Today we can announce there have been more than 40m doses of vaccine delivered in Australia and that is a great achievement by the entire team who have been involved in delivering these doses all around the country. Now, from that first day, I was there back in February and we’ve had around 137,000 doses … Read more
9.22pm GMT21:22 Nationals MP Damian Drum to quit Parliament Adding to the growing list of MPs choosing to quit politics at the next election, Nationals MP Damian Drum has announced he will retire. Drum, who is a former AFL coach, has worked in state and federal politics, taking the seat of Nicholls in 2016, after … Read more
International students returning after almost two years separated from Australian campuses during the pandemic will hopefully be the first of many, says the head of the nation’s peak university body. The contingent has arrived on flights touching down in Sydney and Melbourne from Singapore as part of the two-way travel bubble between the two countries. … Read more
Extinction Rebellion’s message is simple: the Cop26 climate summit was bullshit, and Australia’s contribution stunk most of all. Not only did the Morrison Government take a weak, non-binding ‘plan’ with no new policies or mandates, it also refused to sign global pledges aimed at limiting methane emissions and phasing out fossil fuel production. Instead, the … Read more
1.03am BST01:03 Ben Butler Labor’s industry spokesman, Ed Husic, has responded to the attorney general’s department saying it has asked former foreign minister Julie Bishop to clarify her role at Greensill Capital, the collapsed finance group.As we reported this morning, Bishop approached the treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, for a meeting with Treasury before she signed the … Read more
Because I believe this risk is actually a little bit lower, I haven’t asked all of our vulnerable facilities to go into lockdown at this stage. So, you would know and be aware that usually when we have an outbreak I require hospital, aged care facilities, disability care accommodation facilities, and prisons, if there are … Read more