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| Coronavirus live updates Australia: Victoria records 12 new Covid cases and two deaths as SA reopens NSW border | |
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| Victorian health minister Jenny Mikakos has told the hotel inquiry she had no role in the hiring of private security. Follow live | |
| The ABS has taken a look at Australia’s population growth. | |
| We have increased the population by 1.4% - but not by getting busy - the bulk of the increase came from migrants getting busy and contributing to our economy and prosperity as a nation. | |
| Australia’s population was 25,649,985 people at 31 March 2020. | |
| The quarterly growth was 113,900 people (0.4%). | |
| The annual growth was 357,000 people (1.4%). | |
| 38.2% of annual growth was due to natural increase, and 61.8% was due to net overseas migration. | |
| Here is some more on Josh Frydenberg on why budget deficits and debt won’t matter for a while (not that they really ever have) | |
| Australian families stranded overseas are being told by travel agents and airlines that sending their children back to Australian unattended could be a solution to get them home sooner, the senate select committee on Covid-19 has heard. | |
| The advice was allegedly given to Deanne Vowels - whose family’s flights home have been repeatedly cancelled since April - as a way of bypassing the impact of Australia’s cap on arrivals. Unaccompanied minors do not count towards an airline’s limit. | |
| Her family of seven have been stranded in London since March. | |
| She said the Australian high commission in the UK appeared to be unclear how this exemption worked, and advised her to start up a crowdfunding campaign. | |
| Vowels spoke with Guardian Australia in August about how her family of seven has been forced to live in a trailer in London. | |
| On Thursday, she also said “we may lose our homes, our jobs and everything due to a single policy”, of capping arrivals into Australia. | |
| She said the government’s response to dealing with stranded Australians “feels like a long term boyfriend cheating on me”, that the government had “dumped me”. | |
| “If you can get high paying actors and politicians and cricket players...and even lobsters in and out of Australia, surely you can get hardworking, good working [citizens] home.” | |
| Josh Frydenberg is giving his speech to the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. | |
| Looks like Frydenberg is talking about a return to the Keynesian principles which underpinned Menzie’s post war budgets. | |
| Gladys Berejiklian gives a little more clarity over how Sydney will show out this clusterfork of a year: | |
| Weddings can have up to 20 people in NSW now - on the dance floor. | |
| NSW had no cases in the last 24 hours – which is up to 8pm last night – of community transmission, but one case came in after 8pm, which is still under investigation. | |
| So it is not counted in today’s cases, but it is being checked out to see where it came from. | |
| There was one other case, however they are in hotel quarantine. | |
| A bit of breaking news outside of politics and covid - but still important - Bradley Robert Edwards has been found guilty of murdering two of three women were disappeared from the Perth suburb of Claremont in the mid-90s. | |
| The cases became known as the Claremont killings. | |
| Edwards has been found guilty of murdering Ciara Glennon and Jane Rimmer, but not Sarah Spiers who disappeared at the same time. | |
| But no one is going to jail. | |
| Q: Any Westpac representatives that will face penalties? | |
| Nicole Rose: | |
| Q: There will be no criminal convictions. Why not? | |
| Rose: | |
| Austrac CEO Nicole Rose is doing a press conference on Westpac. She is asked if people an have faith that the regulator picks up these breaches: | |
| Victorian health minister Jenny Mikakos is now the third government minister to say they had no role in the recruitment of private security firms for hotel quarantine.Mikakos told the hotel quarantine inquiry on Thursday that despite her department being the control agency for the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, she was not involved in any of the decision making around use of private security for the hotels for returned travellers in March, and she did not know who made the decision. | Victorian health minister Jenny Mikakos is now the third government minister to say they had no role in the recruitment of private security firms for hotel quarantine.Mikakos told the hotel quarantine inquiry on Thursday that despite her department being the control agency for the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, she was not involved in any of the decision making around use of private security for the hotels for returned travellers in March, and she did not know who made the decision. |
| Mikakos said “with the benefit of hindsight, it would have been desirable” if she had been consulted, but said she did not become aware of the use of private security in the hotels until the outbreak of Covid-19 cases at the Rydges on Swanston in late May. | Mikakos said “with the benefit of hindsight, it would have been desirable” if she had been consulted, but said she did not become aware of the use of private security in the hotels until the outbreak of Covid-19 cases at the Rydges on Swanston in late May. |
| Mikakos said she had no reason to turn her mind to the use of security guards until the outbreak, and defended not having knowledge of it because she said it was a “multi-agency response” with shared accountability and shared responsibilities. | Mikakos said she had no reason to turn her mind to the use of security guards until the outbreak, and defended not having knowledge of it because she said it was a “multi-agency response” with shared accountability and shared responsibilities. |
| Q: At the beginning of the second lockdown the estimates was 250,000 Victorians would lose their jobs, have – are you aware of whether that was more or less or whether that was correct? | Q: At the beginning of the second lockdown the estimates was 250,000 Victorians would lose their jobs, have – are you aware of whether that was more or less or whether that was correct? |
| Daniel Andrews: | Daniel Andrews: |
| Is Daniel Andrews concerned about what the drop in the jobkeeper rate will mean for Victoria, given Melbourne is still under restrictions? | Is Daniel Andrews concerned about what the drop in the jobkeeper rate will mean for Victoria, given Melbourne is still under restrictions? |
| Q: Crime statistics show a 6.7% rise in family violence ... In the year to July which is the highest on record with 88,000 crimes. Applicants warn that this would happen and fear that the curfew might exacerbate family violence incidents, what is your response to this and why is the curfew still in place? | Q: Crime statistics show a 6.7% rise in family violence ... In the year to July which is the highest on record with 88,000 crimes. Applicants warn that this would happen and fear that the curfew might exacerbate family violence incidents, what is your response to this and why is the curfew still in place? |
| Daniel Andrews: | Daniel Andrews: |
| Q: The number of active cases in health workers has increased by 10 since yesterday. I think we have gone from 73-83. How concerned with you about that and how much of a problem are those stubborn numbers in health and aged care where the restrictions aren’t necessarily being to have any impact on them but they will have an impact on our ability to reopen? | Q: The number of active cases in health workers has increased by 10 since yesterday. I think we have gone from 73-83. How concerned with you about that and how much of a problem are those stubborn numbers in health and aged care where the restrictions aren’t necessarily being to have any impact on them but they will have an impact on our ability to reopen? |
| Daniel Andrews: | Daniel Andrews: |
| Q: Annastacia Palaszczuk has written to the prime minister about ADF being taken away from border control. Within it she says, “I understand this is inconsistent with the approach taken with other jurisdictions including New South Wales and Victoria” were you aware that Annastacia Palaszczuk was writing to the prime minister? | Q: Annastacia Palaszczuk has written to the prime minister about ADF being taken away from border control. Within it she says, “I understand this is inconsistent with the approach taken with other jurisdictions including New South Wales and Victoria” were you aware that Annastacia Palaszczuk was writing to the prime minister? |
| Daniel Andrews: | Daniel Andrews: |
| Q: Do you agree with her stance on border controls to use ADF? | Q: Do you agree with her stance on border controls to use ADF? |
| Andrews: | Andrews: |
| Q: Just to confirm you are completely satisfied with the use of the ADF you have had in Victoria and you don’t think you should have gone further at any stage? | Q: Just to confirm you are completely satisfied with the use of the ADF you have had in Victoria and you don’t think you should have gone further at any stage? |
| Andrews: | Andrews: |
| Q: You’ve received offers as well obviously? | Q: You’ve received offers as well obviously? |
| Andrews: | Andrews: |