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Open your mind to the world with New Zealand’s number one breakfast radio show. Without question, as New Zealand’s number one talk host, Mike Hosking sets the day’s agenda. The sharpest voice and mind in the business, Mike drives strong opinion, delivers the best talent, and always leaves you wanting more. The Mike Hosking Breakfast always cuts through and delivers the best daily on Newstalk ZB.
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Wrapping the Week: Is KJ Apa right about New Zealand's tall poppy syndrome?
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Every Friday morning, Mike Hosking is joined by Tim Wilson and Kate Hawkesby to wrap the week in news. LISTEN ABOVEBy Newstalk ZB
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Neil Martin: RugbyPass secures deal to stream Super Rugby Aotearoa
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Sky TV and NZ Rugby have inked a deal for Super Rugby Aotearoa 2021 matches to stream in more than 100 countries via Sky's RugbyPass service - including top-tier rugby nations the UK, Ireland and France for the first time. Weekly passes, featuring two live games every weekend, plus highlights and condensed games, will be available. RugbyPass' servi…
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Murray Olds: Aussie news back on Facebook, Brisbane’s bid for 2032 Olympics
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News will be back in Australians’ Facebook feeds from Friday, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has said. Speaking to 2GB radio station after the federal government’s contentious media bargaining code passed into law, Mr Frydenberg said the social media giant told him it would reinstate news content on the platform. Asked when news will be back on the site…
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Swoop Aero: Medical deliveries by drone ready for take-off in Australia
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The new age of medical supply delivery is here. Across the ditch in Australia, a company called Swoop Aero has signed a deal with the chemist company TerryWhite Chemmart to do medical deliveries via drone. Their drones can deliver within a 130 kilometre range, saving dozens of hours of travel and wait time for patients. The New Zealand operations m…
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Joseph Parker: Champion boxer on his fight against Junior Fa
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Excitement is building as boxing rivals Parker and Fa prepare to step into the ring for what has been billed as one of the biggest events in New Zealand boxing history.Fight night is tomorrow at Auckland's Spark Arena with tickets selling fast for the much-anticipated event.Yesterday, promoter David Higgins said about 80 per cent of the tickets hav…
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Mark the Week: Government's refusal to allow Australia travel bubble looks like a control exercise
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At the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout. 9/10. "First for the country this week. Is it light at the end of the tunnel? Or maybe the start of the end?" Britain and Israel's Rollout. 8/10. "They are the guiding lights. If you want to see where we …
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Richard Arnold: Johnson & Johnson's vaccine approved, new variant causing worry in New York
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Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine offers strong protection against severe COVID-19, according to an analysis released Wednesday by U.S. regulators that sets the stage for a final decision on a new and easier-to-use shot to help tame the pandemic. The long-anticipated shot could offer the nation a third vaccine option and help speed vaccinatio…
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Mike's Minute: Is Grant Robertson just out of ideas?
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Quick suggestion, why don’t we just ask Adrian Orr to be the Finance Minister? Grant Robertson seems to have given up. The latest "Robertson to Orr" letter asks the Reserve Bank to take housing into account when they make their various statements and announcements. That on top of inflation and employment. The Reserve Bank used to have a sweet job. …
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Bernie Smith: Auditor-General investigates MSD emergency housing grants for private rentals
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The Auditor-General is launching an enquiry into emergency housing grants, after paying up to $3000 per week for private rentals. From November 2017 until June last year, the Ministry of Social Development paid more than $38 million to landlords and property managers. The grant is meant to be a short-term solution for seven days while a permanent h…
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Grant Robertson on housing, tourism industry and vaccine travel passport
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More support could be on the way for the tourism regions most affected by the closure of international borders. New figures show tourism spending in Otago dropped by almost a quarter last year, while many tourism businesses in Fox Glacier are operating at 20 percent normal capacity. Finance Minister Grant Robertson says the Government is looking at…
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Mike Hosking: It’s never been a better time to be the Opposition
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I was slightly disturbed at reportage that Judith Collins was trying to bring Simon bridges into line over his Coster ‘wokester’ comments I hope it’s not true, because what this country needs - all countries need - is strong opposition. Not opposition for opposition’s sake, but well thought through critique. The trick to good opposition is not just…
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Ido Drent discusses second season of crime hit The Gulf
