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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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tributes flowNation

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II (R) leaves in front of Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (L) after attending Royal Family's traditional Christmas Day church service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, Norfolk, eastern England, on December 25, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Adrian DENNIS

Philip’s death ‘a body blow for Her Majesty’

The Queen’s famous stoicism will be put to the test, says Kim Beazley, as John Howard, Scott Morrison also pay tribute.

Christine Kellett and Rhiannon Down

SAG AWARDSArts

In this screenshot courtesy of the 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild AwardsÂ® (TL to BR) John Carroll Lynch,Sacha Baron Cohen, Alex Sharp, Eddie Redmayne, Michael Keaton, Mark Rylance, Frank Langella and Kevin Harrison Jr. accept the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (

Chicago 7 rallies Oscar bid with key win

The Trial Of The Chicago 7 nabs top gong at virtual, pre-taped affair, while stars go all out in the fashion stakes despite no physical red carpet | PHOTO GALLERY

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Christa Avery ( in this image taken from Facebook) , and Matthew O'Kane are Australians under house arrest in Myanmar . The military junta blocked the couple at the airport trying to leave. Picture: Facebook

Social media link to freed couple

An Australian couple freed after spending a fortnight under house arrest in Myanmar may have been detained in the troubled country because of their business links to Facebook.

Rhiannon Down and Amanda Hodge

Hunt rejects complaintsNation

There are concerns some cancer patients are holding off having the COVID-19 vaccination when they should not be. Prof Grant McArthur who is one of the top oncologists, as well as being a prostate cancer survivor receives a Covid vaccine from nurse Serena Lin. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Vaccine army doubles fight against virus

The number of vaccine medical centres will double this week with inoculations on track to top one million within days.

Jamie Walker and Rhiannon Down

PoliticsNowPolitics

HARARE, ZIMBABWE - MARCH 16: A man holds a Chinese flag in front of the shipment of Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines at Harare International Airport on March 16, 2021 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Today's shipment is in addition to a batch of 200,000 doses of donated Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine received last month. Zimbabwe is one of a dozen African countries to receive donated vaccines from China. (Photo by Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images)

China ‘plans to undermine our vaccine rollout’

China and Russia overtly and covertly trying to undermine the rollout to promote their vaccines and even steal research, cyber-security experts warn.

Rhiannon Down

World

NEWS 360 EXCLUSIVE NO NEWS.COM.AU NO AUSTRALIANJock Palfreeman leaves the Busmantsi Detention Centre as he gets released into house arrest. The man in the shirt and jeans is his lawyer Kalin Angelov. Picture: Supplied.

Paroled killer leaves Bulgaria

Australian Jock Palfreeman has left Bulgaria more than 13 years after he was arrested and charged with murdering a student in Sofia.

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MUSICMusic

TheAustralian-ARTS- Bluesfest director Peter Noble in his office at Tyagarah. Bluesfest is on track to about 15 000 people per day on site this Easter. It will be the largest non-sporting gathering in Australia since the March 2020 lockdowns. Jan 28th 2021 Photo by Natalie Grono

Bluesfest canning a ‘kick in the guts’

Bluesfest director Peter Noble has pleaded for the government to throw the music industry a lifeline, after another major blow to the music industry.

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EASTER MESSAGESNation

Scott and Jenny Morrison deliver their Easter message.

PM’s thanks for time with family

Scott Morrison and religious leaders pay tribute to the resilience of Aussies in a year impacted by coronavirus and floods | WATCH

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LIVE: Coronavirus crisisNation

A member of the medical staff prepares a dose of the Covid-19 AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine at a refugees and migrants camp in Obrenovac, Serbia, on March 29, 2021. (Photo by OLIVER BUNIC / AFP)

Vaccine chaos: Qld nurses turned away

An error has led to dozens of nurses being sent away despite being told to report to a Brisbane hospital to receive their jab.

James Hall, Rhiannon Down and Mackenzie Scott

FOOD DELIVERYPolitics

A Deliveroo rider cycles through central London on March 26, 2021. - The meal delivery platform Deliveroo is bracing for strikes and other social actions by disgruntled riders as it gears up for a major London stock listing. The group has come under fire for employment conditions that have already scared off a couple of large institutional investors (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)

Delivery riders poor conditions

Concerns about the practice of delivery app riders “delegating” jobs through platform Deliveroo to other riders have surfaced, amid mounting criticism about pay and safety standards.

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