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Australia news live update: Invasion Day protests planned; 64 Covid deaths in Victoria and NSW; Dylan Alcott is Australian of the Year Australia news live update: Invasion Day protests planned; 73 Covid deaths in Victoria, NSW, Qld; Dylan Alcott is Australian of the Year
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The prime minister and Governor-General are now arriving at the official Australia Day ceremony in Canberra. I’ll bring you updates when the speeches start. I said I was just confirming Queensland’s total case numbers for today. It is 13,551, an increase of around 4,000 from yesterday.
Scott Morrison has read out a poem about Australia written by his daughter Lily.
“I could not express my love for this country better than the young girl who wrote this verse. And I’d like to conclude by sharing her thoughts with you. It’s called my land Australia,” he says, before reading the poem:
The prime minister, Scott Morrison, is standing up now. Let’s have a listen in.
Back in Canberra, the chair of the Australia Day council, Danielle Roche, is speaking now.
Queensland chief health officer Dr John Gerrard has confirmed that another nine people with Covid-19 have died in the state.
I’m just trying to confirm the total case number for the day.
Hospitalisation numbers have dropped to 889 from 928, with just 47 now in the ICU in the state.
Gerrard has credited much of this drop to the Gold Coast now passing the peak of the pandemic.
The prime minister and governor general are now arriving at the official Australia Day ceremony in Canberra. I’ll bring you updates when the speeches start.
Obviously, today has already been a significantly deadly day in terms of the Covid death toll, but let’s have a closer look at the hospitalisation numbers as well.Obviously, today has already been a significantly deadly day in terms of the Covid death toll, but let’s have a closer look at the hospitalisation numbers as well.
Victoria’s total hospitalisation number has risen by 35 to 1,071, with ICU number going down by six, now sitting at 113.Victoria’s total hospitalisation number has risen by 35 to 1,071, with ICU number going down by six, now sitting at 113.
In NSW their hospital total has gone down by 149 to 2,794, with their ICU numbers now sitting at 175 (down 8 from yesterday).In NSW their hospital total has gone down by 149 to 2,794, with their ICU numbers now sitting at 175 (down 8 from yesterday).
Victoria has recorded 13,507 new Covid cases and sadly 35 more deaths.Victoria has recorded 13,507 new Covid cases and sadly 35 more deaths.
New South Wales has recorded 21,030 new Covid cases and 29 more deaths.New South Wales has recorded 21,030 new Covid cases and 29 more deaths.
Newly minted Australia of the Year Dylan Alcott has been speaking with ABC News Breakfast this morning about what the title means to him.Newly minted Australia of the Year Dylan Alcott has been speaking with ABC News Breakfast this morning about what the title means to him.
Those in the central district of Victoria have been warned to prepare for extreme heat today.
Here is Amy Remeikis talking about how uncomfortable Australia really still is with seeing an angry woman. She discusses the shock many felt last year (when the conversation about the culture of sexual assault and harraments in politics really started) after prime minister Scott Morrison said his wife Jenny told him to consider what he would want for their daughters if they were in Brittany Higgins’s position.
Guardian Australia’s fantastic Amy Remeikis is speaking to ABC radio about the strange outcry following 2021 Australian of the Year Grace Tame’s refusal to smile when meeting with prime minister Scott Morrison at the lodge yesterday.
I’ll bring you some quotes as soon as I can, but for now have a listen in on what she had to say on The Project last night.
Cast members of the Netflix reality series Byron Baes have posted videos to social media of people dancing to live music at a crowded Byron Bay venue in apparent contravention of New South Wales Covid measures.
Two of the show’s other stars have posted videos in the days after receiving positive Covid tests that appear to show them out in public.
Covid case numbers in the northern NSW health district have exploded since December, and staff at hospitals serving the Byron Bay area have reported they are under “extreme strain”.
On 10 January, two days after the NSW government reintroduced a ban on singing and dancing in hospitality venues, at least three cast members of the reality TV show about social influencers in the Byron Bay area – scheduled for broadcast later this year – were tagged in Instagram videos filmed at the night spot Casa Luna at a birthday party for one of the show’s stars, Hannah Brauer.
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