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FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2020, file photo, Tennys Sandgren of the U.S. reacts after losing a point to Switzerland's Roger Federer during their quarterfinal match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia. Sandgren has reportedly been allowed on an Australia-bound flight despite recently testing positive for coronavirus. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

Players arrive for Australian Open; straight into quarantine

By DENNIS PASSA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 12, 2019 file photo Andy Murray, of Britain, hits a forehand against Richard Gasquet, of France, during first-round play at the Western &amp; Southern Open tennis tournament, in Mason, Ohio. Former world number one Murray's participation at the upcoming Australian Open is in doubt after the Briton tested positive for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Gary Landers, File)

Murray status for Australia in doubt after contracting virus

By KEN MAGUIRE - Associated Press

Australian treasurer won’t say if he was stopping China sale

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Former Australia national soccer coach Frank Arok dies at 88

By SYDNEY - Associated Press

2 COVID-19 cases at Australian Open qualifying event in Doha

Associated Press

In this photo released by Nucleus Network/ABC, Dr. Jason Lickliter, left, chief medical officer of Nucleus Network, talks with a clinical trial participant given a coronavirus vaccine, in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, May 26, 2020, with hopes of releasing a proven vaccine this year. Novavax injected 131 volunteers in the first phase of the trial testing the safety of the vaccine and looking for signs of its effectiveness. (Patrick Rocca/Nucleus Network/ABC via AP) ** FILE **

Australia to buy millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses from Maryland company

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

Australian agency reviewing data on Vatican money transfers

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb 1, 2020, file photo, a fire burns in the grass near Bumbalong, south of the Australian capital, Canberra. Australia has sweltered through its fourth-hottest year on record despite the usually cooling impact in recent months of the La Nina climate pattern, the nation’s weather bureau said on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft,File)

Australia sweltered through its 4th-hottest year in 2020

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain burns tires after the Formula One Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (Hamad Mohammed, Pool via AP)

F1 negotiations with Australian GP are ‘live and active’

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Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge as New Year celebrations begin in Sydney, Australia, Friday, Jan. 1, 2021. One million people would usually crowd the Sydney Harbor to watch the annual fireworks that center on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. But this year authorities advised revelers to watch the fireworks on television as the two most populous states, New South Wales and Victoria battle to curb new COVID-19 outbreaks. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Australia changes word in anthem to honor Indigenous people

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FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2018, file photo, the Fitbit Charge 3 fitness trackers are displayed in New York. EU regulators cleared Google's plan to buy fitness tracking device maker Fitbit after the company promised to silo off user data and not use it for advertising. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Australian regulator delays decision on Google-Fitbit merger

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - This Feb. 27, 2018, file photo, Israeli-born Australian Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem. Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, rejected an appeal challenging the extradition of Leifer, a former teacher wanted in Australia accused of sexually abusing several former students at a Jewish school in Melbourne, clearing the way for her to stand trial after a six-year legal saga. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Israel signs extradition order in Australia sex-crime case

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FILE - This Feb. 27, 2018, file photo, Israeli-born Australian Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem. Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, rejected an appeal challenging the extradition of Leifer, a former teacher wanted in Australia accused of sexually abusing several former students at a Jewish school in Melbourne, clearing the way for her to stand trial after a six-year legal saga. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Israeli court backs extradition in Australia child sex case

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

FILE- In this Oct. 16, 2019, file photo, Australia's Trade Minister Simon Birmingham addresses media outside the Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. Australia will ask the World Trade Organization to intervene in its dispute with China over barley and expects other nations to become involved in the case, Australian Trade Minister Birmingham said on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk, File)

Australia to seek WTO intervention in barley row with China

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

In this Sept. 11, 2012, file photo, a four-wheel-drive vehicle follows a large mining truck as it makes its way to the top of a Boggabri coal mine near Gunnedah, Australia, 450 kilometers (280 miles) northwest of Sydney. Australia’s prime minister said Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, that China would be in breach of World Trade Organization rules as well as a bilateral free trade agreement if it banned Australian coal. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Australian PM says China coal ban would breach WTO rules

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2020, file photo, pedestrians walk past Pfizer world headquarters in New York. A U.S. government advisory panel convened on Thursday, Dec. 10, to decide whether to endorse mass use of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to help conquer the outbreak that has killed close to 300,000 Americans. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Australia won’t rush Pfizer after homegrown vaccine canned

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

A man wearing a face mask compares two bottles of Australian wine at a supermarket in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province on Nov. 27, 2020. China's government on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 slapped more taxes on wine from Australia, stepping up pressure in a bitter diplomatic conflict over the coronavirus, territorial disputes and other irritants. (Chinatopix via AP)

China slaps more taxes on Australian wine amid tension

Associated Press

Australia government gains new power to scrap foreign pacts

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Cardinal George Pell has a light moment during an interview with the Associated Press inside his residence near the Vatican in Rome, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. The pope’s former treasurer, who was convicted and then acquitted of sexual abuse in his native Australia, said Monday he feels a dismayed sense of vindication as the financial mismanagement he tried to uncover in the Holy See is now being exposed in a spiraling Vatican corruption investigation. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Judge refuses to dismiss media charges in Pell trial

Associated Press

In this file image taken and released on July 11, 2019, by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft lands on an asteroid to collect samples. The JAXA performed a series of operations for the second touchdown of Asteroid Explorer &quot;Hayabusa2&quot; on the Ryugu asteroid and the collection of its soil samples. (JAXA via AP, File)

Japan’s capsule with asteroid samples retrieved in Australia

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press