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| Australia coronavirus live update: Victoria reports 149 new Covid cases and 24 deaths as NSW records six cases – question time live | |
| (32 minutes later) | |
| 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 |
| Greg Hunt is laying out how the aged care budget is increasing year on year. | |
| Which it is. | |
| Because more of the population is getting older. | |
| Peter Dutton is apparently filling out birthday cards for constituents while sitting in question time. | |
| Happy Virgo season. | |
| Back to Victoria for a moment: | |
| A two-year-old child who has spent her entire life in immigration detention in Melbourne has been released with her mother. | |
| Isabella Lee Pin Loong had lived at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation centre since her birth. Her mother, Vietnamese woman Huyen Thu Thi Tran, sought asylum in Australia by boat in 2011 and has been detained for almost three years. | |
| Isabella’s father and Huyen’s husband, Paul Lee, lives in the community. | |
| Isabella and Tran left the detention centre on Wednesday afternoon after Tran was issued a bridging visa. | |
| Tran’s lawyer Alison Battisson described the release as “absolutely extraordinary” and “an incredible event to happen”. | |
| The only other children in detention are Kopika and Tharunicaa, part of the so-called ‘Biloela family’. Before they were taken to Christmas Island, the Tamil family was also held in the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation. | |
| “There is still a family detained on Christmas Island with two young girls who used to play with Isabella, so one playmate is out but two remain,” Battisson said. | |
| Tran’s bridging visa does not entitle her to stay in Australia permanently, but it does mean that she can live in the community for now. She had previously been assessed by the government as not engaging Australia’s protection obligations, and was not able to challenge the decision in a court. | |
| The government had indicated its intention to deport her as recently as April, Battisson said. | |
| Isabella has not seen her father in person since March, when immigration detention visits were halted because of the coronavirus pandemic. | |
| “It’s going to be very overwhelming for Isabella in the beginning because she’s never had proper interaction with the greater community,” Battisson said. | |
| But, she said, “the difference for this young girl’s life is actually life-changing.” | |
| So what else does the RMIT ABC fact check say on the aged care funding debate? | |
| So what does that mean? Overall it has increased. But money has been taken from some areas to fund others. | |
| Julie Owens to Scott Morrison: | |
| The productivity commission revealed older Australians with high-care needs in New South Wales are waiting almost three years for a Home Care Package. Did the prime minister’s decision to cut $1.7bn from aged care leave these older Australians better, or worse off? | |
| Morrison: | |
| The Coalition has been in power for 14 of the last 20 years. | |
| Julie Collins to Scott Morrison: | |
| The aged care royal commission’s interim report titled ‘Neglect’ drew attention to aged care residents sitting or lying in urine or faeces. Did the prime minister’s decision to cut $1.7bn from aged care contribute to these shocking circumstances? | |
| Morrison: | |
| Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison: | |
| The aged care royal commission’s interim report titled ‘Neglect’ revealed up to half of all older Australians in residential aged care are malnourished. They’re literally starving. Didn’t the Prime Minister’s decision to cut $1.7bn from aged care leave frail and vulnerable older Australians worse off? | |
| Morrison: | |
| In what might be the most cursed moment of this day, Barnaby Joyce invokes Michael McCormack to the despatch box. | 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. | Joyce is EXUBERANT in his presentation of the question. |
| McCormack is doomed. | McCormack is doomed. |
| Jim Chalmers to Scott Morrison: | Jim Chalmers to Scott Morrison: |
| Does the prime minister seriously deny he cut $1.7bn from aged care when page 172 of his 2015-16 MYEFO says about aged care funding, “The government will achieve savings of $472.4m” 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 bn”? | |
| Morrison: | Morrison: |
| This went out ahead of question time: | |
| Back to Victoria for a moment: | 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. | 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. | 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”. | 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. | 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”. | 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. | 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. | “When there is fear and anxiety that will often lead to an increase in racism,” Hilton said. |
| Anthony Albanese is straight into it: | Anthony Albanese is straight into it: |
| Did the prime minister’s decision to cut $1.7bn from aged care leave aged care homes better or worse prepared for the pandemic? | |
| Morrison: | 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 $1.2bn, 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: | From that fact check: |
| Morrison lists the government’s spending and finishes with: | 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. | There have been more than 330 deaths in aged care homes in Australia since the pandemic. |
| And it is done. | |