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The Update
The Update from Nova Podcasts brings you the latest Australian and world news: from politics to sport and entertainment headlines. Releasing 3 times a day. Listen to us in your smart speaker by asking for: Nova news flash briefing.
Episodes
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Foreign Affairs Bringing More Stranded Aussies Home 05/07/21
Twenty repatriation flights will be planned between now and September, to get more vulnerable Australians home. Restrictions to ease further in WA and…
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Australia-New Zealand Travel Bubble Resumes For Some States
The Trans-Tasman travel bubble is back for Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT. Victoria urged to reduce vaccine rollout due to supply and demand…
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Hope For Sydney In Lockdown
There is growing confidence Sydney could emerge from lockdown as scheduled on Friday, despite having recorded its highest number of Covid cases of the year…
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Australian Cities And Lock Down Measures
Perth has emerged from its lock down with the stay at home order rescinded despite one new case of community transmission. Brisbane's extended lockdown will…
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PM Announces Four Stage Plan Out Of COVID 2/07/21
International arrivals will be slashed and home quarantine will be trialed as part of National Cabinet's four-stage plan to lead Australia out of COVID. Optus…
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Lockdowns Across The Country To Be Assessed Today
The effectiveness of Sydney's Covid lockdown can be assessed from today, but the stay-at-home measure is expected to remain for at least the full fortnight…
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Authorities Investigate Death After Astra Zeneca Jab 1/07/21
Health authorities are trying to determine whether the Astra Zeneca vaccine is linked to the death of a woman who suffered a blot clot. NSW and Queensland…
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National Cabinet Infighting Continues
Victoria and WA will join Queensland at tomorrow's national cabinet meeting ... in pushing for lower caps on international arrivals. More than 20 new venues…
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Home Affairs Says No Change To International Arrivals 30/06/21
There won't be any change to international arrivals quotas, despite the latest COVID outbreaks. Several wards at two Sydney hospitals have been locked down…
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Four Major Cities In Lockdown
Millions of Aussies are now under stay at home orders with four cities in lockdown School closures resulting from the pandemic are being blamed for the…
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12M Australians In Lockdown 29/06/21
12 million people across the country are now in lockdown as authorities try to contain several COVID outbreaks. Immunisation experts fear mixed messaging about…
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National Cabinet Endorses New Vaccine Protocols
National Cabinet has endorsed new vaccination protocols that will require ALL aged care workers to have at least their first jabs, by September. Perth and Peel…
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Leaders Meet To Discuss Worsening COVID Outbreak 28/06/21
The PM, Premiers and State Ministers have been briefed by health officials, as more COVID cases pop up around the country. Forty-four people fined for…
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NSW Health Fears Over Super Spreader Venues
110 Covid-19 cases have been linked to Sydney's cluster with fears over super spreader venues. Other state are tightening restrictions with community Covid…
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NSW COVID Cluster Grows 27/06/21
30 new COVID infections have been confirmed in NSW following more than 52,000 tests, taking the total outbreak to 112. A 24-year-old woman has been charged…
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Virgin Flight Attendant Tests Positive For COVID 27/06/21
Anyone who has travelled on Virgin Flights along the east coast in the last two days are being urged to get tested after a crew member tested positive for…
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George Floyd's Murderer Sentenced
Former police officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22 and a half years prison for the murder of George Floyd The desperate search for those missing…
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Four Sydney Areas Head Into Lockdown
From midnight tonight anyone who lives or works in four Sydney areas including the City and Eastern Suburbs will be subject to 'stay at home' orders for at…
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22 Sydney Covid-19 Exposure Sites Added To The List
More Covid-19 exposure sites have been added to NSW Health's website overnight. New Zealand has extended the suspension on the Trans Tasman travel bubble with…
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NSW Avoids Snap Lockdown Despite Rise In Cases 24/06/21
