Subscriber | Video: Vision has emerged of the circumstances around Friday's bizarre, dramatic prison break in which a Corrections vehicle was rammed in suburban Manuka surrounded by traffic, and an inmate escaped in a stolen Jeep.
The positive case was reportedly an essential worker who had travelled from southern Sydney to work on a construction site at the Goulburn Hospital, sparking debate over who should get exemptions to travel.
Essential workers in locked-down Sydney will be forced to undergo regular coronavirus testing, as the NSW government attempts to shield the regions from the city's growing outbreak.
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Subscriber: A prominent Canberra solicitor and accountant are set to ask a court to throw out money laundering conspiracy charges against them without the need for a trial.
NSW has baulked at defining "essential work" during Sydney's COVID-19 lockdown with workers urged to use their "common sense" to determine who can and can't leave home.
Scott Morrison says it is in the national interest to provide further financial assistance to New South Wales under a national framework as the current COVID-19 outbreak has proved "more severe" and "more dangerous" than seen anywhere else in Australia.
Explainer: It used to be that the space race was a contest between global superpowers. Now experts say commercial flights are the next step for space tourism.
Lizzy Ursich, 11, of Chapman, enjoys performing on stage. But for her there was another motivation to sign up for a show with long-running Canberra company Piped Piper Productions.
