All but one of Victoria’s latest locally acquired COVID-19 cases were active in the community while potentially infectious, as the state identifies some 10,000 “primary close contacts.” Another 19 diagnoses were confirmed on Saturday, taking to 43 the state’s total number of virus cases for the current outbreak as all of Victoria remains in a…
Victoria Draws up Plans for $35M Digital Duplicate
Victoria has bankrolled an ambitious $35.2 million (US$26.2 million) project that will see the state replicated digitally, speeding up the city’s urban planning and allowing government, industry, and the community to tour the state virtually and online. But the project opens up a new “attack surface” for bad cyber actors, a security expert has warned….
Streamlined Access for Aussie Lockdown Support Payments
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews on Thursday night agreed to a new COVID-19 support package that will make it easier for business owners and workers to access emergency income support when a state or territory forces them into a CCP virus lockdown. As part of the new arrangement, when a state…
Sydney COVID-19 Outbreak Moves Into Victoria
Victoria has recorded seven additional locally acquired coronavirus cases connected to the NSW outbreak. Four of the new cases are residents on the third floor of the Ariele Apartments in Maribyrnong, which has been in lockdown since Monday night after a visit from infected removalists. Among those cases is a man in his 60s, who…
Zero Cases in Victoria, Border With NSW Closes
Victoria has recorded a 12th day with no locally acquired cases of COVID-19 after the state’s border with NSW and the ACT was effectively closed overnight. The health department confirmed there were also no new cases in hotel quarantine on July 12, with the number of active cases in the state down to 19. Some 19,239…
Flood Repairs at Victorian Coal Mine to Cost Millions
Repair works at the Victoria’s Yallourn coal mine are expected to cost tens of millions of dollars as power company EnergyAustralia seeks to repair cracks caused by last month’s flood. This comes as the Victoria’s Environment Protection Authority (EPA) approved the discharge of 232 megalitres of water from the Morwell River Diversion into the Latrobe…
Australian State Budgets Serve Up More Debt on the Menu
June 29, 2021
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The dramatic transformation of Australia’s fiscal landscape by the COVID-19 pandemic has been confirmed by the latest round of state and territory budgets for New South Wales (NSW), Victoria (VIC), Queensland (QLD), South Australia (SA) and the Northern Territory (NT). Their collective shares of GDP cover some 85 percent of the national economy. Western Australia,…
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews Returns to Work 3 Months After Sustaining Injury
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is returning to work after spending more than three months in recovery following a fall at a Mornington Peninsula holiday rental. The premier held a press conference at 10:30 a.m. on June 28 to update Victorians on the Metro Tunnel project, one of his government’s key infrastructure projects that have since blown…
Victorian Health Department Orders Townhouse Residents to Isolate After 2 People Test Positive
Residents of a Melbourne townhouse complex were met with government nurses and a pop-up testing facility on Monday morning as the Victorian health department investigates a possible CCP virus transmission site within the complex. Health authorities established a link between a confirmed case reported on June 12 with a worker from Arcare Maidstone who lives…
Australia’s Delta Strain Outbreak Traced Back to Hotel Quarantine
The outbreak of the highly infectious Indian Delta strain of the CCP virus in the Australian state of Victoria has been traced back to a person who was in hotel quarantine in the state. Acting Premier James Merlino said authorities genomically linked the west Melbourne Delta cluster to a man who arrived in Australia from Sri…
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