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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 | Australia coronavirus live update: Victoria reports 149 new Covid cases and 24 deaths as NSW records six cases – question time live |
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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 |
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| Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison: | |
| I refer to comments of the Liberal MP for Monash, Russell Broadbent, who yesterday said he’d sounded warnings bout the Aged Care sector for years “but I was ignored completely”. If the Prime Minister won’t listen to Labor and won’t listen to his own royal commissioners, will he at least listen to his own backbench and acknowledge that his cuts of $1.7 billion have contributed to the problem? | |
| That is in relation to this story from Murph: | |
| Morrison: | |
| Exceptionally normal behaviour from a government MP, personally saved from a pre-selection dumping by at least two prime ministerial interventions. | |
| Ken O’Dowd once again learns what his very burning question for the minister is, at the same time we do. | |
| Keith Pitt, continuing his love of wide striped ties, tells us O’Dowd is known as the “member for coal”. | |
| I know some other names for O’Dowd from people on the ground, but my oma raised me better than that. | |
| Chris Bowen to Scott Morrison: | |
| The government’s report on the deadly Covid outbreak at Newmarch House said families reported weight loss, dehydration, pressure sores and increases in urinary tract and skin infections amongst fragile residents. Why hasn’t the prime minister taken full responsibility for the consequences of his $1.7bn cut to aged care? | |
| Morrison: | |
| And while we are on the subject of the aged care royal commission, here is part of the submission from the counsel assisting the commission, Peter Rozen QC: | |
| Given the prime minister keeps referring to how he called the royal commission into aged care (while also disputing the ‘assertions’ the counsel assisting the commission has made) it is also worth remembering that he only called the commission, after months of reporting of how terrible aged care standards were in some homes, which was then knocked out of the park by a Four Corners series on the issue. | |
| It wasn’t out of the goodness of his heart. It was in response to a call that had become too loud to ignore. | |
| Labor has asked aged care minister, Richard Colbeck about Liberal MP Russell Broadbent’s comments in Guardian Australia that aged care is a “disaster waiting to happen” because “profit became more important than care” and that he had warned the government but was “completely ignored”. | |
| Colbeck replied: | |
| “I don’t concede the government has ignored or dismissed Broadbent’s concerns,” Colbeck added, citing the ability of any Australian to make a submission to the royal commission – an opportunity senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells has taken up to raise concerns. | |
| In the final supplementary, Labor asked how many more aged care residents might still be alive if Colbeck’s warnings were heeded. | |
| Colbeck replied: | |
| Vince Connelly’s latest dixer performance appears to channel ‘baby discovers it has hands, and is transfixed’. | |
| Two stars. | |
| Greg Hunt is laying out how the aged care budget is increasing year on year. | Greg Hunt is laying out how the aged care budget is increasing year on year. |
| Which it is. | Which it is. |
| Because more of the population is getting older. | Because more of the population is getting older. |
| Peter Dutton is apparently filling out birthday cards for constituents while sitting in question time. | Peter Dutton is apparently filling out birthday cards for constituents while sitting in question time. |
| Happy Virgo season. | Happy Virgo season. |
| Back to Victoria for a moment: | 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. | 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 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’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. | 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”. | 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. | 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. | “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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | “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.” | 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 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. | So what does that mean? Overall it has increased. But money has been taken from some areas to fund others. |