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Yoni BashanMargin Call Editor

Yoni Bashan is the editor of the agenda-setting column Margin Call. He began his career at The Sunday Telegraph and has won multiple awards for crime writing and specialist investigations. In 2014 he was seconded on a year-long exchange to The Wall Street Journal. His non-fiction book The Squad was longlisted for the Walkley Book Award. He was previously The Australian’s NSW political correspondent.

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Weekend Chefs feature- Second Helpings. How big name restaurateurs are letting young gun chefs get behind their stoves to recharge their dining rooms. Restaurateur Teage Ezard at Ezard Restaurant. Picture Rebecca Michael.

Virus claims high end restaurants

COVID-19 claims its first victims from the ranks of Australia’s seriously wounded restaurant industry.

JOHN LETHLEAN and Yoni Bashan

Politics

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian (left) and NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant (right) provide an update on COVID-19 during a press conference at NSW State Parliament in Sydney, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

Premier to schools: rethink closures

Schools that have proactively closed in response to the spread of COVID-19 are being urged by the NSW Premier to reopen.

Yoni Bashan

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 17: New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian addresses the media during a press conference to update on COVID-19, at NSW Parliament House on March 17, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is now at 379 in Australia, with five deaths. NSW has the greatest number of confirmed cases with 171 people infected. (Photo by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)

Reopen your doors, Premier tells schools

As NSW cases rise to 267 Premier remains in lock-step with PM over schools that have stopped teaching due to COVID-19.

Yoni Bashan

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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian ,Treasurer Dominic Perrottet ,Minister Brad Hazard, Deputy Premier John Barilaro & Stephen Cartwright hold a press conference at Parliament House while observing social spacing.picture John Grainger

Premier stands firm over tougher measures

Gladys Berejiklian refuses to enact more aggressive policies, despite conceding NSW is bracing for a “critical mass” of COVID-19 cases.

Yoni Bashan

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Premier of New South Wales Gladys Berejiklian arrives at the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting at Bankwest Stadium in Sydney, Friday, March 13, 2020. (AAP Image/James Gourley) NO ARCHIVING

$2.3bn emergency package for NSW

NSW will spend $700m in health-related measures, while also providing $1.6bn in tax cuts and waivers.

Yoni Bashan

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16/03/2020. Cropdusting pilot Charlie Tootell, with (L-R) Constables Kat Smith and Patrick Bourke acts as a defacto PolAir chopper for police in regional NSW. Charlie steps in in to help with long distance police pursuits and other criminal activity. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Crop pilot another police eye in sky

Cropdusting pilot Charlie Tootell provides ad hoc air support to police on the trail of bandits and looters running riot.

Yoni Bashan

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NSW Opposition Leader Jodi McKay speaks to the media alongside Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council Penny Sharpe (right) at New South Wales Parliament House in Sydney, Thursday, March 12, 2020. (AAP Image/James Gourley) NO ARCHIVING

Labor alarmed at health secrecy

The NSW Opposition demands release of suburb-by-suburb coronavirus statistics, saying there is a ‘lack of information’ about the pathogen in the community.

Yoni Bashan

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