Victoria announces it will close to residents of Sydney and Wollongong after a traveller who attended a 'super-spreader' party in West Hoxton tested positive…
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AstraZeneca Vaccine Due To Be Phased Out From October
Canberra is working to phase out AstraZeneca from Australia's vaccine rollout. More Covid-19 exposure sites added to NSW Health's list as Melbourne gears up…
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Tougher COVID Restrictions For NSW 23/06/21
Tougher COVID restrictions are now in place for Greater Sydney and other parts of NSW as authorities work to contain the latest outbreak. The latest vaccine…
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New Zealand Pauses Travel Bubble With NSW
A flight between New Zealand and NSW has been added tot he Covid-19 exposure sites list, sparking a pause on the Trans-Tasman bubble. Victoria declares 7…
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Sydney's COVID Cluster Grows 22/06/21
Sydneysiders will be forced to wear masks indoors for at least another week, as the Bondi COVID cluster grows to 21. There's been a big uptick in the number of…
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Aussies Urged Not To Cancel Second AstraZeneca Jab
The AMA has urged Aussies not to cancel their second AstraZeneca vaccination. The NZ Travel Bubble will re-open to Victoria at midnight tonight. Tokyo Olympics…
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Barnaby Joyce Re-elected As Nationals Leader 21/06/21
New federal Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce says he's humbled to return to the party's top job following a successful leadership spill, which saw Michael…
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Emergency National Cabinet Meeting Called
National Cabinet will meet this morning to discuss the vaccine rollout. Updates on the Covid-19 cases in NSW and Queensland. Sydney FC is through to the…
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More Covid Exposure Sites In Sydney
NSW health has listed more Covid exposure sites stemming from the Bondi Junction outbreak An alert has been issued after a one-year-old girl was taken from a…
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Covid Delta Variant The Most Globally Dominant Strain
The WHO says the Delta variant of Covid 19 is becoming the globally dominant strain of the disease 1000 people in Sydney isolating as work continues to stop…
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Changes To AstraZenica Recommendations Scaring People Off Jab
Government Reports Mass Cancellations At Vaccine Centres Sydney's Covid Cluster Grows To Four Sweeping Changes to Superannuation And Woolworths Taken To Court…
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Lockdown Restrictions Have Eased In Victoria
Victoria is enjoying some freedom with the easing of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. NSW Health has added new exposure sites to the list with three confirmed…
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Pfizer Will Now Be Offered To People In Their 50's
The Pfizer vaccine will be offered to people below the aged of 60 More exposure sites have been added to the NSW list And The treasurer says today's jobless…
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Second New Covid-19 Case Confirmed In Sydney
NSW Health confirms a second person has tested positive to Covid-19 in Sydney's East. Melbourne gets ready for more Covid-19 restrictions to ease from midnight…
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Covid Alert For Venues In Sydney's East After Positive Case
Covid alert issued for a string of venues in Sydney after Eastern Suburbs man tests positive. Melbourne residents eager to head to the snow will have to take a…
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Australia and U-K Agree On Free Trade Deal
Free trade deal between Australia and the UK could take tariffs up to 15 years to be removed. Further easing of Melbourne Covid restrictions to be discussed at…
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Two New Covid Cases In Melbourne Apartment Complex
There have been two new cases of Covid 19 reported in Victoria the federal government believes asylum seeker boats will restart, if it allows a Tamil family to…
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Biloela Family Could Be Released From Christmas Island Today
A Tamil asylum-seeking family from Biloela could be released from Christmas Island as early as today. Scott Morrison has met with Boris Johnson to discuss a…
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Fresh Hope For Biloela Family
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT on the verge of announcing a Tamil family can stay in AUSTRALIA! Covid Vaccination Programme expanded to Home Visits Tragedy strikes Desert…
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Daniel Andrews Returns To Work Soon
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews will return to work at the end of June after a serious spinal injury The PM meets with US president Joe Biden at the G7 summit…
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The First Day Of The G7 Summit
The U-K PM has opened the first roundtable discussion at the G-7 Summit - Scott Morrison was a tad late after his plane was diverted due to heavy fog A flood…