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Actor Ido Drent may have perfected his craft on Shortland Street, and garnered attention in Aussie series Offspring, but his latest show has seen him go global. Local crime drama The Gulf – focusing on a series of crimes taking place on Auckland’s Waiheke Island – is back for a second season on Three from Monday March 1st. The show was a success in…
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Simon Peterson: Rowing New Zealand on the difficult decision to make ahead of Tokoyo Olympics
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A sacrifice of time and energy lies ahead for the New Zealand men's rowing eight and quadruple sculls without knowing if they'll compete at the Tokyo Olympics. Both crews must contest what's known as the sport's regatta of death at Lucerne from May 15 to 17 to earn the final Games qualifying spots. Presuming the Olympics are still on at that point,…
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Kate Ayers: Fluoride in water supplies across the country could become a reality
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Far more New Zealanders could be soon be getting fluoride in their drinking water. The Government is expected to shift the decision over whether to fluoridate water from city and district councils, to district health boards. It could mean about 85 percent of the country having fluoride in water supplies, compared to 50 percent currently. The law ch…
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David Geier: Orthopaedic surgeon on Tiger Woods' injuries and recovery
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In a career filled with remarkable comebacks, Tiger Woods faces perhaps his toughest recovery of all. Woods was driving alone through a sweeping, downhill stretch of road through coastal suburbs of Los Angeles when his SUV struck a sign, crossed over a raised median and two oncoming lanes flipped several times before coming to rest on its side. Its…
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Heath Milne: Fox Glacier and Franz Josef drowning, hundreds of jobs lost
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It is grim findings for our glacier region in the days of Covid-19. A new report looks at the pandemic effects of businesses in and around the towns of Fox Glacier and Franz Josef.It found 518 jobs have been lost, while businesses still standing are only operating at 20 per cent normal capacity. 16 per cent of businesses are no longer running at al…
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Simon Moore: New Zealand to review suspended immigration programme
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A licensed immigration advisor says a review into Skilled Migrant residency's needed because the queue's become too long. Expressions of interest selections for the Skilled Migrants Category have been suspended for almost a year, and the Immigration Minister's flagged a possible policy revamp. Immigration advisor Simon Moore claims there's more tha…
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Rod Liddle: Pressure on Boris Johnson to lift lockdown, Scottish independence hits turbulence
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Together, politicians Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon took the quest for Scottish independence from long shot to strong possibility. But now Scotland's former leader and his successor as first minister are locked in a feud that is tearing apart their Scottish National Party, even as its goal of an independent Scotland outside the United Kingdom is…
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Dominic Foote: Government's progressive home ownership scheme only putting 12 families into homes
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Helping 12 families own their own homes in seven months is being called a considerable achievement. The Government's Progressive Home Ownership Scheme has helped 12 families break into the housing market since July. Housing Minister Megan Woods celebrated the results, while National mocked - saying the government had put out more news releases abou…
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Mike's Minute: Government remains clueless over housing
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I think we can draw a fairly easy conclusion that when it comes to housing this government are hopeless. So far this year, and it's only February, the Prime Minister promised to fix the housing crisis. Fix it, just like that. Grant Robertson then said he had tools he'd be announcing this month that would tilt the market in favour of the first home …
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THE RE-WRAP: So That's Housing All Fixed Then
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Mike Hosking: Labour's push to protect Māori wards political dishonesty
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A good piece on Newsroom - What’s the rush? Law making in a hurry - deals with the governments use of urgency and specifically around the change to Māori wards for councils. I am “for” the change only on the basis that it’s an anomaly. It’s the only thing a council does that you can rummage up some signatures by way of a petition and force a vote o…
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Ep#223!! Thank you to everyone that has followed and listened! Make sure you subscribe and set to auto download! *Corey LaJoie makes his LT debut *Recaps *Quin Houff makes his LT debut as well *Brian Neudorff has Homestead forecast *LuckyDogs *LT Fantasy Itunes- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lapped-traffic-podcast-nascar/id1191851979 Po…
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Linda Cooper: Auckland Councillor urges people not to go overboard with pet chickens
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Aucklanders are being told to stick to half a dozen chooks per household in urban areas. West Auckland man Chao Su wants a million dollars compensation, saying people don't want to buy his house because of his former neighbour's 100 chickens. He says the neighbour's moved on, but some of the birds have been left behind and are a major nuisance and …
