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National Political Editor @dailytelegraph @couriermail @theheraldsun and @theTiser //📍Canberra // clare.armstrong @news .com.au
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PM Scott Morrison undoes everything he’s just said by detailing an anonymous HR complaint in the newsroom of a journo who asked a question he didn’t like. It’s a small business with not many women, hardly impossible for people to figure it out. Victim centric response it was not
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Prominent Australian women have formed a powerful new alliance calling for concrete actions to protect women and children from violence, harassment and to end discrimination.
#SafetyRespectEquity
via
@dailytelegraph
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The
@NSWRFS
get loudest cheer of
#MardiGras2020
so far and I’m not crying you’re crying 😭😍
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Just booked myself an AstraZeneca vaccine appointment at midday today in Canberra!!!! I called a local GP clinic taking part in the rollout, they had heaps and heaps of available appointments and were happy to sign me up for quick consult and the jab 😬😬😬
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I feel safer already! Super easy booking my AstraZeneca vaccine today. Explained to GP I (gratefully) don’t have underlying health conditions, GP was super clear on the side effects and what to look out for, and I’m happy to do my part! 💉
First dose: ☑️
Second dose: Booked!
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I'm sharing my story to remind men who use “what-about-ism” to defend or diminish poor behaviour, that this whole issue isn't about them. It’s absolutely because of you, but it’s actually about us.
via
@dailytelegraph
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#BREAKING
PM Scott Morrison just confirmed Australians of ANY age can immediately go to their GP and request the AstraZeneca jab under new indemnity arrangements agreed at National Cabinet tonight. Basically if you want the jab and your GP says you’re okay, then go get it!!
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Jacqui Lambie opposing Hanson on vaccines in the Senate: "Being held accountable for your actions isn't called discrimination, it's called being, you wouldn't believe it, a goddamn bloody adult." Argues freedom to choose does not absolve you of consequences of that choice
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#BREAKING
Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck just confirmed the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission “ceased” unannounced visits to facilities “for a period” based on medical advice. So the only authority checking if homes were safe in the middle of a pandemic didn’t turn up
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Astonishing statement from Sport Minister Richard Colbeck. Following great scoop by
@andrewprobyn
revealing which community sport projects were overlooked for grants against official advice, it seems the government is only concerned about where the leak came from
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Health Minister Brad Hazzard attacking press pack for being "journalists" not "epidemiologists" when questioned why the NSW public health orders didn't properly mandate mask wearing etc for private drivers transporting international air crew. He changed the orders on Friday
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PM Scott Morrison says Australia has upgraded travel ban to Level 4 for every country in the world. This is the first time that has ever happened. The travel advice is “do not go abroad” he says.
#coronavirus
@dailytelegraph
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Queensland announces a two-week pause on hotel quarantine which is full because of their own rules that no one is allowed to do home quarantine if coming from interstate hotspot. An inhumane solution to a problem of their own making. But hey you can go to a pub there so who cares
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#BREAKING
Victoria’s Belt and Road deal with a China has been vetoed by the federal government.
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Some news from me.. I’m starting as National Political Editor for the
@dailytelegraph
@couriermail
@theheraldsun
and
@theTiser
covering federal politics and major national issues for all four metros. Will remain based in Canberra press gallery. Excited to get to work! 📰
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Fraser Anning has just called a press conference for tomorrow morning in Brisbane to discuss his
#Christchurch
comments and “recent events at Moorabbin” aka the
#EggBoy
incident ...what could possibly be left to say?
#auspol
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Kate Jenkins' Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces has been released. It is damning.
- 1 in 3 people in parliament experienced seuxal harrassment
- 1 per cent suffered attempted or actual sexual assault
- 77 per cent witnessed or experienced bullying
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#BREAKING
A former senior Liberal staffer at the centre of a rape claim by a young female colleague in the office of Defence Minister Linda Reynolds has checked himself into a Sydney hospital. via
@dailytelegraph
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Ah yes, providing factual context in a question about the actual policy announcement being made today in order to get a proper response, how dare I.
Does Clare Armstrong know the meaning of 'succinct'?
Every question is a bloody essay
🐝
#auspol
#ausvotes
#AusVotes2022
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Health Minister Greg Hunt just said he needs to check on where the six million jabs by end of week of May 10 claim came from... well I picked it up on this powerpoint from a couple of weeks ago. The same graph estimated we'd be north of 1m by now, we're at 670,349 as of today
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PM
@ScottMorrisonMP
in Canberra to announce new
#coronavirus
measures, likely including plan to support childcare industry. Notes it was 10 weeks ago this week that Aus first declared
#COVID19
a disease with “pandemic potential,” well before rest of world
@dailytelegraph
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Everyone who had naked sunbakers on a beach getting startled by a deer and running into the bush only to get lost and need rescuing - all in breach of NSW Covid-19 restrictions - on your 2021 bingo cards. Well done.
