| | Treasury says $27 billion in JobKeeper payments went to businesses whose turnover either increased or did not decline as much as required, but rejects calls to introduce a clawback mechanism and defends the scheme's design. | | | A fly-in fly-out mine worker tests positive for COVID-19 after arriving in Adelaide from Melbourne, then going to a hotel in a taxi, with SA Health now urgently seeking to identify close contacts. | | | NSW records 496 new locally transmitted COVID cases and eight deaths as many areas take their first steps from a lengthy lockdown. | | | Victorian Labor minister Luke Donnellan resigns from Cabinet and moves to the backbench, saying he has broken party rules but "never misused public funds or resources in any way". | | | Senior insiders break their silence to expose what they endured at Sony Music under the reign of Denis Handlin — decades where appalling behaviour was normalised and ignored. | | | As Queensland marks another day with no locally acquired cases, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk confirms the state is at 70 per cent having had a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Follow live. | | | A judge says Sydney man Isaac El Matari "did a lot of talking" and there was a "low" chance of him launching a terrorism attack in Australia, as the 22-year-old is jailed for seven years. | | | South Australia's top health bureaucrat is distancing himself from a proposal to remove quarantining requirements for fully vaccinated interstate travellers by Christmas, saying such a deadline "hasn't come from me". | | | Australian researchers looked at common vape liquids and found a mix of carcinogens and other nasties, in the most comprehensive study of products available in Australia to date. | | | The sentence given to an Adelaide woman whose "drug-fuelled dangerous driving" killed two "innocent" and much-loved brothers is described as not long enough by some of those closest to them. | | | | | | 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. | | | | |