Voters will be showered with $11bn in petrol discounts, tax refunds and cash payments in the Morrison government's last-ditch effort to ease cost of living pressures and revive its election chances.

There are growing calls from industry leaders to scrap isolation rules for household contacts, with locked down opposition leader Matthew Guy using his son’s fresh Covid diagnosis to push for change because “half the state is in a semi lockdown”. 

A star-studded line up including Robbie Williams, Elton John, Ed Sheeran and Chris Martin will be part of Shane Warne’s “unprecedented” send off. 

Oscars slapper Will Smith has apologised for his smack down on Chris Rock as Academy Awards bosses launched an investigation into the incident. 

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