| | Gyms, hospitality venues and retail shops in NSW will reopen under a roadmap released today as the state records 1,405 new cases and five deaths. | | | Prime Minister Scott Morrison says it's important for state premiers "to be determined and push through" until the country is living with COVID-19. Follow live. | | | Premier Gladys Berejiklian says it's not a "freedom day", but for lockdown-weary people in NSW, it's the date they've been waiting for. These are the COVID-19 restrictions that will be easing next month. | | | Just 107 of the new cases have so far been linked to existing outbreaks by contact tracers. The Delta variant is rapidly spreading in Melbourne's northern suburbs, including areas with some of the lowest vaccination rates in the state. | | | Fresh off a massive surplus, WA's budget could not stand in starker contrast to the rest of Australia. But with GST revenue boosting the bottom line, the fight now begins to keep it, writes Jacob Kagi. | | | This weekend it will be 20 years since Craig McMurtrie was the ABC's North America correspondent who had the "surreal" experience of reporting on the September 11, 2001 terror attacks from New York's Ground Zero. | | | Australia's economy rebounded very strongly from last year's national lockdown and other localised ones, but there are reasons to fear the recovery from the latest NSW, Victorian and ACT lockdowns could be much weaker. | | | Three former Apple Daily reporters are taking the risk of speaking out to 7.30, saying they fear more media outlets could be targeted next. | | | An ACT coronial report finds two children found dead after a house fire in Canberra's north had been killed before the blaze was lit. | | | Australia's COVID property boom is pushing more people into paying for costly mortgage insurance that protects their bank, while only adding to the borrower's mounting pile of debt. | | | | | | 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. | | | | |