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Michael Plank: NZ's 'unacceptable' risk higher than Australia's - study
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New Zealand faces an "unacceptably high" risk of as many as nearly three border breaches each month - and by some measures the country is more threatened than Australia. That's according to a new analysis by public health researchers on both sides of the Tasman, who warn that risk of new Covid-19 incursions is growing even with vaccinations and cal…
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Pollies: Winston Peters' $12,000 farewell bash, Simon Bridges attacks 'woke' Police Commissioner
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National leader Judith Collins has pulled senior MP Simon Bridges into line over his "wokester" attack-line on Police Commissioner Andrew Coster. She has made it "very clear" to Bridges that his comments should be directed at Police Minister Poto Williams and not at Coster – New Zealand's top Police official. "I've made it very clear that our focus…
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Laura Jayes: Sky News host on Facebook lifting their news ban for Australian users
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An attempt to regulate Facebook has been quickly stamped out. Australian lawmakers had tried to force the social media giant to pay news providers for their content. Facebook hit back by banning news from Australia on its platform. Alerts from Government pages, including health and emergency messages, were caught in the cross fire. The pair have no…
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Richard Arnold: Investigation into Denver plane fire continues, US Covid numbers stabilising
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Boeing has recommended that airlines ground all 777s with the type of engine that blew apart after takeoff from Denver this past weekend, and most carriers that fly those planes said they would temporarily pull them from service. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ordered United Airlines to step up inspections of the aircraft after one of its…
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Mike's Minute: Are the child poverty figures really a win for the Government?
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What is it they say about statistics and damn lies? The poverty measure we use is all wrong. That's because wrong because it doesn’t include the initial Covid period, therefore is pointless. And it looks at poverty from a very crude pre-determined set of statistics and is predicated on the simple idea that if the government tosses money at somethin…
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Dominick Stephens: Economist previews Reserve Bank's OCR announcement today
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There's expected to be 'nothing to see here' when the Reserve Bank makes its Official Cash Rate announcement today. It will also be giving a Monetary Policy Statement. Westpac chief economist Dominick Stephens told Mike Hosking he's not expecting the central bank to change much today. He says it will conclude monetary policy settings are about righ…
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Ashley Bloomfield on Auckland's latest community cases of Covid-19
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Health officials are taking no chances, with Auckland's latest community cases of Covid 19. Another student at Auckland's Papatoetoe High School tested positive for the virus yesterday -- and two of her siblings tested positive last evening. One of the positive cases worked at Kmart Botany on Friday and Saturday nights. Director General of Health A…
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Mike Hosking: EV advocates know they've lost their argument
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Have a look at an interview with a bloke called Keith Bradsher. He’s an American car industry commentator and was on the television last weekend on Q+A. It was an interview about electric cars. it’s an excellent insight into the delusion and mind-set that has captured so many when it comes to future uptake of a product that under any normal circums…
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Nathan Brown and Phil Gould talk Warriors pre-2021 season kickoff
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Warriors coach Nathan Brown is accepting the pressure that comes with coaching a new NRL team. Brown signed a three year contract with the Warriors last year after coaching the Newcastle Knights for the past four seasons. He told Mike Hosking his previous experience has put him in good stead. "I've been coaching for a long time now so pressure's th…
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Damien O'Connor: Agriculture Minister accepts there's a fruit picking shortage
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The Horticulture sector's still bleeding money without enough workers to fill jobs. Apple growers in Hawkes Bay are reportedly struggling to pick more than 40 per cent of their crop. A marketing consultant for growers reveals the sectors missing 80 per cent of their seasonal workers. Only 2000 RSE scheme workers have been let into the country for t…
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Alan Murray Hayden: Air New Zealand to trial health travel passport
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An assurance people's information will be kept private when using a health travel passport. Air New Zealand and Emirates will start using the IATA Travel Pass app from April. It will hold information like Covid-19 test results and vaccinations, and will let people know where to get a test and what's required by their destination. IATA airport, pass…
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Steve Henry: Kiwi developed low cost Covid immunity test looks promising
