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Chief Minister Andrew Barr gives an update on the unfolding COVID-19 outbreak in the ACT. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

ACT records 15 new cases of COVID-19 as another vaccine milestone reached

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ACT chief health officer Kerryn Coleman confirmed a COVID case has been detected in Canberra's prison. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

COVID case detected at Canberra prison

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New casual and monitor for symptoms exposure locations have been listed. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

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Whether it's due to parochialism, higher education levels or a more middle-class populace, Canberra has largely avoided the social division afflicting some of Australia's larger metropolitan capitals. Picture: Shutterstock

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Artist's impression of Geocon's Wova development. Picture: Supplied

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Defence Minister Peter Dutton. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

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ACT chief health officer Dr Kerryn Coleman. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

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Just one MLA is yet to at least book in for a COVID vaccination

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Chief Minister Andrew Barr gives an update on the unfolding COVID-19 outbreak in the ACT. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

ACT records 15 new cases of COVID-19 as another vaccine milestone reached

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Australia's daily virus cases pass 2000

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COVID-19's impact on NSW: the numbers

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Young, unvaccinated face Delta risk: Foley

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Sarah Collingwood from Four Winds Vineyard at Murrumbateman. Picture: Keegan Carroll

As some NSW regions ease, others still feel the lockdown squeeze

Peter Brewer

ACT Minister for Health Rachel Stephen-Smith said participating GPs and pharmacies in the ACT were also expected to receive increased Pfizer supply. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

Thousands of extra vaccine appointments now available

Alex Crowe

Aimee Kerin with two-year-old Evie who has contracted COVID-19, and four-year-old Harrison. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Mum 'at wit's end' after two-year-old girl catches COVID

Steve Evans

Sarah Collingwood from Four Winds Vineyard at Murrumbateman. Picture: Keegan Carroll

As some NSW regions ease, others still feel the lockdown squeeze

Check In CBR app. Picture: Keegan Carroll

Canberra's COVID check-in system to be revamped

Miriam Webber

ACT Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith, who has again urged Canberrans to come forward for COVID-19 tests when they experience any symptoms. Picture: Karleen Minney

Some Canberrans waiting so long for a test, they are going straight to hospital

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The number of new coronavirus cases has climbed again in NSW, reaching 1599 in the latest 24 hours.

COVID-19's impact on NSW: the numbers

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Victorians aged under 50 are disproportionately represented in the state's latest COVID-19 outbreak.

Young, unvaccinated face Delta risk: Foley

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Struggling: Brooke Jones is living off her savings to help keep her beauty business The Bodhi Effect stay afloat during the second lockdown. She has written a letter to the NSW Premier appealing for more business support. Picture: Marina Neal

'Small businesses will collapse, people will lose their homes'

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Chief Minister Andrew Barr says new supplies will help ACT's race toward 80 per cent vaccination.

Vaccine milestone, 15 new cases for ACT

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South Australia has joined the NT in offering Pfizer vaccination jabs to over 60-year-olds.

South Australia offers Pfizer to over-60s

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Edward O'Donohue was first elected to Victoria's upper house in 2006.

New Vic lib leader prompts MP's early exit

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HIDDEN HOMELESSNESS: 78-year-old Alexandra Samootin was made homeless at 64 after a legal battle. Her story is all too common. Photo: Geoff Jones

Over 55 and homeless: 'It could happen to any woman'

Allison Hore
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Mr Albanese is defending Labor's diversity, after a party row over a western Sydney seat.

Keneally move is 'hypocrisy': Labor MP Aly

Tiffanie Turnbull
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Labor's Indigenous affairs spokesperson Linda Burney. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong.

PR firm lands further $770k to boost First Nations vaccine rates

F/A-18F Super Hornets sit ready as the sun sets at RAAF Base Darwin. Australia should upgrade its air bases to allow further co-operation with US forces. Picture: Department of Defence

AGE OF THE DRAGONWe should put out the welcome mat for more US forces. And do it next week

A bureau of statistics employee has tested positive for COVID-19. Picture: Shutterstock

Bureau of Statistics employee tests positive for COVID-19

Senator Kristina Keneally will run for preselection for the federal lower house seat of Fowler.

