11.15pm GMT23:15 There will be no more state-wide Covid lockdowns in South Australia, premier Steven Marshall has promised, as the state plans to open its borders. He said: In the past, we’ve had to take a pretty heavy-handed approach, quite frankly, because a single case could set off a cluster which would lock down our … Read more
I think the Victorian Liberal party have a lot to answer for … What I did within 24 hours, along with Daniel Andrews of the Channel Nine revelations on 60 Minutes, was expel Adam. We then went and intervened into the Victorian branch … We suspended operations of the membership committee. We wrote to every … Read more
Welcome to our live news blog today. While we’ll have plenty on the speculation about who will be New South Wales’ next premier, it’s also a big weekend for Covid news. Gladys Berejiklian has resigned following the announcement of an Icac investigation into whether she “exercised public functions” in a position of conflict given her … Read more
Australia’s coronavirus vaccine rollout began in late February. Here we bring together the latest figures to track the progress of the rollout and Covid vaccination schedule. The data shows the total doses given in Australia, people vaccinated in Australian states and the percentage of the population who have received one dose or are fully vaccinated, … Read more
Hello and welcome to Tuesday! (Oh my, it’s only Tuesday.) Unfortunately, there is some tragic news to start the day. The death toll from this latest Delta wave of coronavirus has reached double digits, with NSW Health reporting two more deaths from Covid-related illness. They confirmed a woman in her 80s had died at her … Read more
People are losing their jobs. We need to give more support to individuals as well as to small businessess. I don’t care what they call it. They can call it something else but we need more support because, if you don’t get it, if you lose those businesses, it ends up costing you more because, … Read more
10.57pm BST22:57 Commonwealth treasurer Josh Frydenberg has been asked on ABC News Breakfast how long Australia can go with more than half of its population in lockdown before the country may be plunged into a second recession. Well, we don’t know what we don’t know – is the obvious response to that. And this pandemic … Read more
The issue was that this particular gentleman, male, who has tested positive, had visited a number of locations before he tested positive and went into isolation. Those premises and locations North Orange Woolies, Pizza Hut, a tobacconist, Officeworks and areas where large volumes of people would have visited and attended, potential exposure contacts were too … Read more
Yeah, right now we’ve got to make sure that we keep the virus suppressed and that’s what is happening. Because we’ve got to make sure that we keep people alive. We’ve got to keep that incredible track record that we have in Australia that would be the envy of the rest of the world and … Read more
1.51am BST01:51 Queensland police said compliance with the mask rule and other Covid rules at the State of Origin match last night was “excellent”. Police handed out 39 masks but no fines. Updated at 1.53am BST 1.50am BST01:50 Queensland deputy premier Steven Miles is very keen to point out that this latest outbreak has come … Read more