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Victorians have every right to be ‘filthy’ over PM’s NSW support plan: shadow treasurer
By Cassandra Morgan
Australia’s shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers says Victorians have every right to be “filthy” after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a joint plan with the NSW government to support people unable to work because of Greater Sydney’s coronavirus lockdown.
Yesterday, Mr Morrison announced that workers in NSW will get an increase in their income support from $500 to $600 a week while business owners will be offered a cash-flow boost of up to $10,000.
Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
But the plan hasn’t been received warmly in Victoria given in May and June members of the federal government told journalists that state governments should take primary responsibility for the cost of lockdowns. At the time, the Commonwealth was worried about encouraging further lockdowns.
Speaking on the ABC’s RN Breakfast on Wednesday morning, Mr Chalmers said it’s important to recognise that the Sydney lockdown has consequences for businesses right around Australia and everyone wanted the economy to recover.
However, he urged people not to forget the bigger picture. In his view, Australia’s economic recovery is “hostage to the Prime Minister’s twin failures on vaccines and quarantine”.
“The Treasurer said last night that the economy is bleeding something like $700 million a week in lost economic activity as a consequence of these lockdowns,” Mr Chalmers said.
“We know that the Treasurer’s own budget papers assume that there will be more of these lockdowns for longer, which is a pretty stunning admission of failure when it comes to vaccines and quarantine.
“You can’t have a first-rate economic recovery with a third rate vaccine rollout, that’s very clear, we’re seeing that in Sydney at the moment.”
Claims NSW has been favoured over Victoria are ‘nonsense’: PM
By Broede Carmody
Prime Minister Scott Morrison was speaking on Seven’s Sunrise just moments ago.
He says it is “just nonsense” to say that New South Wales has been favoured over Victoria after the Commonwealth agreed to lift disaster payments for workers affected by Sydney’s current lockdown.
“The numbers don’t bear it out,” the PM said.
“The [most recent] Victoria lockdown went for two weeks. What happened in NSW is exactly what has happened in Victoria. It’s the same support provided by the Commonwealth to NSW and Victoria during the two-week period.
“We are now going into a longer lockdown [in NSW]. When Victoria needed the country last year in that long lockdown on the second wave, the Commonwealth was putting in three quarters of a billion into Victoria every week ... $13.4 billion of direct support to employers and employees in Victoria over the many months.
“In Victoria, there was more JobKeeper provided than any other state.”
Thirty new exposure sites in NSW
By Broede Carmody
More exposure sites have been listed by NSW Health overnight.
Anyone who visited the following medical centres at the times listed is considered a close contact of a coronavirus case and must immediately get tested and isolate for 14 days regardless of the result:
- Primary Health Care Medical and Dental Centre pharmacy on Rickard Street in Bankstown on Wednesday, July 7 between 7pm and 7.10pm; and
- BHC Medical Centre on Railway Parade in Lakemba on Monday, July 12 between 8.35am to 8.55am.
For the full list, visit the state health department’s official website.
Four thousand dollar fines not enough for yacht ‘morons’: Qld senator
By Broede Carmody
Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Matt Canavan, was speaking on the Today show a short while ago.
He was asked about the four people who were fined after illegally travelling from Sydney to Queensland on a 34.5-metre superyacht. The group has tested negative to COVID-19, which has authorities relieved given they attended a rugby match in Brisbane.
However, in-line with the border rules, each member of the group was slapped with a $4000 fine.
Here’s what Mr Canavan had to say about the incident:
“I think they should be paid a much bigger fine than hiring that super yacht. I’m not sure the fine would be large enough under the law for these morons. It is not just that they broke the law. They did so willingly and knowingly. This is just absolutely beyond the pale and the total law book should be thrown at them.”
‘Double standard’: Federal aid sparks clash between Victoria and PM
By David Crowe, Annika Smethurst and David Estcourt
The Victorian and federal governments are locked in a battle of recrimination and blame after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a plan to support people unable to work because of the NSW coronavirus lockdown.
After a second death and another 89 new COVID-19 cases recorded in Sydney on Tuesday, Mr Morrison announced that workers in NSW will get an increase in their income support from $500 to $600 a week while business owners will be offered a cash-flow boost of up to $10,000.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announce COVID-19 financial relief.Credit:Wolter Peeters
The support will flow to thousands of companies forced to close during the lockdowns across Greater Sydney under a package funded equally by the federal and NSW governments, testing a new model for shutdowns in other states and territories.
But the plan was not received warmly in Victoria where during the lockdown in May and June relations soured after federal government members backgrounded journalists on its view that state governments should take primary responsibility for the cost of lockdowns.
After the first week of Victoria’s lockdown, the Commonwealth funded a disaster payment of up to $500 for those who had lost work, although it had an assets test imposed which has been waived in NSW.
Read the full story here.
NSW preparing for another four weeks of lockdown
By Alexandra Smith and Lucy Cormack
The NSW government has laid the foundations for Sydney to be in lockdown for another four weeks, setting aside $4.1 billion to support businesses across the state as well as all workers who have had their hours cut.
With Premier Gladys Berejiklian poised on Wednesday to extend Sydney’s lockdown, the NSW government has announced its biggest economic support package in history as it tries to lessen the pain of the shutdown.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Premier Gladys Berejiklian and NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet announce a lockdown support package.Credit:Wolter Peeters
The total support package for NSW is $5.1 billion, which includes $1 billion from the federal government, although it does not include the Commonwealth’s income support disaster payments of up to $600 a week.
Read the full story here.
This morning’s headlines at a glance
By Broede Carmody
Good morning and welcome to our live coverage. It’s Wednesday, July 14. I’m Broede Carmody.
It’s set to be a busy day today, with all eyes on Sydney’s case numbers. Meanwhile, residents of an apartment block in Melbourne’s north-west are nervously awaiting test results after a COVID-19 scare. Queenslanders are also bracing to see if their state slams shut its border to NSW.
Here’s everything you need to know.
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