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People wait in line at a coronavirus testing clinic at Mona Vale Hospital on 18 December in the wake of an outbreak on Sydney’s northern beaches. Photograph: Loren Elliott/Reuters In late December, the phrases #GladysCluster, #GladysTheCovidiot and #GladysOutbreak began to trend periodically on Twitter, as some users of the social media platform began calling on the New South Wales premier to #LockNSWdown. It was a response to a slowly growi...

Speaking one year since New South Wales recorded its first case of coronavirus, the NSW Premier reflects on the successes and failures of her Government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This is how coronavirus tore through our workplaces, schools, hospitals and nursing homes in spite of lockdowns, testing and quarantine.

During a year overawed by the pandemic, Chaplain John Kewa was a beacon of hope from within the Wollongong community and today has been named...

Let’s bring the nation with us January 23, 2021 — 12.05am Save Normal text size Credit: Stop the nonsense and call Australia Day “Australians Day”. Give us all an opportunity to celebrate the fact that we all live in the best country in the world. It is a fact that Aboriginal people were the first in our country, non-Aborigines developed it and migrants gave it a wonderful multicultural flavour. John Langrehr, Leabrook (SA) I despair that our government simply does not c...

 Alan Veacock, Cumbalum Gladys Berejiklian, our premier, finished an horrendous 2020, ducking and weaving serious claims of entrenched corruption within ICARE, institutional rorting of the Community Grants Scheme by self-confessed pork-barrelling, corruption scandals leading to an ICAC inquiry, poor judgement calls and reckless handling of COVID-I9 policy with the Ruby Princess fiasco. The same self-confessed rorting premier has now returned from a short break and is still ducking and weaving ...

Tour operator becomes first in UK to call for customers to be fully inoculated before travel

Last modified on Sat 16 Jan 2021 21.03 EST When Australia’s first case of Covid-19 was confirmed in Victoria on 25 January, the virus didn’t even have an official name. The case was a man from Wuhan, China, who flew to Melbourne from Guandong on 19 January. On 26 January, Australia Day, the federal health secretary Prof Brendan Murphy held a press conference, his comments revealing how little was known about the virus that was only reported in Wuhan in December 2019. “We donâ€�...

‘I never thought we would get there’: Australia’s year of Covid – from the first case to the first doughnut day

The states have claimed to be acting on their medical advice, but have been mostly driven by their perceived short-term political advantage.