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A new Kiwi developed low cost Covid immunity test is looking increasingly promising. The Government funded study led by a team at AUT looks at a platform called Kode. What kode does is attach molecules to any surface in only a couple of minutes, to modify any type of virus. The test, carried out in a just-published , uses a clever platform pioneere…
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Ish Sodhi: Black Caps beat Australia in first Twenty20 in Christchurch
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The longer Devon Conway is held out of all three formats for New Zealand, the longer Gary Stead and company are hurting their cause. While that might be an unconventionally sweeping and subjective way to start a match report, it can be objectively stated that the 29-year-old with 18 first-class centuries and three 50s in his first five T20I innings…
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Eric Crampton: Government urged to ease building restrictions to help fix housing crisis
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Calls for the Government to ease building restrictions if we want even a chance of fixing the housing crisis. A report from the New Zealand Initiative shows population growth will require an extra 30-thousand homes per year. That's before figuring in demolition rates and the $40,000 homes we're already behind on. Think tank chief economist Eric Cra…
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Rod Liddle: Shops, haircuts return in April as Britain lifts lockdown slowly
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Children in England will return to class and people will be able to meet a friend outside for coffee in two weeks’ time, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Monday as he laid out a slow easing of one of Europe’s strictest pandemic lockdowns. But those longing for a haircut, a restaurant meal or a pint in a pub have almost two months to wait, and…
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Andrew Becroft: Children's Commissioner on the Child Poverty report released today
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New Zealand's Covid-19 forced lockdown and the subsequent weeks will not be included in tomorrow's all-important Child Poverty report, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern this afternoon confirmed. Instead, the annual measure will only take into account the nine months to March 2020, and has surveyed 15,000 families rather than 20,000 as in previous years…
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Mike's Minute: We need a better answer than lockdowns
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Seven cases and the country's biggest city, yet again, is locked down. Parts of New Zealand so far away from the seven cases being in level two seemed absurd. Events like the National Rowing Champs stalled as they stared out at the water wondering what level of inconvenience could be imposed upon them if this thing didn’t get sorted. As we predicte…
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Chris Hipkins on the vaccine rollout to immunise border workers
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Reassurances there's enough vaccines to fully immunise border workers - and their households. The Government plans to vaccinate more than 12,000 at risk staff over the next two to three weeks. Jabs are well underway in Auckland and Wellington, and will be rolled out in Christchurch from tomorrow. Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins today said …
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Mike's Minute: 10 years on, Christchurch deserves better from its rebuild
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I was in a hotel in Auckland, I had given an address at a conference. 12.51pm, phones went off. The attention of the room was diverted, the event was off, and we all had to be elsewhere. The Christchurch quake had happened. 10 years ago today, we remember. I've always thought it was an odd business remembering things at certain stages. 10 is a big …
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Commentary Box: Luna Rossa dominates Prada Cup final
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After Luna Rossa's victory over American Magic in the Prada Cup semifinals, co-helmsman Jimmy Spithill immediately turned his attention to the next task. "Now Ineos, boys," he told the crew on board after eliminating the American challenge to book a date against the British. Now, Spithill has turned his attention to Team New Zealand. Yesterday, Lun…
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Peter Burling: Team New Zealand undaunted as Luna Rossa confirmed as challenger
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Team New Zealand helmsman Peter Burling remain undaunted by what he's witnessed in the challenger final won by Luna Rossa in the America's Cup. The Italian syndicate will contest for the Auld Mug from March 6 on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf. Burling told Mike Hosking he's grateful for the opportunity to practise on the periphery of the competition becau…
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Steve Price: Scott Morrison amongst first Australians to get Covid-19 vaccine
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was among the first Australians to receive the Covid-19 vaccination in Sydney today, but the historic moment dissolved into giggles when Morrison's attempt at a photo op went wrong. Jane Milysiak of Marayong was selected to be the first to receive the jab and she did so alongside Prime Minister Scott Morriso…
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Richard Arnold: US about to top 500,000 Covid-19 deaths
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Just over a year since the first known US Covid-19 death, more than 500,000 people will have died from the disease by the end of this week. "It's something that is historic. It's nothing like we've ever been though in the last 102 years since the 1918 influenza pandemic," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Inf…
