Friday’s CityNews headlines
Here are today’s CityNews headlines.
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A surge in COVID-19 cases has hit ahead of the festive season with health authorities warning those at risk to take precautions to avoid getting sick.
The parent company for Facebook has hit out at a looming ban on under 16s for social media, labelling the process as rushed.
Two days after being convicted of manslaughter over the tasering of an elderly woman, the police officer who pulled the trigger has avoided custody.
National news
Indigenous leader jailed for six years over $1m theft
Indigenous leader Geoff Clark and his son Jeremy have been sentenced after they were found guilty of stealing almost $1 million from Aboriginal organisations.
Politics
Eye of political storm nears as focus turns to polls
After passing a flurry of bills at the eleventh hour, Labor is spruiking its wins ahead of a much-anticipated federal election.
Update
Woolies denies bare shelves as strike enters new week
An ongoing strike by Woolworths warehouse workers has left supermarket shelves increasingly bare, unions say.
Consumers are snapping up more bargains than ever before as increasing financial pressures send them hunting for better deals.
The hunt is on for a Melbourne Powerball player who is set to split the $100 million prize pot with Rockhampton grandparents.
"A large Yorkshireman, who was tasting at the same time, appeared to be having an out-of-body experience but he nicely summed up what we were feeling about this mouth-filling wine: 'Proper champion'," writes wine columnist RICHARD CALVER.
Australia's top central banker reveals why she still hasn't pulled the trigger on interest rate cuts despite similar countries already taking action.
The police officer who shot Kumanjayi Walker in a botched arrest has been labelled a racist by his former employer at an inquest into the death.
Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham has announced his retirement from politics, and has given a heartfelt speech in a farewell to parliament.
Rugby league prop Josh Papalii has pleaded not guilty to allegations he intimidated police and re-entered a venue after being asked to leave.
Reforms imposing limits for donations to political candidates have been delayed after the federal government failed to reach an agreement with the opposition.
The federal government has struck an eleventh-hour deal with the Greens to pass dozens of laws through parliament on the final sitting day of the year.
Here are today’s CityNews headlines.
Lawyers for a police officer who shot a teen have urged caution as a coroner prepares her findings into a long running coronial inquest into the death.
An officer who fatally tasered an aged-care resident will spend another night waiting to learn if he will be taken into custody after his manslaughter verdict.
![Evie Hudson is a woman with amnesia, who forgets the last 13 years. Piecing her life back together, she navigates the harsh realities of coercive control.
Evie is the leading character in local author @emmagreyauthor's second novel Pictures of You.
Her debut book, The Last Love Note, sold more than 100,000 books worldwide within a few months of being published last year.
“I think that using amnesia really helped [show the effects of coercive control] because she had that sense of being completely lost in her own life,” Emma says of her new work of fiction.
To read the full story and find out more about this fabulous local author and her latest novel, visit our website at citynews.com.au or click the link in our bio! 📚✒️
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