Samantha Dick
Victoria’s eased restrictions explained: Can I go to the gym? Can I have friends over?
It’s the news Victorians were desperate to hear. The state’s five-day snap “circuit-breaker” lockdown was lifted at 11.59pm on Wednesday, allowing the...
How Victoria’s purpose-built quarantine hub proposal compares to hotels
The Victorian government’s proposed new quarantine model has been praised by leading epidemiologists as “ticking all the boxes”. Their positive feedback has...
Health workers, aged-care residents to get Pfizer jabs following delivery
Australia’s first batch of the world-leading Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine landed in Sydney on Monday, marking the start of our national rollout program....
Donald Trump escapes impeachment, but still faces criminal charges
Prosecutors in New York who have been probing more than $350 million in loans Donald Trump took out on Trump Tower and...
Child tests positive to coronavirus ahead of Pfizer vaccine arrival in Australia
The positive COVID test of a three-year-old child in Victoria has raised questions about the susceptibility of children to the virulent British...
On This Day: An Irishman discovers gold in Australia
Nearly 200 years ago, a man called James McBrien made a discovery that would dramatically change Australia. The assistant surveyor from Ireland...
Scientists: Native logging increases bushfire risk – not reduces it
The logging of native trees has been shown to increase the risk of bushfires rather than reducing it, according to new scientific...
‘Rookie error’: More exposure sites named as quarantine air gaps appear
A medical device notorious for spraying “thousands of times more aerosol” than a breath has been linked to a growing coronavirus outbreak...
The scandal rocking NZ parliament over a ‘cultural noose’
A fiery debate is unfolding in New Zealand after a Māori Party co-leader was kicked out of Parliament on Tuesday for not...
Why the UK coronavirus strain hasn’t wreaked havoc in Australia – yet
For more than three months, Australia has watched in horror as a mutant coronavirus strain continues to tear through Europe, shutting down...