandemic the sight of little Dianna and Charlotte racing out of bed to see if Santa had visited them during the night was Christmas magic.

Rhiannon Down

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A crowd of mostly backpackers hold an impromptu party at Bronte Beach on Christmas Day with police in attendance to move the large crowd on who were breaching the Covid-19 social distancing rules. Picture: Toby Zerna

Sydney beach party defies distance rules

Hundreds of revellers gathered on the Bronte foreshore in defiance of social distancing orders on Christmas Day.

Rhiannon Down

LIVE: CORONAVIRUS PANDEMICNation

Police break up large Sydney beach party

Police have broken up a mass Christmas party at Bronte Beach as more NSW venues join the COVID-19 hotspot list.

Ellie Dudley, Daniel Sankey and Rhiannon Down

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