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New US ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, will arrive in the country on Friday

Ms Kennedy is a former US ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017 under the Obama administration, and daughter of former president John F Kennedy.

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Swimmer Cooper banished from Comm Games

Australia's champion backstroker Isaac Cooper has been sent home from a pre-Commonwealth Games camp for misusing a medication.

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Mask mandates ruled out as nation records 90 Covid deaths – as it happened

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Murray hails Celtic-bound Mooy's change in attitude

WHEN Aaron Mooy first arrived in Scottish football at St Mirren in October 2010, it didn’t take long for his new team-mate Hugh Murray to be…

The National (Scotland)

State of the Environment report highlights mammal extinctions and bushfires as WA worries

The latest State of the Environment report paints a "grim" picture for Western Australia, according to scientists, with mammal extinctions, bushfires and water availability highlighted as key areas of concern.

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Calls for COVID-19 antiviral medicines to be made more easily available without GP appointment

In some other countries, eligible COVID patients can get antiviral medication from pharmacies without a prescription from a doctor — but that's not the case in Australia, and a shortage of GPs in some areas is making access even harder.

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Morning mail: Australia faces Omicron ‘perfect storm’, UK’s record heatwave, Greens meet on climate target

Wednesday: ‘Pretty scary’ hospital admission numbers in several Australian states mean masks mandates will need to return, AMA says. Plus: Australia’s first vulture

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Gold rush era restarts at Mount Freda near Cloncurry after three-decade hiatus

Drilling has started at the Mount Freda gold mine near Cloncurry, a site that hasn't been touched since it was abandoned in the gold crash of the 1990s.

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COVID-19 cases are rising in the Northern Territory as Australia approaches a new Omicron wave

The Northern Territory recorded 671 cases on Tuesday — the highest daily caseload since February and a dramatic jump from Monday, prompting calls to reinstate mask mandates.

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Industry says gas from the Beetaloo Basin could solve Australia's energy crisis. Some energy analysts question that claim

The gas industry has its eyes set on developing the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin to secure Australia's electricity supply. Some analysts doubt the economics stack up.

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COVID hospitalisations and deaths are rising faster than cases – but that doesn't mean more severe disease

Australia is currently in its third Omicron wave (second if you live in Western Australia). This one is caused by the subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.

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It was long thought these fossils came from an eagle. Turns out they belong to the only known vulture species from Australia

In 1905, a fragment of a fossil wing bone discovered near the Kalamurina Homestead, South Australia, was described as an extinct eagle and named Taphaetus lacertosus, meaning “powerful grave eagle”.

The Conversation

Australia and New Zealand have a golden opportunity to build stronger ties in the Pacific – but will they take it?

The Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ meeting hosted by Fiji last week was the first to be held in person since 2019. Following a particularly challenging period, it was an opportunity for leaders to reconnect and agree to the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent. This document provides a blueprint…

The Conversation

A closer look at Ben Stokes’ record and impact in 50-over internationals

Stokes has made his final ODI appearance

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Water Minister Tanya Plibersek 'gobsmacked' by how badly Australia has been doing on Murray-Darling Basin Plan target

Tanya Plibersek said she was shocked at how much water was still to be recovered for the environment before the plan's 2024 deadline.

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Australian data reveals long-COVID sufferers are often younger, active and female

New data from Australia's longest-running post-COVID clinic has revealed a high proportion of patients are women in their 40s and 50s, painting a picture of who might be more affected by this emerging condition.

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Reinfection will be part of the pandemic for months to come. Each repeat illness raises the risk of long COVID

The latest Omicron variant BA.5 is fast becoming dominant worldwide, including in New Zealand and Australia. As it continues to surge, reinfection will become increasingly common and this in turn means more people will develop long COVID.

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Calls for clarity in Pacific funding as Australia slips towards bottom of global aid transparency rankings

There are calls for urgent action after Australia dropped to 41 out of 50 countries and organisations in the Aid Transparency Index, revealing a "worrying trend" that has the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade close to hitting the bottom of the list, alongside Saudi Arabia and China.

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Australia's first vulture confirmed

Researchers in Adelaide say fossils thought to be from an eagle are actually from a vulture, the first to have lived in Australia up to 500,000 years ago.

The Guardian - AU

Scientists picking over ice age bones discover vultures once soared in Australia’s skies

Cryptogyps lacertosus was similar in size to a wedge-tailed eagle but anatomical differences suggest it was a scavenger rather than a hunter

The Guardian - AU

Border Force has seized more than 1,000 devices from people entering Australia in past five years

Agency keeps about one in 40 devices searched – but there are no details on prosecutions that result

The Guardian - AU

Australia faces ‘dire’ shortage of more than 300 medicines, doctors and pharmacists warn

Drugs for diabetes, hormone replacement, depression, nausea and stroke among those listed by the TGA as in short supply

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Australian households spend $4,500 a year on entertainment, with streaming and gaming taking biggest slice, report says

PwC expects more than 80% of households will be paying for streaming services by end 2022

The Guardian - AU

Dill or no dill? Herb prices rocket in Australia but consumers told to bide their thyme

To save their hip pockets and get around limited supplies at supermarkets, more Australians are growing their own

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Nutting it out: why Queenslanders aren’t letting native macadamias go without a fight

An ‘insurance population’ grown from wild cuttings may hold the key to the long-term survival of this threatened species

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