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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
Australia Covid updates live: 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Melbourne; city braces for third day of protests; Victoria records 628 cases and three deaths
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This earthquake seems to have been felt far and wide across the greater Melbourne area, and even up into NSW!
What I love more about this tweet is the homemade “9 News” watermark on Instagram.
Sorry, the earthquake distracted me, but the Victorian numbers are out.
WOW! Daniel Andrews really did mean “any tactics necessary”.
The state recorded 628 cases today and three deaths. This is the deadliest day of the outbreak so far.
Here is some more footage that friends sent me from Chapel Street. I’ll bring you more as soon as I can.
OK, it wasn’t just me! We all felt it!
Here is more footage from building damage in Chapel Street in South Yarra, Melbourne, which is one of the busiest shopping strips in the city.
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.
My heart is still in my throat after that! Not the best time to be on the top floor of a very old building!
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.
Speaking of which, we will be hearing from the Queensland leadership at 10am AEST.
