The Sri Lankan family who was held in detention on Christmas Island after being removed from their Biloela home has been granted a three-month bridging visa.

Immigration Minister Alex Hawke said he made the decision yesterday to intervene and give Priya, Nades and Kopika Murugappan visas while youngest daughter Tharnicaa receives medical treatment in Perth and their legal challenges remain ongoing.

The Tamil family was reunited in Perth last week and moved into community detention while Tharnicaa undergoes treatment for sepsis which developed from pneumonia.

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"Yesterday at the request of the Sri Lankan family formerly resident in Christmas Island, I exercised my power under section 195A of the Migration Act, granting members of the family three-month Bridging Visas, providing work and study rights," Mr Hawke's statement said.

"Under section 195A a Minister can intervene to grant a person a visa if it is in the public interest to do so.

"This decision allows three members of the family to reside in the Perth community on bridging visas while the youngest child's medical care, and the family's legal matters, are ongoing. The fourth family member's visa status is unchanged.

"The family will continue to have access to health care, support services, housing and schooling in the Perth community."

The decision means the parents can work and the children can attend school in Perth.

Family friend and advocate Angela Fredericks welcomed the decision but said Tharnicaa should also have been granted a visa.

"Today's news is another huge step in the long journey home for Priya and her family, but still, there is no certain pathway home to Bilo," she said.

"While we welcome Priya, Nades, and Kopika being granted bridging visas, we wonder what precisely is the Minister's objective in denying little Tharni one.

"This family must stay together, and they need to be back in Biloela as soon as humanly possible.

"We know just how many Australians hold this family in their hearts, and have helped get them to this moment today.

"Now, we need Mr Morrison and Mr Hawke to finally acknowledge that widespread support and end this long, painful saga for our dear friends."

Tharnicaa fell ill on May 25 but her mother said detention staff on Christmas Island brushed off requests for her to be taken to hospital, instead giving her Panadol and Nurofen, Ms Fredericks said earlier this month.

When the young girl's temperature eventually passed 40 degrees, she was given medical attention.

After a chest x-ray came back with concerning results, a medical evacuation was arranged.

Tharnicaa was flown from Christmas Island to Perth before an ambulance took her to Perth Children's Hospital for urgent treatment.

The family was removed from their home in the Queensland town of Biloela and taken into detention in 2018 when their visa expired.

The children were born in Australia after their parents arrived in Australia by boat seeking asylum.

A resident in Adelaide's north has built his own safety barrier on a stretch of road alongside his property in a bid to slow down havoc-wreaking hoons.

Brenton Lawrence says authorities aren't doing enough and the barrier is the only thing slowing the dangerous drivers down.

He says there have been over a dozen crashes along the dangerous bend on Medlow Road, Uleybury, in the past two years.

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"I don't want to see anyone die here," Mr Lawrence told 9News.

"It's through fences, people into trees, signs knocked out – it's just been a constant barrage of accidents."

In an attempt to curb the carnage, Mr Lawrence set up a rock wall outside his property.

"It's stopped the accidents outside our property," Mr Lawrence said.

"Before the rocks, we had 14 accidents in 13 months.

"Since we've had the rocks there, we've had none."

But the local council has received a complaint about Mr Lawrence's rock wall.

It told 9News the safety barrier is actually a hazard and doesn't meet traffic safety standards.

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Mr Lawrence has until the end of June to have the rocks removed, otherwise he faces a fine and costs for having the rocks professionally cleared away.

"It's a visual barrier, you see the rocks and you can hear people slow down when they get here," Mr Lawrence said.

"I've tried contacting (council), I've tried to make other suggestions like temporary plastic barriers and I can't even get a response."

A once in a lifetime opportunity has gone under the hammer today with a Bunnings Warehouse in Queensland fetching an eye-watering multi-million dollar final price.

About 60 kilometres west of Brisbane, the Plainland site has only been open for two weeks but has been earmarked to be in the next big growth corridor for the southeast region.

But before you think about buying your own iconic hardware store, it's worth knowing this isn't your average property purchase.

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The winning bidder buys the entire facility and becomes its landlord for 10 years, entering into an agreement with Bunnings directly.

The rental agreement will reap the new owner $935,000 in rent annually, which works out to be roughly $18,000 a week.

"There's not many Bunnings that come up for sale very regularly, once landlords get a hold of them they hold them for a while – they're definitely a generational hold," commercial agent Ingrid Scholes told 9News.

Experts predicted the site would go for $19 million, a steal when you consider an average sale price for a Bunnings is just over $50 million.

However, after an intense battle between interstate bidders, the site was snapped up for $22.2 million.

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Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly has declared seven local government areas in Sydney as Commonwealth COVID-19 hotspots.

The hotspot will include the local government areas of City of Sydney, Waverley, Randwick, Canada Bay, Inner West, Bayside and Woollahra.

The Federal Government has offered NSW support and assistance.

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The declaration of seven LGAs in Sydney as a federal COVID-19 hotspot will have several consequences.

Extra personal protective equipment will be available for aged care centres, and Professor Kelly said it could also lead to a redistribution of vaccine supplies.

If Sydney enters a full lockdown, COVID support payments could become available, but they would only be triggered after a week.

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Professor Kelly said the decision had been made to declare a Sydney hotspot following the emergence of more unlinked COVID-19 cases.

"NSW have a fantastic contact tracing system, I don't think there's any doubt it's the best in the country," he said.

"But they're chasing unlinked cases now, which makes things more difficult."

Professor Kelly said the school, birthday party, and plane flights from which new cases had emerged were all "very complex" situations.

The new Sydney COVID-19 outbreak has sparked a different response to the previous Northern Beaches one for several reasons, Professor Kelly has said.

"First of all, the Northern Beaches outbreak was not a variant of concern," he said.

"And the Northern Beaches are an insular peninsula, if I can say that – most people who live on the Northern Beaches, stay on the Northern Beaches."

He said the sites of the new outbreak, particularly in Bondi Junction, were places that saw a lot of traffic from different parts of the city.

You can find out more details about how to book your vaccine through the Federal Government health site here.

More than 40 per cent of Chinese people consider Australia a "military threat", according to the results of a poll published in a state-run news outlet.

The Global Times poll was published following Australia's Lowy Institute poll, which was released this morning to show Australia's trust in China had fallen considerably in the past year.

The Chinese survey, conducted online by the Global Times Research Center and the Australian Studies Centre of Beijing Foreign Studies University, found that 55.6 per cent of respondents had a positive view of the Australia-China relationship, down from 65.3 per cent in 2020.

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About 41.3 per cent felt Australia posed a military, political or ideological threat, while 88 per cent said China functioned as primarily an economic partner to Australia.

The Times, an English-language outlet run by the Chinese Communist Party, claimed that Australia's actions were largely to blame for the changing relations.

"Australia singlehandedly has to be responsible for such simmering public opinion," Chen Hong, a professor and director of the Australian Studies Center of East China Normal University, told the Times.

"Australian media and politicians have been smearing and criticising China on every front, be it economy, COVID-19 or other issues.

"Yet Australia has been less frequently mentioned in Chinese publications."

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Nearly half those surveyed blamed the US for the deteriorating relationship.

Asked if they saw relations improving in the next couple of years, 44 per cent of respondents agreed, while 22 per cent were ambivalent.

Notably, the Australian Lowy poll found that the majority of Australians felt that meetings with Chinese people, and Chinese history and culture, influenced them positively towards the nation, with distrust and criticism mostly centred around government policy.

A majority of Australians also remained hopeful of having good relationships with China and the US.

You can find out more details about how to book your vaccine through the Federal Government health site here.

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