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| Australia Covid updates live: earth tremor felt in Melbourne; Victoria records 628 cases and three deaths; Qld shuts border to Tweed and Byron | |
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| Follow all the day’s news | Follow all the day’s news |
| This earthquake seems to have been felt far and wide across the greater Melbourne area, and even up into NSW! | |
| Sorry, the earthquake distracted me, but the Victorian numbers are out. | |
| The state recorded 628 cases today and three deaths. This is the deadliest day of the outbreak so far. | |
| OK, it wasn’t just me! We all felt it! | |
| If you are in Melbourne you might have just felt a huge shake! I have to admit I just ran to stand under a doorway! I’ll bring you updates ASAP. | |
| NSW train drivers will strike next week as part of an industrial campaign over pay and conditions, AAP reports. | |
| The strike on Tuesday 5 October, from 9am to 1pm, will be the culmination of a week of action, including a ban on overtime on Wednesday, a work to rule on Thursday and a go-slow with trains reducing speed to 60km/h on Saturday. | |
| Rail, Tram and Bus Union NSW secretary Alex Claassens said workers at Sydney and NSW Trains are negotiating a new enterprise agreement but remain at loggerheads. | |
| The union is asking for a 3.5% wage rise while the NSW government is offering 0.3% for the first year of a new enterprise agreement. | |
| The industrial action was designed to minimise disruption to essential workers but there would be delays, he said. | |
| Andrews has been asked if he expects rolling protests every day this week. | |
| Just in case you had forgotten how pro-police the Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, is, the premier has been pretty forward this morning talking about officers doing whatever it takes to quell the protests. | |
| Now he has been asked if he is confident that the public will have the same appetite for displays of hardline policing. | |
| He was then asked if he would feel comfortable with the police using the “upper limits” of their tactics. | |
| Now, it might surprise you to hear this but despite the focus on the Victorian protests, states do actually still exist. | Now, it might surprise you to hear this but despite the focus on the Victorian protests, states do actually still exist. |
| Speaking of which, we will be hearing from the Queensland leadership at 10am AEST. | Speaking of which, we will be hearing from the Queensland leadership at 10am AEST. |
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