Treasury officials say more than $100 billion has already been spent supporting Australians through the coronavirus pandemic.
Deputy Treasury Secretary Jenny Wilkinson told the Senate inquiry into the COVID-19 response the Government had committed tens of billions of dollars more.
Follow today's events as they unfold.
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By Nicholas McElroy
State leaders 'not children for Canberra to boss around', WA Premier says
WA Premier Mark McGowan says state and territory leaders "are not children for [Canberra] to boss around", as his row with the Prime Minister over plans to increase the number of returning travellers deepens.
By Rhiannon Shine
By Jessica Riga
Are masks required when dining in at a restaurant in regional Victoria?
Are masks required when dinning in at a cafe or restaurant or out for a picnic in regional vic?-Shaun
Hi Shaun,
The Victorian DHHS states that consuming food, drink or medication is a lawful exception for not wearing a face covering across the whole of Victoria.
Lawful excuses or exceptions for not wearing a face covering
A face covering is not required in some circumstances including:
- When consuming food, drink or medication, including when seated at a restaurant where permitted
By Nicholas McElroy
One new case recorded in Western Australia
From WA Health:
The Department of Health has reported one new case of COVID-19 in Western Australia overnight.
The confirmed case - a man in his 60s - returned to Perth from overseas and is in hotel quarantine.
The State's total now stands at 661. There are four active cases being monitored.
To date, 648 confirmed cases have recovered from the virus in WA.
By Nicholas McElroy
By Jessica Riga
Regional Victorians are out and about enjoying their first day of eased restrictions
ABC Ballarat reporter Emilia Terzon has been busy filming at cafes and beauty salons where the general atmosphere has been one of relief and celebration.
Chantal Appleton lives alone and has been missing talking to friends. She spent her first morning of freedom at the beauty parlour.
"It's good to get my eyebows done. It's good to be back!" she said.
Meanwhile, a groups of mates who hadn't seen eachother in months had a sit-down coffee - without takeaway cups or the kids.
"It's nice to get out," said Kim Lee.
"I'm dying to get back to the gym."
Gyms won't be returning for inside lessons for some time in regional Victoria - but small outdoor bootcamps are back on.
By Jessica Riga
Can I travel through Melbourne to go to another regional area?
This blog is fantastic - thanks for all your work keeping us informed. Do we have any update on whether regional Victorians can travel through Melbourne to go to another region?
-Central Victorian
Yes you can. The Victorian DHHS said:
Regional Victorians are permitted to transit through metropolitan Melbourne en route to their destination.
However, travellers should be aware that stricter restrictions apply in the metropolitan area - they should not make unnecessary stops and ensure their activities are safe and appropriate.
By Jessica Riga
Good afternoon
Hi there! I'm Jess and I'll be joining Nic on the blog this afternoon. Keep sending in your questions and we'll try to answer as many as we can between updates.
By Nicholas McElroy
On the Mornington Peninsula
Any more on mornington peninsula?-Peninsula wondering
Dan Andrews mentioned 2 days ago that he would talk further and come back to us re: the Mornington Peninsula. Has he done this yet???-JASON S
Hey is there any news on what Dan was going to "say about the Mornington Peninsula" yesterday??-MP Resident
Premier Daniel Andrews said the the area would not be opening up any earlier than the rest of Melbourne.
This is what he was asked:
Reporter:
In terms of the Mornington Peninsula, is there any hope that they can be moved along a little bit faster than the rest of Metropolitan Melbourne?
Daniel Andrews:
We're not doing suburb or postcode specific local government specific at time.
I want to be very clear, we have the local member down there, he is a constant advocate making sure that that checkpoint is as active as possible and I think the Victoria Police went directly to this yesterday.
Obviously with school holidays coming up and better weather, it is a beautiful part of our state, one that I have spent much time and over many years and they can understand why people want to go down there in the school holidays or for a day trip and the notion of sneaking down there to stay at a second residence, at this time that is just not on.
By Nicholas McElroy
By Nicholas McElroy
Queensland man charged over alleged threats to kill Premier, CHO
A Gold Coast man has been charged over threats to kill the Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and the Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young.
Police searched a home at Nerang last night and arrested and charged a 43-year-old man.
He's been charged with one count of "Using a Carriage Service to Make a Threat to Kill" and is due to appear in the Southport Magistrates court next month.
Earlier this week it was revealed that the Chief Health Officer, Dr Jeannette Young, has had a police guard at her house after concerns for her safety.
By Nicholas McElroy
Australian coronavirus spending tops $100 billion
Treasury officials say more than $100 billion has been spent supporting Australians through the coronavirus pandemic to date.
