Rapid antigen tests became free for concession card holders from 24/01/2022.

Approximately 6 million Australians qualify for 10 free tests over a 3 month period, including pensioners, low income earners and veterans.

However experts, including Chris Freeman, president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, fear supply shortages will prevent pharmacies from meeting demand.

Last weekend Tennis Australia confiscated the shirt of a spectator at the Australian Open.

Footage emerged of security removing the t-shirt emblazoned with the question where is Peng Shuai?

Tennis Australia has been criticized for the confiscation of the shirt which drew attention to the plight of the doubles tennis star who went missing last year after posting on social media claims of sexual abuse by a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party.

Aged care homes across the nation are being devastated by the current wave of COVID, with more than 1,100 outbreaks affecting over 7,000 residents and staff.

As homes lock down, residents suffer the serious physical and psychological effects of isolation and inadequate care due to major staff shortages.

It remains unclear how the few recommendations of the royal commission adopted by the government are being implemented and there is little reported of the situations at many aged care homes currently locked down.

On Sunday a stowaway was found in the landing gear of a freight plane in Amsterdam.

Health Authorities reported the man was doing well and was in hospital.

The man’s age and nationality was unknown and it was suspected he boarded the plane at Kenya or South Africa, meaning the time spent in the landing gear was for either eight or 12 hours.

A report released in Germany last Thursday details former Pope Benedict XVI failed to take action against clerics in four cases of alleged sexual abuse in his archdiocese when he was Archbishop.

Benedict, now aged 94, has been living in the Vatican since resigning as pontiff in 2013.

In a statement that did not mention the former Pope, the Vatican said it would evaluate the full report and examine its details.

Presenting the report, lawyer Martin Putsch said Benedict had done nothing against the abuse in the four cases.

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