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Thanks so much to
@PressClubAust
and the Brown family for this amazing honour. I am among incredible peers in the Canberra press gallery so to be recognised with the Wallace Brown Young Journalist Award for 2021 is wild! Special congrats to runner up, my fav
@Stela_Todorovic
💕
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GPs gave out more COVID-19 jabs in a week than have been given to aged care residents since the vaccine rollout began more than a month ago. Australia passed 507k jabs on Friday, of which 97k were delivered by 1,100 GP clinics who'd only came online five days earlier.
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Only 19 new
#COVID19
cases in Australia in the past 24 hours. The total number of cases nationally is now 6746, with 89 deaths. There are 104 patients in hospital, 40 in ICU and of those 26 are on ventilators. There have been about 544,000 tests completed.
@dailytelegraph
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Love the Kingston Superbarn’s not-so-subtle message to the panic buyers of Canberra.. every shelf is screaming WE HAVE FOOD!
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PM
@ScottMorrisonMP
and CMO Prof Brendan Murphy providing about update after National Cabinet meeting this evening. Says rate of
#COVID19
increase has fallen from around 25% last week to today’s increase of 9% but doesn’t mean more measures aren’t needed
@dailytelegraph
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Liberal Warringah candidate Katherine Deves was very quickly whisked away from a rally for party faithful in Sydney Olympic Park, essentially her first public appearance of the campaign. She did not take any questions from journalists.
@dailytelegraph
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Opposition leader
@billshortenmp
"Today we celebrate, tomorrow we legislate"
@couriermail
#auspol
#marriageequality
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If Omicron could possibly just not, for the next 72 hours, this third-time-rescheduled bride would be super appreciative 😳
On a plane! From Melbourne! To Launceston! For
@ByClare
’s wedding! Every finger and toe crossed!
#omicanyounotruinthis
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My dad was awesome on the Tassie news tonight but I just know it would have killed him giving the journos his (very real) name and title for the grab 😂
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Huge day for vaccine data in Australia. States have finally agreed to publish info on doses available vs doses in arms. Utilisation lowest in SA and highest in WA. This is super helpful data to track what delivery systems are working best and identify potential improvements.
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Senator
@KKeneally
asks AFP if they will engage with ICAC over Daryl Maguire's alleged cash-for-visas scheme, and dep commissioner says not at this stage, however unexpectedly reveals they are seeking to determine if the disgraced MP was involved in Leppington Triangle land sale
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Absolutely make your own personal decision in consultation with a GP, but for me getting an AstraZeneca jab was an easy choice. Like many young Australians, I want out of this pandemic, and I'll take whatever means available. via
@dailytelegraph
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#NEW
Liberal and Labor female staffers have united to warn political leaders no one will come forward to an independent review of workplace culture in Parliament House without stronger privacy protections.
via
@dailytelegraph
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Final QT of 2021 and a Labor MP tells Liberal MP Gladys Liu and Health Minister Greg Hunt to "get a room" after she asked a (very standard) dorothy dixer and he called her the "best member for Chisholm". Has anyone checked on Kate Jenkins to ensure she's not died of exasperation?
Damning 456-page report: the bullying and harassment in commonwealth parliamentary workplaces is truly at rock bottom
Australian Parliament: hold my beer
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Powerful testimonials in the Independent Review of Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces capture the frustrations, defeat, fear and strength of the people who work in Canberra. On the gender imbalance and treatment of women, the culture and what leads to it is starkly laid out
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You cannot strip the gendered power imbalance from the so-called solo sex acts exposed in Parliament House. Not one female staffer would ever feel entitled and empowered enough by the workplace culture to exercise “performative relief” or “kinky” sex in the boss’ office.
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#BREAKING
Australian chemists will limit sale of script medicines to one months supply, and some over the counter medicines including ventolin to one unit per purchase. This is NOT because of a shortage, it is to stop people panic buying for no reason
@dailytelegraph
#coronavirus
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It’s actually my first ever
#MardiGras2020
and honestly Australia I love you 💕💕💕 but especially these folk who were there in 1978 💗
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#BREAKING
The Australian Technical Advisory Group (ATAGI) will meet on Monday afternoon to reconsider the previous advice recommending the AstraZeneca vaccine was only preferred for people aged 60 and over. Changing risk profile of contracting Covid-19 the trigger
@dailytelegraph
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#BREAKING
National Cabinet has made new rules only TWO people now allowed to gather in public
@dailytelegraph
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Bondi Beach closed after thousands of people descended on the beach for a second day, defying social distancing rules aimed at slowing
#coronavirus
spread. This is why we can’t have nice things 🤷♀️
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From Tassie to Tokyo! What a race! Reaction from Ariarne Titmus’ coach Dean Boxall says it all 😆
#Olympics
#AriarneTitmus
#gold
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Outside the smoke is so thick it makes your eyes sting, inside Parliament House staff wear masks because polluted air is pouring in. It’s physically difficult to work in the building, wonder how pollies would cope if there was a sitting week right now..
