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Coronavirus update Australia: parliament resumes as Victoria records 116 new cases and 15 deaths – question time live Coronavirus update Australia: parliament resumes as Victoria records 116 new cases and 15 deaths – question time live
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Brisbane watches hotspots after youth detention centre outbreak, Victoria’s hotel inquiry continues and politicians gather in Canberra for the first time in 10 weeks. Follow today’s latest updatesBrisbane watches hotspots after youth detention centre outbreak, Victoria’s hotel inquiry continues and politicians gather in Canberra for the first time in 10 weeks. Follow today’s latest updates
Anthony Albanese: Michael McCormack is at the despatch box, which is making me rethink every plan that has ever led to me standing here, in this moment, and where it all went wrong.
Anthony Albanese responds to Scott Morrison’s speech with one of his own: You know, it is possible to repeatedly say the word ‘plan’ (eight times in those few minutes at my rough count) – and even have a document with the word ‘plan’ on it, and there still not actually be a plan.
Scott Morrison on the agreement to have an agreement for a Covid vaccine: For example, I had a plan to marry rich and retire by the time I was 30. That did not happen. It was written down and everything. Under the headline ‘life plan’ and yet – here I am. Blogging question time.
Labor’s Kristina Keneally is now conducting a pop quiz of Colbeck, asking how many aged care facilities have Covid-19 outbreaks and whether any have more than 100 residents who have tested positive. Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison:
Colbeck responded: I refer to this answer to my previous question. In which the prime minister claimed there was really an aged care plan for Covid-19, even though his own royal commission, with all its resources, days of expert evidence, and access to documents find it. After 328 aged care residents have died, why should Australians believe the prime minister instead of his own royal commission?
There are 126 aged care providers in Victoria with active cases. Morrison:
He didn’t have a “detailed breakdown of every facility” in terms of the date of the outbreak and total number of residents and staff who tested positive, but he committed to provide it after Question Time. And what a great screenshot to honour this milestone.
“I don’t believe” any facilities have more than 100 positive residents. Good to see the front facing camera continues to hate all humans, even when making history. Can’t beat that programming.
Keneally rises to make a point of order that there are 210 cases at Epping. Mathias Cormann says this is “not a point of order” but rather the opposition “playing politics”, telling Keneally she should “be ashamed” of herself. WA Liberal Vince Connelly still manages to deliver his dixer like he has studied humans for decades and now feels confident enough to present as one.
Penny Wong says it’s a very serious issue and an “entirely appropriate” question to ask. Richard Marles gets the next question – over video link from his office in Victoria.
It gives question time a very Q&A vibe.
Marles:
Scott Morrison (spoiler – we are back to binary):
Tim Wilson gets the first dixer and he apparently did not use the last two weeks in isolation to improve his question delivery technique.
Moving on.
It’s Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison:
The counsel assisting the Aged Care Royal Commission said and I quote, “Neither the Commonwealth Department of Health nor the aged care regulator developed a COVID-19 plan specifically for the aged care sector. Why didn’t the Prime Minister have a plan to protect aged care residents from COVID-19?
Scott Morrison:Scott Morrison:
Scott Morrison: I missed this – it was just before question time on the ABC – Liberal MP Jason Falinski seems to have a few things to say about the royal commission into aged care, which Scott Morrison is very happy to acknowledge as his idea – primarily about it coming up with solutions.
Scott Morrison is detailing everything the federal government has done for Victoria since the Covid outbreak. Which is the point of a royal commission – to examine failings – and then offer recommendations. That is the whole job.
He is now in the thank you stage. Falinski though, doesn’t think that is a good idea:
We are going to be here for a while. Anthony Albanese:
Victoria police have put out their fine statistics for the past 24 hours: Anthony Albanese:
Issued a total of 197 fines to individuals for breaching the Chief Health Officer directions, including: Anthony Albanese:
31 for failing to wear a face covering when leaving home for one of the four approved reasons.
20 at vehicle checkpoints.
66 for curfew breaches.
6,960 vehicles checked at the vehicle checkpoints.
Conducted 2,204 spot checks on people at homes, businesses and public places across the state (total of 318,787 spot checks conducted since 21 March).
Please find below examples from the last 24 hours of breaches:
Police attended an address in the Mornington Peninsula where they found two men and two women in the garage eating and drinking. Three of the four people did not reside at the address.
Two women who were spoken to by police at the Dandenong Railway Station said they had travelled from Hastings to Dandenong on the bus. They then told police they were planning to travel to Drouin which was a further 67km away. When asked by police for their reason for travel they said they knew what they were doing was wrong but decided to travel anyway.
A number of people located at train stations throughout metropolitan Melbourne during curfew hours without valid reasons for travel.
Senate question time has started with Labor questions to aged care minister Richard Colbeck about his failure to remember how many people had died of Covid-19 in aged care.
Colbeck said:
And Kristy McBain is now officially a MP.
Kristy McBain is also about to be sworn into the House.