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In case you missed this last night from my colleague Stephanie Convery.
The Fair Work Commission has ruled a Covid-19 vaccine mandate for all workers at BHP’s Mount Arthur coalmine was unlawful because the company did not consult adequately with its workers.
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A man who absconded from Covid-19 quarantine in the Northern Territory has been taken into custody after less than five hours on the run, AAP reports.
Police said the 36-year-old man was seen scaling a fence at the Howard Springs Centre for National Resilience about 10pm on Friday.
Authorities are still searching for another man who escaped an Alice Springs quarantine facility.
Jeremy MacDonald, 27, is alleged to have escaped over his room’s balcony about 1pm on Friday.
He returned a negative test on Wednesday, after being ordered to quarantine four days earlier for failing to declare he had visited a hotspot before travelling to the NT.
Six people have escaped quarantine facilities in the NT since 26 November.
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Good morning, I’m Josh Taylor and I will be bringing you all the latest news this morning.
A concerning cluster of Covid-19 cases at Regents Park Christian School in western Sydney has grown to 13, with three already confirmed positive for Omicron. Testing results are still to come for the other 10.
The ACT has also recorded its first case of the Omicron variant in a person who has not travel overseas.
There have been 13 cases of Omicron detected in Australia, 11 of them in NSW, one in the Northern Territory and one in the ACT.
A woman in her 70s from the Binjari community, just outside Katherine, has become the first person to die of Covid in the Northern Territory.
Both NT and WA closed their borders to South Australia after an outbreak of Covid-19 in the state, and four new cases in the state recorded on Friday.
Yesterday the prime minister, Scott Morrison, denied misleading Australians about the vaccination status of SA senator Alex Antic, after he was moved into an SA medi-hotel reserved for those with Covid-19 or those returning travellers who are unvaccinated.
We are likely to hear a lot more on emissions reduction after Labor announced its 2030 target of 43% on Friday.
And towns on the border of NSW and Queensland are also on alert for rising floodwaters.
Let’s get into it.
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