Australia news LIVE Victoria records 1220 new COVID-19 cases while NSW reports 667 local infections NRL grand final to go ahead with no new cases in Queensland
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The activism of Sam Castro - same spelling as Fidel - began more than 30 years ago, with her first protest in her orientation week at Melbourne University in 1989 against the introduction of HECS.
“That was, I guess, my radicalisation into activism and politics and realisation that state authorities are not there to protect the people in quite a large way,†Castro says over the phone in Melbourne.
Hundreds of people protesting vaccinations and lockdowns shut down parts of Melbourne and staged a demonstration at the Shrine last week.Credit:Jason South
Since then, she’s been involved in demonstrations against war and globalisation, for the environment, refugees and WikiLeaks. She’s been arrested, pepper-sprayed, assaulted, and in a protest of offshore detention, she has glued her hands to the railings of the gallery in Parliament House.
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South Australia chief public health officer Professor Nicola Spurrier has urged residents to reconsider any travel into Victoria after a second person returned to her state with COVID-19.
Professor Spurrier said a mother of four teenagers from Mt Gambier travelled to Casterton in western Victoria and returned home feeling sick.
South Australian Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier.Credit:Getty
On Saturday news emerged that a South Australian woman who flew home to Adelaide from Melbourne on a Jetstar flight and later tested positive for the virus.
“I am urging South Australians to appreciate where Victoria is up to in their outbreak, they’ve got the high numbers but there’s likely to be more community transmission than that,†Professor Spurrier said.
“If you can make a choice, don’t go over to Victoria at the moment.“
The Mt Gambier woman, who is in her 40s, sort a test immediately and went straight home and Professor Spurrier said the four children have all tested negative.
The woman was not vaccinated and is “quite sick†and will be transferred to Royal Adelaide Hospital while her family will also travel to Adelaide to undergo a 14-day hotel quarantine.
No COVID-19 cases have been publicly reported as being in Casterton which is about 65 kilometres west of Hamilton and Professor Spurrier said she wasn’t aware of any wastewater detections for Casterton and the surrounding areas.
So far, there are no exposure sites listed for Mt Gambier but SA Health will do more investigating and also speak with health officials in Victoria.
SA Health Minister Stephen Wade and Chief Public Health Officer Professor Nicola Spurrier are providing a COVID-19 update at 4.15pm AEDT.
WA Premier Mark McGowan has fired a warning shot at potential NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet if that state attempts to renegotiate how the GST is shared.
Mr McGowan vowed to “fight to the death†to preserve his state’s share of GST revenue if Mr Perrottet or whoever takes over as Premier seeks to boost that state’s share.
WA Premier Mark McGowan.Credit:Peter de Kruijff
“I’ve only met him [Mr Perrottet] as treasurer on some of the zoom meetings a couple of times and if he becomes Premier of NSW then I will congratulate him on that,†Mr McGowan said on Sunday.
“But we need to be vigilant about what the other states are going to try to do.
“Basically NSW has a terrible set of finances, massive deficits, huge debt. They’ve been very poor financial managers so what they will try and do is blame someone else.
“[They will say] “It’s Western Australia’s fault†because we get 70 per cent of every dollar we put into GST, somehow that is to blame for NSW’s financial problems. NSW gets something like 96 cents back for every dollar it puts into GST, we get 70 cents back.
“We need to be vigilant about what states like NSW might do and we won’t cop any undermining of our GST share and we will fight them to the death over it.
Mr McGowan said he expected NSW to make an attempt to change the shares.
“We are already funding them to the tune of billions of dollars, how do they think all this support for NSW is being funded? It’s being funded by states that are open, in particular ours.
“They will try to blame us for their poor financial management and we won’t cop it.â€
Mr McGowan said WA was on track to get to 80 per cent vaccination double doses in December so could look to make decisions on opening borders to NSW and Victoria but those decisions will be influenced by COVID numbers in those states at that time.
“I don’t want to see any of those worst case scenarios happen in WA, that’s why we are being so cautious,†McGowan said.
