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Coronavirus Australia live news: Melbourne quarantine hotels to house Covid patients
Victoria’s controversial quarantine hotels will soon be turned into Covid hospitals as Omicron places further pressure on wards.
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‘I don’t know how they’ll vote’: Burke defends move to grant 12,500 citizenships
The Home Affairs Minister denies citizenship ceremonies for more than 12,500 people are motivated by the upcoming election or targeting marginal seats, after Peter Dutton called it a cynical ploy and the Nationals accused him of 'industrial scale seat stacking'.
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Struggle to reach homes target
The NSW government has announced the rollout of a second phase of its housing and planning reforms, spruiking its new ‘low and mid-rise’ policy it hopes will deliver more than 100,000 homes.
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