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"But we are ready for this." Read More One of the two new positive cases, an unvaccinated 30-year-old Aboriginal woman, lives in Robinson River about 800km from Katherine. She is a close contact of another positive COVID-19 case, a fully vaccinated 43-year-old Aboriginal man from Katherine East.  Health officials believe the 43-year-old man has been infectious since 10 November. "Contact tracers are working around the clock to trace these latest two cases," Mr Gunner said, adding the list of exposure sites would soon be updated.  Mr Gunner said a testing and vaccination blitz will be conducted by a "rapid assessment team" to further boost vaccination rates in the Robinson River community. "We outlined our surge response plans for this exact scenario ... we've already swung into action to save lives." Roughly 350 people live in the Robinson River community, with 77 per cent of those living there fully vaccinated, while 87 per cent have receive

Hamish Gullick has only himself to blame. “I kind of dug this hole a bit,” admits the 26-year-old double bassist from the Australian National Academy of Music. At a new festival of freshly commissioned Australian music next year he will find himself doing things to a double bass that, possibly, nobody has done before. ANAM musician Hamish Gullick at Abbotsford Convent.Credit:Paul Jeffers The work he will perform, by award-winning composer Samantha Wolf, is called Adrift and is one of 67 commissioned for the ANAM Set festival, to run over three nights in May next year. Gullick was paired with Wolf, and they were challenged to create something new. As they brainstormed they swapped influences: pop, classical, indie, jazz; Bjork and Bon Iver. Gullick sent Wolf some YouTube clips he’d come across of different bass techniques: experiments in new ways of playing the instrument by some of the world’s best players. “I’d fiddled around with some of them but others I hadn’t really

The Pentagon is reviewing a request from Oklahoma’s governor for an exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for National Guard troops. For now, Gov. Kevin Stitt says the troops in his state won’t be forced to get the shot, citing his authority over them in all cases except when they are under federal jurisdiction. Unlike the Army and Air Force reserves, the National Guard has a federal and a state mission â€" and a sometimes competing command structure.

Though China remains a relatively weak nuclear power, it has in recent years become central to U.S. strategic policymaking. What explains this shift? How is the U.S.-China strategic nuclear relationship evolving? What role do other states play in shaping it? To address these questions, the authors of U.S.-China Nuclear Relations (Lynne Reinner Publishers) examine a series of strategic triangles involving China, the U.S., and one or more key third actors (among them, Australia, India, Iran, Japan, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, and Taiwan). Their work also critically highlights the challenges and opportunities facing Washington and Beijing in this increasingly complex security arena. Learn more about the book here.

Gov. Gen. Mary Simon says Canadians have sent her a clear message that reconciliation is at the top of a "chain" of issues she should address during her term as the Queen's representative in Canada. In an interview that aired Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live, the recently installed Governor General said she saw the issues of reconciliation, mental health, climate change, youth issues and education as linked, and they would be her focus over the next five years. Addressing reconciliation specifically, she said there had been a shift in Canadian society such that "we're willing to look at the truth" when it comes to Canada's history with residential schools. She said that was reflected in countless messages she received following her appointment. "I think the day they found those unmarked graves of children that died at residential schools, that was the day the wound really opened up," she told CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton.

Should you get Twitter Blue? That depends on whether you consider yourself a “power user.” The platform’s new subscription service, which costs $3 per month, comes with a suite of requested features: bookmark folders for organizing saved tweets, a “reading mode” that declutters long threads, and a (sort of) edit button, good for 30 seconds of revisions after a tweet is sent. It also comes with ad-free access to articles from a number of journalism outfits, like The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and The Atlantic. Compared to the number of third-party apps that give Twitter more brawnâ€"plug-ins that help you auto-delete your tweets or search within the tweets you’ve likedâ€"Twitter Blue feels a little overwhelming. But considering it’s the company’s first-ever paid product, Twitter has chosen to go narrow, catering to a small group of people by giving them exactly the features they want. Photograph: Twitter Twitter Blue doesn’t get rid of ads in a user’s

After a more than two-year flight ban, a modified version of the Boeing 737 MAX is expected to finally return to the skies of its biggest consumer, China, as Beijing signals approval of the proposed changes to the plane. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has reportedly told the nation’s air carriers it is satisfied with the design alterations the plane manufacturer has proposed for the 737 MAX, and that these changes could resolve safety issues. The aviation regulator suggested that airlines should give feedback on the airworthiness directive for the 737 MAX by November 26, according to an undated notice seen by Reuters. Read more The move is pr

