Government And Politics

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Feb 12, 2021

Australian city Melbourne begins 3rd lockdown due to cluster

Australia’s second-largest city of Melbourne will begin its third lockdown due to a rapidly spreading COVID-19 cluster centered on hotel quarantine

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Rawiri Waititi

Feb 11, 2021

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Feb 9, 2021

Inquiry finds Crown Resorts unfit to run its Sydney casino

An inquiry has found Australian gambling company Crown Resorts unfit to run its new Sydney casino because it facilitated money laundering and had other problems

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Feb 8, 2021

Chinese-Australian reporter accused of spreading secrets

A Chinese-born Australian journalist has been formally arrested in China on suspicion of illegally supplying state secrets overseas

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Jan 25, 2021

Asia Today: Australia OKs Pfizer vaccine, to begin in Feb.

Australia’s medical regulator has approved use of its first coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for inoculations to begin next month

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Australia Google

Jan 22, 2021

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Jan 21, 2021

Australian PM rebuffs Cricket Australia over Jan 26 plans

Cricket Australia has run afoul of the country's prime minister for refusing to refer to the national holiday in it marketing of three matches on January 26

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Jan 21, 2021

Top-ranked Ash Barty to make return in Adelaide exhibition

Top-ranked Ash Barty is to return to the tennis court for something other than practice for the first time in 11 months

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Australian treasurer won't say if he was stopping China sale

Jan 13, 2021

Australia’s treasurer has declined to comment on whether he had intended to block a Chinese state-owned company’s takeover of an Australian-based construction company

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Jan 10, 2021

New Zealand central bank says data system hacked

New Zealand’s central bank says one of its data systems has been breached by an unidentified hacker who potentially accessed commercially and personally sensitive information