The Australian Daily News - January 20 (12:00 pm)

The Australian Daily News

Novavax gets go ahead for use in Australia

Australia’s medical regulator has approved the Covid-19 vaccine, Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has announced.

Jobless rate falls to 4.2 per cent

The unemployment rate has smashed expectations, falling to the lowest since the GFC, while job figures rise by 0.5 per cent.

Prize money lost: Djokovic ‘in talks to sue Australia for $6m’

ALP hopeful’s break-up book ‘demeans women’

Senior union official Misha Zelinsky, seeking preselection for federal election, faces a backlash from party women who claim a book he co-authored is offensive.

Drastic step: Qantas goes to war with 2500 cabin crew

For the first time in Qantas’s 100-year history, the airline moves to tear up an enterprise agreement for 2500 cabin crew in a bid to get them to agree to a new deal.

‘Never seen sanctions like the ones I’ll impose on Russia’

Joe Biden warns Russia is ready to invade Ukraine ‘at any time,’ says he’s optimistic Congress will pass large chunks of his climate, healthcare plans.

Why cutting oil production too soon is a mistake

The great underwriter of world inflation, the oil price, is now approaching $US90 a barrel — its highest level since 2014. Behind that simple fact is a seriously worsening situation in the Middle East.

Charlise’s alleged killer ‘drove with body for hours’

The man charged with the murder of nine-year-old Charlise Mutten bought five 20kg bags of sand, then drove to a boat ramp with the girl’s body, police allege.

On balance, Novak got off lightly

Few Serbians would realise we gave Djokovic unusual privileges. He was allowed to leave his hotel to play tennis and he received a rare Sunday sitting of the Federal Court.

‘For God’s sake, go’: more Tories turn on Boris

Conservative MP Christian Wakeford dramatically crosses the floor while former senior minister David Davis draws on tumultuous time in British history to urge Boris Johnson to quit.