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COVID updates: Get up to speed on all the coronavirus news from across Australia — as it happened

Keep up to date with all the COVID-19 news from across Australia.

ABC News

Crowds march for Invasion Day protests – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Makeshift screens, censored films and ASIO: how the Melbourne International Film Festival began 70 years ago

On the Australia Day weekend in 1952, a group of die-hard film buffs put on a film festival. They had selected the leafy hills of Olinda in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges for the event. They expected 80 people – but more than 600 turned up!

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Belly Mujinga’s inquest to take place this summer, coroner confirms

The 47-year-old was allegedly spat at while working at London’s Victoria railway station at the start of the pandemic.

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LGBTQIA+ People Have Signed An Open Letter Calling On Vic Police To Back TF Out Of Melb Pride

LGBTQIA+ peoples in Victoria have signed an open letter calling on Victorian Police to back out of participating in next month's Midsumma Pride March in St Kilda.

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Shame, regret factors in rape case: lawyer

A trial has begun for two Victorian men accused of raping a young woman in a caravan after a birthday party in a tight-knit rural town.

AAP

Disability staff with COVID still working

Two COVID-positive disability support staff in regional Victoria have been granted an exemption to continue working.

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Koala baby boom in Australia's Victoria state

It was a koala baby bonanza when the WWF caught koalas in Gelantipy, East Gippsland to assist researchers working to ensure the species' survival.

AAP

Lifesavers help Victorian paramedics in pandemic peak as surge workforce

Lifesavers moonlight as ambulance drivers during the peak of Victoria's COVID crisis.

ABC News

Nominations open for Assembly by-election

Victoria's First Peoples' Assembly is holding a by-election for a vacant position representing the state's northeast, after Natarsha Bamblett stepped down.

AAP

Vic hospital 'code brown' still needed

The Victorian health system is still facing intense pressure amid the Omicron wave, despite declining numbers of emergency presentations and furloughed staff.

AAP

Victorian COVID hospitalisations at 1,057 as state records 29 further deaths and 14,836 new cases

Victoria records a slight rise in the number of people in hospitals and officially reported new cases as a further 29 COVID-19 deaths are recorded.

ABC News

Almost half of people seeking help for homelessness in NSW in past year did not get it, report finds

Unmet requests for accommodation in the state rose from 37.2% to 48.2% over five years and a growing number are also being turned away in Queensland

The Guardian - AU

Vic schools receive RAT tests

Victorian schools will plough ahead with face-to-face classes in the face of high student infections under its new testing strategy.

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The Guardian - AU

Covid-19 Australia data tracker: coronavirus cases today, trend map, hospitalisations and deaths

Guardian Australia brings together all the latest on active and daily new Covid-19 cases, as well as maps, stats, live data and state by state graphs from NSW, Victoria, Queensland, SA, WA, Tasmania, ACT and NT to get a broad picture of the Australian outbreaks and track the impact of…

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Victorian killer tried to blame his victim

A Melbourne man who killed his housemate Paramjeet Singh suggested that his friends tell police the victim had stabbed himself in the neck.

ABC News

Victorian COVID hospitalisations at 998, as 17 deaths and 11,695 new infections reported

There are 998 COVID-19 patients in Victorian hospitals, including 119 people in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.

The Guardian - AU

Australia records 58 Covid deaths; Hunt says ‘hoarding’ affecting rapid test shortage – as it happened

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Teachers, parents and the opposition cautiously welcome Victorian COVID-19 back-to-school plan

Parents and teachers alike react with excitement to the government's push for kids to return to school, but the union warns the rollout will need to be closely watched.

AAP

Victorian govt finds supermarket staff

The Victorian government is helping COVID-stricken major supermarket chains plug critical workforce gaps, as staff remain off the job.

The New Daily

Students to return: The back-to-school plans for each state

Students and teachers in Victoria and NSW will be required to undergo two rapid antigen tests per week, as states prepare their back-to-school plans.

The Guardian - AU

NSW and Victoria schools reopening plans focus on Covid surveillance testing but scrap contact tracing

Twice-weekly rapid tests, mandatory masks and booster shots for teachers are crucial to both states’ near-identical plans

Reuters

Two Australian states to test school students twice weekly for COVID

Australia reported 58 deaths from COVID-19 on Sunday, as the two most populous states, New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, said students would be tested twice weekly for the Omicron variant when classes resume next week.

ABC News

Victoria records 14 more COVID-19 deaths, 1,002 in hospital as schools plan revealed

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says it's expected COVID-19 cases will again climb when schools reopen, but the benefits of having students back in the classroom far outweigh the alternatives.

The Guardian - AU

NSW and Victoria reveal back-to-school plans – as it happened

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