“We will get to a point where we can announce what we will do sometime between 80 and 90 per cent vaccinations. If you want to get back to travelling to NSW or Victoria or overseas, get vaccinated.
“It’s sad what is happening in NSW and Victoria but they will be taking steps to end their lockdowns and put in place various measures and that can be monitored in states like ours that are COVID free when we make our decisions.â€
WA reported a diplomat had arrived in Perth and started to home quarantine in an apartment before testing positive for the virus this weekend.
Mr McGowan said the diplomat and his family were moved to a medi-hotel to do a 14-day quarantine and four close contacts who assisted the family to travel from the airport to their apartment were in home quarantine for 14 days and one had already returned a negative test.
The Victorian government has overturned the ban on public toilets at outdoor sporting facilities, including golf courses and tennis courts, following widespread backlash.
Toilets, both indoors and outdoors, must be cleaned twice a day and people will be required to check in using QR codes. Indoor facilities, including the clubhouse, change rooms and bistros, remain closed.
Golfers return to Albert Park Golf Club last week. David McCartney and Dene Heath are pictured on course.Credit:Wayne Taylor
“These changes, which come into effect at 11:59pm Monday 4 October, mean toilet facilities can open while also keeping personal contact and authorised worker presence at outdoor recreation facilities to a hard minimum,†the Health Department said in a statement.
Royal Melbourne Golf Club captain Andrew Kirby last week called the restrictions a “joke†and disappointed many golfers following their initial excitement at being allowed to reopen.
“I know the blokes can do a number one in the trees, but there are lots of women playing,†Kirby told 3AW.
“We’ve been through this opening and closing and opening again so many times that you’d think they’d get it a little more down pat. To be honest, I think the problem I see is too much micro-regulation of it ... Maybe there’s been a miscommunication or something has been misconstrued but we have staff there, we have lots of women playing, we have people with medical conditions â€" they need to use the toilets.â€
WA Premier Mark McGowan will give a COVID-19 update on Sunday afternoon.
In a high-rise building on the outskirts of the CBD, Mohammad sits on a plastic chair holding his young daughter in his arms amid a sea of neatly lined up Afghan refugees waiting to receive their first coronavirus vaccine.
He is more than 11,000 kilometres from home after fleeing Kabul with his family in August when the Taliban began going door to door searching for anyone who had worked with foreign forces.
Co-health nurse Amelia Tauoqooqo says some evacuees lost family members in the rush to get on a plane out of Afghanistan.Credit:Simon Schluter
The family slept for two days on the cold, dusty ground outside Kabul airport, before finally boarding a rescue flight bound for Australia.
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A number of childcare centres have been confirmed as Victoria’s latest tier-1 exposure sites, including a facility in the state’s far north-east.
FROEBEL Fitzroy North Early Learning Centre in Melbourne’s inner north has been listed as a tier-1 exposure site on 27 October, forcing a number of children, parents and educators into isolation for 14 days.
Another childcare centre - Country Buddies Wangaratta in north-east Victoria, just 50 kilometres from the NSW border - has been listed as a tier-1 exposure site on September 29.
Late last night, the Department of Health also identified the Clarendon Street Community Child Care Centre in Cranbourne as a tier-1 exposure site on September 27.
You can read the full list of exposure sites here.
Chicago: It’s a milestone that by all accounts didn’t have to happen this soon.
The US death toll from COVID-19 has eclipsed 700,000 â€" a number greater than the population of Boston. The last 100,000 deaths occurred during a time when vaccines â€" which overwhelmingly prevent deaths, hospitalisations and serious illness â€" were available to any American over the age of 12.
As the US death toll from COVID passes 700,000, artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg’s temporary exhibition “In America: Remember†made up of white flags to commemorate Americans who have died of COVID-19, fills the National Mall, in Washington.Credit:AP
The milestone is deeply frustrating to doctors, public health officials and the American public, who watched a pandemic that had been easing earlier in the summer take a dark turn. Tens of millions of Americans have refused to get vaccinated, allowing the highly contagious delta variant to tear through the country and send the death toll from 600,000 to 700,000 in 3½ months.
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