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‘We have had our state open for months’: NSW Health Minister’s Queensland border pitch
By Josh Dye
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said Victoria was “obviously not” doing better than NSW after the Queensland Treasurer hinted on Thursday that Victorians could be allowed into Queensland before Sydneysiders.
“The federal government and Victorians have publicly said we lead the country in terms of how we’ve managed this,” Mr Hazzard told radio station 2GB.
“We’ve had 88,000 people go through our hotel quarantine here in Sydney and 10 per cent of those, nearly 8000, have been Queenslanders we’ve looked after and sent back safe and sound.
Mr Hazzard said NSW had “struck a balance” by managing the pandemic without mass lockdowns.
“The bottom line here is we have actually had our state open for months. Our economy is leading the rest of Australia in terms of opening up and creating more jobs.”
Prime Minister to visit Japan, PNG next week then quarantine, attend parliament via video link
By Roy Ward
Prime Minister Scott Morrison will travel overseas next week then quarantine for two weeks which will see him attend Question Time via videolink.
Mr Morrison will visit Japan and Papua New Guinea next week with his Japanese visit the first from a foreign leader since new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga took office in September.
"Our relationship with Japan over the past few years has really gone from strength to strength," Mr Morrison said.
"They are an important partner on so many issues within our region. We are special strategic partners, with work closely together on trade, security and defence."
Mr Morrison said his Question Time appearance via videolink would be a first for a sitting Prime Minister but he was looking forward to the trip.
Mr Morrison also reported on his phone call with US President-elect Joe Biden who also reportedly spoke with two other leading Asian leaders earlier today in Mr Suga and Republic of Korea President Moon Jae-in.
Morrison and Biden speak about COVID-19 and emissions in first call
By David Crowe
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and United States President-elect Joe Biden have spoken about how Australia tackled the COVID-19 pandemic and also the importance of carbon emissions reduction technology.
Amid doubts over the transfer of power from President Donald Trump, Mr Morrison and Mr Biden had a phone call on Thursday morning where they discussed the US-Australia alliance and defence ties.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison: "There are no greater friends and no greater allies than Australia and the US."
Mr Morrison cited the defence relationship between Australia and the US and the anniversary of the ANZUS Treaty next year as reasons for confidence about the strength of the ties between the two countries.
"The President-elect was very interested in Australia's success here and what Australia could contribute from our lessons and ... the way that we have managed the COVID-19 pandemic, and the economic dimensions of that as well," Mr Morrison told reporters.
Joe Biden selects long-time aide Ron Klain as chief of staff
Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden has selected long-time aide Ron Klain, who played a leading role during the economic and public health crises of the Obama administration, as his White House chief of staff, according to two people familiar with the decision.
Biden offered Klain the top job this week and he has accepted, the people said.
Klain will manage the incoming White House through a pandemic that is surging across the country, once again filling hospital beds and threatening the economy.
Biden has said bringing the coronavirus outbreak under control will be his top priority.
Ron Klain has been named Joe Biden's chief of staff. Credit: Andrew Walker/Getty Images
White House chief of staff has long been one of the most powerful jobs in Washington. The person is the gatekeeper for the president, deciding who gets to speak with him and who doesn't, and is often one of the last advisers in the room before major decisions.
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Watch: Prime Minister Scott Morrison is due to a give a press conference shortly
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is due to give a press conference at around 12.30pm AEDT.
Texas becomes first state to top one million coronavirus infections
By Farrah Tomazin
Texas has become the first US state to surpass one million coronavirus infections, with mobile morgues and makeshift hospitals being used to cope with an alarming spike in cases.
One week since the presidential election, COVID-19 continues to soar in America, with cases topping 100,000 for seven consecutive days and hospitalisations reaching all-time high across the country.
A residential neighbourhood in El Paso, Texas, the state's worst hotspot. Credit:Bloomberg
According to figures from Johns Hopkins University, Texas - the most populous US state after California - has now become the first in America to record more than 1 million known coronavirus cases.
In the border city of El Paso, the health system is so overwhelmed that tents are being set up in hospital parking lots, a convention centre has been set up as a temporary overflow hospital, and mobile morgues have been brought in to store dead bodies.
Andrews flags vaccine distribution as national cabinet topic
By Mathew Dunckley
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has flagged that the distribution of a vaccine could be on the agenda for tomorrow's national cabinet meeting.
"We were already doing a whole lot of planning work about how we will actually provide the injections of millions and millions of people to our health departments during that work," he said.
Mr Andrews said news that a vaccine with 90 per cent efficacy could be available in March was "fantastic".
He said the state's roadmap for restrictions was not predicated on the presence of a vaccine.
"The assumption has to be that it'll turn up when it turns up but we can't necessarily factor that in because nothing is certain," he said.
"It could be though in a month's time ... then we can be more certain about how many doses will be here, how effective it is, when and how long it'll take to manufacture, how long it will take to actually administer. I don't think we're quite at that point yet,"
Andrews yet to nominate a return date for office workers
By Mathew Dunckley
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews was asked when office workers might head back to their desks in the CBD and elsewhere and declined to nominate a date.
Victorians are still told to work from home if they can.
"That's very frustrating but I can't give you a date, but hopefully we'll be able to provide some further updates and, hopefully, a sense of a time, perhaps, when we might have an answer on the 22nd," he said.
"We're well on track to be able to make all those changes we foreshadowed very recently on the 22nd, and hopefully talk a little bit more about what the rest of November, and what the run up to that over normal Christmas looks like and if we can, with any certainty speak about 2021.
"We'll just have to see how things go. The most important thing here is that we've got to have, as we've always done, enough data so that we've got the most complete picture, and that when we, when we make assumptions."
Mr Andrews said the two-week spacing of restriction windbacks was linked to the life cycle of the virus.
"Even 13 days of zero cases is not the same as a vaccine. This thing we're assuming is lurking out there, smouldering if you will, and we need to make sure that we're vigilant," he said.
Government's youth hiring subsidy passes after One Nation backflip
By Katina Curtis
A key plank of the government's plans to recover from the recession has passed but not without a parliamentary fight as One Nation backflipped on protections for the jobs of older workers.
Senate amendments to the JobMaker scheme that pays employers who hire new staff aged under 35 years were added to the bill on Tuesday with the backing of Labor, the Greens, One Nation and independent senators Jacqui Lambie and Rex Patrick. But they were rejected in the lower house on Wednesday morning before One Nation's Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts helped the government dump them in the Senate.
Senator Pauline Hanson backflipped on amendments to the JobMaker scheme to help the government pass the legislation.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
The $4 billion program applies to new hires made from the day after the budget, October 7, and over the next year, although payments won't be made until February.
Under the plan, employers would receive $200 a week if they hire someone aged between 16 and 29, and $100 a week for those aged 30 to 35. The new employees must be additional to the existing staff numbers and the total payroll must increase.
But Labor argues it would allow businesses to sack people aged over 35 and take on two younger workers in their place.
Mental health boost will benefit tens of thousands of people: Andrews
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said the changes would benefit tens of thousands of people.
He said improving the system would benefit not only individuals with mental health issues but their families and employers and society more broadly.
"When the system is designed to only really be there when someone's in absolute crisis that's not a good system," he said.
Mr Andrews said changes to the system would draw heavily on the input from people who have lived experience of it.
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