State and federal leaders have agreed more people need to be getting COVID vaccines on weekends with the number of pharmacies offering jabs set to more than triple by the end of the month.

Labor MPs across Sydney say they are being inundated with calls from workers who are being forced by their bosses to use their annual leave while accessing the government’s disaster payments.

Australia is being urged to take the threat of organised crime as seriously as terrorism and treat it as a national security issue.

And in sport, basketball star Liz Cambage may never play for Australia again after a tumultuous 24 hours during which she walked away from the Opals camp in Las Vegas before withdrawing from the Tokyo Olympics. 

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State and federal leaders have agreed more people need to be getting COVID vaccines on weekends with the number of pharmacies offering jabs set to more than triple by the end of the month.

Labor MPs across Sydney say they are being inundated with calls from workers who are being forced by their bosses to use their annual leave while accessing the government’s disaster payments.

Australia is being urged to take the threat of organised crime as seriously as terrorism and treat it as a national security issue.

And in sport, basketball star Liz Cambage may never play for Australia again after a tumultuous 24 hours during which she walked away from the Opals camp in Las Vegas before withdrawing from the Tokyo Olympics. 

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