#AustraliaFires
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- More female parliamentarians (63%) have
experienced sexual harassment, compared with
male parliamentarians (24%) and the national
average for women (39%).
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Today’s
@dailytelegraph
has 15 pages featuring the everyday heroes of the Greater Sydney lockdown like health, childcare and charity workers. As well as messages from community leaders in Arabic, Mandarin, Hindi and more
#sydneystrong
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Completely floored by the replies to this, demanding female journalists call out the behaviour on display in Parliament right now. What the heck TV have you been watching this past month/forever?! It’s. All. We. Do. Every. Day.
Not a female journalist in that press conference who didn’t walk out shaking/enraged/exhausted. Enough. Is. Enough.
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#BREAKING
The Commonwealth Health Department has published the vaccination data for the week ending March 7. Apparently this is the format Premiers at National Cabinet agreed to: a kitsch weekly PDF with no context to the data (such as % administered vs allocated). What a joke.
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#EXCLUSIVE
Disgraced former Wagga Wagga MP Daryl Maguire raised concerns about 457 visa changes with DPM Michael McCormack in December 2017. The inquiry was passed onto then-Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, who returned a standard departmental response.
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I spoke to drivers who work for Transport for NSW, which looks after the passengers, last week and they confirmed they had never seen the private drivers undertake the same stringent measures (N95 masks, constant deep cleaning of vehicles, not handling passengers' luggage)
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Foreign Minister Marise Payne has confirmed ABC journalist Bill Birtles and the AFR's Mike Smith, who were forced to leave China after police demanded interviews with them, have arrived home safely amid an escalating diplomatic row.
@dailytelegraph
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The website to sign up for info about show (starting in just under 2 years) has crashed already 😂😳
#HamiltonAustralia
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Happy Gravy Day
Dr Paul Kelly has been officially selected as Australia’s Chief Medical Officer after months of acting in the role
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Importantly, it's not the GPs who are behind, they're administering everything they can get their hands on! The Commonwealth is behind in aged/disability and there are clearly ongoing early delivery issues is at the state level for frontline workers in Phase 1A
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With Tasmania's borders now closed until at least Dec 1 and Queensland closed until no community transmission in NSW, I'm looking at almost a year without being able to see my parents, grandparents or siblings despite living in the ACT where there's zero transmission
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#NEW
NSW Health authorities confirm they arranged for a pregnant Ballina woman who later lost her child to travel to Sydney instead of their "preferred" option in Brisbane due to border restrictions.
@dailytelegraph
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Mental health PSA re: news of a historic rape allegation against a Cabinet Minister.. Bombarding the nearest press gallery journo you know demanding background details is not the most sensitive approach given much of the trauma in our workplace at the moment so please be careful
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Chief Medical Officer Prof Brendan Murphy says latest on
#coronavirus
in Australia is 6289 cases, 57 deaths, about 80 people in ICU and of those 36 are on ventilators. Says it’s not a time to become “complacent” but there’s “no place in the world I’d rather be than Aus”
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#BREAKING
as promised Lt Gen Frewen has published full expected allocation of AZ and Pfizer doses for rest of year, broken down by state and territory, and GP clinics. Figures for NSW as per below.
@dailytelegraph
Full doc here:
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Wow. Thanks so much
@nrpc_au
! Has been an immense privilege trekking around rural Australia covering the drought for the
@dailytelegraph
bringing the bush to city readers.
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- Women experienced sexual harassment
at a higher rate (40%) compared with men (26%).
- Women experienced bullying at a
higher rate (42%), compared with men (32%).
- Women experienced both bullying and sexual
harassment at a higher rate (24%) compared
with men (14%)
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The lack of nuance in the “whack a mole” analogy is staggering. A strategy of suppression is all about proportionate responses to the risk to track & contain outbreaks efficiently. Proud of my Syd friends voluntarily restricting their movements, wearing masks etc this weekend 💪🏻
Western Australian Premier
@MarkMcGowanMP
has criticised the Berejiklian government’s handling of the coronavirus cluster in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, saying they need to stop “playing whack-a-mole”.
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#EXCLUSIVE
Every employee at the Strathfield Council was last week ordered to download the COVIDSafe app onto their supplied work device, which is in contradiction to a determination under the Biosecurity Act.
@dailytelegraph
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#LATEST
Victoria and NSW both moving to shut down non essential services (banks, pharmacies, supermarkets etc to remain open) over next 48hrs. Premiers Berejiklian and Andrews have both officially confirmed just hours before National Cabinet due to sit
#coronavirus
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PM Scott Morrison takes first four questions from female journalists. That has never happened in a presser at any point in the last month since Brittany Higgins sparked this cultural reckoning, or before that as I can recall. And damn the questions are good 🔥
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has demanded Queensland explain why a pregnant mum who lost her unborn child felt forced to travel to Sydney for medical care instead of seeking an exemption to cross the border.
