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Australia coronavirus update latest: rescue flight from Argentina returns stranded travellers as death toll reaches 81 – live news
Australia coronavirus update latest: rescue flight from Argentina returns stranded travellers as death toll reaches 81 – live news
(32 minutes later)
More than 150 Australians and 20 New Zealanders are on the flight from Buenos Aires after being stranded in South America since the outbreak. Follow live
More than 150 Australians and 20 New Zealanders are on the flight from Buenos Aires after being stranded in South America since the outbreak. Follow live
Labor’s Home Affairs spokeswoman Kristina Keneally also spoke about Jobkeeper and Labor’s desire to have “as many workers as possible” covered under the scheme, including casuals and those on temporary visas.
Now that Insiders (and that bloody cringeworthy Tony Burke AC/DC segment) is finished, here’s another Sunday morning read, this time from my colleague Melissa Davey, who has taken an in-depth look at the coronavirus outbreak in Tasmania’s north-west.
David Speers questions the added cost - which he says could be $20bn to $30bn to extend Jobkeeper to another 2m people.
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
Presented without comment.
Actually, I will make a comment.
Please, please don’t drink bleach.
AAP has filed on Peter Dutton, who spoke to Sky News shortly before to his opposite number addressed free-to-air viewers via Insiders. He says the border with NZ could open before others.
The report says:
Kristina Keneally, Labor’s home affairs spokeswoman, also spoke about jobkeeper and Labor’s desire to have “as many workers as possible” covered under the scheme, including casuals and those on temporary visas.
David Speers questions the added cost, which he says could be $20bn to $30bn to extend jobkeeper to another 2 million people.
Keneally said:
Keneally said:
The controversial coronavirus tracing app “could be a great tool”, Keneally says, but that Australians will only download it if they have confidence their privacy will be protected.
The controversial coronavirus tracing app “could be a great tool”, Keneally says, but Australians will only download it if they have confidence their privacy will be protected.
Labor wants privacy protections legislation “and that when this crisis is over that authorities ensure that that data is deleted”.
Labor wants privacy protections legislation “and that when this crisis is over that authorities ensure that that data is deleted”.
Should schools be open?
Should schools be open?
Keneally: “Listen to your premier of chief minister.”
Keneally: “Listen to your premier of chief minister.”
On what the economic rebuilt might look like post-coronavirus, Keneally says we should remember “that the Australian economy was not a great place for the Australian worker prior to Covid-19”.
On what the economic rebuilt might look like post-coronavirus, Keneally says we should remember “that the Australian economy was not a great place for the Australian worker prior to Covid-19”.
Lots of back and forth between Kristina Keneally and Insiders host David Speers about commonwealth and state responsibility for allowing Ruby Princess passengers to disembark.
Lots of back and forth between Kristina Keneally and Insiders host David Speers about commonwealth and state responsibility for allowing Ruby Princess passengers to disembark.
Speers has tried hard to press the point that New South Wales Health had delegated authority to made decisions around the health of cruise ship passengers. KK is having none of that suggestion:
Speers has tried hard to press the point that New South Wales Health had delegated authority to made decisions around the health of cruise ship passengers. KK is having none of that suggestion:
And later on :
And later on :
Kristina Keneally is speaking on Insiders about stopping (or not) the boats. Actually, one particular boat, the Ruby Princess.
Kristina Keneally is speaking on Insiders about stopping (or not) the boats. Actually, one particular boat, the Ruby Princess.
Expect the tracing app to be part of the Insiders discussion with Kristina Keneally this morning.
Expect the tracing app to be part of the Insiders discussion with Kristina Keneally this morning.
Overnight my colleague Josh Taylor has written a good analysis of the data security debate. He says the government has an “uphill battle” to convince us they can trust us with their data.
Overnight my colleague Josh Taylor has written a good analysis of the data security debate. He says the government has an “uphill battle” to convince us they can trust us with their data.
