MORNING BRIEFING: The woman escaped from the hotel following a brief tussle with a security guard and disappeared into the night, while state authorities prepare to bring the gates down on the border as Victorian COVID-19 cases surge.
border between Victoria and New South Wales will close from midnightThere are now more than 640 active cases in Victoria and the state yesterday recorded its highest daily increase since the pandemic began.
Police and health officials will be monitoring 55 ground crossings as well as railway stations and airports.A woman who escaped a Sydney hotel during her mandatory quarantine has been fined $1,000. NSW Labor has slammed an MP's pay rise as an insult to the public-sector workers who are having their pay frozen.
He said NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian should cancel the pay rise, or Mr Tudehope should refuse to accept it.A man has been charged with murder after a man died of a gun shot wound in Western Sydney last week.
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