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11.47pm BST

Morning all. Welcome to Guardian Australia’s live news blog for Sunday.

Graham Readfearn here to take you through the first bit of what’s looking like another tumultuous day as New South Wales and Victoria try and contain the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus. I’ll drop in any other non-Covid news too.

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