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| Coronavirus live updates Australia: Victoria records 12 new Covid cases and two deaths as SA reopens NSW border | 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 | Victorian health minister Jenny Mikakos has told the hotel inquiry she had no role in the hiring of private security. Follow live |
| I am now considering getting married just to have my friends compete for who gets a dance floor ticket. | |
| AAP has more on the easing of restrictions in NSW: | |
| NSW is easing Covid-19 restrictions around school and community life due to lower community acquired Covid-19 case numbers. | |
| WEDDINGS | |
| * Up to 20 people in the official wedding party can take to the dance floor, where previously only the bride and groom were permitted | |
| SCHOOLS | |
| * Interschool activities can resume on Saturday with a Covid-19 safety plan | |
| * School sport will return to normal next term but no parents on school sites . | |
| * Playing wind instruments, singing and chanting permitted with strict restrictions | |
| * Year 6 formals and graduations permitted | |
| * High school formals permitted after HSC | |
| * Kindergarten orientation back on | |
| * Year 7 transition back on | |
| * Excursions and camps can resume with strict guidelines | |
| * School choirs and musical ensembles to resume, as long as players keep a 1.5 metre distance from one another, or three metres for players of non-reeded woodwind instruments. | |
| * Community Languages Schools Program will resume face-to-face learning; | |
| SPORT | |
| * More than one parent may now attend community sporting activities if physical distancing of at least 1.5 metres can be maintained | |
| * Accommodation facilities and overnight event organisers must implement a Covid-19 safety plan | |
| * Carpooling should continue to be avoided | |
| I’m sorry to report, parents of NSW, the recorder is now back. | |
| Changes in restriction mean you can now have more than one parent on the sidelines for community sports. | |
| Year 7s can have excursions and camps again. | |
| Year 6s can have their formals. | |
| Year 12s can have their formals (from 12 November). | |
| And interschool activities, such as wind instruments and ensemble, will be allowed again. | |
| The bureau of statistics has also released a more detail look at employment in the last quarter: | |
| And who still has jobs? | |
| The ABS has taken a look at Australia’s population growth. | 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. | Australia’s population was 25,649,985 people at 31 March 2020. |
| The quarterly growth was 113,900 people (0.4%). | The quarterly growth was 113,900 people (0.4%). |
| The annual growth was 357,000 people (1.4%). | 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. | 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) | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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”. | 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.” | “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. | 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. | 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: | 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. | Weddings can have up to 20 people in NSW now - on the dance floor. |