A false-negative test result from a Holiday Inn hotel worker put Victorian authorities off the scent of a family function where COVID-19 spread into the community. A three-year-old child and a woman in her 50s were the latest locally acquired infections reported on Sunday, the second day of Victoria’s five-day lockdown. Health Minister Martin Foley confirmed…
Australian Open Proceeds With No Spectators Following Victoria’s Third Lockdown
Australian Open spectators have been barred from watching tennis players battle it out following Victoria’s “short, sharp circuit breaker” five-day lockdown announced on Friday. The lockdown is in response to a COVID-19 outbreak at Melbourne Airport’s Holiday Inn with genomic testing confirming that infected individuals have the “hyper-infectious” UK strain of the CCP virus. One…
Victoria Virus Case Friend of Hotel Quarantine Worker
MELBOURNE, Australia — Victoria has recorded one new local case of COVID-19, while Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton says there is no plan, yet, to extend the five-day lockdown. The latest COVID-19 case in Victoria is a friend of a hotel quarantine worker, as contact tracers race to ring-fence an outbreak of the infectious UK strain….
Victoria’s Conversion Therapy Bill ‘Inconsistent’ With Human Rights Charter: Australian Law Firm
Victoria’s Conversion Therapy Bill explicitly targets Christian sexual ethics and places “unjustifiable limits” on fundamental rights and freedoms, an Australian law firm has said. In a report (pdf) published by the Coalition Against Unsafe Sexual Education (CAUSE), the Human Rights Law Alliance, a conservative non-for-profit law firm, analysed 8 sections of Victoria’s Human Rights Charter…
Residents Protest ‘Sweetheart Deal’ with CCP for Lead Recycling Plant in Victoria
Victorian Liberal MP Tim Smith has accused Premier Daniel Andrews of doing a “sweetheart deal” with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after the state intervened to approve a rejected lead battery recycling plant proposed by a Chinese state-owned corporation in the state’s east. The proposed Hazelwood North facility in Gippsland has been protested by locals…
Religious Liberties and Parental Consent Under Threat From Victoria’s Conversion Therapy Ban: Research Centre
The act of prayer under the Andrews government’s proposed Conversion Therapy Bill could soon land Victorians in jail, thereby violating religious freedom and parental rights, a conservative think tank has said. The report released by Menzies Research Centre comes as the controversial Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill (pdf) is set to be debated…
Ex-Soldier Preferred Over MP Kevin Andrews by Victorian Libs in Preselection
The longest currently serving MP in the federal parliament has been overlooked by Liberal colleagues in a preselection battle. Former SAS commando and barrister Keith Wolahan was preferred over former defence minister Kevin Andrews in the preselection for the Victorian seat of Menzies on Sunday. Andrews, 65, had the backing of Prime Minister Scott Morrison…
Free Electric Vehicle Charging Switched On in Regional Victoria
Drivers can recharge their electric vehicles for free in regional Victoria after the first of a national network of no-fee charging stations were switched on. The first in a planned national network of free electric vehicle charging stations have been switched on with the support of major car makers and local councils. Motorists can now…
Magnitude 5.5 Quake Hits Australia’s Northwest
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck in the northwest of Australia, Geoscience Australia said. The quake occurred in the Timor Sea at 6.47 a.m. AEDT on Saturday, about 300 kilometres north-northwest of the Dampier Peninsula in Western Australia at a depth of 20 kilometres. No tsunami warning has been issued. This follows a 3.3 magnitude…
Tennis Australia Clarifies Quarantine Costs
Tennis Australia (TA) has clarified the organisation is covering quarantine costs for the players and staff after concerns were raised of preferential treatment that implied it was coming from Victorian taxpayers. The sports governing body released a statement late Wednesday correcting previous comments made by Australia Open Director Craig Tiley on 3AW earlier that morning the…
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