| | Businessman Govind Kant contracted COVID-19 after travelling to India for family reasons in April. His colleagues say he died in a Delhi hospital this week. | | | Jacinda Ardern wants to use New Zealand's time in the diplomatic spotlight to quickly eliminate tariffs on vaccines, syringes and other medical supplies, arguing the pandemic has exposed trade barriers that are potentially damaging to human health. | | | Melbourne man Gary Newman lost his Federal Court challenge to the government's India travel ban last week. The Australian, still trapped in Bangalore, likens the unfolding COVID-19 emergency in India to a "Mad Max comic". | | | Beaches along the NSW Mid North Coast are closed after a man, who was bitten by a shark this morning, dies. | | | Big budget cuts are likely once the economy has fully recovered from COVID-19, with the Treasury secretary revealing an 8 per cent cut in federal government spending is needed to eventually balance the books without raising taxes. | | | The WA Premier says a fast-tracked coronial inquest into the death of Aishwarya Aswath will help answer why the seven-year-old girl was not admitted to Perth Children's Hospital earlier on the night of her death. | | | NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell is moving to close what she labels a "legal loophole", which allows students to bring knives to schools on religious grounds. However, members of the Sikh community are pushing back against the ban. | | | The parents of a man with profound disabilities say the "hurtful and cruel" comments on the number of vaccinated Australians living with disability "completely miss the point". | | | A grandmother tells an inquest that she was "frightened all the time" for her grandsons in the months before her daughter drowned one of the young boys at Moama. | | | Food delivery giant Deliveroo is ordered to reinstate a rider after a tribunal rules he was unfairly dismissed and was not an independent contractor. | | | | | | Download the ABC News app | Available on Android and Apple devices | | The ABC NEWS app makes it easier for you to stay up to date with the latest news and information from Australia's most trusted news source. | | | | The ABC sent this message to wwwhindimen.australia@blogger.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC. Any personal details and data acquired by the ABC from your participation in any ABC Online Services will be used only in accordance with the ABC's Privacy Policy. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. | | | | |