Excluding the ABC and SBS is a missed opportunity to derive value for money from taxpayer investment in news media production.
The SBS is empowered and encouraged to earn commercial revenues, but has been cut out of this remuneration opportunity.
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What we know is that an outbreak, an infection in one place can very easily lead to more infections. We have to, as a nation, be prepared to do whatever is necessary to minimise the risk of infections.
And what
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Australia signed a 10-year agreement with the United States on defence cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region and agreed to the potential expansion of the US Marine program in Darwin, at the Ausmin meeting in Washington DC overnight.
US Secretary of
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The NSW court of appeal has effectively upheld an earlier ruling that the protest is a prohibited public assembly under current public health regulations.
Demonstrators will now risk arrest and fines if they breach coronavirus
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Australia has done far better than was expected only a few months ago in suppressing the virus, allowing businesses to keep supplying households and providing jobs and in easing restrictions. The Victorian experience should not be seen as a reason
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Good morning,
My name is Calla Wahlquist, I’ll be your Amy Remeikis for the day.
National cabinet will meet today to consider a proposal from prime minister Scott Morrison to cap international arrivals to Australia to ease the pressure
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There are three key reasons.
First – the escalating cases in Melbourne.
Second – the extending community transmission.
And third – the unacceptable risk of spread to regional areas.
Yesterday’s 191 cases in Victoria was the highest daily number