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Federal health secretary Brendan Murphy has dashed dreams of international travel resuming this year.

Top doc promises COVID vaccine will save lives Australia’s chief medical officer has hosed down criticism of the Melbourne-made COVID-19 vaccine, declaring it will work. Health by Tom Minear and Alanah Frost 13th Jan 2021 8:13 PM Premium Content Subscriber only Australias top doctor has slapped down medicos criticising our coronavirus vaccination plan and assured Australians the jabs they receive will save lives and preven...

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Last modified on Tue 22 Dec 2020 00.52 EST This year served up a never-ending stream of catastrophes – from record-breaking bushfires to a virulent deadly disease – but 2020 also generated a new kind of breakout star. Scientists, public servants and a very sweary man: these are the Australians who rose to prominence in this highly unusual year. Shane Fitzsimmons The then commissioner of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, Shane Fitzsimmons, became a symbol of the bushfire fight. Fitzsim...

Five big lessons that Australia learnt in 2020 We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Opinion December 18, 2020 — 9.10pm Normal text size Advertisement The first of the five main lessons we’ve learnt from 2020 is that Australia is a highly capable country. On the whole, it dealt with the pandemic as well or better than any country on the planet. The effective mobilisation to confront COVID-19 exposes a very hard fact about the nation’s many p...

unhealthy fast foods. why should the olympics put mcdonalds up on a pedestal? dont they know better than that? well talk about that and a whole lot more. but first we start out by getting all of the latest news from our current news update and here in los angeles lisa ferguson. good morning lisa. >> good morning. weve got plenty of money talk going on this morning after two tax issues came to light yesterday. one, of course, president obamas call to extend the bush era tax cuts for tho...