What is the government really describing when it says it will open beds across the system? Where are these beds, and are there enough nurses to staff them?
Politicians have talked tough about crushing, killing and keeping out the virus with draconian border and travel arrangements and have consistently refused to put a timeline on international reopenings, or even outline a set of concrete preconditions or a plan. They then wonder why the citizenry hasn’t acted with urgency?
Clive Palmer to help Craig Kelly take on Facebook, fight election
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Mining magnate Clive Palmer could back former Liberal member Craig Kelly in a defamation claim against Facebook and may help finance his campaign at the next federal election.
The pair emerged from a meeting in Parliament House on Wednesday to signal their closer ties as the outspoken federal MP tries to overcome Facebook’s decision that he has spread misinformation about COVID-19.
Independent Craig Kelly has spoken to Clive Palmer about helping him fund a defamation claim against Facebook.
Commonwealth Integrity Commission has ‘serious deficiencies’: Judges, police and lawyers
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A federal pledge to crack down on corruption is struggling to gain support from police and legal experts who believe the draft plan is too weak to catch politicians and public servants who break the law.
Corruption experts are urging the government to toughen the reform so a new Commonwealth integrity commission will have the power to launch its own investigations and hold public hearings into scandals.
Former Supreme Court judge Anthony Whealy said the CIC “cannot proceed in its current form”.
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Fresh Victorian restrictions have been announced from 6pm on Tuesday in response to five new cases in a growing coronavirus outbreak in Melbourne’s north.
Mask-wearing and restrictions on private gatherings are back in Melbourne after four members of the same family from the Whittlesea local government area tested positive to coronavirus and a close contact of one of those cases also returned a positive result.
The Curry Vault restaurant in Bank Place, in the CBD, was named an exposure site after a Wollert man who contracted coronavirus dined there earlier this month.
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The five cases have been linked through genomic testing to a Melbourne man who tested positive two weeks ago and who is suspected of becoming infected while in hotel quarantine in South Australia.