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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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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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Politics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos November 30, 2020: Qantas Aircraft on the tarmac at Sydney Airport. Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire / James Gourley

Flight crews to face compulsory testing

All flight crews entering Australia will be subject to mandatory COVID-19 tests and quarantine from next week.

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National cabinet recalledNation

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA-NCA NewsWire Photos January 01 2021.Prime Minister Scott Morrison during his first political press conference in Parliament House Canberra, for 2021.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Race to bolster defence against UK virus strain

Scott Morrison will urgently reconvene national cabinet on Friday as authorities move to stop the spread of Britain’s new coronavirus strain.

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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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Warnings as UK strain detected across the country

Health authorities are alarmed at the arrival in Australia of the highly infectious UK super COVID-19 strain that has shut down Britain.

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Qantas Airline aircraft are seen at Sydney Airport, Thursday, 24 December 2020. Authorities are urgently investigating how a Qantas crew member contracted Covid-19 after arriving in Darwin from Paris and then flying to Sydney without being tested or quarantined. Federal health authorities are working with Qantas to understand how the man, who landed in Darwin on 17 December after working on a repatriation flight from Paris, became infected. Picture - Sam Mooy/The Australian Newspaper

Quarantine fleet split to stop infection

Health authorities in NSW have established a separate fleet to transport returned travellers.

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EMBARGO FOR TWAM 28 MARCH 2020 FEE APPLIES Photo by Roger Askew/Shutterstock (4466398d) Human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson Human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC speaks at the Oxford Union, Oxon, Britain - 25 Feb 2015

‘We risk being a dirty money haven’

Geoffrey Robertson slams the AFP for failing to probe a suspected Russian money-laundering operation using Aussie banks.

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Politics

Caption: British financier Bill Browder is campaigning for Australia to introduced tough new measures targeting crook foreign agents. Photo: Supplied.

Inside a murder, Putin and the theft of $US230m

In 2007, convicted killer and low-level gangster Victor Markelov walked into a Moscow tax office and asked for a tax refund. Within 24 hours, he received a cheque for the entire amount: $US230m.

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Blind eye to Russian money laundering

The Australian Federal Police and Austrac have failed for more than two years to investigate a suspected money-laundering operation run by the Russian mafia.

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Putin’s ‘Enemy No 1’ targets AFP’s inertia

The first thing you discover when you go out to dinner with Bill Browder is that he doesn’t eat. Or drink. The price you pay for messing with Vladimir Putin.

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