Australia news LIVE Victoria records 1488 new coronavirus cases protesters march in CBD NSWs new cases fall to 813 the day after Premiers resignation Queensland records two cases easing grand final concerns
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We’ve now arrived at Prahran’s Princes Park where protesters were told to amass on Saturday afternoon.
Police sirens could be heard in the distance as dogs frolicked around the park, with many picnickers taking advantage of the sunshine.
The police helicopter was also seen circling the area.
Police have also headed to Prahran Town Hall on Chapel Street which is usually one of Melbourne’s busiest shopping and fashion streets.
Police station themselves at Prahran Town Hall in Melbourne’s inner east after protesters re-assembled in the area.Credit:Rachael Dexter
Anti-lockdown and anti-vax protesters marched through the Botanical Gardens on Saturday and were met with heavy police presence on Alexandra Parade with multiple arrests made before the protesters dispersed.
Age photographer Chris Hopkins took these pictures of the protest.
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Police make an arrest during a protest on Saturday.Credit:Chris Hopkins
Protesters march through the Botanical Gardens on Saturday.Credit:Chris Hopkins
The NRL has edged closer to a Suncorp Stadium grand final on Sunday after another day of encouraging COVID-19 numbers in Queensland, with just two new locally acquired cases detected as the state tries to control a small outbreak.
With uncertainty hovering around the event and suggestions it could be either postponed or moved, all eyes were on the update at 10am on Saturday. That proved to be good news with two local cases linked to a known cluster detected in home quarantine and another two in hotel quarantine.
Rival grand final coaches Ivan Cleary and Wayne Bennett front the media for the final time on Friday.Credit:Getty
The two new cases are the children of a confirmed COVID-19 case.
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Scott Morrison’s path to victory in the next federal election runs through New South Wales.
And despite the tensions between the federal government and Gladys Berejiklian’s NSW Liberals on display in recent months as Morrison’s home state lost its “gold standard†status on COVID-19, the Prime Minister will feel the loss of Berejiklian keenly.
Gladys Berejiklian and Scott Morrison.Credit:Kate Geraghty, Alex Ellinghausen
Berejiklian’s exit also throws a spotlight once more on the federal government’s failure to introduce an independent corruption watchdog, more than four years after Malcolm Turnbull said he was open to such a body and more than 1000 days after Morrison promised to do so.
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From the streets of Mombasa, politics in the Philippines to a volcanic eruption on the Spanish island of La Palma.
These are the best photos from around the world this week, as chosen by The Age’s photo editors.
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Farmers spray pesticide at a paddy field in Chandauli district, Uttar Pradesh state, India.Credit:AP
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Friday Australia’s international border would reopen in November.
That has prompted a rush to book and secure seats to get home for the thousands of Australians trapped overseas.
We would like to hear from people coming home (or perhaps heading out) on the experience of navigating this new opportunity.
It was in the early months of the pandemic that David Barton realised, as he sat by his dying wife, that in our singular determination to protect life from the spread of a virus, we were at risk of losing something just as precious.
Anne Barton wasn’t sick with COVID-19, she was sick with cancer. An inoperable, terminal liver cancer which, after enduring for 16 months the ravages of chemotherapy and the progression of the disease, she had decided to stop fighting. Now that she was in palliative care, what mattered was being as comfortable as possible and sharing the time she had left with people she loved.
Dr David Barton says being unable to hold a proper funeral for Anne, his wife of 44 years, was a profound loss of a fundamental right.Credit:Eddie Jim
Instead, COVID restrictions imposed on the small palliative hospital where she was receiving care meant she was allowed only one visitor a day, for one hour. That included visits from her husband of 44 years. If either of their children wanted to see their mum, David couldn’t see his wife. Their grandchildren couldn’t come at all.
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Police and the mounted branch moved in on the protesters making a series of arrests and taking down on protester on a bike.
The main protest group has scattered into smaller groups.
Hundreds of officers on foot and horseback charged the crowd from behind.
Police have arrested at least a dozen protesters.
Police have started to move into the crowd now and have made a number of arrests.
The move came just after the most vocal of the protesters had urged the group to stay together, despite the increasing police presence as they again return to The Tan track.
“Nobody scatter, nobody separate,†he said. “United we stand, divided we fall.â€
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