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Login PM defends hotel quarantine's 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 hit back at such suggestions while in Darwin and pointed out hotel quarantine had a 99.99 per cent ef...

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 nation's 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 continue to bring Australians from India to Darwin to spend two weeks in quarantine at the Howard’...

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 author. On her visit Jo Brand talked about her writing that included a novel, work that draws on her ex...

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 shouldn't be allowed to travel home.