How Albanese plans to make his run for the big league watoday.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from watoday.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
No, US health experts didnât say tests cannot distinguish between COVID-19 and the flu
An exchange between a reporter and Victorian Chief Health Officer at a press conference this week gave rise to a another wave of misinformation regarding the tests Australia uses to detect COVID-19. 30 July 2021
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CoronaCheck #76
In this week s CoronaCheck, we debunk viral misinformation about the PCR tests used to identify COVID-19 cases, which ramped up after a Victorian news conference.
Bill Shorten backs AstraZeneca jab as quickest path out of lockdown
Bill Shorten has publicly backed the AstraZeneca vaccine, declaring it the cure to getting out of lockdown , a day after Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese declined to clarify his own stance on the jab.
Mr Shorten, the shadow minister for government services and former opposition leader, today met workers at the manufacturing site at CSL in Melbourne. I m here today to see the magic bullet to get out of lockdown, the AZ vaccine. I m here to see how Australian-made is going to break lockdown and help stop the spread of COVID, Mr Shorten told 9News.
Australians are getting back $2,490 on average in tax refunds as lockdowns see more people get their paperwork done early.
Since the start of July, 2.1million refunds have been deposited into bank accounts, new Australian Taxation Office data showed.
That means a fifth of the 10million people earning up to $126,000 a year have already received their low and middle-income tax offset of between $255 and $1,080.
When that tax offset was combined with claimed tax deductions, average refunds paid out, so far, into bank accounts stood at $2,490 with $5.3billion returned to taxpayers since the start of the financial year four weeks ago.
Australians (pictured is a woman walking during the Sydney lockdown) are getting back $2,490 back in tax on average as lockdowns see more people get their paperwork done. Since the start of July, 2.1million refunds have been deposited into bank accounts, new Australian Taxation Office data showed
Federal Labor set to dump multibillion-dollar cancer and dental pledges watoday.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from watoday.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.