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| Australia news live: Daniel Andrews in hospital for X-rays after fall; Oprah interview prompts renewed calls for republic | Australia news live: Daniel Andrews in hospital for X-rays after fall; Oprah interview prompts renewed calls for republic |
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| James Merlino holds press conference on ‘truth-telling’ commission in premier’s place | James Merlino holds press conference on ‘truth-telling’ commission in premier’s place |
| Scott Morrison is sticking to the government’s population-wide coronavirus vaccine October goal despite delays, and doubts from medical experts. | |
| Logistical issues and minor bungles put the jabs behind schedule, with around 86,000 people receiving their first injection int he first fortnight of the rollout. | |
| But Morrison said he is still confident all Australians who wanted a vaccine would have access to one by the end of October. | |
| Later in the month, doses of the AstraZeneca jab produced in Melbourne are expected to be added to the network at a rate of about one million a week. | |
| GFG Alliance, the owner of the Whyalla steel mill, has responded to our inquiry about how the collapse of its financier, Greensill Capital, affects the operation – and the thousands of jobs there. | |
| It’s not a big comment but points to more trouble (at the mill) ahead: | |
| Guardian Australia understands GFG has been in talks with both the South Australian government and the union that covers the site, the Australian Workers’ Union, over the past week. | |
| We’ve gone to both to see what they have to say. | |
| Julie Stephen, a jobseeker in her 50s who has been battling breast cancer, has pleaded with Scott Morrison to consider how an impending reduction to welfare payments will impact people like her. | |
| At the only hearing into the government’s jobseeker bill – which will permanently increase benefits by $50 a fortnight, but end the more generous $150 Covid supplement – Stephen says she was diagnosed with breast cancer in July last year and had her final stage of chemotherapy in December. | |
| However, she was rejected for the more generous disability pension last year, meaning she has been on the jobseeker payment. | |
| She said could “just manage” on the current jobseeker rate of $715, but she was still worried about being able to register her car, which she needs to attend medical treatments. | |
| Stephen, who mortgage repayments, says she will be in “arrears” when the rate reduces in April. | |
| Asked for her message to Scott Morrison, Stephen says he needed to “get down to our playing field”, and was worried he was “out of touch with what’s really going on”. | |
| The Acoss chief executive, Cassandra Goldie, and Corey Irlam, Deputy Chief Executive at the Council of the Ageing, told the inquiry the $50 a fortnight was totally insufficient. | |
| Andrew Leigh was also asked about this (now infamous) tweet from Liberal MP Dave Sharma: | |
| Leigh said the move was tone-deaf: | |
| Opposition frontbencher Andrew Leigh has spoken on 2SM labing the parliament the “the blokiest workplace [he’s] ever been in,”and called for a new non-partisan compliance mechanism. | |
| The Oprah interview with Meghan & Harry on Channel 10 had 1.37m viewers last night, making it the highest-rating program on Monday night. | |
| The ABC’s Four Corners Bursting the Canberra Bubble, which went up against Oprah for an hour at 8.30pm, still managed 624,000 viewers, significantly up on previous weeks.Reality shows Married at First Sight on Nine had 804,000 and Ultimate Tag on Seven had 260,000. | The ABC’s Four Corners Bursting the Canberra Bubble, which went up against Oprah for an hour at 8.30pm, still managed 624,000 viewers, significantly up on previous weeks.Reality shows Married at First Sight on Nine had 804,000 and Ultimate Tag on Seven had 260,000. |
| NSW has gone 51 days with a local Covid-19 case. | NSW has gone 51 days with a local Covid-19 case. |
| At the tail end of the press conference, Scott Morrison was asked if he had sought the solicitor general’s advice about Christian Porter’s situation. | At the tail end of the press conference, Scott Morrison was asked if he had sought the solicitor general’s advice about Christian Porter’s situation. |
| This is quite a significant question – for a week now Morrison and senior ministers have been that setting up an independent inquiry into the sexual assault allegation (which Porter denies) would offend the rule of law. So it matters whether that view is based on legal advice or is just a construction to deflect questions. | This is quite a significant question – for a week now Morrison and senior ministers have been that setting up an independent inquiry into the sexual assault allegation (which Porter denies) would offend the rule of law. So it matters whether that view is based on legal advice or is just a construction to deflect questions. |
| Asked if he had sought the SG’s advice, and if not why not, Morrison replied: | Asked if he had sought the SG’s advice, and if not why not, Morrison replied: |
| Which is to say – Morrison answered a different question: will you set up a separate inquiry? That wasn’t what he was asked. | Which is to say – Morrison answered a different question: will you set up a separate inquiry? That wasn’t what he was asked. |
| The solicitor general would not be asked to inquire into the attorney general personally, he would be asked whether setting up such an inquiry offends the rule of law. | The solicitor general would not be asked to inquire into the attorney general personally, he would be asked whether setting up such an inquiry offends the rule of law. |
| Morrison has indicated his government will proceed with its industrial relations bill when parliament resumes next week, even without the industrial relations minister, Christian Porter, present. | Morrison has indicated his government will proceed with its industrial relations bill when parliament resumes next week, even without the industrial relations minister, Christian Porter, present. |
| He touched on the topic at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney. | He touched on the topic at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney. |
| The employment minister, Michaelia Cash, is acting industrial relations minister and attorney general. | The employment minister, Michaelia Cash, is acting industrial relations minister and attorney general. |
| The parliamentary inquiry examining the Morrison government’s jobseeker bill is under way today. Reporter Luke Henriques-Gomes is keeping abreast of all developments and is tweeting updates this morning. | |
| If you want to get up-to-date on exactly what’s going on, can I recommend Luke’s story below: | |
| The prime minister says he wants Anzac Day celebration to go ahead this year but could leave it up to the states: | The prime minister says he wants Anzac Day celebration to go ahead this year but could leave it up to the states: |
| Morrison has been asked about the interview given by Julie Bishop on ABC’s 7.30 late night where she made some colourful comments about the culture within parliament. | Morrison has been asked about the interview given by Julie Bishop on ABC’s 7.30 late night where she made some colourful comments about the culture within parliament. |
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