| | With the highly transmissible Delta variant snaking its way up and down the east coast, "go hard, go early" has become the nationwide approach — and we're seeing it daily. | | | Health authorities are concerned the epicentre of NSW's COVID-19 outbreak has shifted to Canterbury-Bankstown, where more than a quarter of yesterday's record total of new cases were located. | | | Sunday's COVID-19 numbers will be crucial as Queensland Health officials consider whether to lift the lockdown at 4:00pm today. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is expected to join the press conference at 10:00am, after leaving hotel quarantine. | | | For years people have put young guys into the too-hard basket when it comes to health promotion, but it doesn't have to be that way, writes Zac Seidler. | | | McDermott wins Australia's first medal in the women's high jump since 1964 with a national record, while countrywoman Eleanor Patterson finishes fifth in the final. | | | After falling agonisingly short so many times, the Boomers win the bronze-medal game against Slovenia by 14 points to claim Australia's first men's basketball podium finish at an Olympic Games. | | | Thank you, sorry or congratulations? It's hard to know what to say to Tokyo after an enthralling Olympic Games that seemed so unlikely for so long, writes Tracey Holmes. | | | Experts fear Indonesia, considered one of the world's COVID-19 epicentres, is now a high-risk "hotspot" for the emergence of a new coronavirus "super strain". | | | A decade ago, I learned a little lesson in the endless Afghanistan war: the battle may be over, but the conflict rages on — and the Taliban never goes away, writes Stan Grant. | | | A man pried his friend from the jaws of a crocodile that attacked them while swimming in the sea off Cape York. "I couldn't believe what I was seeing, it was like I was in a movie," said a local resident who went to their aid. | | | | | | 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.
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