The post-lockdown recovery is driving a resurgence in job hopping, in Australia’s version of the “great resignation”, after employees stayed put and focused on retaining work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Figures from professional networking site LinkedIn provided to The Sun-Herald show a 26 per cent jump in Australian workers moving from one company to another in October, compared with the same time in 2019, before the pandemic. LinkedIn Australia country manager Matt Tindale said it was a reflection of pent-up demand after few people changed jobs in 2020. “The vast majority of people were hunkering down in their roles through the pandemic period,” Mr Tindale said. In the United States, in a phenomenon dubbed the “great resignation”, nearly 35 million workers quit their jobs this year, prompting dozens of think-pieces about people seeking better work-life balance because the pandemic shifted their personal priorities. The simple explanation is supply and demand â€"

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Russia is a place where industrial-scale fossil fuel energy is traditionally so plentiful that city dwellers in centrally heated apartments still sometimes throw their windows open in midwinter to cool off. So the Kremlin’s pledges at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, including a strategy to make Russia carbon neutral by 2060, are unprecedented. Even some of the Kremlin’s toughest critics now agree that Russian authorities have finally accepted the need for serious action to meet the climate challenge. Why We Wrote This Russia showed signs at COP26 that it is finally getting serious about the threat of climate change. But the Kremlin’s shift in thought may need to go further to prepare the country for the future. But critics point out that, while the progress is real, there is a lot less to Russia’s new pledges than meets the eye. Even if all current goals are met, renewable energy will only be around 6% of Russia’s total by 2035, while European

The mention on Saturday of fossil fuels was weaker than a previous draft, which called on countries to "accelerate the phasing out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels". The new version, meanwhile, called for "accelerating efforts towards the phase-out of unabated coal power and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies." It also called for "recognising the need for support towards a just transition" - how developing nations still reliant on fossil fuels for power are assisted to decarbonise. The texts also called for nations to accelerate their emissions cutting plans and submit new ones by the end of 2022 - three years earlier than set out in the Paris Agreement. But it failed to allocate dedicated cash specifically for loss and damage, instead reiterating "the urgency of scaling up action and support" for vulnerable nations. Read More The issue of finance - how vulnerable nations are supported to green their grids and brace against climate impacts -

If you’re trying to quit smoking, instead of a stick of nicotine gum or an adhesive square to slap on your upper arm, your doctor could soon hand you an e-cigarette. England could be the first country in the world to allow prescription e-cigarettes, following an announcement on October 29 that the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, the United Kingdom’s medicines regulator, is now inviting manufacturers to submit products for approval. If an e-cigarette device passes the steps required for licensing, doctors will be able to prescribe it to patients who want to quit smoking. E-cigarettes are thought to outperform traditional smoking cessation aids for a number of reasons: They are more effective at alleviating tobacco withdrawal symptoms (grouchy mood, intense cravings to smoke, poor concentration), users can tailor the device to receive specific nicotine doses, and it gives smokers the sensation of smoking, in that they can hold something between their fingers a

"There are disabled people and children among us. There are children who are one to two-years-old, as well as pregnant women. "We don't have food. The conditions here are terrible. We are bringing trees from the forest to light bonfire and warm ourselves." Migrant stranded on Poland-Belarus border describes hardships The man's comments highlight the plight of an estimated 2000 migrants, mainly Kurds, who are living in a tent camp in near-freezing temperatures. His plea comes as Belarusian state-owned airline Belavia on Friday said it would stop allowing citizens of Iraq, Syria and Yemen to board flights from Turkey to Belarus at the request of Turkish authorities amid a migrant standoff between Belarus and Poland. The European Union says Belarus is encouraging thousands fleeing war-torn parts of the world to try to cross its borders and may impose new sanctions on Belarus and airlines ferrying the migrants as soon as Monday. The bloc has accused Belarus of mounti

Outside a detention centre in the Polish city of Bialystok, where we know asylum seekers who crossed the border from Belarus are being held, we meet a local mother and son. They have arrived as visitors. The mother, who only wants to be known as Zofia, is carrying a bag of clothes. She plans to give them to a woman she met two weeks ago living rough in the woods near her home. The woman was among five asylum seekers from Kurdistan who'd managed to enter Poland from Belarus. They had been hiding out in the forest between the two nations. And they were desperate, barefoot and starving. Zofia took them into her home. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 2:29 Humanitarian crisis at Belarus border "What else could I do?" she asks seemingly more to herself than to me. She said she took them in, allowed them to have a bat

Around 3.2 million children are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in Afghanistan by the end of this year, with 1 million of them at risk of dying as temperatures drop, a World Health Organisation spokesperson said on Friday. Aid agencies have warned of famine as a drought coincides with a failing economy following the withdrawal of Western financial support in the aftermath of a Taliban takeover in August. The health sector has been hit especially hard, with many healthcare workers fleeing due to unpaid salaries. "It's an uphill battle as starvation grips the country," Margaret Harris told Geneva-based journalists by telephone from the capital Kabul. "The world must not and cannot afford to turn its back on Afghanistan." EXPLAINER | How the Taliban engineered 'political collapse' of Afghanistan Nighttime temperatures are falling below zero degrees Celsius and colder temperatures are expected to make the old and the young more susceptib