Vaccine trial boosts ASX to 10-week high
Local shares added 1.8pc in their third day of gains despite new tariffs, as oil prices surged.
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PM cops friendly fire on VC snub
The Prime Minister is under mounting pressure, including from his own side of politics, to overturn an apparently flawed decision to deny World War II hero Teddy Sheean a Victoria Cross.
Trade Minister attacks China’s ‘joke’ taunt
Simon Birmingham condemns China’s ‘cheap politics’ after its embassy derided Australia’s success in securing an inquiry as ‘a joke’.
We’re angrier at each other than at politicians
Behaviour of our fellow citizens, not government action, is our biggest frustration over coronavirus, survey shows.
Records fall as commodities surge
The broader market is still far from its record high, but rising commodity prices sent Fortescue, Evolution and Saracen to new highs.
NSW back to school next Monday
Students across NSW will return to face-to-face learning more than a week earlier than anticipated.
Twin girls killed in house blaze
Three-year-old twin sisters have died in a house fire in the NSW south west town of Batlow.
Andrews passes the pub test
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews will relax the nation’s toughest remaining restrictions in two weeks.
Faithful return to ‘God’s house’
On Sunday morning Sydney’s most senior Catholic was in the pulpit at St Mary’s Cathedral to deliver a sermon for the first time in two months.
Evidence of more texts in Trad case
More evidence has emerged ahead of a corruption probe into direct correspondence between Jackie Trad and a senior Queensland education official.
Death leads to carer sacking
The carer of a disabled South Australian woman who died while receiving care has been sacked ‘serious and wilful misconduct’.
China admits to destroying early samples
China concedes it ordered unauthorised laboratories to destroy samples to ‘prevent secondary disasters caused by unidentified pathogens’.
Hospital backlog ‘will take 18 months to clear’
Even with private hospitals stepping in to assist, Australians seeking elective surgery face long delays before they go under the knife.
ASX adds 1.4pc as investors rush to gold
Miners were behind the local rally on Friday, helping the ASX to notch a 0.2pc weekly gain.
Woman admits killing newborn baby
A woman has admitted killing her newborn baby when she was just 14 and leaving the body in a toilet block almost 25 years ago.
Desperate Aussies drain super of billions
More than $11bn has been sapped from super funds, as deteriorating economic conditions push more than a million Australians into financial hardship.
How will the commute to work be safe?
Getting the country back to work using often crowded public transport networks is emerging as a big challenge for state governments.
Parliament must not be sidelined
The pandemic has been tough for most Australians, but it’s (so far at least) politically worked in the government’s favour.
Alinta yet to meet FIRB conditions
Three years after it was sold to a Chinese company, the energy giant is yet to meet the conditions set by the Foreign Investment Review Board.
Doubts of recovery send ASX down 1.7pc
Shares and the Aussie dollar pulled back as economists warned the jobless rate would get worse before it got better.
PM defends wage scheme on ‘devastating’ day
Scott Morrison has backed the scope of the JobKeeper program, Labor questioning if 600,000 people were missing out as the jobless rate hits 6.2pc.
The most vexing COVID-19 question: can you get it twice?
Concern is mounting that people who’ve had coronavirus are getting infected anew. Here is what we know, and don’t know, about the possibility of becoming sick more than once.
$4bn plan to fight poverty
Australia’s largest charitable body will back disadvantaged Australians, fulfilling the vision of its founder, the late Paul Ramsay.
BuzzFeed shuts shop in Australia, UK
BuzzFeed will cease news production in Australia and the UK, diverting resources towards the US market.
Heavyweight rally sends ASX to daily gain
After spending all day in the red, a rally in the final match has sent the ASX to a gain of 0.4pc – thanks in most part to CBA and BHP.
NSW opens pubs and clubs to revive economy
Pubs and clubs will be able to serve patrons from Friday, with the NSW government ruling they can operate with 10 patrons inside at a time.
Police raid Lambie’s ex-chief of staff
The home of Jacqui Lambie’s ex-chief of staff has been raided by police seeking evidence of alleged ‘stalking and bullying’.
The US movement to ‘cancel the rent’
A US push to cancel rent and mortgage payments is probably going to come here but should be resisted.
Victoria defends its Belt and Road deal
State Treasurer Tim Pallas has blamed ‘inelegant interventions’ and language to ‘vilify China’ for Beijing’s trade manoeuvres.
‘Serious risk of second wave’
Donald Trump’s health experts warn of more ‘suffering and death’ if the US economy reopens too fast.
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