4.20am GMT 04:20 Another update from NSW SES – the previous red alert (which we noted a little earlier) has been amended for the moment due to a slight drop in water levels at the Manly Dam. Please keep checking the SES site if you’re nearby though, and we’ll bring you whatever updates we can. … Read more
Good morning, Mostafa Rachwani with you this morning, and for the start of another week of rain. The prime minister, Scott Morrison, was up this morning, saying an “enormous effort” going into flood recovery, adding that it was an almost it was an “unimaginable” situation. He described the floods as like “nothing in living memory” … Read more
1.48am GMT 01:48 Victoria’s innovation minister Jaala Pulford says the state is looking for 1,500 people who are awaiting their Covid booster to donate blood to help research. The project will be run by the state’s Vaccines Collection biobank at Melbourne’s Doherty Institute, which has been commissioned extensively by the federal government to provide modelling. … Read more
12.47am GMT 00:47 Sarah Martin There is something happening on the ground in the outer suburbs of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. It may just be a ripple, or it could be a roar – another crack in Australia’s political landscape arising from the pandemic. The full impact won’t be known until election night, but the … Read more
4.44am GMT 04:44 National Covid-19 update Here are the latest coronavirus numbers from around Australia today, as the country records at least 30 deaths from Covid 19: ACT Deaths: 0 Cases: 794 In hospital: 35 (with two people in ICU) NSW Deaths: two Cases: 9,466 In hospital: 1,000 (with 42 people in ICU) South Australia … Read more
2.23am GMT 02:23 Christopher Knaus I’ve been looking at the shortages at grocery shortages across Queensland and New South Wales this morning. The floods have cut off highways and hit supermarket supply chains across the region. Woolworths and Coles have both shut down a number of supermarkets directly affected by the floods and implemented purchase … Read more
Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate their homes by Tuesday and hundreds of thousands more were told to prepare to flee as parts of Australia’s southeast coast were inundated by the worst flooding in more than a decade. At least 10 people have died. New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet said there … Read more
6.00am GMT 06:00 Paul Karp Just days after backflipping and ruling in Tim Wilson’s favour in the Goldstein sign stoush, Bayside City council has started issuing threats to its residents for premature sign erection. In a letter dated 28 February the council’s senior investigations officer, Steven Boyce, wrote: A number of complaints have been received … Read more
Okay, so it’s a bit confusing so here is a recap of the situation this morning. The Brisbane River has believed to have peaked around 8am this morning at 4.0 meters, with large amounts of debris, boats and even potentially small homes seen floating down it. Across the south-east of the state, thousands of homes … Read more
Heed the warnings that we give … and keep safe. We don’t want to lose any more community members to this significant event. The difference with this significant weather event is we’re coming out of a very wet period for La Niña and we’re not in a drought. We’ve had saturated lands right across NSW. … Read more