| | NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian warns against panic buying as people who live in, or have worked in, four local government council areas — Woollahra, Waverley, Randwick and the City of Sydney — prepare for to be locked down for a week. | | | With thousands of Australians still stuck overseas and no firm end in sight to the international border closure, the federal government is kickstarting plans to build more specific COVID quarantine centres. | | | A hair salon servicing Sydney's rich and famous has become the centre of an intensive contact tracing operation with over 900 of the business's clients potentially exposed to COVID-19. | | | Queensland's Court of Appeal says Clive Palmer's firm Mineralogy must pay $102 million to liquidators over the failure of Queensland Nickel in January 2016. | | | Hundreds of thousands of people in the local government areas of Sydney, Woollahra, Waverley and Randwick are being told to stay at home. Follow live. | | | WA Police arrest and charge a Victorian man who flew to Perth and allegedly breached quarantine to present motivational speeches in the city's south, after lying about where he had been in the previous 14 days. | | | More than 1 million Sydneysiders have been plunged into a week-long lockdown as the COVID-19 outbreak spreads to several suburbs. See if you're affected. | | | Around 650 US troops will remain in Afghanistan to provide security for diplomats after the main military withdrawal, US officials say, as Taliban forces continue to take new territory. | | | Australia's insurance industry loses the latest battle in an ongoing "war of attrition" with businesses that want compensation for COVID losses. But that does not mean they will start paying out an estimated $10 billion in claims. | | | Anyone who left metropolitan Sydney after 4:00pm must stay at home upon entering the ACT, unless undertaking certain essential activities, until 11:59pm on Friday, July 2. | | | | | | 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. | | | | |