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Latest $84 million cuts rip the heart out of the ABC, and Australia's democracy
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'See it as your civic duty': Testing blitz to target hotspots as Victoria records thirty-three new cases
Article: 'See it as your civic duty': Testing blitz to target hotspots as Victoria records 33 new cases I found this part especially interesting: Health workers going door-to-door to test...
Article: 'See it as your civic duty': Testing blitz to target hotspots as Victoria records 33 new cases
I found this part especially interesting:
Health workers going door-to-door to test residents in these hotspots will be using a new type of saliva test developed by the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity that is less invasive, and painful, than nose and throat swabs.
There's a new form of coronavirus testing in Australia.
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Australian Defence Force to send 1,000 personnel to assist Victoria in coronavirus response
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Victoria records Australia's first coronavirus death in over a month, as cases in Vic rise by twenty yesterday and the state's reproduction number climbs to 2.5
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Victoria will bring back tougher coronavirus restrictions, limiting gatherings in homes to five people, in a bid to address a recent spike in case numbers
News article: Victoria will bring back tougher coronavirus restrictions, limiting gatherings in homes to five people, in a bid to address a recent spike in case numbers. Statement from Victoria's...
Statement from Victoria's Premier:
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"around half of [Victoria's] cases since the end of April have come from transmission inside someone’s home."
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"From 11:59pm on Sunday, the number of visitors you can have at your home will reduce to five."
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"Outside the home, families and friends can meet in groups up to ten."
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"restaurants, pubs, auction halls, community halls, libraries, museums and places of worship will all stay at a maximum of 20 people in any one space until 12 July."
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"Businesses that were set to open on Monday like gyms, cinemas, theatres and TABs can do so – but again, only with a maximum of 20."
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"Community sport for kids and non-contact competition for adults can proceed as planned."
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"those who can work from home [should] continue to do so at least until 31 July."
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The minimum wage in Australia will increase by thirty-five cents to $19.84 per hour, affecting the pay packets of more than 2.2 million people
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New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China
Article: New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China Also: 'Cyber attacks' point to China's spy agency, Ministry of State Security, as Huawei payback,...
Article: New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China
This is a follow-up to these articles posted yesterday:
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Cyber-attack Australia: Sophisticated attacks from ‘state-based actor’, PM says
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Why is Victoria experiencing an increase in coronavirus cases and other Australian states aren't?
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australian organisations, including governments and businesses, are currently being targeted by a sophisticated foreign "state-based" hacker
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Australian airline coronavirus (COVID-19) rules: We flew the Sydney-Melbourne route under new hygiene rules
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Facebook and Google refuse to pay revenue to Australian media
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Voters happy with how Australian governments have dealt with pandemic
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A pair of new studies chart a dramatic increase in stress, anxiety, depression and overall poor mental wellbeing in Australia linked to the COVID-19 lockdown
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Australian Senators unite to block Pauline Hanson's 'all lives matter' motion
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Coronavirus rules to be relaxed to bring big crowds back to stadiums, concerts, pubs, restaurants, and other venues around Australia
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Australian Security Intelligence Organisation briefing warns that the far-right is exploiting coronavirus to recruit new members
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Australian actor Meyne Wyatt supports Black Lives Matter with powerful monologue on racism on Q+A
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologises for 'any hurt or harm' caused by robodebt scheme
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No coronavirus cases from community transmission in two weeks, New South Wales Health confirm
Article: No coronavirus cases from community transmission in two weeks, NSW Health confirm Context: New South Wales has recorded 31 new coronavirus cases in the past 2 weeks, but all these new...
Article: No coronavirus cases from community transmission in two weeks, NSW Health confirm
Context:
New South Wales has recorded 31 new coronavirus cases in the past 2 weeks, but all these new cases have been in returned international travellers. Returned international travellers are forced to spend 14 days in quarantine (in 5-star hotel rooms) before being let loose on the Australian populace. So, these cases are not contributing to the pandemic in Australia's population.
