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Trans-Tasman bubble pause with NSW to lift on Sunday

The pause on quarantine-free travel between New South Wales and New Zealand will be lifted on Sunday night.

But New Zealand's COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said the end of the pause of the trans-Tasman bubble with Sydney will always depend on the development of more cases.

This comes after NSW detected no new local cases of COVID-19 for the second consecutive day, despite more than 22,000 tests being conducted.

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Trans-Tasman bubble pause with NSW to lift on Sunday

Flights can resume from 11.59pm Sunday, Mr Hipkins said.

The end of the pause aligns with the lifting of restrictions in New South Wales at 12.01am on Monday.

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Giant spider crawls all over 34m space antenna in Canberra

Canberra's Deep Space Communications Complex is one of the world's most powerful means of looking into the depths of the Solar System.

So it would make sense that an alien spider the size of a football field would target it in its initial invasion of planet Earth.

That's not what happened, but that's what it looked like for a brief moment.

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A huntsman spider towering over Tidbinbilla's massive space antenna.

A security camera fixed on the giant antenna at Tidbinbilla had an unwelcome pedestrian atop it.

A huntsman crawled over the lens, making it seem like it was dwarfing the 34-metre wide deep space antenna.

"When mission scientists decided to put images from Mars on the World Wide Web, we don't think this is what they had in mind," the Canberra Deep Space Network tweeted.

The Canberra facility is part of NASA's Deep Space Network, but operated by the CSIRO.

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