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FRIDAY 29 MAY **UPDATE – 3:00pm Prime Minister Scott Morrison provided a COVID-19 update following the National Cabinet meeting this afternoon. Prime Minister Morrison announced that The Council of Australian Governments will be abolished in place of National Cabinet, Prime Minister Scott […]

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#SheSociety rounds up this week’s newest finds New on Amazon Prime: Little Fires Everywhere Based on the best selling 2017 novel by Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere follows the story of two families living in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Starring Reece Witherspoon & […]

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  THURSDAY, MAY 28 Concerned residents in the small central Queensland town of Blackwater are queuing in their cars to get tested for COVID-19 after a 30-year-old man’s death from the virus yesterday. An emergency fever clinic was set up in Blackwater’s showgrounds […]

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  WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the National Cabinet has never agreed that there should be borders closed in Australia. “That was never the medical expert advice that came at any time. Premiers and their governments in states, whether it is […]

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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 […]

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