AAP reports this morning that the controversial coronavirus tracing app is likely to be launched today:
ICMYI yesterday, Victorian authorities are under fire after staff and patients at an inpatient psychiatric facility were not told about a coronavirus outbreak until a month after the first positive test
Calla Wahlquist filed this piece yesterday afternoon ...
ABC’s Insiders coming up shortly, and the politician whose job is basically getting under Peter Dutton’s skin, Kristina Keneally, is on the show.
There is so much to read this morning, and I hope you’re doing it with a strong coffee. Hopefully there are fewer hangovers out there than usual during these extraordinary Sunday mornings.
Of course, pubs and nightclubs are closed and so is pretty much anywhere you might have otherwise played the pokies.
This is definitely worth a look by the ABC – how the lives of poker machine addicts have changed during the lockdown.
Spoiler alert: they improve.
Reminder: don’t drink bleach.
My colleagues Paul Karp and Ben Butler have been drilling into some of the issues emerging with the federal government’s jobkeeper payment, as employers and workers fight for their share ...
And Ben has also done a ripping analysis of Scott Morrison’s attempts to blame the banks for teething problems with jobkeeper.
The “fundamental flaw” in the program appears to be the payment is made in arrears, meaning businesses are having to front the money to workers.
He writes:
The Sun-Herald has reported this morning that the New South Wales police commissioner, Mick Foley, has personally cancelled 32 of more than 1000 fines issued to people for breaching public health orders.
The magistrates courts are going to be swamped when the public health emergency is over as people challenge lots of these fines.
There’s a bit around this morning, but the starting point for any reading list has to be this piece by my colleague Luke Henriques-Gomes, who has taken a look at how the crisis is affecting vulnerable Australians
Australia’s coronavirus death toll is at 81, as a plane-load of Australians and New Zealanders are due to arrive on a rescue flight out of Buenos Aires.
The more than 150 Australians and 20 New Zealanders left the Argentinian capital at 2pm Saturday local time after being stranded in South America since the outbreak.
Tasmania recorded its tenth Covid-19 fatality on Saturday after a 90-year-old man died at the Mersey Community Hospital in Latrobe.
Nine of Tasmania’s deaths have been in the north-west, where an outbreak has been responsible for the majority of the island’s 208 cases.
Twelve new cases confirmed in NSW include a worker at a Blue Mountains aged care home, prompting concerns of another outbreak. However, the Catholic Healthcare Bodington worker reportedly did not have symptoms when last at the home.
Caddens’ Anglicare Newmarch House has recorded 48 infections, making it NSW’s largest ongoing coronavirus cluster.
The nation’s total confirmed cases now stands at 6,694, a relatively modest increase on 6,565 a week ago. At the peak of the crisis at the end of March, cases were rising by more than 200 a day.
Authorities around the country have warned against complacency, urging people not to be lulled into a false sense of security just because daily confirmed case numbers are decreasing.
The NSW health minister, Brad Hazzard, described the virus as “energetic” and “sneaky”, while Victoria’s deputy health officer, Annaliese van Diemen, said: “This is not over.”
Victoria recorded just three new cases on Saturday for a total of 1,346.
Fourteen of these have been connected to a private 80-bed psychiatric facility run by Ramsay Health Care. The clinic has effectively been shut down to contain the virus spread.
In Queensland, cases total 1,026, while in Western Australian confirmed cases are at 549.
In the ACT, cases rose by one to 106, while in South Australia there were no new positive results for a third day in a row, keeping the total at 438.
As the nation marked Anzac Day without the usual mass gatherings or fanfare, the governor general, David Hurley, urged people to consider what former generations would expect of us as we face our greatest generational test.
Good morning, Australia!
No, it’s not sadly Bert Newton here, this is Ben Smee and I’ll be with you for most of today, as we settle in for another day on the coronavirus news rollercoaster.
The aim is to give you everything you need here in one place. We’ll tell you which despots have died (or not) and whatever else today has in store.
Please, whatever you do, don’t drink or inject disinfectant.