@dailytelegraph
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“Doing the right thing” is how we slow the spread of the
#coronavirus
and save lives, says PM. “Not all states in same position” but despite that will seek to move together where they can to ensure consistency in rules across Aus
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Incase you’re under the illusion being a journo is glamorous. Here’s my
@tsv_bulletin
colleague
@SamBidey
crossing live to Sydney
@2GB873
at 1am to give a
#Townsvilleflood
update. And yep that’s a swag on the ground - he’s crashing at my place because his own house is under water
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Chinese official Zhao Lijian posts “repugnant” fake Australian soldier photo via
@dailytelegraph
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#BREAKING
PM says children should go to school tomorrow, that is the official health advice. HOWEVER parents will be able to keep their kids home if they choose to
@dailytelegraph
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Premier Gladys Berejiklian reveals former NSW premier Barry O'Farrell - who resigned over a bottle of wine - contacted her today to tell her "stay in your job".
@dailytelegraph
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Hazzard: "You cannot legislate for stupidity." Says the changes to public health order have now put in "black and white" law the requirements, which are enforceable by police. Limo driver considered index case for Bondi cluster can't be charged though as it pre-dates changes.
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For comparison, this was what was published for the previous week (before Friday's National Cabinet)... it's called transparency. The Australian public deserve to know when governments are failing to administer their full allocation of vaccines given how limited supply is.
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#EXCLUSIVE
Only one in 15 nursing homes in NSW have had an “unannounced” visit by aged care regulators since the coronavirus pandemic began with specific PPE spot checks starting just this month.
@dailytelegraph
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#BREAKING
PM Morrison says National Cabinet will now meet next Friday (May 8) to decide relaxing of
#Coronavirus
restrictions.. a week earlier than the original 1 month deadline that had been set
@dailytelegraph
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NSW Police stop fake NSW Liberal float at
#MardiGras2020
who started protesting with sign “turn back the float, wreck their endeavour”
#auspol
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Briefly schools stay open because:
1. Coronavirus impacts children very differently, not same as adult effects, still safe for kids
2. Whatever we do we have to do for 6 months, would have a severe impact on jobs, specifically a 30% impact on availability of health workers
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How good is science. Both vaccines offer "very high" protection against Covid-19 over time. With Pfizer dropping off an enormously effective base slightly, and AstraZeneca maintaining its high efficacy. We love to see it
"The AstraZeneca jab, thought initially less effective, offers the same high protection as the Pfizer after four to five months. Over time, Pfizer's effectiveness dropped while the AstraZeneca's remained largely the same."
#Covid19Au
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#BREAKING
PM Scott Morrison says National Cabinet has agreed to keep all current baseline restrictions as they are for next 4 weeks. States who have opted to enforce measures differently (I.e some making gatherings of 2 people “advice” vs “law”) may make some changes in that time
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#NEW
ATAGI has ruled children with underlying health conditions and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 12 and above will be able to get the Pfizer vaccine, which the TGA approved for this younger age group last month.
@dailytelegraph
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Health Minister Greg Hunt says latest official
#coronavirus
stats for Australia is 6068 confirmed cases and 51 deaths. About 260 people in hospital, 82 of these in ICU including 35 on ventilators. The hospitalisation/ serious case numbers have dropped since earlier “peak”
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This kid dancing with
@CloverMoore
is excellent. Would kill for half that amount of confidence (and effortless dance moves)
#MardiGras2020
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As 'shut the schools' continues to trend in Australia, it's important to listen to comedians and not the medical specialists, doctors, infectious disease experts, public health officials and scientists unanimously advising the PM and premiers to keep schools open
Can someone tell ScoMo WE KNOW kids going to school won’t harm THEIR health. It’s about stopping the spread. How does he not get this? Who is advising him? Unbelievable. COVID19Aus
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Greater Sydney, Wollongong, Central Coast and Blue Mountains to lockdown from 6pm today until July 9. Allowed to leave for essential goods and services, essential work health care, to get a vaccine, shops will be open, no curfew, and can exercise outside in groups of 10.
#covid19
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Hunt says there are more than 500 cases of
#coronavirus
in Australia where the source of the infection has never been found. It’s this type of case, when a person is unknowingly infected in close proximity to someone on public transport or elsewhere, that the app will help trace
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Liberal MP
@NicolleFlint
has revealed she has “tried hard not to cry” during speeches and has been struggling to cope with the torrent of online abuse in the past 48 hours, including one person calling her a “ruling class sl*t”.
via
@dailytelegraph
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