Government And Politics

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Smith missing fans already as Australia leaves for England

Aug 23, 2020

The Australian cricket team departed Sunday for a tour to England like no other in the long history between the two nations

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China considers imposing tariffs on Australian wine

Aug 18, 2020

China is investigating whether Australia is dumping wine in the latest trade dispute to strain their relations

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Google warns Australians could lose free search services

Aug 17, 2020

Google has warned that the Australian government’s plans to make digital giants pay for news content threatens users’ free services in Australia and could hand users’ data to media organizations

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Aug 17, 2020

New Zealand delays election after virus outbreak in Auckland

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has delayed New Zealand’s elections by four weeks due to the coronavirus outbreak in Auckland

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Aug 14, 2020

New Zealand's virus outbreak grows by 13 cases to 30

Health authorities are investigating whether shipping workers were a source of New Zealand’s first domestic coronavirus outbreak in more than three months

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Aug 12, 2020

Australian sailor honored 77 years after he died saving crew

An Australian war hero will be awarded the nation’s top military honor more than 77 years after he was killed while saving his shipmates

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Coronavirus breaks out again in New Zealand after 102 days

Aug 11, 2020

New Zealand's prime minister says authorities have found four cases of the coronavirus in one Auckland household from an unknown source, the first cases of local transmission in the country in 102 days

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Aug 6, 2020

New lockdown ratchets up economic pain in Australian city

A bright side for plant nurseries of Melbourne’s first pandemic stay-at-home order was that many householders took the time to garden

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Aug 2, 2020

Asia Today: Australia's Victoria state imposes curfew

The premier of Australia’s hard-hit Victoria state has declared a disaster among sweeping new coronavirus restrictions across Melbourne and elsewhere from Sunday night

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Jul 30, 2020

Asia Today: 723 cases in Australia, closures in Vietnam

Australia’s coronavirus hot spot Victoria will make masks compulsory statewide after reporting a record 723 new cases