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Login PM defends hotel quarantines 99.99 success rate amid calls for a federal facility29/04/2021|2min Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended hotel quarantine in its current form as high-profile political figures in Queensland and Western Australia call for a federal facility. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan have both spoken in favour of federal facilities after breaches in their own state-run quarantine programs. However, Mr Morrison hi...

Australia expected to impose ban on all commercial flights from India27/04/2021|5min The National Security Committee is expected to impose a ban on all commercial flights from India after an emergency meeting was convened this morning to address the nations escalating COVID-19 crisis. There are currently up to 9,000 stranded Australians which are registered with DFAT in India and Sky News understands repatriation flights from the country will continue but remain limited. Chartered flights may c...

BRINGING one of the top names in showbusiness to perform in Ludlow is just one way that Joyce Brand, who has died, aged 86, demonstrated her enthusiasm for her adopted town. It was in 2013 when the new Ludlow Fringe was struggling to get established that Mrs Brand got her comedienne daughter Jo to come to Ludlow to take part in an event at the library. Best known as a stand-up comedienne, Jo adopted a sitting down role for an appearance at Ludlow Library to talk about her work as an autho...

Top hotels are pulling out of the quarantine program amid growing industry fears that the spate of recent coronavirus outbreaks leaking out via staff is causing reputational damage to operators.

Northern Territory will double how many Australians it can accommodate in hotel quarantine after the Victorian premier suggested they shouldnt be allowed to travel home.

Premier Daniel Andrews has announced the states snap five-day lockdown will end at midnight tonight, as planned, after recording zero new cases. "Can I say I am very proud of every single Victorian for the work they have done," he said. Earlier the health department also confirmed no new infections were recorded in hotel quarantine today. A staggering number of Victorians were tested with almost 40,000 swabs taken in the past 24 hours. That is significantly more than the 24,000 from the pr...

Daniel Andrews fired up when pressed on whether he could rule out further lockdowns in Victoria, as the state prepares to reopen – but with conditions.

Mr Morrison said on Friday that moving hotel quarantine to regional areas would only create “another set of risks. You’ve got transfer risks. You’ve got a workforce that you have to have in place in those situations. You’re further away from major, big hospitals.” But Professor Toole said the federal government should consider building regional quarantine facilities, and Victorian locations could include Avalon Airport, Ballarat and Bendigo. He warned this would be a ti...

The Opposition Leader said the Prime Minister had deliberately handed responsibility to the states so he could blame them when issues arose.

Questions over hotel quarantine as calls made for national protocols Normal text size Credit:Getty Images Toowoomba’s Wagner family have a reputation for getting things done. It took their company just 19 months to build the town’s Wellcamp airport, which since opening in 2014 has evolved into a busy freight hub for flights to and from Asia. Now, against the backdrop of rising alarm about vulnerabilities in city-based quarantine hotels, they’ve set their sights on constructing a 1000-bed ...