| | Hundreds of protesters, many voicing anti-vaccination views, are met by riot police as they move throughout the CBD and West Gate Freeway, pausing outside Parliament House to demand the Premier Daniel Andrews come out and meet with them. | | | Victoria's construction industry shutdown is a supremely expensive example of people not doing what they've been asked to. | | | From next week the NSW construction industry will be permitted to operate at 100 per cent capacity and some unvaccinated workers will be able to return to work. | | | Australian kids aged between five and 11 could get a COVID vaccine jab this year, depending on when and if Pfizer makes an application to the nation's medical regulator, Chief Nursing Officer Alison McMillan says. | | | A Melbourne court hears a senior aviation safety inspector was forced to fail Max Quartermain during a proficiency test, two years before his deadly crash. | | | A solar power start-up business that began in a warehouse in Wollongong has officially created the world's most efficient commercial-sized solar cell, and it has one big point of difference. | | | The NSW government announces a "friends bubble" for young people after the state recorded 1,022 new COVID-19 cases and 10 deaths. | | | The Byron, Kempsey and Tweed LGAs are going into lockdown from 5:00pm today after a COVID-19 case from Sydney went to the regions. Follow live. | | | The biggest fuel storage facility in the Northern Territory will be built in Darwin in coming years in a $270 million US investment to support continued American defence operations in the Top End. | | | Queensland will tighten border restrictions for the Tweed and Byron shires in northern New South Wales after a lockdown was announced for those regions. | | | | | | 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. | | | | |