| | NSW hits the 80 per cent first-dose vaccination target and the curfew imposed on 12 Sydney LGAs is lifted as the state records 1,259 new COVID-19 cases and 12 deaths. | | | Trains, trams and buses will be barred from Melbourne's CBD between 8:00am and 2:00pm on Saturday, in a bid to prevent anti-lockdown protesters from gathering. It comes as Ballarat prepares to re-enter lockdown and virus fragments are detected in wastewater along the Great Ocean Road. | | | As Kevin Mason dived in the ocean, a Fisheries NSW officer was watching on the cliffs above. Elders in the region say the water is now a battleground. | | | Darko Desic, who broke out of Grafton jail 30 years ago, decides life will be "much easier" if he is behind bars again after the pandemic stripped him of work and left him homeless. | | | An Australian university implicated in unethical research using facial recognition technology to identify Uyghur and Tibetan minorities unsuccessfully lobbies for it to be retracted by publishers on multiple attempts. | | | A family who escaped from Afghanistan with the help of a former British soldier share their harrowing experience of crossing over to Pakistan and their confrontation with Taliban. | | | The change will take effect at November's ceremony and embraces some of the country's biggest artists who don't identify as male or female. | | | SA Premier Steven Marshall's decision to reopen borders to the eastern states once vaccination targets are reached could see the state's western border slammed shut, WA Premier Mark McGowan warns. | | | The national medical regulator is demanding that crossbencher Craig Kelly stop spreading "seriously misleading" information about COVID vaccines in text messages to thousands of people around the country. Follow live. | | | Ballarat residents are waiting hours to be tested for COVID-19 as the regional city of more than 100,000 people prepares to enter its eighth lockdown at midnight. | | | | | | 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. | | | | |