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Watch live: Queensland’s COVID-19 update
By Broede Carmody
Queensland’s Health Minister Yvette D’Ath and the state’s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeanette Young are due to address the media shortly.
It comes after a woman drove from Victoria to Queensland and later tested positive to coronavirus. Watch the full press conference live below.
Victoria records four new cases of COVID-19
By Broede Carmody
Victoria’s daily coronavirus numbers are in.
The state recorded four new cases of COVID-19 in the community and zero cases in hotel quarantine yesterday. That’s off the back of 23,679 test results.
The state’s health department says the four new cases are from the same household. Greater Melbourne is due to come out of lockdown, with some restrictions still in place, from 11.59pm tonight.
Tamil family’s detention ‘not a case of being mean’: Andrews
By Broede Carmody
Earlier this morning, we brought you the news that some Liberal MPs are pushing for the Tamil asylum-seeker family being held on Christmas Island to be allowed to return to the Australian mainland. Those revelations are courtesy of my colleague David Crowe.
But speaking on Sunrise earlier this morning, Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews appeared to dash those plans.
Minister for Home Affairs Karen Andrews. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
“I actually haven’t said that I’m investigating resettlement options for that family,” she said. “What I did say is that I was looking at investigating resettlement options in a range of circumstances.
“It’s not a case of being mean. We are very strong as a government and our policy in relation to border protection. Quite frankly, I am not going to have people dying trying to come to Australia by sea on my watch. I am not going to open the gates to the people smugglers.”
The family’s youngest daughter, who is in Perth with her mother for medical treatment, was born in Australia.
We’ll be sure to bring you the latest on this story as more comes to hand.
Watch live: NSW Treasurer addresses the media
By Broede Carmody
NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet is set to make a palliative care funding announcement. We’re also expecting the state to provide a COVID-19 update.
You can watch the full press conference live below.
The aftermath of Melbourne’s wild winds
By Broede Carmody
Photographers from The Age have been out and about this morning documenting Victoria’s wild weather.
Here’s a tree blocking the Mount Dandenong tourist road in Ferny Creek, east of Melbourne, courtesy of Joe Armao.
Storms have caused widespread damage across Victoria. Credit:Joe Armao
For more, here’s David Estcourt’s story.
New COVID-19 exposure sites in Melbourne’s north
By David Estcourt
The number of official COVID-19 exposure sites in Victoria remained below 200 overnight after health authorities added 22 new exposure windows at the Arcare Maidstone aged care facility and four new areas of concern in Melbourne’s north.
All of the exposure windows at Arcare Maidstone are linked to the facility’s Magnolia Unit and the communal facilities area. Several recent cases have been linked to the site, with residents, staff members and close contacts testing positive.
Meanwhile a BP and Bunnings in Thomastown, a Coles in Bundoora and an independent grocery in Reservoir are among the newest Victorian exposure sites.
View the full list below.
Regional NSW blanketed with snow
By Broede Carmody
Speaking of the wild weather in Victoria, parts of regional NSW have been blasted with icy temperatures.
Here’s the aftermath from a contributor in Orange. It was -0.3 degrees at the town’s airport at 5am this morning, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
Snow blankets Orange in regional NSW. Credit:Kristy Mansell
Russia outlaws organisations with ties to opposition leader Alexei Navalny
By Broede Carmody
In case you missed it, Russia has banned the organisations founded by the country’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
It’s a blow to Navalny’s pro-democracy party and his supporters, who are hoping to run for parliamentary seats later this year. Anyone associated with the politician’s Anti-Corruption Foundation could now face lengthy prison terms – even if they simply share materials.
In St Petersburg, workers paint over graffiti of Navalny described as the “hero of our time”.Credit:AP
Navalny was arrested earlier this year after he returned to Russia after months spent in Germany recovering from nerve agent poisoning.
Read our latest coverage here.
Fallen trees, thousands without power across Victoria
By David Estcourt
Meanwhile wild winds have brought down trees and power lines across Victoria, leaving thousands without power, people trapped inside their homes and some towns completely cut off.
Police received hundreds of calls reporting fallen trees blocking roads overnight, particularly from residents near the Yarra Ranges and Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne.
Read the full story here. And if you have been affected by Victoria’s wild weather, please let us know.
‘We’re so angry’: Regional mayor slams woman who drove from Melbourne to Queensland
By Broede Carmody
The Mayor of Moree in north-west NSW, Katrina Humphries, has slammed the woman who drove from Melbourne to Queensland despite the southern city being in lockdown.
A reminder that there are several exposure sites across NSW given the woman in question drove through the state in order to get to Queensland. Four exposure sites are in Moree alone: including the Amaroo Tavern, a cafe, Woolworths and a motel.
Communities along the Newell Highway are on high alert.
“I’m glad you reminded me it is breakfast TV because I couldn’t say what I [actually think],” Ms Humphries said on the Today show just now.
“This is disgraceful. This is absolutely what we feared for 16 months. That you get irresponsible people thinking they can write their own rulebook.
“We’re not resourced like the cities are. We don’t have instant pop-up testing zones and things like that. We have to set them all up, bring in people. So it’s an absolute dog’s breakfast and we’re so angry.”
Ms Humphries added that a potential outbreak was the last thing her community needed because residents had recently endured devastating floods.
“People are really, really nervous,” she said. “They are apprehensive. But Moree, we are a tough community.”
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