Watch: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews gives the daily COVID-19 update
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is due to give the daily COVID-19 update at 10.30am AEST and you can watch it live here.
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Many people, but no one in charge of hotel quarantine
By Tammy Mills and Richard Baker
No one knew who was in charge of Victoria’s shambolic hotel quarantine program, not even the department described as the lead agency in the inquiry into the scheme.
The senior Department of Health and Human Services authorised officer, Noel Cleaves, told the inquiry on Friday hotel quarantine was not run as a “classic pyramid organisational structure”.
Noel Cleaves, from the Department of Health and Human Services, appears at the inquiry into hotel quarantine on Friday.
“It wasn’t as clear as there was one person who had ultimate authority for everything that happened inside that hotel,” Mr Cleaves said.
His evidence confirmed what was foreshadowed at the beginning of the ongoing inquiry: many departments and agencies were involved, and no one appeared to be in charge.
Health Department team leaders at each hotel acted as co-ordinators, Mr Cleaves said, but they didn’t have control over the authorised officers responsible for enforcing detention. In turn, authorised officers did not have control over the security guards, and the nursing teams were under control of their employers, he said.
Top infectious disease experts call for a 48-hour turnaround of contact tracing in Victoria
By Melissa Cunningham
Australia's top infectious disease experts are pushing for the Victorian government to commit to a strict 48-hour turnaround time for extensive contact tracing, arguing it is the most critical weapon in the fight towards zero community transmissions.
While Premier Daniel Andrews has repeatedly insisted that contact tracing has improved considerably in the past few months, leading epidemiologists and infectious disease physicians want assurances of this and are urging the government to provide daily updates on contact tracing.
An electron microscope image shows the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (yellow) emerging from the surface of cells (pink) cultured in a US National Institutes of Health lab.Credit:AP
Experts are imploring Victorian authorities to adopt statewide benchmarks including hard deadlines that ensure positive cases and their close contacts are interviewed, tested and quarantined within two days.
Long delays have hampered efforts to get on top of community transmission, with some Victorians waiting nearly two weeks for confirmation they could have been exposed to the virus.
Queensland records one new case
By Lucy Stone
Queensland has recorded one new case of COVID-19, a close contact of a known case.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk tweeted out the new case, saying there were now 26 active cases in the state.
On Friday there were zero new cases recorded, promising news after an outbreak linked to Queensland's correctional facilities in recent weeks.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews to give daily COVID-19 update at 10.30am AEST
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews to give daily COVID-19 update at 10.30am AEST.
We plan to have a live stream of the press conference on this blog.
'Special moments': new dads learn life lessons in lockdown
By Hannah Schauder
Ben Schnellenberg was looking forward to spending a lot of time with his newborn son Levi, but never imagined they’d be locked down together 23 hours a day.
The impact of COVID-19 has completely altered the new dad’s first experiences of parenthood, which began with him being restricted from joining his partner when she went into hospital in the early hours of labour. Due to social distancing policies, he wasn’t allowed in the delivery suite until his wife had received tests and was set up for birth.
New dad Ben Schnellenberg and his son Levi at St Kilda pier last week.
“Sitting in the car, unable to call and not knowing what was going on was quite a harrowing experience,” said Mr Schnellenberg, who will mark his first Father's Day on Sunday.
“I was lucky to be allowed to join for the final stages of labour and can honestly say as a first-time dad, I have never felt so helpless and proud at the same time,” he said.
Since becoming a dad in lockdown, Mr Schnellenberg, an account manager, has embraced working from home as an opportunity to be more actively involved in Levi’s development.
Opinion: To restore the nation's fortunes, Morrison must not only appear humble he must be humble
By Sean Kelly
Arrogance has always been a political danger for Scott Morrison, partly because of that smirk, and partly because of obvious self-belief. He tends to back himself over others. He doesn't like retreating. In his own words: "I would say I am pretty determined if there is something I believe we need to do … One of the things I really hate is being proven right later."
This isn't entirely a bad thing – don't we want our leaders to be confident? But after the bushfires, the political alarm was flashing. Polling showed big jumps in the numbers of voters who found him arrogant.
