Новости за 05.01.2022

Ten people were arrested during blockade action on the Franklin River yesterday at Warners Landing.

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz and target.

World No.1 Ash Barty has rallied from a set down to beat American Coco Gauff at the Adelaide International.

An offshore worker who stopped by Divers Tavern in Broome before heading home to Queensland has tested positive to the virus and the pub is now an exposure site among several new locations in Fremantle and Perth including Yagan Square on New Year’s Eve and Day.

Flights from eight countries, including Australia, the US and Britain, are prohibited from entering Hong Kong for two weeks from this Friday as the country tries to quash a fifth wave of COVID-19 infections.

The bouquet of the season.

Paramedics have been dealing with record call-outs as those managing symptoms at home seek advice and assistance.

The man spearheading Queensland’s present response to the pandemic says the virus would be here “whether we opened the borders or not”.

People in Melbourne’s west are being told to prepare for wild weather as thousands in western Victoria are without power after heavy rain and strong winds lashed large parts of the state.

Festival director Olivia Ansell is facing a baptism of fire for her first event.

Seven months after collapsing on the field during Denmark’s Euro 2020 match, star midfielder Christian Eriksen said he hopes to play in the 2022 World Cup, which begins in November in Qatar.

Queensland residents have been left waiting hours for COVID-19 tests, with frustrations boiling over in queues.

The surge in demand for rapid antigen tests has been an added stress for those trying to visit loved ones in nursing homes.

The daughter of the engineer who oversaw the reconstruction of the GPO clock tower in the 1960s says his collection of papers, slides and technical documents should be preserved for the nation.

A year on from Washington’s Capitol riots, President Biden’s inauguration promise to display “tolerance and humility” towards his political and ideological enemies is ringing hollow.

The daughter of the engineer who oversaw the reconstruction of the GPO clock tower in the 1960s says his collection of papers, photographic slides and technical documents should be preserved for the nation.

More people tested positive to COVID-19 in NSW on Wednesday than there were fans on the first day of the Sydney Test, as an outbreak decimated the Brisbane Heat’s playing ranks.

Elective surgery has been halted again as pressure mounts on Victoria’s hospitals, ambulances and testing systems amid escalating omicron infections.

England’s bowlers have been constantly lectured on their length. But no one was mentioning luck, which they finally got at the SCG.

About 6.6 million Australians on concession cards will be eligible to pick up 10 free rapid antigen tests after national cabinet agreed to a series of changes to testing.

Concession cardholders will receive 10 rapid antigen tests, but universal free access has been ruled out, while tennis star Novak Djokovic has been granted a medical exemption to enter Australia despite not being fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Company says some pharmacies have been selling the sought-after testing kits at excessive prices.

Everything you need to know to pick a winner on an eight-race card.

Sledging matches, crocodiles, beer bottles and Omicron were all part and parcel on the first day of a very strange Sydney Test.

The artist, whose memorable portrait of the late actor David Gulpilil was at the centre of a legal battle, died on Tuesday night.