ALP's Keneally confirms lower house switch

Australian Public Service Commissioner Peter Woolcott. His agency published advice about overseas travel for public servants. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Send only vaccinated public servants overseas, agencies told

Doug Dingwall

Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

SUBSCRIBERLabor promises an anti-corruption body PM would be 'terrified of'

Sarah Basford Canales

NAB CEO Ross McEwan. Picture: Getty Images

Business pressure mounts on federal government for vaccine passports

Gerard Cockburn

Foreign Minister Marise Payne met with her counterpart Retno Marsudi in Jakarta for security talks.

Payne, Dutton in Jakarta security talks

Niniek Karmini

An unidentified New York City firefighter near Ground Zero on September 11, 2001. Picture: Getty Images

SUBSCRIBER | OPINIONMemories of fear and hope on 9/11: from fleeing the towers to volunteering at Ground Zero

Ritu Clementi

Australia's current Paris 2030 target is far too low to help

Australia's current Paris 2030 target is far too low to help

Letters to the Editor

The Towers of Light served as a temporary memorial to the World Trade Center in the months following the September 11 attacks in New York City. Picture: Getty Images

SUBSCRIBER | OPINIONWhat 9/11 may have taught the US: How to avoid being drawn into another unwinnable war

Colin P. Clarke

Heavily armed tactical police at the scene of the shooting. Picture: Karleen Minney

SUBSCRIBERAlleged gunman charged over Belconnen hotel shooting

Homeless Care Packs founder Ammie Blinksell, who is also known by the name Barrett. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

SUBSCRIBERHomeless Care Packs founder charged with unrelated frauds

Constable Zachary Rolfe has pleaded not guilty to murdering an Aboriginal teenager in the NT.

Prosecution appeal win in cop murder case

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New casual and monitor for symptoms exposure locations have been listed. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

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New casual and monitor for symptoms exposure locations have been listed. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

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ACT chief health officer Kerryn Coleman confirmed a COVID case has been detected in Canberra's prison. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

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ACT chief health officer Kerryn Coleman confirmed a COVID case has been detected in Canberra's prison. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

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Chief Minister Andrew Barr gives an update on the unfolding COVID-19 outbreak in the ACT. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

ACT records 15 new cases of COVID-19 as another vaccine milestone reached

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Chief Minister Andrew Barr gives an update on the unfolding COVID-19 outbreak in the ACT. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

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NZ COVID-19 cases rise by 23 cases

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Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School students Beau Henry, Torryn Allsop and Felix Murray with the top selling ram Farrer 200162, purchased by Anden White Suffolks for $11,100. Photo: Supplied

Farrer's $11,100 top White Suffolk ram bound for Victoria

Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School students Beau Henry, Torryn Allsop and Felix Murray with the top selling ram Farrer 200162, purchased by Anden White Suffolks for $11,100. Photo: Supplied

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Carcoar weaners surge to $2300

Nutrien Bathurst agent Marcus Schembri with 26 Reiland-blood, Angus-cross heifers that sold for $1630 a head (652 cents a kilogram) at Carcoar store sale on Friday. The heifers weighed an average of 250kg and were sold by BJ and MJ Hoolihan, Black Springs. Photo: Brock Syphers

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The $11,000 equal top-priced rams purchased by Queensland buyer Mark Davey, Stanthorpe with auctioneer Brad Wilson (centre), Nutrien stud stock, Dubbo and Leanne, Robert and Ethan Endacott and Aimee Toole, Red Hill Australian White stud, Wongarbon.

Red Hill Australian White rams to $11,000 top, $7100 average

The $11,000 equal top-priced rams purchased by Queensland buyer Mark Davey, Stanthorpe with auctioneer Brad Wilson (centre), Nutrien stud stock, Dubbo and Leanne, Robert and Ethan Endacott and Aimee Toole, Red Hill Australian White stud, Wongarbon.

Red Hill Australian White rams to $11,000 top, $7100 average