Australia news live: former Dfat boss says past relationship with China 'dead and buried' and Victoria's mask rules could ease
by Naaman Zhou (now), with Mostafa Rachwani and Matil from World news | The Guardian on (#5B6SR)
Dennis Richardson says the relationship between China and Australia is going to bounce along the bottom for quite a while yet'. Follow all today's news
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An update on the ongoing Fraser Island bushfire. Firefighters have now dumped more than 3m litres of water and fire-retardant gel on the fire, from water bombing aircraft.
The fire has burned for weeks, and destroyed almost half of the world heritage-listed site.
6.41am GMT
NSW Health has a minor update on the Covid case announced yesterday, which was contracted by a cleaner at a quarantine hotel.
No new cases have been detected today, but the woman did travel on a series of Sydney trains between 27 and 30 November.
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