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| Australia coronavirus live update: Victoria reports 149 new Covid cases and 24 deaths as NSW records six cases | Australia coronavirus live update: Victoria reports 149 new Covid cases and 24 deaths as NSW records six cases |
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| Premier Daniel Andrews urges more Victorians to come forward for testing and Queensland reports one new case. Follow all the latest news and updates, live | Premier Daniel Andrews urges more Victorians to come forward for testing and Queensland reports one new case. Follow all the latest news and updates, live |
| In what might be the most cursed moment of this day, Barnaby Joyce invokes Michael McCormack to the despatch box. | |
| Joyce is EXUBERANT in his presentation of the question. | |
| McCormack is doomed. | |
| Jim Chalmers to Scott Morrison: | |
| Does the Prime Minister seriously deny he cut $1.7 billion from aged care when Page 172 of his 2015-16 MYEFO says about Aged Care funding, “The government will achieve savings of $472.4 million,” and Page 101 of his budget paper No. 2 for 2016-17 says about Aged Care funding, “The government will achieve efficiencies of $1.2 billion”? | |
| Morrison: | |
| This went out ahead of question time | |
| Back to Victoria for a moment: | |
| Racial vilification complaints to Victoria’s human rights watchdog have doubled during the pandemic, a parliamentary inquiry has been told. | |
| Kristen Hilton, Victoria’s human rights commissioner, told a Covid-19 inquiry there has been a “doubling” of reports over the past four months. | |
| She said the abuse was “often directed to people of Asian appearance”. | |
| Many of the incidents were on public transport and at shopping centres, but others included people being racially abused by their neighbour. | |
| Some people reported racist graffiti in their neighbourhoods that was also “directed to people of Asian appearance”. | |
| In one case, a Melbourne doctor told the commission he was no longer able to travel to work by public transport after he was abused on a train. | |
| “When there is fear and anxiety that will often lead to an increase in racism,” Hilton said. | |
| Anthony Albanese is straight into it: | |
| Did the Prime Minister’s decision to cut $1.7 billion from aged care leave aged care homes better or worse prepared for the pandemic? | |
| Morrison: | |
| Once again, the Leader of the Opposition comes to the dispatch Box and asserts things that are just simply not true. | |
| Mr Speaker, it’s not just me saying that. The Labor Party have made these allegations before. In fact, it was the previous Leader of the Opposition who made the same allegations about a matter involving $1.2 billion, Mr Speaker. And of all sources to actually agree the government - it may come as some surprise - but ABC Fact Check found that to be very misleading, Mr Speaker I table that for the benefit of the House, Mr Speaker. | |
| From that fact check: | |
| Morrison lists the government’s spending and finishes with: | |
| There have been more than 330 deaths in aged care homes in Australia since the pandemic. | |
| And it is done | |
| Doug Cameron rarely undersells these things. | |
| It’s the Lithuanian in him. | |
| We are now in the downhill run to question time. | |
| Labor will be focussed on aged care. | |
| This is quite something. | This is quite something. |
| Wang Xining: | Wang Xining: |
| The ABS construction data is out. | The ABS construction data is out. |
| Value of work done, chain volume measuresTotal construction | Value of work done, chain volume measuresTotal construction |
| The seasonally adjusted estimate for total construction work done fell 0.7% to $50,128.8m in the June quarter. | The seasonally adjusted estimate for total construction work done fell 0.7% to $50,128.8m in the June quarter. |
| Building work done | Building work done |
| The seasonally adjusted estimate of total building work done fell 3.9% to $28,416.7m in the June quarter. | The seasonally adjusted estimate of total building work done fell 3.9% to $28,416.7m in the June quarter. |
| Engineering work done | Engineering work done |
| The seasonally adjusted estimate for engineering work done rose 3.8% to $21,712.1m in the June quarter. | The seasonally adjusted estimate for engineering work done rose 3.8% to $21,712.1m in the June quarter. |
| Labor’s Jason Clare has responded (complete with receipts) | Labor’s Jason Clare has responded (complete with receipts) |
| There is a lot of ground being covered here. | There is a lot of ground being covered here. |
| The answer to this question about the CCP’s views on democracy is essentially, what has democracy done for you lately. | The answer to this question about the CCP’s views on democracy is essentially, what has democracy done for you lately. |
| Wang Xining: | Wang Xining: |
| Soft diplomacy. | Soft diplomacy. |
| (This would have been a whole episode of the West Wing, by the way, which is why the West Wing is also the worst.) | (This would have been a whole episode of the West Wing, by the way, which is why the West Wing is also the worst.) |
| Q: | Q: |
| Just to clarify something you said earlier. Did the coronavirus, which is currently affecting the world, did it come from China, if it did, you talked about two or three other places, where could it have come from if not China? | Just to clarify something you said earlier. Did the coronavirus, which is currently affecting the world, did it come from China, if it did, you talked about two or three other places, where could it have come from if not China? |
| You talked about the feelings of the Chinese people, given their health has been affected and the economy trashed, do you understand that Australia’s feelings might be heard, and the rest of the world, and they have the right to know where it comes from. | You talked about the feelings of the Chinese people, given their health has been affected and the economy trashed, do you understand that Australia’s feelings might be heard, and the rest of the world, and they have the right to know where it comes from. |
| Wang Xining: | Wang Xining: |
| Q: To be clear, you are saying that it didn’t originate in Wuhan? | Q: To be clear, you are saying that it didn’t originate in Wuhan? |
| Wang: We should leave the work to scientists. | Wang: We should leave the work to scientists. |
| On the CCP’s rejection of Australia’s original calls for an independent review into the origins of the pandemic, and the first response, Wang Xining says: | On the CCP’s rejection of Australia’s original calls for an independent review into the origins of the pandemic, and the first response, Wang Xining says: |
| Wang Xining: | Wang Xining: |