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| Coronavirus live update: Victoria reports 35 new cases and seven deaths as Qld border row deepens | Coronavirus live update: Victoria reports 35 new cases and seven deaths as Qld border row deepens |
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| Scott Morrison accused of politicising a family funeral to attack Palaszczuk’s policy and Queensland chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young given police protection over death threats. Follow all today’s news | Scott Morrison accused of politicising a family funeral to attack Palaszczuk’s policy and Queensland chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young given police protection over death threats. Follow all today’s news |
| NSW has recorded four new cases of Covid in the last 24 hours – one is under investigation. | |
| Peter Dutton’s office has released a statement announcing Islamic State East Asia has been re-listed as a terrorist organisation under the criminal code: | |
| Daniel Andrews will hold his press conference at 11am. | Daniel Andrews will hold his press conference at 11am. |
| You can find all your international Covid news with Helen Sullivan over here: | You can find all your international Covid news with Helen Sullivan over here: |
| Kristina Keneally said Labor has taken a plan to the Senate to try and up the number of people accepted home each week: | Kristina Keneally said Labor has taken a plan to the Senate to try and up the number of people accepted home each week: |
| Kristina Keneally is working to up pressure on the federal government to raise the cap of the number of Australians allowed home each week (another weird sentence to write) after Peter Dutton blamed the states for not accepting more people for hotel quarantine. | Kristina Keneally is working to up pressure on the federal government to raise the cap of the number of Australians allowed home each week (another weird sentence to write) after Peter Dutton blamed the states for not accepting more people for hotel quarantine. |
| Keneally told ABC radio: | Keneally told ABC radio: |
| Over the next week the aged care royal commission will examine the funding of aged care homes, and former prime minister Paul Keating will be among the witnesses on Monday, and former treasurer Peter Costello will speak on Wednesday. | Over the next week the aged care royal commission will examine the funding of aged care homes, and former prime minister Paul Keating will be among the witnesses on Monday, and former treasurer Peter Costello will speak on Wednesday. |
| Financial reforms introduced under their leadership, including superannuation reforms, will be discussed along with reforms needed going forward.Counsel Assisting, Peter Gray QC, opened on Monday morning, stating: “There are some surprising features of the current arrangements in out-of-home care.” | Financial reforms introduced under their leadership, including superannuation reforms, will be discussed along with reforms needed going forward.Counsel Assisting, Peter Gray QC, opened on Monday morning, stating: “There are some surprising features of the current arrangements in out-of-home care.” |
| “For example, homecare providers are not required to report to the government, including what kinds of goods and services are provided with the home care package subsidies ... which amounted to about $2.5bn dollars a year based on 2018-19.” Residential care providers receive about $11.7bn each year in total commonwealth care subsidies and about $4.4bn in overall care related revenue, including contributions from residents. | “For example, homecare providers are not required to report to the government, including what kinds of goods and services are provided with the home care package subsidies ... which amounted to about $2.5bn dollars a year based on 2018-19.” Residential care providers receive about $11.7bn each year in total commonwealth care subsidies and about $4.4bn in overall care related revenue, including contributions from residents. |
| They also receive funding for additional services and deposits for accommodation. | They also receive funding for additional services and deposits for accommodation. |
| There was a lack of transparency around how subsidies were spent, Gray said. | There was a lack of transparency around how subsidies were spent, Gray said. |
| The Department of Health recently conducted a survey of home care providers and the results had been “disturbing”, Gray said. | The Department of Health recently conducted a survey of home care providers and the results had been “disturbing”, Gray said. |
| There were negligible amounts spent on nursing and allied healthcare, with only about 15 minutes of care per allocated per fortnight even for people on the higher levels of the home care package. | There were negligible amounts spent on nursing and allied healthcare, with only about 15 minutes of care per allocated per fortnight even for people on the higher levels of the home care package. |
| The Queensland chief health officer also says she understands that some people balk at what they are being asked to do, in terms of quarantine, because they don’t fully understand the impacts of the virus. | The Queensland chief health officer also says she understands that some people balk at what they are being asked to do, in terms of quarantine, because they don’t fully understand the impacts of the virus. |
| She says that might be a communication failure – that people still think it is like the flu. But it’s not. | She says that might be a communication failure – that people still think it is like the flu. But it’s not. |
| She said health authorities are seeing more and more people who contract the virus, recover from the initial infection, but are then left facing multiple lingering health impacts. | She said health authorities are seeing more and more people who contract the virus, recover from the initial infection, but are then left facing multiple lingering health impacts. |
| She says again that that is why she is taking it so seriously. That it’s not just the number of infections – but what happens, and stays, after. | She says again that that is why she is taking it so seriously. That it’s not just the number of infections – but what happens, and stays, after. |
| Dr Jeannette Young says she will look at lifting the gathering restrictions which are in place in Queensland where there has been no new community transmission cases in the state for 14 days. | Dr Jeannette Young says she will look at lifting the gathering restrictions which are in place in Queensland where there has been no new community transmission cases in the state for 14 days. |
| She is worried about those areas west of Brisbane because someone from a linked cluster was out and about while infectious, and so they are putting in extra resources to see if the virus has been passed on. | She is worried about those areas west of Brisbane because someone from a linked cluster was out and about while infectious, and so they are putting in extra resources to see if the virus has been passed on. |
| On the ACT hotspot declaration, and the closure of the NSW border, Steven Miles tells the reporter: | On the ACT hotspot declaration, and the closure of the NSW border, Steven Miles tells the reporter: |
| Steven Miles says he feels the heartache when he hears what some people are going through, but that he doesn’t believe there are other choices: | Steven Miles says he feels the heartache when he hears what some people are going through, but that he doesn’t believe there are other choices: |
| Steven Miles is called back to the microphone, where he is asked about an individual case, involving compassionate exemptions: | Steven Miles is called back to the microphone, where he is asked about an individual case, involving compassionate exemptions: |
| How she feels about needing protection, Dr Jeannette Young says: | How she feels about needing protection, Dr Jeannette Young says: |
| Asked about the toll the criticism of her decisions have taken on her, Dr Jeannette Young says: | Asked about the toll the criticism of her decisions have taken on her, Dr Jeannette Young says: |
| Dr Jeannette Young on why she is being so conservative with her advice: | Dr Jeannette Young on why she is being so conservative with her advice: |