The Australian delegation has made its appearance at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games opening ceremony, lead by flag-bearers Cate Campbell and Patty Mills. Only 63 of the 500-strong delegation were able to take part in the Parade of Nations, but the team still looked like a strong unit, waving to a small crowd of delegates and VIPs inside Tokyo Stadium. Ahead of their fourth Olympic campaigns, swimming champion Campbell and basketball star Mills shared the honours on Friday night after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) permitted countries to choose two flagbearers. Boomers star and NBA title winner Mills became the...
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More Covid first dose vaccines needed to contain NSW outbreak
New South Wales will beef up its vaccine strategy in the hope that more jabs can help quash Sydney’s COVID-19 outbreak. The state reported 136 new local cases on Friday, a new daily high for the current outbreak which started in mid-June. Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant advised for the first time on Friday that the outbreak was a “national emergency”. The virus is spreading particularly quickly among young workers in critical industries who live in Sydney’s west and southwest, Premier Gladys Berejiklian said, and more first vaccine doses in those hot spots could slow the transmission. “We need to...
Business
Lorna Jane slapped with $5-M fine for ‘exploitative’ and ‘predatory’ advertising over COVID-19 claims
Lorna Jane has been fined $5 million and labelled “predatory and exploitative” by the Federal Court after the popular activewear brand falsely claimed its clothes could eliminate COVID-19 and stop it spreading. During the deadly virus outbreak, the company claimed its anti-virus activewear had been sprayed with a substance called “LJ Shield”, which protected people against pathogens. Advertisements on the brand’s website, stores and Instagram used the tag “Cure for the Spread of COVID-19? Lorna Jane Thinks So”. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) launched court action against Lorna Jane for allegedly making false and misleading claims. In a...
Technology
More money chases Indian tech start-ups as investors shun Chinese names
At a time when investors are selling Chinese technology stocks, more money is chasing Indian start-ups. Shares of food delivery app Zomato soared as much as 82% in their debut Friday on the National Stock Exchange of India. The initial public offering was priced at 76 rupees per share, or a little more than $1 per share. The stock opened more than 50% higher, valuing the company at about 910 billion rupees or $12.2 billion. Jayasankar Venkataraman, head of equity capital markets at Kotak Investment Banking, said before trading started that the IPO was oversubscribed for institutional and retail investors....