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Apology To More Than 400k Victims Of Robodebt
The Federal Government ordered to pay 112 Million Dollars In Compensation The P-M Touches Down in U-K for G7 Summit Record Number of Aussies Vaccinated Against…
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IOC Board Backs Brisbane's 2032 Olympics Bid
Brisbane is a step closer to hosting the 2032 Olympic Games. Australia and Singapore have agreed to a travel bubble, when the time is right. Melbourne emerges…
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More Covid Cases For Victoria And Queensland
Four new mystery cases have forced changes to the restrictions being eased - with Melburnians to continue to wear masks outdoors. The floods in Victoria's…
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NSW And QLD On Alert After Covid-19 Case Travels From VIC
More exposure sites listed in NSW and QLD after a Melbourne woman tests positive to Covid-19 after road trip. Melbourne comes out of lockdown tonight. Icy…
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Queensland On Alert After New COVID Case 09/06/21
Queensland is on alert after a 44-year-old woman from Melbourne escaped lockdown with her husband last week, travelled through country NSW and over the…
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Covid-19 Vaccine Certificates Are Now Available
Aussies who are fully vaccinated can now access a certificate to prove it. An international drug and gang sting has seen over 200 arrests across 18 countries…
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Federal Govt Looks To Relocate Biloela Family To U-S Or N-Z
The Federal Government examining overseas resettlement options for a Tamil family Australian intelligence crucial in busting a major international crime…
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Covid-19 Vaccination Eligibility Extended To N-D-I-S Participants
NDIS participants and carers are part of the new extended eligibility for Covid-19 vaccines. Melbourne lockdown unlikely to be extended again. Apple announces…
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Australia Reaches New COVID Vaccine Milestone 07/06/21
Australia has reached a new vaccination milestone, with five million jabs being administered across the country. Australia's Triple-A credit rating has been…
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Prince Harry And Meghan Welcome Baby Girl, Lilibet 'Lili' Diana
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have announced the birth of their second child. More Covid-19 exposure sites have been added to the list in Melbourne. The State…
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Melburnians 10th Day Of Lockdown 4.0
The source of Victoria's highly contagious Delta variant outbreak remains a mystery with fears it could extend the lockdown A 14 year old girl in an induced…
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Search Continues For Source Of Deadly Covid Strain
Health authorities in Melbourne are scrambling to find the source of the Covid Delta strain that ravaged India that's hit the city Four men have been arrested…
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Calls For Mandatory Vaccinations Of Aged Care Workers 04/06/21
Australia's health union says it will not support the mandatory vaccination of aged care workers despite just one-fifth of the 360-thousand people working in…
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National Cabinet To Discuss VIC Quarantine Facility Today
National Cabinet meets today to discuss Victoria Covid outbreak and quarantine facility. Restrictions have eased in Regional Victoria. Ash Barty has been…
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PM Green Lights Covid Payments
Temporary Covid payments up to 500-dollars-a-week will be offered for people affected by lockdowns The PM has agreed to help bankroll a new state-run…
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NSW Health Confirms More Covid-19 Exposure Sites
NSW Health has confirmed more exposure sites after a Melbourne family visited before testing positive to Covid-19. Victoria is calling for financial assistance…
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Lockdown Extended for Melbourne BUT Regional Victoria Exempt
Melburnians are facing at least another seven days of lockdown.. but regional Victorians will be free to move around from midnight tomorrow. Anyone travelling…
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Victoria Braces For A Lockdown Extension
Victoria's 7-day lockdown could be extended beyond tomorrow. NSW Health has issued an alert after a person with Covid-19 visited the state's South Coast. Ash…
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Victorian Government Insists Lockdown Is Assessed Day By Day
Victoria's lockdown is being assessed day by day WA's premier has ordered a cargo ship to leave Australia -- after one of its crew members tested positive to…
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Covid-19 Vaccinations Now Mandatory For Victoria Aged Care Workers
It's now mandatory for public aged care workers in Victoria to get vaccinated. Victoria is still bracing for an extension on lockdown. Naomi Osaka has…