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| Coronavirus Australia live update: Victoria premier Daniel Andrews announces eight deaths and 471 new Covid cases in press conference | |
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| Scott Morrison says unemployment is forecast to rise to 13% and Victorian coroner announces inquiry into St Basil’s deaths. Follow live updates | Scott Morrison says unemployment is forecast to rise to 13% and Victorian coroner announces inquiry into St Basil’s deaths. Follow live updates |
| This will be another blow for the Melbourne arts industry | |
| Meanwhile, that answer makes this tweet very interesting: | |
| Daniel Andrews addresses this story from the Australian about ‘secret modelling’ showing “Victorians face weeks of higher coronavirus infections, with average daily cases to peak at 1100 by the end of next week and staying above 1000 for eight days.” | |
| From the story: | |
| Andrews: | |
| And then we get to distribution centres. | |
| Daniel Andrews: | |
| Construction workers will also see some changes: | |
| Daniel Andrews: | |
| There is some clarification on what the reductions of staff in the production, including food, arena will be. | |
| Daniel Andrews: | |
| The broadcast of Scott Morrison’s press conference has been cut short for Daniel Andrews’s press conference. | |
| Peter Dutton is questioned on the Ruby Princess/border force issue and he is NOT happy about it. (He has been on leave and not in front of a press conference for a while.) | |
| Andrew Probyn: | |
| [To Scott Morrison] Back in April, you stood there and then – and you said that the commonwealth would give cooperation for the Ruby Princess special commission. Why is it then that the commonwealth has resisted a summons from Bret Walker for an official from the federal government to give evidence to that commission especially when the mistakes have been made by Border Force and also Department of Agriculture staff? | |
| And Minister Dutton, do you believe that the Border Force officer who misinterpreted this document as being negative for Covid-19 would have allowed 11 self-isolated passengers to leave the Ruby Princess if he had properly understood the document? | |
| Dutton: | |
| Probyn rejects the assertion he is besmirching anyone. | |
| Dutton: | |
| I mean, you could make an argument, that Dutton, who is basically the nation’s besmircher-in-chief, is besmirching NSW Health officers who have also been working very hard going above and beyond, by putting blame back in their direction, but why waste your time. | |
| The commonwealth has backed down from the WA border case – and now it looks like it is also withdrawing the submissions it had put forward to the court. | |
| Christian Porter was asked about this yesterday and indicated the submissions would stay. | |
| All in all, Porter has been left with some massive egg on his face over this whole thing. | |
| Morrison: | Morrison: |
| On the amount being announced today – $1.6bn – is it over and above the money announced as part of the recent defence announcement? | |
| In a word – no. | |
| Morrison: | |
| What about that threat from malicious state-based actors Scott Morrison warned of not so long ago, the one with no detail, and was basically just a press conference for China? (Not so long ago could be yesterday or last year the way time moves at the moment, but this particular not-so-long ago was mid-June.) | |
| Morrison: | |
| How much of the new strategy is about China? | How much of the new strategy is about China? |
| Scott Morrison: | Scott Morrison: |
| Who should be worried about these new powers, Peter Dutton is asked: | Who should be worried about these new powers, Peter Dutton is asked: |
| You can find the cybersecurity announcement here: | You can find the cybersecurity announcement here: |
| Scott Morrison: | Scott Morrison: |