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Queensland has reinstated border restrictions for Victorians, as Melbourne's Holiday Inn COVID-19 cluster grows to 10 Queensland will reinstate its border pass system for anyone entering from Victoria, as authorities rush to contain an outbreak linked to Melbourne Airport's Holiday Inn coronavirus quarantine hotel.

School banking programs will be scrapped in ACT schools after a unanimous vote against 'sophisticated marketing techniques' aimed at children The Australian Capital Territory has moved to ban school banking programs, like Commonwealth Bank's popular Dollarmites scheme, from public classrooms.

Telstra spent $100 million keeping staff on last year. Now it's spending $180 million more to turf 2,200 of them. Telstra has announced its first half results, with revenue down by 10.4% and profit down by 2.2%. Having postponed 1,400 job cuts during the pandemic at an estimated cost of $100 million, the telco will now spend $180 million to restructure the company and eliminate a further 2,200 workers.

Australia could face a new wave of homelessness as rent deferrals come to an end, a new report warns Australia risks undoing its work preventing homelessness during the COVID-19 crisis by ending eviction moratoriums and rent deferrals, advocates warn.

Aussies moving to the regions is a temporary trend, according to one planning expert, with cities set to claw residents back Australians have been swapping the city for the regions in the last ten months but the trend may not be set to last. Urban planner and UNSW professor Shane Geha believes the pandemic hasn't changed the population fundamentals of the country, and estimates only regions may only retain 5% of those who have made the move.

Impeachment managers used the final day of their opening arguments to hammer home the case against Trump. Here are the 5 biggest takeaways. House managers wrapped up their opening arguments on Thursday, about four and a half hours early. They hammered home the case against Trump using his own followers' words.

TikTok stars and other social media influencers can now join the union that represents Hollywood's biggest names SAG-AFTRA opened up membership to influencers on TikTok, Instagram, and other platforms. The union traditionally represents actors, and the move signals a shift to include online creators.

The history of QAnon: how the conspiracy theory snowballed from the fringes of the internet into the mainstream The QAnon conspiracy theory was born on fringe messageboards in 2017. The "big-tent" theory baselessly alleges Trump has been fighting a cabal of pedophiles.

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