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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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GOOGLE MONOPOLYNation

29/01/2021. Bondi hair salon Toni & Guy owner Kelly Prestia with client Sophia Wilson at her salon in Bondi beach in Sydney's eastern suburbs. Search engine Google has threatened to pull its service from Australia which could impact small business customer base. Britta Campion / The Australian

Salon owners happy to get big tech out of their hair

Small businesses say they’re happy to give search engine Google the flick, as the tech giant threatens to withdraw from Australia.

Rhiannon Down

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 19: Prime Minister Scott Morrison meets with team member Savannah Alegre, Specialist Team Lead of the Microbiology Laboratory at AstraZeneca on August 19, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. The Australian government has announced an agreement with the British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to secure at least 25 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine if it passes clinical trials. The University of Oxford COVID-19 vaccine is currently in phase-three testing. If the vaccine proves to be successful, Australia will manufacture and supply vaccines and will be made available for free. The project could deliver the first vaccines by the end of this year or by early 2021. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams - Pool/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

Australia immune from EU vax curbs

The Morrison government claims Australia’s vaccine rollout remains on track, despite the EU planning to restrict the export of Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs.

Greg Brown and Rhiannon Down

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Auctioneer David Gray in action during the aucton. Action from the Auction at 24 Dudley Street Pagewood. The property sold for 1.57 Million dollars. Picture: John Appleyard

Auction action soars

Auction clearance rates in Sydney and Melbourne soared above 80 per cent at the weekend.

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live: coronavirus crisisNation

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 08: Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan speaks during a press conference at Dumas House on January 8, 2021 in Perth, Australia. Western Australia will reintroduce a hard border with Queensland and require all individuals who have arrived in WA from Queensland since January 2 to quarantine as Brisbane enters a three-day lockdown after a cleaner working at a quarantine hotel tested positive for the UK Covid-19 strain. (Photo by Matt Jelonek/Getty Images)

Ministers face quarantine in Canberra

West Australian federal MPs and their staff will have to quarantine in Canberra after Perth went into a five-day lockdown with a plane-load of politicians stranded on a flight.

Paul Garvey, Richard Ferguson and Rhiannon Down

Vaccine ‘trade war’Nation

A nurse (R) gets her second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the novel coronavirus / COVID-19 in a medical centre of Budapest on January 28, 2021, as the second round of vaccination among health workers continues. - Hungary extended a coronavirus state of emergency for 90 days and partial lockdown measures until March 1, and it would issue a decree licensing any vaccine already used on a million people. (Photo by ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP)

Enough doses coming despite EU, says govt

As the EU threatens a ban on exports of coronavirus vaccines from the bloc, authorities in Australia stick to a late-February rollout.

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live: coronavirus crisisNation

Nurse Francine Millward (L) adminsters an injection of Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre set up at Thornton Little Theatre managed by Wyre Council in Thornton-Cleveleys, northwest England, on January 29, 2021 as Britain's coronavirus vaccination campaign continues. - Britain on Friday claimed its streamlined approach to developing Covid vaccines and support for biotech firms helped it to steal a march on other countries still struggling to implement a roll-out. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP)

Doses still begin next month, confirms govt

As a promise on Australian delivery is restated, a preview of research being published soon says vaccination is already easing the pandemic.

Rhiannon Down and Jacquelin Magnay

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A car is stuck in flood waters on York St South Melbourne. Friday, January, 29. Picture: David Crosling

Pleas for help as state hit by floods

Emergency services received more than 500 calls for help as a huge storm dumped a month’s worth of rain on Victoria in less than 12 hours.

REMY VARGA and Rhiannon Down

AUSTRALIA DAYPolitics

New citizen Daniel Mensah Adobaw with wife Nadia Samperi on Australia Day at Government House, Sydney Tuesday, 26 January, 2021. Picture: Nikki Short

Legions of new citizens pledge their loyalty

Thousands of new citizens pledged their loyalty to Australia in ceremonies around the country on Australia Day.

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AUSTRALIA DAYNation

Australia Day Chef.Andy Clappis (L) opened his Italian restaurant in near Willunga 15 years ago and shares his love of Italian food and culture with all his diners. His dad Enzo (R) immigrated to Australia in the 50s and taught him a love of the food business. Both of them were features in the Australia Day Council's ad for Australia Day. They love making bread together.Friday 22 January 2021 Pic Roy VanDerVegt

Love of food and family an ideal recipe

Andy Clappis’s dad Enzo brought his love of food with him when he immigrated to Australia from Italy as a teenager. Now both father and son are successful restaurateurs.

Rhiannon Down

AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEARNation

Buy from the Bush founder Grace Brennan is backing the New South Wales government's campaign, BuyRegional, which encourages people to purchase Christmas presents from drought-stricken communities. Picture: Dylan Robinson

Australian of the Year: last chance to choose nominees

Rural communities hit by drought, bush fires and COVID-19, have had one saving grace in mum of four Grace Brennan.

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