The spending was already locked in, and Deputy Treasury Secretary Jenny Wilkinson told the Senate's inquiry into the COVID-19 response the Government had committed tens of billions of dollars more.
"A bit over $100 billion has gone out in direct support measures," she said.
"$100 billion has gone out, the total amount of economic support in terms of spending is $179 billion that's been committed."
She said the coronavirus supplement, which increases the JobSeeker rate, and JobKeeper made up the majority of that spending.
"As of the 11th of September, $12.3 billion has been spend on the coronavirus supplement and as of the 14th of September, $54.79 billion has been paid out in JobKeeper payments," she said.By Nicholas McElroy
The Victorian daily press conference with Premier Daniel Andrews has finished
By Nicholas McElroy
Unemployment rate falls as 111,000 jobs added in August, despite Melbourne lockdown
By business reporters Michael Janda and Rachel Pupazzoni
By Nicholas McElroy
You can continue listening to the Victorian press conference here
By Nicholas McElroy
'Very small handful' of overseas travellers returning to Melbourne
Reporter:
Can we just clarify, there's no return travellers from overseas currently coming into Melbourne?
Daniel Andrews:
There will be a very small handful that may have transitioned through another city and on the basis of compassionate grounds, they may be here doing some further quarantine, even though the plane didn't land here, and I think you always want to have a situation where, for instance, if there was a relative who was dying or, those sorts of compassionate grounds, there is, I think, a small number of those people.
By Nicholas McElroy
'Police aren't mucking about' on Regional Victoria
Premier Daniel Andrews said people leaving Melbourne to Regional Victoria without a lawful reason face tough fines.
"The new fine is nearly $5,000, the police are not mucking about," he said.
"If you are from Melbourne and you are in Regional Victoria and did not have an appropriate excuse, you will be fined.
"Victorians have given a lot but we need to guard the low numbers in regional Victoria.
"One of the way we are doing is just not having people make unlawful and unnecessary trips into regional Victoria because all that potentially does is spread this virus and put at risk of the opening up and the different position that regional Victoria is in.
"The more this spreads, the further away, the further away opening up will be."
By Nicholas McElroy
Five new cases recorded in NSW
Health authorities in NSW have confirmed five new coronavirus infections in the 24 hours to 8:00pm yesterday.
Two of them are returned travellers in hotel quarantine.
Two are locally acquired and linked to known cases or clusters, including one at Concord Hospital.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the other infection was someone in a border community and "could be a false positive".
"The second test they had was negative so that's still being evaluated," she said.
More than 20,000 tests were completed in the reporting period.
Ms Berejiklian also said social-distancing restrictions on stadiums in NSW would be relaxed.
Stadiums will now be permitted to have crowds at 50 per cent capacity for major events, up from 25 per cent.
She said people would "be expected" to wear masks while going to and from their seats.
By Nicholas McElroy
Hard data trumps modelling: Andrews
Reporter:
The modelling that was released on 17 September, had the average cases for Melbourne at 63. [Melbourne is now] much lower than that. Are you going to do new modelling and set new timelines given we are ahead?
Daniel Andrews:
I've said a number of times that actualities always beat assumptions, data trumps any model, however robust.
Any experts, multiple universities have had input into that model. We update it regularly. I cannot give you an exact date when we rewrite it.
Every Victorian can be assured that, the point I made yesterday, there is the notion of numbers, very important, than the notion of narrative, what story sits behind each of those cases, and then the passage of time, which I know is frustrating, but the latency of this virus means you have to wait some time because you will not know what the effect of your decisions has done.
It is a considerable period and that is the fight we are in there. If you had a quick turnaround, you would start to see the impacts in just a few days and, of course, you could compress things down but we could link that is part of the challenge we are facing.
By Nicholas McElroy
Casey cluster is of a concern, DCHO
Deputy Chief Health Officer Allen Cheng said 14 of the 28 cases are linked to known clusters.
He said the cluster "obviously of concern is in Casey and we are looking at that very closely".
He said there were five cases in Casey yesterday.
There were 941 active cases across the state.
He said "just over 900" were in Melbourne.
Professor Cheng said he did not have the exact numbers on how many of active cases are linked to aged care and healthcare workers.
But he said they would account for a high proportion of cases.
By Nicholas McElroy
Victoria announces a $26.7 million support package for early childhood education
Deputy Premier James Merino said this is aimed to help parents with the cost of fees and keep kindergarten providers open.
"This supports parents with the cost of fees, providing payments of around $500 per child," he said.
"Free sessional kindergarten, community-based, school provided kindergarten, for time for across the whole of the state.
"This is not a normal year but what we're doing this package and the wonderful work of teachers and educators, and our prep teachers and teachers at school, we are going to make sure this is a successful transition year for those kids and families."
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