News headlines
- Perrottet, 39, become New South Wales’s youngest premier in history
- Victoria’s construction industry is reopening today with only vaccinated staff allowed to return to job sites following a two-week shutdown
- Australia has secured 300,000 courses of an antiviral pill showing promising signs of reducing COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations.
- Australia is on track to achieve 80 percent vaccination of people over 16 by mid-November.
- WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook have gone down globally
- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says extra measures are being considered to prevent the misuse of shell companies for tax purposes.
- Two American scientists have won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine.
- England's cricket board will decide within days if the Ashes tour of Australia will go ahead.
