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Gyms and beauty salons could open sooner than expected as the government flags rapid changes to the lockdown. The Australian newspaper is reporting that gyms and beauty salons could open “imminently” as the government seeks to bring back the economy. The NSW government has flagged the “imminent” re-opening of gyms and beauty salons as the…
Australian researchers have invented a device that had seen the worlds fastest internet speeds ever recorded. The microcomb technology has been tested to show internet speeds 1 million times faster than current Australian broadband standards. Researchers at Universities across Australia were involved with the development of the device which could be integrated into exisiting systems….
Mandatory hotel quarantine for international travellers into Australia continues to prevent the Coronavirus spread locally. Just 3 new cases recorded in NSW today. All of the cases were from people who had arrived back in Australia and had been kept in 2 week hotel isolation. One case had arrived from the United States, the other…
Breaking: Extraordinary video continues to emerge of a huge ball of space debris entering and breaking up in the atmosphere over Australia tonight. Just after sundown May 22, 2020, people across Victoria, as well as Tasmania and parts of New South Wales, witnesses a line of burning debris in the sky. Dozens of people were…
Breaking News: A Russian rocket has burnt up over Australia tonight. People in regional areas of Victoria and southern New South Wales reported seeing a huge fireball in the sky moments ago. Footage posted across social media by multiple people across the region shows multiple objects clumped together streaking across the sky just after sundown….
There are reports of shaking felt in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales. Geoscience Australia said they had been flooded with reports from people in the region. We have received a number of felt reports from Muswellbrook of mild shaking between 1320 and 1330 AEST. We were unable to detect any earthquake activity…
Breaking: The Federal government has admitted to a massive miscalculation in the Jobkeeper payment program. Treasury officials late Friday said they had underestimated the number of people eligible for the government wage subsidy by million in people and tens of billions in dollars. In a Friday bad news dump from Canberra, officials said they underestimated…
Breaking News: The NSW Premier has announced June 1 as a major milestone day for the lifting of restrictions in the state. On that date travel across various regions of NSW will be permitted, allowing people to go on holidays and visit without any restrictions. June 1 will also see restaurants, cafes, pubs and other…
Sydney and NSW restaurants and pubs will open for up to 50 people plus staff from June 1 as lockdown restrictions ease rapidly. “We’ve opened up the regions and it’s happy hour,” Deputy Premier John Barilaro said on Friday. “NSW will be taking an important, critical and big step from June 1 – pubs, cafes,…
Tsunami waves reached Sydney beaches on this day back in 1960, after the biggest ever recorded earthquake off the coast of South America. On May 22 1960 the worlds largest ever earthquake happened off Chile, with tsunami waves pushed out across the Pacific and reduced Australia some 11,000 kilometres away. The Australian Geoscience division today…