Picture this. An invasion of billions of mice terrorising households, climbing up curtains, swarming onto beds and biting people as they sleep, running amok in supermarkets and hospitals and contaminating drinking water.
It’s the stuff of nightmares. But far from being a ghoulish product of the imagination, this is the reality in 21st-century Australia, where a rodent plague of Biblical proportions is devastating food supplies and inflicting misery and hardship.
In one case, a woman’s house burned down because the mouse army chewed its way through wiring in her attic.
It’s the stuff of nightmares. But far from being a ghoulish product of the imagination, this is the reality in 21st-century Australia, where a rodent plague of Biblical proportions is devastating food supplies and inflicting misery and hardship
First Nations representatives from the Torres Strait and far north Queensland have travelled to Canberra to call for better investment on issues including housing, health, employment and food pricing.
Sky News host Alan Jones says Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack is “well and truly out of his depth”.
“What did the people in the bush do to deserve such an incompetent and invisible advocate in Canberra,” Mr Jones said.
“I'll tell you something, so ineffectual is McCormack that at the recent NSW state by-election in the Upper Hunter, the NSW National Party hid him under a rock”.
PM: Not a race vaccine remarks consistent with medical advice01/06/2021|6min
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he “stands behind” his remarks the vaccine rollout is “not a race” as they are consistent with expert medical advice.
The federal government is facing heavy criticism after Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack defended the government’s slow distribution of the jab over the weekend.
“The reference to not a race was first said by the Secretary of the Department of Health, Professor Brendan Murphy. and I affirm his remarks,” the prime minister said.
“I affirm the remarks of the Secretary of Health because all the way through this pandemic, one of the key factors … is we have always been mindful of the expert advice informing the decisions that we have taken.”
Koch criticised the delivery of the vaccine after Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack made the comment on Sunday amid rising demand for the jab in lockdown-stricken Victoria.