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Welch fined $20,000, with half suspended, for COVID-19 breach
By Roy Ward
Melbourne Storm prop Christian Welch has been fined $20,000 with half of it suspended for breaching the NRL’s biosecurity protocols.
Welch brought an unregistered guest into the Storm’s residences at a Sunshine Coast resort on Thursday night which is not allowed under the NRL’s COVID-19 protocols designed to avoid any chance of a player contracting the virus.
Welch will not play against Wests Tigers on the Sunshine Coast on Saturday but after passing two COVID-19 tests will be allowed back into the Storm’s bubble.
This will allow him to keep training with the side and stake his claim to earn a recall to the side for next week’s final round or the subsequent NRL finals series.
Laneways set to light city's path to reopening and recovery
By Rachel Eddie
Forty laneways will be flooded with light, music and art installations to help revitalise the CBD this summer as part of a COVID-19 recovery plan to keep artists in work and lure people back to the city.
The six-month project, covering the CBD, North Melbourne and Carlton, will employ at least 150 people and kick off once it's safe and allowable under lockdown restrictions.
Westwood Place in the CBD will get a light installation as part of the project. A rendering of the design is pictured on the right.Credit:Simon Schluter/ Ogilvy Australia and Vandal
The initial project will involve a tube lighting installation at Westwood Place in the CBD, alongside the Salvation Army's Bourke Street headquarters, by Ogilvy Australia and Sydney art studio Vandal.
But there will be a call out for Victorian artists, including designers, music producers, light specialists, production designers, technicians and maintenance workers, to contribute future works.
Simple form made big difference for Queensland easing border restrictions
By Stuart Layt
Offering a simple form to passengers at Canberra Airport is all it took for Queensland to open its border with the national capital, the Premier has revealed.
Last week, the Queensland government defended declaring the ACT a COVID-19 hotspot because it was in the "middle of NSW". Now, passengers could board a plane from Canberra to Queensland from September 25 provided they had not been in Victoria or NSW in the past 14 days.
ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr and Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.Credit:Elesa Kurtz/supplied
NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet condemned Queensland's decision to open its borders to the ACT and not his state, saying "they’re turning the Newell Highway into the Berlin Corridor”.
The step to easing Queensland's border restrictions stemmed from behind-the-scenes "diplomacy" and a simple change in procedure at Canberra Airport.
Bondi Junction house party costs hosts and attendees $28,000
By Michaela Whitbourn
A Bondi Junction house party has turned into an expensive night out after NSW Police said the occupants and 24 guests would each be fined $1000 for breaching coronavirus restrictions.
Under recent changes to public health orders in NSW, attendees of a gathering exceeding the current 20-person limit may each be fined $1000, in addition to the host.
NSW Police said on Saturday that "officers from Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command were called to a home on Oxford Street, near York Road, Bondi Junction, following noise complaints and reports of a party".
"After speaking with a 26-year-old man, it was established he was one of four occupants and there were 24 guests inside, which exceeded the allowable 20-person limit for private gatherings."
Police said 28 penalty infringement notices would be issued over the unlawful gathering.
Opinion: Cowardice: what Morrison and Albanese have in common on climate
By Sean Kelly
In 2009, Anthony Albanese was asked how long he’d stay in Parliament if Labor lost. "Not one day. I'm out of here." This wasn’t an admission of a dwindling devotion to politics. Eleven years later, Albanese leads his party. It was a reflection of Albanese’s recognition of the power that being in government gives you.
And, he said, there was no point in power for its own sake: “The first thing about power is that you've got to use it.” This reminded the journalist Laurie Oakes, from whose column I’m quoting, of an old piece of Labor wisdom: “You get power by exercising it.”
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
We all learned that lesson watching Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister. Time after time, he refused to exercise the power he had. And, sure enough, power slipped away from him, in increments that accumulated over a few short years into the loss of his entire prime ministership. Politics can be disturbingly simplistic and prejudiced. Turnbull was verbose, urbane, wealthy and handsome: weakness could be made easily to fit.
The current Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader are very different men. They speak clearly, and conform to more traditional modes of Australian masculinity. “Weak” is not a word that conveniently matches either Scott Morrison or Anthony Albanese. Yet each, this week, shied away from using his authority, at a time of urgency for our nation.
21 new cases in Victoria is lowest daily total since June 24
By Liam Mannix
The last time Victoria recorded a lower number of new daily infections was on June 24, when the state recorded just 20 infections.
That was the beginning of Victoria's second wave; just a week later, the state would record 75 infections.
Victoria reports 21 new cases, seven deaths today
By Liam Mannix
Victoria has recorded just 21 new COVID-19 infections over the last 24 hours, a new low. Seven people have died from the virus, bringing Victoria's death toll to 757.
It is the state's lowest daily total since June.
The cases, which include a significant cluster in the city of Casey, bring Metro Melbourne's 14-day rolling average to 39.3, down from 42.7 yesterday.
Meanwhile, three people with links to the Casey cluster are now in hospital.
Six months in, we owe it to ourselves to face some challenging truths
By Shaun Carney
The future is just about here and it’s not all that wonderful. It can be hard to recall now, given the woozy, wild ride we’ve been on since autumn, but back in March when the first serious wave of restrictions on our lives were imposed, there was still a sense of optimism around.
Unless and until a safe, effective and long-lasting vaccine is developed, manufactured, distributed and given to a very large proportion of the population, our society and economy are going to remain restricted and diminished.Credit:Bloomberg
Many of us budgeted mentally and financially for a difficult six months once the global COVID-19 pandemic was declared. After that, it was thought that the worst might be over. The federal government built that time frame into its key support measures, notably JobKeeper and JobSeeker. Some over-enthusiastic reports suggested that a vaccine could be developed by September.
Donald Trump has been widely ridiculed for his prediction from around that time that one day the novel coronavirus would just disappear. But deep down, didn’t a lot of us want to believe that he might be right? There’s always been the hope that sooner rather than later the wave of a magic wand by some unseen hand would deliver us from this awful reality – our separation from the sufferers, the fear that the virus was everywhere and everyone else was a carrier, the economic damage.
But here we are at the six-month mark, almost into the final quarter of the year, and the expectation that we could start to meaningfully put the pandemic behind us has been exposed as an understandable bout of wishful thinking.
Victorian government seeking retired police to enforce COVID-19 rules
By Liam Mannix
The Victorian government is recruiting retired police officers to enforce compliance with coronavirus rules.
The Department of Health and Human Services says it is recruiting to fill the ranks of 'authorised officers', people empowered to carry out compliance and enforcement operations for the department.
AOs, as they are known, are not police officers, but do have the power to conduct patrols, inspections and intelligence operations.
The department has reached out to Police Veterans Support Australia to bring retired police officers back into the fold, the Herald Sun has reported.
Despite not being sworn police officers, a bill currently before parliament would give them the ability to detain high-risk coronavirus spreaders.
"We will be recruiting more AOs to ensure we have adequate support across all the streams where they are working including, industry enforcement, testing, doorknocking and the airport," a department spokesman said.
"A key component of this role is undertaking compliance and enforcement work and former police officers are considered ideal candidates because of their enforcement history."
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