New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia, has achieved zero community transmission. Most other states and territories have already achieved this, or are very close to achieving it.
The worst state in Australia for community transmission is Victoria, which has 1 or 2 cases of community transmission turn up every couple of days.
On another note, there are reportedly 432 active cases of coronavirus infections across Australia (or 450, depending on the source). However, that number of active cases exceeds the total number of new infections recorded across the country for the past month. I believe it's likely that some health departments (notably NSW's) are failing to follow up recovered cases, so that recoveries are understated and active cases are overstated.
Elimination of the coronavirus in Australia was tantalisingly close leading up to the protests last weekend. We're still waiting to see the outcome of those.
Fingers crossed!
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The New South Wales Police Minister has labelled anyone who attends a protest during the coronavirus pandemic as "certifiably insane"
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Bizarre scenes in tiny Western Australia town as 'sovereign nation' attempts to overthrow government
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Panic-buying: Australians top global charts for toilet paper stockpiling
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Report reveals Rio Tinto knew the significance of 46,000-year-old rock caves six years before it blasted them
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Internet service provider Optus has been ordered to hand over the details of a customer accused of defaming a Melbourne dentist through a Google review
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Australia had its own George Floyd moment, only it passed without international outrage
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A coroner’s report has revealed that the Queensland miner who was Australia’s youngest COVID-19 victim didn’t die of coronavirus at all
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"Robodebt" class action to continue, despite the Australian government waiving outstanding debts and promising to repay anybody who paid an unsound debt
Yesterday, the Australian government announced it will pay back $721m as it scraps Robodebt for Centrelink welfare recipients. But the class action lodged against the robodebt scheme will...
Yesterday, the Australian government announced it will pay back $721m as it scraps Robodebt for Centrelink welfare recipients.
But the class action lodged against the robodebt scheme will continue, because "the Government still needs to answer to claims of compensation and claims of damages and inconvenience and distress that this system has caused".
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Australia's High Court decides 'Palace letters' written during the Whitlam dismissal can be accessed by historian Jenny Hocking
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News Corp has announced a massive shakeup of its publishing businesses, moving almost all its community and regional newspaper titles to a digital-only format
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Victoria did not consult the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade before signing a controversial infrastructure deal with the Chinese government last year
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South Australia's latest coronavirus case was granted travel exemption to visit dying relative, authorities reveal
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A 30-year-old man from Blackwater in Central Queensland has died with coronavirus, making him the youngest victim in Australia
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Australian Federal Police will not lay charges against Annika Smethurst over publishing of classified intelligence documents
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How did the Covidsafe app go from being vital to almost irrelevant?
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Human trials of potential coronavirus vaccine begin in Melbourne
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'Highly unlikely' we'll return to lockdown, Australian Health Minister says
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Researchers claim new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps over a standard optical fiber cable, using a single integrated chip
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People in other countries have been told to wear masks to protect from coronavirus. Australia isn't in the same boat
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The Babe Rainbow - Eureka / Alan Chadwick's Garden (2018)
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EU ambassador says Australia played 'bad cop' to Europe's 'good cop' to get coronavirus motion up
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China has imposed a massive eighty per cent tariff on Australian barley imports from today, saying the product has been imported against trade rules
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Oceania explained
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Did the coronavirus kill ideology in Australia? How a government both sectarian and divisive learned (briefly) to become inclusive
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Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia
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A coalition of 62 countries has backed a joint Australian and European Union push for an independent inquiry into the coronavirus outbreak ahead of a crucial World Health Assembly meeting in Geneva
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Hundreds of thousands of Australians affected by the government’s robodebt scheme will receive notices from Centrelink about an upcoming class action under orders from the federal court
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Q Team is content that COVIDSafe is an innocuous application that should be considered safe to download for most people
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How remastering ABC TV show 'The Stranger' after fifty-five years brought joy to its star, Ron Haddrick, in his dying days
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