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Australia reopens borders to vaccinated visitors after two years

Tourism and hospitality sectors look to rebuild after strong Covid-19 restrictions

Australia prepares for tourist wave as it lifts foreign visitor ban

Strict border lockdown under ‘Fortress Australia’ policy had catastrophic impact on tourism industry

Australia’s political leaders apologise to staffers for decades of abuse

Apology follows report into workplace culture after disclosure by former staffer Brittany Higgins

Australia to reopen borders to vaccinated after two-year closure

Reopening to take effect on February 21st, PM Scott Morrison announces

Australian government buys copyright to indigenous flag for $20m

After dispute over flag’s use it can now be reproduced without seeking permission

Tonga tsunami: Three of the smaller islands suffer serious damage

County hoping for ‘almost contactless disaster relief’ given pandemic

Novak Djokovic wins Australian visa battle - but he may still lose the war

Immigration minister Alex Hawke could decide to cancel visa; no decision on Monday

Novak Djokovic’s father claims his son’s been made a scapegoat

‘Novak filed same documents as 25 other players and they didn’t have any problem’

Johnny Watterson: Lateral flow of time will expose Djokovic’s anti-vaxxer crusade

Federal government realised star’s sense of entitlement grated with Aussie public

Djokovic ignores fact that – unlike tennis – fighting a pandemic is a team effort

Tennis great’s sense of entitlement and anti-vaccine stance inevitably grate with Australian public

Novak Djokovic deserves criticism but so do others in this sorry saga

The world No 1 is often his own worst enemy, but he is not the only one to blame

Q&A: How did Novak Djokovic end up facing deportation from Australia?

World number one is currently in detention awaiting his appeal against visa cancellation

Novak Djokovic’s father says his son ‘is the Spartacus of the new world’

Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic says country has offered support to world No 1

Sydney kicks off the new year celebrations in vintage style

Australians bade farewell to 2021 with a fireworks display over Sydney harbour

‘Hard to overstate the incompetence’: The best business quotes of 2021

The most memorable utterances of the year on bitcoin, climate action and more

Five children dead after wind lifts bouncy castle into air at Australia school

Students fell from height of 10 metres at primary school in Tasmania state, police said

North and South Korea have agreed ‘in principle’ to end Korean War

South Korean president says talks are being held back by Pyongyang’s objections to ‘US hostility’

Australian government stares down calls to press UK and US for Julian Assange’s release

Australia says it is ‘not a party’ to case and will ‘respect UK legal process’

Omicron: EU states urged to boost genome sequencing as Ireland lags behind

Moderna chief warns existing vaccines will struggle with latest coronavirus variant

Australia to send troops to Solomon Islands as protests spread

Crowds of protesters and burning buildings in Chinatown district of Honiara despite curfew

Maureen Dowd: Once more unto the breach for Britain and France

Hundred Years’ War still raging in the French and British Embassies in D.C.

Cleo Smith (4) found alive more than two weeks after going missing in Australia

Police say the girl was found after they broke into a house and a man is in custody

Australia makes carbon emissions pledge but remains wedded to fossil fuels

PM Scott Morrison says net zero emissions by 2050 will be achieved ‘the Australian way’

Djokovic: ‘I won’t reveal my vaccination status. It’s an inappropriate inquiry’

‘People go too far these days in taking the liberty to ask questions and judge a person’

New South Wales to end hotel quarantine for vaccinated travellers

Australia’s most populous state accelerates lifting of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions

Action on climate is effective, just look at acid rain and the ozone layer

Stuart Mathieson: International efforts can have an effect within our lifetimes

‘Freedom Day’ as Sydney reopens and Australia looks to live with Covid-19

Hairdressers, gyms, cafes and bars reopen to vaccinated customers in Australia’s largest city

Asia, once a vaccination laggard, is now revving up its inoculations

South Korea, Japan and Malaysia have pulled ahead of the US in the number of vaccine doses administered per 100 people

Australia to allow international travel from November

Vaccinated citizens and permanent residents allowed to quarantine at home on return

Australia’s prime minister yet to commit to attending UN climate summit

Australia has so far refused to endorse a net zero emissions by 2050 target or double its emissions-cutting target for 2030

Magnitude 6 earthquake hits Australian city of Melbourne

Buildings damaged and tremors felt in nearby states in second biggest quake ever

Australia’s treatment of France ‘unacceptable’, EU says

Submarine spat threatens to scupper trade deal between European Union and Australia

Australia defends scrapping French submarine deal

Macron due to speak with Biden ‘in the next few days’ over contract row, says Paris

US tries to soothe French anger over Australian naval pact

France outraged that own lucrative contract torpedoed and it was given ‘no heads up’

China accuses Australia, UK and US of ‘double standards’ over security pact

Australia to have nuclear-powered submarines for the first time under Aukus deal

Australia-China tensions music to Denis O’Brien’s ears

Digicel founder seeking to sell off Pacific arm of telecoms group

An impossible task? New Zealand’s bid to eliminate the Delta variant

Future of zero-Covid strategy in doubt as cases rise and country remains in lockdown

In the News: Will Delta derail New Zealand’s ‘Zero Covid’ strategy?

Highly contagious variant continues to spread across country, testing policy to limit

Australian PM defends Covid strategy after anti-lockdown protests

Scott Morrison sets 70% vaccination target before easing restrictions

Sydney records deadliest day of pandemic as lockdowns extended

New South Wales sees 478 new Covid cases and 7 deaths, its highest figures ever

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