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Dr Kerry Chant has asked men who are gay, bisexual or men who have sex with men to be vigilant for monkeypox. “A large proportion of the cases detected overseas are amongst gay, bisexual or men who have sex with men,” she said. “We are urging men who are gay, bisexual or men who have …

An area of heritage-listed bushland that formed part of the environmental offset for the western Sydney airport has been bulldozed for a car park at a new defence facility. The clearing was revealed in an independent audit of the federal government’s progress in delivering the offsets required to compensate for the destruction of endangered habitat …

Greens leader Adam Bandt has given a cheeky response when quizzed about wage figures at his address to the National Press Club. After Labor Leader Anthony Albanese’s gaffe over unemployment and interest rate numbers, Mr Bandt responded to an AFR journalist’s question asking him what the current Wage Price Index was with a blunt reply. …

NSW Paramedics today launched a week of industrial action, as the Australian Paramedics Association (NSW) escalated their demands for better resourcing and pay. Until Friday, the union had placed a complete ban on ‘staff movements’, meaning Paramedics would refuse to split from crewmates or travel from their designated station to fill roster gaps elsewhere. “It’s …

A “miracle” flood rescue has been carried out in Kangaroo Valley. Emergency services said a driver became lost in a rural area of Kangaroo Valley after following the wrong GPS coordinates, before he went down a one way street and attempted to cross a flooded causeway. Fire and Rescue NSW Chad Wallace told 9News the …

Russia’s UN Ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, has said Russia will carry out a ceasefire on Tuesday at 6pm (AEDT — 10am Moscow time) and open humanitarian corridors to evacuate citizens from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mariupol. He took the floor at the end of a UN Security Council meeting on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine to …

Eight civilians were killed in the midst of an evacuation in Irpin — a district west of Kyiv that saw intense shelling on Sunday — the mayor of Irpin Oleksandr Markushyn said in a statement on Telegram. Markushyn said Russians opened fire during an evacuation across a bridge. “A family died,” he said, “in front …

Premier Mark McGowan said police are monitoring a COVID-19 outbreak in the Aboroginal community of Jameson, which has been locked down. “We have a testing regime in place in Jameson to try and work out if anyone else has effectively been infected,” Mr McGowan said. “And we’ll do what we can to manage the situation …

What is the Delta variant? Formerly known as B.1.617.2, or the Indian strain, Delta is the name given to a new variant of the strain which devastated India during its second wave. Is Delta more transmissible between young people? It could be. The Delta variant was found in 140 outbreaks in schools and educational settings …

By Richard Wood10 Jun 2021 23:19 Queensland has recorded no new COVID-19 cases, easing concerns about new local infections after a couple who travelled from Victoria to the Sunshine State tested positive earlier this week. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the figures were good news and praised the 6000 people who had come forward for …