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Australia coronavirus live news: Albanese sets Labor's vision for recovery; deficit could grow to $143bn – latest updates Australia coronavirus live update: Victoria to allow five guests in home as part of plan to ease Covid-19 restrictions – latest news
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In a speech to caucus, the Labor leader will say Australia should not ‘snap back’ to insecure work. Follow all the latest news and updates, live Premier Daniel Andrews uses press conference to announce roadmap to slowly lift lockdown rules from Wednesday, saying ‘with more freedom comes more responsibility’. Follow all the latest news and updates, live
And “10 is 10”
Again, if you can work from home, Dan Andrews says, you should:
Beyond the next three weeks?
Dan Andrews is serious about the no overnight rule:
And if you can still work from home, you are encouraged to do so
But camping is still out – there will be no overnight stays allowed in the national or state parks.
There are no limits to how far you can travel though, Dan Andrews says – you can drive to the beach, or your favourite hiking track, if you wish (and can still abide by physical distance rules).
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From Dan Andrews’s statement:
So from Wednesday (basically) you can have five visitors in your home, if you live in Victoria.
You can go outside for outdoor activities in groups of up to 10.
Schools will start looking at a return to on-site learning.
Professional sports may restart training.
Counselling services and community groups can restart, but only with physical restriction rules and no more than 10 in a group.
Dan Andrews:
Dan Andrews:
Dan Andrews says schools will start to return to on-site learning, in a staggered approach, and professional sports will be allowed to restart training, paving the way for the return of the season:
The other (slight) changes include:
Groups of 10 will be allowed to go outside to engage in activities such as hiking, jogging, kicking the footy, or if you are Sam Newman, golf with all of your ego.
Funerals, church gatherings, weddings, auctions and the like will also be able to have more people than previously allowed (we’ll outline those when we see the release).
Dan Andrews has announced that Victoria will slightly ease its restrictions – but it is not going as far as the rest of the states, just yet.
From midnight tomorrow, you can have five guests in your home, if you live in Victoria:
The Victorian premier says there have been seven cases of Covid-19 diagnosed in the last 24 hours.
Pendles is every AFL fan right now
Given the tsunami of press conferences, we are going to concentrate on Dan Andrews’s announcement first, as that should have the new information.
So at 11am we have:So at 11am we have:
Dan Andrews announcing Victoria’s restriction easing “roadmap”.Dan Andrews announcing Victoria’s restriction easing “roadmap”.
Anthony Albanese announcing Labor’s outline for economic recovery post the Great Lockdown.Anthony Albanese announcing Labor’s outline for economic recovery post the Great Lockdown.
Scott Morrison talking bushfire recovery and the latest in the national response.Scott Morrison talking bushfire recovery and the latest in the national response.
I am going to go make another coffee. I suggest you do the same thing.I am going to go make another coffee. I suggest you do the same thing.
Scott Morrison will also hold a press conference at 11am, where the bushfire funding announcement will officially be made
Anthony Albanese will deliver his latest “vision statement” (what Labor is calling its policy overviews, given that policy needs the input of its national bodies) at 11am.
The Australian Association of Social Workers want the government to increase the number of mental health sessions allowable under Medicare, given the increased pressure people are living under – and will have to live under for some time to come.
At the moment, you can get up to 10. The AASW wants that doubled (at least). From national president Christine Craik:
It’s been a slow start to the sixth day of hearings in the Ruby Princess special inquiry. But commissioner Bret Walker SC has passed some interesting comment on the responsibility of the NSW Port Authority.
The inquiry is deciding whether or not to ask more questions of Cameron Butchart, who was the duty harbourmaster on 18 and 19 March. The legal team for Carnival Australia, who are the operators of the Ruby Princess, want to question Butchart on some of his evidence.
But Walker said he does not consider Butchart to be a “decision-maker” and his actions were not a “pivotal event” in the saga.
“Neither the docking nor the decision to permit disembarkation as it occurred was affected by what Mr Butchart told anybody,” Walker said. He adds that there is “no Flying Dutchman” scenario – by which he means a scenario where the ship would never have docked at all. He says he’s more interested in why passengers were allowed off the ship before test results came back, which is not the responsibility of the NSW Port Authority.
“I am not interested in exploring some supposedly superior outcome where the ship was not permitted to dock [at all] in Sydney on the 19th,” he says.
David Littleproud has been doing the rounds this morning, spruiking the $650m bushfire recovery fund just announced by the government.
He was also very, very careful to point out that the states are in charge of the recovery. Here he is on the Seven Network this morning:
With politics resuming its normal Auspol-ness, and the Eden-Monaro byelection campaigns whirring up, expect to hear those lines a lot more.
The MPs are starting to arrive ahead of tomorrow’s sitting.
We are about an hour away from Victoria’s premier, Daniel Andrews, making his announcement on how that state will ease lockdowns.
Victoria’s state of emergency expires tonight.
The Eden-Monaro byelection has put the bushfire recovery back on the agenda – and truly, it is beyond time.
There are still many, many families with no accommodation. Insurance issues. Landlines down. Mobile towers down. Closed roads and collapsed bridges.
Cobargo was one of the communities hardest hit.
Andrew Haydon, president of the Cobargo Tourist and Business Association says there is a feeling in the town that people are in “a worse situation now, than they were immediately after the bushfires” and with the pandemic, phone calls to authorities are no longer being returned:
US Marines will be returning to the Top End. In case you missed it, Linda Reynolds gave the all-clear (with physical distance caveats) for the annual rotation of US defence troops to commence (it was meant to be in March but was delayed because of Covid).
Just remember, when restrictions are eased, all the health authorities are expecting infection numbers to go up.
The lockdown hasn’t meant Australia has eradicated the virus, just suppressed the infection rate to a point where the health system can cope.