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Australia politics news live updates: calls for next budget to address climate crisis; at least 22 Covid deaths recorded

14 February 2022 by Admin

12.57am GMT 00:57 New guidelines here – hopefully will help families see their loved ones: Australian Government Department of Health (@healthgovau) [NEWS] New visitation guidelines for aged care residents. Senior Australians in residential aged care will have greater access to visitors and reduced lockdowns under new visitation guidelines response to the pandemic. Read more at: … Read more

Australia live news updates: WA premier says no decision on border yet; at least 47 Covid deaths recorded nationwide

13 February 2022 by Admin

The Cancer Council and the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency have together urged Australians to choose lotion over aerosol sunscreen as much of the spray is lost in the wind, rendering it less effective. Their research into the impact of wind on the application of sunscreen has found the proportion of aerosol sunscreen … Read more

Australia news live updates: Victoria’s ‘code brown’ to end; WA records second Covid death of pandemic; Morrison ‘misled’ by MPs who crossed floor

11 February 2022 by Admin

Victoria’s Covid-19 quarantine hotels will close within weeks as a purpose-built quarantine centre at Mickleham begins operations, reports AAP. The state’s quarantine agency Covid-19 Quarantine Victoria (CQV) says medi-hotels to quarantine sick people will cease operations by the end of this month and hotels will not be used at all by the end of March. … Read more

Australia politics live news updates: religious discrimination bill goes to Senate after marathon debate; at least 40 Covid deaths recorded

10 February 2022 by Admin

At the start of this pandemic the aged care sector and your government agreed it was a national priority to do all we can to protect older Australians, and the passionate and dedicated people that care for them, safe from the coronavirus. For the past two years aged care services and staff have been on … Read more

Australia politics live news updates: PM apologises to Brittany Higgins as parliament acknowledges history of bullying, harassment, sexual assault

8 February 2022 by Admin

In the final sitting week of 2021 the Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces was published by the Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins. Today, on the first sitting day of 2022, we deliver this statement on behalf of the Parliamentary Cross-Party Leadership Taskforce recommended by Commissioner Jenkins and as a reflection of the Parliament. We … Read more

Australia news live updates: elective surgery to resume in NSW as state records 30 Covid deaths; 34 deaths in Victoria; public school students return

1 February 2022 by Admin

It is an incredibly important day for our state and an exciting day … And I want to particularly thank our teachers who have done an amazing job over the course of the last few weeks in getting our schools ready to open day one, term one. I know that many parents are anxious. I … Read more

Australia news live updates: CMO says Omicron subvariant ‘not cause for concern’; 35 Covid deaths in Victoria and NSW; school returns

31 January 2022 by Admin

I think the biggest challenge will be in relation to staff absences and we’re seeing that across the board … [in] any industry, we can see the impact of the Omicron variant, primary close contacts, those who are positive – we are going to have staffing challenges. That’s why it was so important to establish … Read more

Australia news live update: Djokovic releases statement; nation records 49 Covid deaths and 3,900 cases in hospital; $1,000 fines in NSW for not reporting positive RATs

12 January 2022 by Admin

Australia news live update: Djokovic releases statement; nation records 49 Covid deaths and 3,900 cases in hospital; ,000 fines in NSW for not reporting positive RATs

Hobart grandmother Susan Neill-Fraser is appealing to Australia’s highest court for a second time in a bid to have her murder conviction overturned. The 67-year-old was sentenced to 23 years in jail for killing partner Bob Chappell aboard the couple’s yacht, the Four Winds, on Australia Day 2009. Her appeal before Tasmania’s court of criminal … Read more

Australia live news update: Novak Djokovic visa cancelled after airport drama; calls for more free Covid rapid tests

6 January 2022 by Admin

I have no idea what’s going on, they’re holding my son captive for five hours. This is not a fight for the libertarian world, this is not just a fight for Novak, but a fight for the whole world! If they don’t let him go in half an hour, we will gather on the street, … Read more

Australia news live update: NSW Covid hospitalisations rise to 1,204; record high new cases in Victoria and Qld; states support free RATs, Foley says

3 January 2022 by Admin

NSW records 20,794 new Covid cases and Victoria 8,577, with seven deaths across both states; Queensland reports 4,249 cases, ACT 514 and Tasmania 466; Scott Morrison and Greg Hunt defend decision not to provide free rapid antigen tests; Martin Foley says states support free RATs; double-dose vaccination rate hits 91.5%. Follow all the day’s news … Read more