Friday: Spot prices for electricity in national energy market surge amid ‘unprecedented’ disruption. Plus: hundreds of NSW children under 15 fined for not wearing a mask
Australia’s flag bearers, Eddie Ockenden and Rachael Grinham, at the opening ceremony of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. Photograph: Elsa/Getty Images: Spot prices for electricity in national energy market surge amid ‘unprecedented’ disruption. Plus: hundreds of NSW children under 15 fined for not wearing a maskood morning. Wholesale electricity and gas prices tripled in Australia’s main grid in the June quarter.
A winter Omicron wave has left Australia with one of the highest recent Covid death rates in the OECD, according to globally aggregated data. Australia’s seven-day average of deaths per million residents up to Wednesday now only trails New Zealand and Norway among OECD countries, according to figures from Our World in Data. But that fact should be considered alongsideCities in Germany are switching off spotlights on public monuments, turning off fountains, and imposing cold showers
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