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As Victoria reopens to more than 100 international travellers today, The Agereports that some hotel quarantine staff employed by Healthcare Australia are still working at more than one site across Melbourne, contravening a key recommendation from the state’s hotel quarantine inquiry. Emails obtained by The Age dated April 1 show Healthcare Australia told select staff their second jobs were a breach of their employment conditions “and subsequently a breach of the contract between HCA and [COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria]”. In other local news, Scott Morrison and Greg Hunt announced they...

A STICKING POINT The Morrison government has accepted advice from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation that Pfizer should be the preferred COVID-19 vaccine for people under 50 (who have not already safely received the first AstraZeneca shot), with Guardian Australia explaining that the AstraZeneca vaccine will come with a warning that people under 50 may face extremely rare but potentially deadly blood clots. In an evening press conference, chief medical officer Paul Kelly emphasised that the incidence of blood clots from AstraZeneca is extremely rare — averaging four ...

Scott Ryan of a “incident” captured by CCTV footage taken on the night Brittany Higgins was allegedly raped in March 2019, but says he only knew it involved a security breach, not an alleged crime. As news.com.au recounts, CCTV tracked Higgins’ and her alleged assailant’s movements on the night in question, and was the subject of negotiations between the AFP and parliamentary officers, who did not want it released without agreement. 7.30’s Leigh Sales noted that Ryan asked the inspector general of intelligence and security to examine the CCTV footage in June 2020; as Crikeyexpl...

It’s International Women’s Day. A day to celebrate women’s achievements. A day which male politicians will inevitably make about themselves. This year’s theme is “Choose to Challenge”: choose to challenge gender bias, gender inequality and men saying dumb things. Australian women have done spectacularly well at calling out the crap in recent months. Here at Crikey, women have stood up to the leaders of our country, demanding a better response to sexual violence — or in the case of Madonna King, rewriting what the response should have been. Tory Shepard has highlighted how our p...

Published March 3, 2021 To sign up for our daily newsletter filled with the latest news, goss and other stuff you should care about, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or, bookmark the PEDESTRIAN.TV homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses rape and suicide. Australia watched in shock as Attorney-General  Christian Porter reveled himself to be the person accused of raping a 16-year-old girl in 1988, allegations which he wholly denies. The alleged rape was first reported to police in February, 2020, before...