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Victorian Health Minister Jenny Mikakos has announced her resignation from the role.
She says she can no longer serve in the cabinet and she will also be resigning from parliament.
A couple sitting in a car at a Casey reserve playing Pokemon Go were among those fined by police for contravening stay-at-home directions yesterday.
The man and woman were caught playing the mobile game more than five kilometres from their home, alongside another man who did not live with them.
Victoria Police gave out 82 fines over 24 hours, up to 9am on Saturday, to those breaching the Chief Health Officer’s COVID-19 directions.
Eight people were fined for not wearing a face covering outside, and 26 people were fined for breaching curfew.
There were 19,454 vehicles stopped at checkpoints, with 10 people fined at the roadblocks.
A spokeswoman for Victoria Police said a male driver was stopped in the Mornington Peninsula during the early hours of Saturday and fined, after he told officers he was “out and about looking for his phone which he had dropped earlier”.
The Reserve Bank is unlikely to achieve its inflation target for at least half a decade, with leading economists predicting prolonged low interest rates could lead to households taking on risky levels of debt and overheating the stock market.
The bank aims to keep inflation in the range of 2 per cent to 3 per cent over time in order to help price stability and reach full employment but RBA deputy governor Guy Debelle said this week it could take three years to reach this target. Former prime minister Paul Keating has savaged the central bank, saying it had taken too long to help the government and "one would need a microscope" to find inflation.
Deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia Guy Debelle expects it will take three years to get inflation back on track but a panel of economists suspect it will take even longer.Credit:Louie Douvis
Now, top Australian economists from major banks, universities and research facilities surveyed for The Sydney Morning Herald/The Age 2020 Scope survey have warned it will take more than five years to reach the target range.
ANZ head of Australian economics David Plank did not expect the RBA to achieve its targets for three years or more. "It will most likely be some time after that horizon before both are achieved."
Victoria has recorded 12 new coronavirus cases as Melburnians await Sunday's announcement detailing which restrictions which will be eased.
Sadly, another Victorian has lost their life to the virus.
Premier Daniel Andrews has flagged that more restrictions will be eased from Monday than originally outlined as the state's case numbers were dropping "ahead of schedule".
Victoria has recorded 12 new cases and one death in the 24 hours to Saturday morning.
The all-important 14-day rolling average for Metro Melbourne is now at 23.6.
My daughter and I dropped in to the local pub the other night.
Sitting out on the balcony, the evening sliding across the harbour beneath a lavender sky, I had a beer. Every cold bubble sprang on my tongue as if it were the first.
I do not relate this to make locked-down Melbourne readers envious, but to point out that small pleasures have become significant in ways that once, before the virus, wouldn’t have rated a passing mention.
Canola in a field in western Victoria this week.Credit:Tony Wright
We feel privileged, out here in the regions, to know that having beaten down the numbers, all of a sudden we can do things like drop in to a pub, even if numbers are limited to 10 people per room.
Only a bit over a week ago I experienced an unanticipated cheerfulness to see locals sitting outside a favoured cafe, sipping coffee and nibbling cake, where for months they had shuffled in masked lines for takeaway.
Freed from the long edict that there were but four reasons to leave home, I took a long motorcycle ride.
Two lawyers on an independent federal tribunal are facing questions over their impartiality for their involvement in a high-profile Liberal Party-backed legal challenge to the Andrews government's night-time curfew.
Vanessa Plain and Dr Jason Harkess, part-time members of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, are providing legal services worths tens of thousands of dollars to aspiring Liberal Party MP Michelle Loielo.
Victorian Liberals Leader Michael O'Brien said his party played "match maker" between the lawyers and Ms Loielo, who is the plaintiff in the case challenging the validity of Melbourne's 9pm to 5am curfew.
Restaurant owner Michelle Loielo, plaintiff on the case against Victoria's curfew, with Victorian shadow attorney-general Edward O'Donohue.Credit:Facebook
Administrative law expert Greg Barns SC and shadow federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus have raised concerns about Ms Plain and Dr Harkess' involvement in the case, but Attorney-General Christian Porter defended the duo, which he appointed to the tribunal in December 2018.
The tribunal’s guidelines state that members “should avoid any activities, interests or associations which may undermine public confidence in the impartial performance of their Tribunal responsibilities” and that “members should conduct their private interests so as to avoid situations which would bring the AAT into disrepute”.
The required 28 days of zero community virus transmission Queensland insists NSW must achieve before reopening the border may be reset as health authorities scramble to trace the source of infection in a Sydney man.
NSW recorded four new COVID-19 cases on Friday, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 4028.
Nurses at the drive-through Castle Hill COVID-19 testing clinic.Credit:Brook Mitchell
Three of the new cases are returning overseas travellers in hotel quarantine and the fourth is a locally-acquired case - a man in his 50s from south-west Sydney, whose positive COVID-19 result was reported on Thursday.
Queensland wants NSW to record 28 days of zero cases not linked to a known source before it will reopen the border. NSW was on track to reach the target on October 6 but Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said she believes the new case in Sydney may reset the border clock to zero.
The Health Department has updated its list of COVID-19 exposure sites in Victoria.
Anyone who was on the Lilydale train between Mitcham and Ringwood on Wednesday between 12.15-2.00pm should monitor for symptoms.
Two Coles stores in Mitcham have been added to the list of sites. If you attended the store in Victoria Avenue on September 19 about 3.15pm or the store at Mitcham shopping centre on Wednesday about 2pm, you may be at risk.
Earlier today, health authorities told people to check for symptoms if they travelled on the 907 bus route to/from Mitcham on September 19 between 3-3.30pm or on 23 September between 12-2.30pm.
Geneva/Zurich: The global death toll from COVID-19 could double to 2 million before a successful vaccine is widely used and could be even higher without concerted action to curb the pandemic, an official at the World Health Organisation said.
"Unless we do it all, (2 million deaths) ... is not only imaginable, but sadly very likely," Mike Ryan, head of the UN agency's emergencies program, told a briefing on Friday (Saturday AEST).
Healthcare workers line up for free personal protective equipment in Miami.Credit:AP
The number of deaths about nine months since the novel coronavirus was discovered in China is nearing 1 million
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