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"We couldn't see 20-30 metres ahead of us, so we turned back," traveller Riley Even said. "Probably a good decision, it's only getting worse." Heavy storms are battering WA, as a low-pressure system moves across the state.(9News) The tropical low is moving in a southerly direction about 250km southwest of Broome, towards Eighty Mile Beach and Sandfire Roadhouse. However, it's no longer expected to turn into a cyclone. "It is, though, still a very powerful system and is producing gusts in excess of 100km/hr," Neil Bennett of the Bureau of Meteorology said. It's not believed that the storm will...

There were two new cases in hotel quarantine, and more than 16,000 people were tested. "Our testing rates are not where we would like them to be," NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said. LIVE UPDATES: NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant echoed the premier's calls for increased testing, saying the community could not fully enjoy low transmission rates unless there is certainty around underlying chains of community transmission. "It is critical at this time in the response that we mop up any transmission chains, but also I would urge you to go about practising those COVID-safe practices," she ...

A man returning from the US has been charged by police after allegedly trying to leave his hotel quarantine...

Was 2020 the year we finally broke our culture? We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Was 2020 the year we finally broke our culture? Save Normal text size Advertisement “Cancel culture” was 2019’s Macquarie Dictionary word of the year, but it has had such a strong 2020 it should perhaps have been allowed to keep the yellow jersey for another 12 months (it didn’t; “doomscrolling” took podium honours this year). Some of the targeting was overdue (Pete Evans, whose transgressions became so great by year’s end ...

What the festive season 2020 is like in Australia Sarah Reid Bondi beach last month during the heatwave, Sydney, Australia © Brook Mitchell / Getty Images I pulled open my first Christmas cracker of the season last week. With another person. At a real-life Christmas party! Slipping on the paper crown and reading out the cheesy joke (What athlete is warmest in winter? A long jumper!) as my mates boogied to the original Mariah Carey Christmas album and decorated gingerbread Christmas trees with icing guns on a sultry, frangipani-scented summer evening, it felt like a real turning point.  ...