Scott Morrison doesn't lack self-belief. Illustration: Jim PavlidisCredit:
If you're a Morrison critic, you probably still see him like that. And so you might have been a little shocked to read, in a report from David Crowe this week, that Morrison had told his colleagues, "The way we remain a humble but in-touch and focused government is by keeping in touch with respect for each other." Remain?
Interestingly, polls suggest the number of us who see Morrison as arrogant has come back down since the beginning of the year. You can put that down to general admiration for his handling of the COVID crisis. But here's something you might not have noticed: since late last year, the Prime Minister has offered four public apologies. He apologised for his Hawaiian jaunt, for the robodebt mess, for incorrectly asserting slavery hadn't existed here, and for failures in aged care.
Australian film-maker braves double COVID quarantine for Venice festival
Australian director Roderick MacKay braved COVID-19 restrictions to make a "daunting" trip to the Venice film festival, where his debut feature The Furnace premieres on Friday.
MacKay had to get permission from Australian authorities to leave his own country, quarantine in Rome for two weeks before travelling to Venice, and will have to quarantine again when he goes back to Australia.
Filmmaker Roderick MacKay's debut feature The Furnace has been selected for the Venice Film Festival.
"Travelling during this time in history is sort of just a little bit daunting for any purpose," 33-year old MacKay, who filmed a video of his journey and self-isolation on his mobile for Reuters, said in an interview.
"But to be doing so, to come to a top tier festival like Venice, to have your debut film premiere on the world stage, it's certainly a whole other layer of dauntingness," he said, adding he was happy and honoured to be at the world's oldest film festival.
"The Furnace", which is in the Horizon section outside the main competition, tells the little known story of cameleers brought to Australia by the British empire from India, Afghanistan and Persia in the second half of the 19th century and the local Aboriginal people they befriended.
The Venice film festival is the first such international event to go ahead in front of live audiences since the coronavirus pandemic shut much of the movie world down. It runs until September 12.
Reuters
Former Cook Island PM dies in NZ's second wave
The second person believed to have died of coronavirus in New Zealand's second wave has been identified as former Cook Islands prime minister Dr Joseph Williams.
Williams died in an Auckland hospital. He was 82.
Dr Joseph Williams. Credit:Twitter/@ MedicalPasifika
It is believed he came into close contact with someone linked to the initial Auckland cluster at the Americold coolstore.
Williams served as the Cook Islands Prime Minister for four months in 1999, part of the 25 years he spent in the Cook Islands.
He also served as Minister of Health and Education in 1974 to 1978, and Minister of Health, Tourism, Transport and State-Owned Enterprises from 1994 to 1996.
New Zealand's Finance Minister Grant Robertson said on Twitter that Williams was "such an influential leader in the Cook Island community, and in the health sector in general".
"Deeply respected, my thoughts and aroha are with his family, friends and community," Robertson said.
Inner west bar and eastern Sydney gyms on latest NSW Health alerts
By Natassia Chrysanthos
The latest NSW Health alerts advise people who attended a popular inner west bar and two eastern Sydney gyms to be on high-alert for coronavirus symptoms.
Anyone who visited Kuleto’s Cocktail Bar on King St, Newtown for at least one hour last Friday night, between 6.30pm and 9.30pm, should self-isolate for 14 days and get tested.
The venue has been closed for cleaning.
NSW Health is also assessing two eastern suburbs gyms – Bondi Platinum Fitness First and Randwick Fitness First – for potential exposure to COVID-19 on the following dates:
- Bondi on Monday 31 August, between 7am and 5pm
- Randwick on Sunday 30 August between 10am and 2pm
- Randwick on Monday 31 August between 11am and 4pm
- Randwick on Tuesday 1 September between 8am and noon
It will contact attendees who are considered close or casual contacts, but people should get tested and isolate if they identify symptoms in the meantime.
Anyone who attended the Randwick gym between Sunday, August 23 and Tuesday, September 1 should also monitor for symptoms.
NSW reported eight new COVID-19 cases on Friday: seven are locally acquired and linked to known cases or clusters and one is a traveller in hotel quarantine.
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