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  TUESDAY, MAY 26 Two Sydney schools have been closed after students tested positive for coronavirus, just one day after pupils made a full-time return to campuses across the eastern states. Parents were told to pick up their children from Moriah College, […]

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NEWSDESK MONDAY, MAY 25 Jacinda Ardern was forced to halt a live TV interview this morning after an earthquake struck the lower half of New Zealand’s North Island while she was live. The New Zealand Prime Minister was giving her weekly live […]

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FRIDAY MAY 22 There will be no COVID-19 limits placed on the number of people allowed on south-east Queensland public buses, trains and ferries when all school students return to the classroom next week. In New South Wales, the State Government announced […]

#SheDiscovers What’s New This Week

#SheSociety rounds up this week’s newest finds New on Netflix: Sweet Magnolias Lifelong friends Maddie, Helen and Dana Sue lift each other up as they juggle relationships, family and careers in the small, Southern town of Serenity. __________________________________ Palm Beach Collection Hand […]

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THURSDAY, May 21 The border war continued to rage today as Premiers traded angry words over the best next step to tackle the health/economy fallout from COVID-19. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian accused her WA counterpart Mark McGowan of closing his state off […]

#SheInspires Jeanette Allom-Hill

  Jeanette Allom-Hill has come a long way – physically, emotionally and professionally – since her fractured family was forced to flee South Africa when she was just seven. As Jeanette points out while discussing winning the prestigious 2020 Telstra Queensland Business […]

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  WEDNESDAY, MAY 20 A Chinese man has been reunited with his family after being abducted as a toddler in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province 32 years ago, police have said. Mao Yin was abducted when he was two-and-a-half years old at the […]

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TUESDAY, MAY 19 US President Donald Trump is taking a malaria drug to lessen symptoms should he get the new coronavirus, even though the drug is unproven for fighting COVID-19. Mr Trump told reporters he has been taking the drug hydroxychloroquine and […]

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MONDAY, MAY 18 Australia’s coronavirus death toll has reached 99 after a man died in NSW, while McDonald’s has closed 12 outlets across Melbourne after a delivery driver tested positive to the disease. In Queensland, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has suggested Queensland’s border […]

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FRIDAY, MAY 15 **UPDATED 2:30pm Queensland schools will fully reopen to all year levels from May 25, the State Education Minister has confirmed. Education Minister Grace Grace says schools will act quickly on outbreaks and anyone sick should stay home. Students won’t […]

#SheDiscovers What’s New This Week

#SheSociety rounds up this week’s newest finds New on Foxtel: I Know This Much Is True Based on the 1998 best-selling novel by Wally Lamb, adapted and directed by Derek Cianfrance, this limited series follows the parallel lives of identical twin brothers, […]

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THURSDAY, MAY 14 That overseas holiday could be longer away than expected with an international travel boss speculating things won’t be back to normal until 2023. Alexandre de Juniac, chief executive of the International Air Transport Association, delivered the sobering news on ABC […]

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 A ticket office worker in London’s Victoria station has died of coronavirus after being spat on while doing her job. Belly Mujinga, 47, was on the concourse the station on March 22 when a member of the public, who […]

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TUESDAY, MAY 12 Alan Jones, Australia’s most influential radio broadcaster, will retire at the end of this month, saying doctors had told him his workload was “detrimental” to his health. The 79-year-old 2GB host’s breakfast program has topped the Harbour City’s radio […]

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