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| Australia Covid live news update: Victoria braces for construction industry fallout with shutdown ordered at late-night meeting | Australia Covid live news update: Victoria braces for construction industry fallout with shutdown ordered at late-night meeting |
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| Follow all the day’s news live | Follow all the day’s news live |
| Just jumping back to the CFMEU protests in Melbourne, and there are fears that these scenes could be repeated today (and, according to some protesters, every day until the mandatory vaccine rules have changed). | |
| Australian Council of Trade Unions, president Michelle O’Neil, told ABC she hoped that this would not occur. | |
| O’Neil conceded that while there were union members present, she is confident that right-wing extremists were involved in the protests. | |
| OK here is a little blog treat for the morning. A video of everyone’s least favourite Bachelor (and I’m told a rugby player of some kind) the Honey Badger, rescuing a sheep from a barbed-wire fence. | |
| Look at them run at the end! (The sheep not the Honey Badger.) | |
| A vulnerable Indigenous inmate who prison officers allegedly depicted hanging from a noose on a prison whiteboard is suing the Australian Capital Territory government, alleging the drawing was a “vile and racist caricature” of “another Indigenous person they wished to see die in custody”. | |
| In May 2018, correctional officers at the ACT’s jail, the Alexander Maconochie Centre, allegedly drew what appeared to be a game of hangman on a staff whiteboard. The man depicted hanging from the noose was an Indigenous inmate who has mental health issues and has previously attempted suicide. | |
| A boat is shown sailing past with one of the passengers depicted saying “yay”. | |
| In proceedings lodged in the ACT supreme court, the man’s lawyers, Ken Cush & Associates, say the whiteboard and the hangman picture were used as a “vehicle to ridicule, degrade, disrespect, and vilify the plaintiff amongst the correctional officers and detainees in the AMC”. They say the image was a “humiliating, disrespectful, degrading and hurtful parody”. | |
| You can read the full report from Christopher Knaus and Lorena Allam below: | |
| This is interesting. Former deputy chief medical officer Dr Nick Coatsworth has hit out against “zero Covid academics” and those who suggest children in primary school should wear masks in classrooms. | |
| The acting prime minister ruffled a few feathers yesterday after he stated he believed Christian Porter would eventually be back on the frontbench after time in political purgatory. | |
| The former attorney general quit as a minister on Sunday after revealing some of his legal fees from a defamation action against the ABC were paid by anonymous sources and was unable to reveal their identity. | |
| ABC News Breakfast host Lisa Millar, today questioned those comments: | |
| Joyce: | |
| Millar: | |
| Joyce: | |
| Joyce said he isn’t totally convinced by the union’s suggestion that the protests yesterday were not truly caused by union members, but instead had been infiltrated by rightwing extremists and anti-vaccination advocates. | |
| The acting prime minister Barnaby Joyce, is on ABC News Breakfast and has just been asked for his views on the violent CFMEU protests, and subsequent state government shutdown of the construction industry. | |
| Joyce, who is standing in a paddock somewhere, is making it clear that this ban has nothing to do with him, and in fact, is Labor’s problem. | |
| Good morning everyone, it’s Matilda Boseley here and let’s dive right into Tuesday. | Good morning everyone, it’s Matilda Boseley here and let’s dive right into Tuesday. |
| So obviously the first thing we need to talk about were those violent protests outside the CFMEU union offices in Melbourne yesterday, which have now prompted the government to institute a two-week shutdown of the construction industry. | So obviously the first thing we need to talk about were those violent protests outside the CFMEU union offices in Melbourne yesterday, which have now prompted the government to institute a two-week shutdown of the construction industry. |
| The closure was announced on Monday night after the building was damaged and riot police deployed in chaotic scenes, using rubber bullets and pepper spray to quell the crowd. | The closure was announced on Monday night after the building was damaged and riot police deployed in chaotic scenes, using rubber bullets and pepper spray to quell the crowd. |
| Only critical infrastructure, including hospitals and ongoing level crossing removal works, will continue during the shutdown, giving time for the workforce to get vaccinated. | Only critical infrastructure, including hospitals and ongoing level crossing removal works, will continue during the shutdown, giving time for the workforce to get vaccinated. |
| Here is what the Victorian treasurer, Tim Pallas, had to say about it in a statement: | Here is what the Victorian treasurer, Tim Pallas, had to say about it in a statement: |
| Union officials say Monday’s protesters were not actually CFMEU members, instead claiming “neo-Nazi’s and rightwing extremists” had hijacked the event. | Union officials say Monday’s protesters were not actually CFMEU members, instead claiming “neo-Nazi’s and rightwing extremists” had hijacked the event. |
| The protest escalated when two union officials, including Victorian construction branch secretary John Sekta, came outside the Elizabeth Street office to speak to protesters just before midday and were met with boos and jeers. | The protest escalated when two union officials, including Victorian construction branch secretary John Sekta, came outside the Elizabeth Street office to speak to protesters just before midday and were met with boos and jeers. |
| Once Setka went back inside, the protesters smashed a glass door to the building. | Once Setka went back inside, the protesters smashed a glass door to the building. |
| Some said they would come to the CFMEU office every day until the union bows to their demands. But we shall have to wait and see what eventuates. | Some said they would come to the CFMEU office every day until the union bows to their demands. But we shall have to wait and see what eventuates. |
| The acting prime minister has just spoken about this situation on ABC so why don’t we jump right in and I’ll bring you his comments. | The acting prime minister has just spoken about this situation on ABC so why don’t we jump right in and I’ll bring you his comments. |