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| Coronavirus Australia update: borders, airlines and outdoor gatherings on the agenda as national cabinet meets – politics live | Coronavirus Australia update: borders, airlines and outdoor gatherings on the agenda as national cabinet meets – politics live |
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| Queensland continues to cop brunt of federal pressure to reopen borders, but closures remain in place for WA, SA, Tasmania and the NT. Follow live | Queensland continues to cop brunt of federal pressure to reopen borders, but closures remain in place for WA, SA, Tasmania and the NT. Follow live |
| Victoria has recorded four new cases in the past 24 hours. | |
| One was found through routine testing, another two were returned travellers in hotel quarantine and the fourth is under investigation. | |
| And no, none of them had anything to do with the protests on the weekend. | |
| Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy says she would take part in another Black Lives Matter protest if she were in Darwin. | |
| And before all the whataboutters start jumping up and down, listen to why she is talking about ‘if she were in the NT’ | |
| We’re again hearing calls for the commissioners of Scott Morrison’s Covid-19 commission to release their conflict-of-interest declarations. The commissioners, all leaders of the private sector, are helping to shape Australia’s non-health response to Covid-19. | |
| But the government has steadfastly refused to release their conflict-of-interest declarations, detailing not only their board positions but also their private interests. I asked all six commissioners whether they would release a list of their interests voluntarily. | |
| Only one, Greg Combet, did so. Even then, the entries on his list were already publicly known and published on the National Covid-19 Coordination Commission website. Other commissioners have disclosed their board positions but not their private interests. That has prompted renewed calls for greater transparency. | |
| The Australia Institute’s climate and energy program director, Richie Merzian, said releasing the declarations was the least the NCCC could do. Merzian noted the role of the commission – a publicly funded body led by corporate leaders – was clearly to influence the government. | |
| Peter Dutton also managed to slip in that people were angry at Daniel Andrews (as well as Annastacia Palaszczuk) about the border closures in that Today interview. | |
| Victoria never closed it’s borders. Seems like something the federal minister in charge of Australia’s border should know. | |
| The fact that statues have taken over the debate in this country, and not the treatment of Indigenous people, really says a lot about Australia and how we just cannot let go of a cultural war. | The fact that statues have taken over the debate in this country, and not the treatment of Indigenous people, really says a lot about Australia and how we just cannot let go of a cultural war. |
| Here are Richard Marles and Peter Dutton on the Today show this morning: | Here are Richard Marles and Peter Dutton on the Today show this morning: |
| Q: There’s a bit of anger around at the moment. You can feel it in the air. And some of it is racially charged. There’s also a few other issues that we need to get to. Wayne Swan was on our show about half an hour ago saying Pete, Captain Cook statues and the like may be better placed in museums, what do you think? | Q: There’s a bit of anger around at the moment. You can feel it in the air. And some of it is racially charged. There’s also a few other issues that we need to get to. Wayne Swan was on our show about half an hour ago saying Pete, Captain Cook statues and the like may be better placed in museums, what do you think? |
| Dutton: Well, I think a museum would be a great place for Wayne Swan. I can’t think of anyone more in the past than Wayne Swan. Really, is he serious? Look, I don’t think ripping pages out of history books and brushing over parts of history that you don’t agree with or that you don’t like is really something that the Australian public is going to embrace. There are good and bad parts of our history. You learn from that. And sit down – and you see what Netflix has done and the ABC now is trying to do. I just think it is such an absurdity. You sit down with your kids, looking at some of these videos, explaining that slavery was a horrible period in the United States. There was a civil war that took place. Kids learn from all of that. But removing that sort of content from online or from our television sets, I just don’t think makes any sense. People need to learn from history. Need to appreciate those periods. And people will reflect back on us in 100 years and no doubt form their own judgments as well. But I just really think airbrushing history or pretending that something didn’t happen is such an obscure sort of leftwing cause. I don’t think the mainstream public agree with it. | Dutton: Well, I think a museum would be a great place for Wayne Swan. I can’t think of anyone more in the past than Wayne Swan. Really, is he serious? Look, I don’t think ripping pages out of history books and brushing over parts of history that you don’t agree with or that you don’t like is really