Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to look at how Covid infection rates remain stubbornly high at about 200 daily in New South Wales, while the situation is deepening the social divide between wealthier and more working class suburbs.
Two young tech entrepreneurs have turned themselves into multi-billionaires with the $39b merger of their Afterpay venture to US company Square - it's the biggest merger in Australian corporate history.
Days of Abandonment, a film being made in Sydney, has been abandoned by its star and producer Natalie Portman, and Australia's athletes have won a lot of medals - but their behaviour in Tokyo before they flew out isn't winning them plaudits.
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