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By Yan Zhuang A rift has emerged between Australia’s federal government, state leaders and medical groups over vaccination advice, with several officials issuing public objections to Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s decision to make the AstraZeneca vaccine available to those under 40. Australia’s vaccine advisory body has recommended that people under 60 should be vaccinated with the Pfizer shot because the […]
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The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. The past few weeks has found me either wrapped in thermals and a blanket or working from my bed with my laptop balanced on my lap because it’s really cold in my apartment. It’s not so much a new realization as it […]
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More than two centuries after his ancestor was cast out of Cornwall for stealing and sent to Australia with hundreds of other convicts, Scott Morrison returned to the area on Friday as prime minister of Australia. “It’s a long time since one of my family was in Cornwall,” Mr. Morrison said in a speech in Perth on Wednesday before traveling […]
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The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. For the past two weeks, I’ve been trying to nudge my parents into getting the vaccine. They’ve been eligible since the beginning of May and can book an appointment through their G.P. whenever they want. They’re going to get it. They’ve just […]
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MELBOURNE, Australia — The devices, procured on the black market, performed only a single function hidden behind a calculator app: sending encrypted messages and photos. For years, organized crime figures around the globe relied on the devices to orchestrate international drug shipments, coordinate arms and explosives trafficking, and discuss contract killings, law enforcement officials said. Users trusted the devices’ security […]
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The state of Victoria, Australia, announced a seven-day lockdown beginning Thursday night to stem a coronavirus outbreak in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, the country’s second-most populous city, after Sydney. After nearly three months without a new infection, state health officials have detected 26 cases in the Melbourne-area cluster. The outbreak is believed to have begun when a man became […]
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No one knows how the so-called Somerton man, found well-dressed and dead with a half-smoked cigarette on his lapel, wound up on the beach in South Australia where he was found. No one knows what he was doing there, or even how he died. This week, after he had spent decades puzzling investigators in Australia and amateur sleuths around the […]
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The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. What is Australian food? Is there even such a thing? These are questions I’ve been asked so many times, and I admit to finding them incredibly frustrating. It doesn’t help that the answers are not simple ones. This week in the United […]
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The pandemic has exposed the shaky labor foundation of the country’s agriculture industry, spurring calls for an immigration overhaul. By Yan Zhuang SHEPPARTON, Australia — Peter Hall ran a hand over the Gala apples sitting in a wooden crate on his orchard in southeastern Australia, lamenting the yellow tinge of fruit that would ideally be crisp red and green. With […]
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More than six million people in Victoria, Australia, will enter into a snap lockdown for five days in response to a coronavirus outbreak at a quarantine hotel. The order came as the Australian Open was being held in Melbourne, Victoria’s capital, but the tournament will carry on — without spectators — the authorities said on Friday. Victorians will be allowed […]
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