something that the Australian public is going to embrace. There are good and bad parts of our history. You learn from that. And sit down – and you see what Netflix has done and the ABC now is trying to do. I just think it is such an absurdity. You sit down with your kids, looking at some of these videos, explaining that slavery was a horrible period in the United States. There was a civil war that took place. Kids learn from all of that. But removing that sort of content from online or from our television sets, I just don’t think makes any sense. People need to learn from history. Need to appreciate those periods. And people will reflect back on us in 100 years and no doubt form their own judgments as well. But I just really think airbrushing history or pretending that something didn’t happen is such an obscure sort of leftwing cause. I don’t think the mainstream public agree with it. |
| Q: Richard, you’re left wing, have things gone too far? | Q: Richard, you’re left wing, have things gone too far? |
| Dutton: He has got two left wings. | Dutton: He has got two left wings. |
| Marles: I don’t think it’s a leftwing cause. I think history matters. People need to be judged in the context of their history. And as Peter said, future generations are going to judge us. They are actually going to judge us on what we do or do not do in terms of dealing with the question of Indigenous disadvantage in this country. That’s what we have got to be focusing on. I’m not sure that we’re going to be given a lot of credit for going on a statue rampage. We actually have to be doing something about improving the lives of Indigenous Australians right now and I think that’s what should be our focus. | Marles: I don’t think it’s a leftwing cause. I think history matters. People need to be judged in the context of their history. And as Peter said, future generations are going to judge us. They are actually going to judge us on what we do or do not do in terms of dealing with the question of Indigenous disadvantage in this country. That’s what we have got to be focusing on. I’m not sure that we’re going to be given a lot of credit for going on a statue rampage. We actually have to be doing something about improving the lives of Indigenous Australians right now and I think that’s what should be our focus. |
| For all the international coronavirus news, head here | For all the international coronavirus news, head here |
| Anthony Albanese called in to Sydney radio 2GB, where he was asked about what is apparently the biggest issue in Australia at the moment – the tearing down of statues. | Anthony Albanese called in to Sydney radio 2GB, where he was asked about what is apparently the biggest issue in Australia at the moment – the tearing down of statues. |
| For the record, they are not saying you can’t watch Gone With The Wind. They are just saying to remember the historical context in which it is set, and to think about it as you watch the movie. | For the record, they are not saying you can’t watch Gone With The Wind. They are just saying to remember the historical context in which it is set, and to think about it as you watch the movie. |
| It’s really not that hard. Looney Tunes did it. There has been a disclaimer in front of the cartoons since about 2014 | It’s really not that hard. Looney Tunes did it. There has been a disclaimer in front of the cartoons since about 2014 |
| And if kids can handle it without passing out from political correctness vapours, than we should be able to watch Katie Scarlett O’Hara defend her part of the South, while recognising that in today’s world, she’d be rightly called out for her bullshit. And yes, I have read the book. | And if kids can handle it without passing out from political correctness vapours, than we should be able to watch Katie Scarlett O’Hara defend her part of the South, while recognising that in today’s world, she’d be rightly called out for her bullshit. And yes, I have read the book. |
| Labor will move to disallow the Australia Post changes in both the House and the Senate today. | Labor will move to disallow the Australia Post changes in both the House and the Senate today. |
| The Senate is where the move has the most chance of success. These things are usually left out of the House, because the government of the day (obviously) has the numbers there, making it sort of against the point. | The Senate is where the move has the most chance of success. These things are usually left out of the House, because the government of the day (obviously) has the numbers there, making it sort of against the point. |
| So in moving it himself in the House, Anthony Albanese will be making a bit of history – it is the first time since at least the 1960s that an Opposition leader has moved a disallowance motion | So in moving it himself in the House, Anthony Albanese will be making a bit of history – it is the first time since at least the 1960s that an Opposition leader has moved a disallowance motion |
| In Brisbane, this is still happening. | In Brisbane, this is still happening. |
| The national cabinet is national cabineting as of now. | The national cabinet is national cabineting as of now. |
| You’ll hear a bit more about borders at the end of that meeting. | You’ll hear a bit more about borders at the end of that meeting. |