Stephen Rice

Stephen RiceSydney Bureau Chief

Stephen Rice started his newspaper career at The Sydney Morning Herald before moving into television, where he became executive producer of Nine’s Business Sunday programs. He has worked as a senior investigative producer on 60 Minutes and the Seven Network’s Sunday Night. He has twice won Walkley awards, including the award for Leadership in Journalism, and has law and arts degrees from ANU.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos OCTOBER, 23, 2020: Sarah Lau, a senior policy officer for NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, answers questions during the Public Accountability Committee during the Inquiry Into Integrity, Efficacy and Value for Money of the NSW Government Grant Programs at NSW Parliament House in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Bianca De Marchi

Shredded records ‘breach of Act’

The NSW Premier’s office breached the State Records Act when a staffer shredded documents relating to a $250m council grants scheme, an inquiry has found.

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Protestors participate in an Invasion Day rally in Sydney, Sunday, January 26, 2020. (AAP Image/Steven Saphore) NO ARCHIVING

Australia Day protests: ‘Now is not the time’

With thousands set to protest at “Invasion Day” rallies across the country, premiers, police warn action will be taken to ensure virus rules are not broken.

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URUNGA, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos JANUARY, 20, 2021: Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Water, Property and Housing Melinda Pavey hold a press conference in Urunga on the NSW Mid-North Coast. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gethin Coles

Leaders’ warning on ‘Invasion Day’ rallies

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has joined her Victorian counterpart in issuing a stern message as thousands of protesters prepare to march across the country on Australia Day.

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Qantas CEO Alan Joyce and Cameron Dick speak to student pilots. Official opening of Qantas Group Pilot Academy at Wellcamp Airport. Wednesday, 29th Jan, 2020.

Travel bosses back ‘no jab, no fly’

Australia’s peak travel and tourism bodies are backing Qantas chief Alan Joyce’s controversial mandatory vaccination stance.

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PERTH, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 08: Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan speaks during a press conference on Covid-19 following the National Cabinet meeting on January 8, 2021 in Perth, Australia. Australia's national cabinet met today to discuss concerns about the UK variant of the Covid-19 strain as Brisbane enters a three-day lockdown after a cleaner working at a quarantine hotel tested positive for strain. (Photo by Matt Jelonek/Getty Images)

East-west border row heats up

Gladys Berejiklian has hit back at Mark McGowan over his claims that her COVID-19 strategy was wrong and at odds with the rest of the country.

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Open and shut case to shelve tennis

With more than 1200 players and support staff arriving in Melbourne this week for the Australian Open, fears are growing that the much-vaunted ‘tennis bubble’ could leak.

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Australia's beloved annual lamb ad has been released and it is hilarious. Supplied via NCA NewsWire

New lamb ad parodies border restrictions

Meat and Livestock Australia’s new lamb ad pokes fun at everything from coronavirus to Tasmanians and the PM.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos JANUARY, 10, 2021: NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian speaks to the media during a COVID-19 press conference in Sydney. New South Wales has recorded three new locally transmitted coronavirus cases overnight, with two of the cases close contacts to the Berala cluster and one a close contact of someone from the Northern Beaches. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Bianca De Marchi

Berejiklian slams Andrews over ‘hasty border shutdown’

NSW is pushing for the Victorian border to reopen early, with Gladys Berejiklian hitting out at other states for closing too hastily.

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COVID-19 PANDEMICNation

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JANUARY 8, 2021: Chief Medical Officer, Professor Paul Kelly at a press conference after the National Cabinet meeting at Parliament House. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Covid restrictions here to stay, Aussies warned

Despite upcoming vaccine rollout in February, it could still be months before border and health restrictions ease, says CMO Paul Kelly.

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New mutation alarms health chiefs

Health authorities are alarmed at the arrival of the new COVID-19 South African variant in Australia, with evidence it is not only more infectious but may make current vaccines less effective.

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