Australia news LIVE One million Moderna doses coming as outbreak accelerates in Victoria
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Small bushfire extinguished in Northern Beaches after temperatures scorch NSW.
At around lunchtime, a small bushfire broke out next to Richmond Avenue, Dee Why.
Members from NSW Police, Fire and Rescue NSW, and the Rural Fire Service attended the scene and the blaze was extinguished quickly.
It’s not yet clear how the fire was started but Fire and Rescue NSW Dee Why station officer Tim Kerrigan said there were ‘obvious’ signs of people in the area, with plastic chairs, and some drug paraphernalia found at the scene.
NSW Fire and Rescue extinguished fires in the same area last year.
It was a scorching day for much of the state with Evans Head topping the table around 2pm after recording 32.8 degrees.
Port Macquarie came in second with 32.2 degrees and Sydney’s Airport got up to 31.5 degrees.
Men have been getting the lion’s share of emergency income support during Sydney’s winter lockdown even though women have borne the brunt of job losses.
The total number of workers in NSW relying on the federal government’s COVID-19 disaster payment has climbed past 1 million, most of them in Sydney, as pandemic restrictions take a growing toll on the economy.
About 19 per cent of men across Greater Sydney are receiving the disaster payment, versus 12 per cent of women, analysis of anonymous bank account data by Accenture and illion shows. The most recent employment data showed women accounted for about 80 per cent of the decline in employment across Sydney in July but made up only 40 per cent of disaster payment recipients.
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It seems all of Waverley, Randwick and Woollahra residents are making the most of their 5km radius by cooling off at the beach today.
The Herald’s photographer Edwina Pickles was among them, and documented crowded scenes at Bondi beach.
Woollahra Council has just shut Camp Cove and Redleaf beach at Double Bay as crowds exceed capacity.
People visit Bondi beach on Sunday.Credit:Edwina Pickles
Redleaf is the only beach within the 5km radius of much of inner west residents residing in suburbs such as Redfern.
Despite a heavy police presence in the region, Waverley council confirmed it did not intend to close Bondi beach, or any others in the local government area on the 28 degree day.
The scene at Bondi beach on Sunday.Credit:Edwina Pickles
NSW chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant said that while images of the large crowds concerned her, but that “in reality, outdoor environments if people are keeping away from each other, are probably the safest environments.â€
“I would like to see that people are really respectful and they are adhering to the public health orders as they move about, if they are walking along the beach,†Dr Chant said.
She also acknowledged she was asking a lot of those in south-western Sydney and Western Sydney who do not have any access to any beaches due to the constraints of their 5km radius
Victoria’s COVID-19 outbreak continues to target younger people with 85 per cent of all active cases under 50 years old.
The chief health officer’s daily update stated that figure on Sunday while around 16,000 people are in isolation due to being a close contact of a confirmed case while more than 1000 exposure sites have been listed on the state’s list.
The age range for Victoria’s active cases is:
454 are aged between 0 and 9
509 are aged between 10 and 19
755 are aged between 20 and 29
550 are aged between 30 and 39
The state added several new places to the exposure site list on Sunday afternoon as tier one sites including Little Learners in Gordons Road, South Morang on September 7 and September 8 from 10am to 4pm, Chemist Warehouse at Watergardens Shopping Centre on September 7 from 4.45pm to 9.30pm and AGCAB Portable Cabins in Campbellfield on September 8 (6am to 3pm), 9 (6am to 3pm) and 10 (6am to 12.30pm).
You can find the updating list of exposure sites here.
When Julie Bishop was foreign minister she committed Australia to the New Colombo Plan, a bold push to get more young Australians out of their comfort zones and into learning opportunities across the Asia-Pacific region.
The growth in numbers was impressive. In 2014, 8437 Australian students pursued learning abroad in the Asia-Pacific region. By 2019, that number had almost doubled to 15,440.
Julie Bishop at the United Nations headquarters in 2015.Credit:AP
Then, in March last year, as Australia’s global connections began to wither, student exchange came to a grinding halt. The New Colombo Plan, Westpac’s Asian Exchange and high school programs such as Rotary and AFS all needed to make dramatic adjustments.
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West Australian children aged 12-15 will be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 from tomorrow.
Guardians and parents of children in the age group from Monday can register their dependents under their own vaccination account and book them an appointment at a state-run clinic.
WA Premier Mark McGowan.Credit:Hamish Hastie
Premier Mark McGowan on Sunday said about 58 per cent of West Australians had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine but that number needed to increase.
Health Minister Roger Cook said parents and guardians would also have the option of booking their child into a GP for the Pfizer vaccination.
“I’m sure many parents of children in this age group are very keen to get their kids vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as they can,†he said.
Education and Training Minister Sue Ellery said it was important that families had the discussion about everyone over 12 getting vaccinated.
“Getting the COVID vaccine will better protect more people, their families and their friends,†she said.
All Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 12 to 15 years old are already eligible to access vaccinations through state-run vaccination clinics in regional and metropolitan areas, in addition to GPs and Aboriginal Medical Services.
Children in remote Aboriginal communities will be offered vaccinations as part of broader community outreach vaccination programs.
Australian Bureau of Statistics population estimates as at June 30, 2020 show there are 132,848 Western Australians aged 12 to 15 inclusive.
There have been more than 1.9 million vaccinations administered to West Australians
across the state.
Australians with blood cancer are battling to secure life-saving stem cell transplants amid acute COVID-19 disruptions and a funding crunch.
A stem cell or bone marrow transplant is the most effective form of treatment for most blood cancers and other life-threatening blood disorders. Patients are matched with a genetically suitable donor locally or overseas through the federal government funded Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry.
Neil Pennock, co-founder of TLR Foundation is calling on the federal government to address problems with Australia’s bone marrow donor pool.Credit:Rhett Wyman
The Australian Red Cross Lifeblood receives millions of dollars from federal and state governments to recruit new donors to the registry but experts say the model has failed to deliver the necessary donors.
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G’day everyone. I’m Roy Ward and I’ll be taking over the blog for this afternoon and this evening.
I hope you are all having a nice Sunday afternoon and thanks again for the comments and interactions so far today.
Enjoy the afternoon to come and enjoy this video from the MCG encouraging everyone to get vaccinated.
Thanks for following the blog today, I’m about to hand over to Roy Ward who will keep you updated into the evening. If you’re just tuning in to today’s live blog, here’s what you need to know:
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said while it was “fantastic news†that the state would receive additional doses of two COVID-19 vaccines in coming weeks, he had not been informed by the Commonwealth that extra vaccines were on the way.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a short time ago that 400,000 additional Pfizer and Moderna doses would be sent to Melbourne’s COVID-19 hotspots, predominantly in the city’s north and west.
Mr Andrews â€" who was conducting a press conference at the time Mr Morrison made his announcement â€" said he had not been advised about the extra jabs before Mr Morrison told reporters in Sydney.
“That’s apparently how our national government works these days, but anyway, I’m delighted to know that, that’s fantastic news,†Mr Andrews said.
“It’s hard to know what to expect really, isn’t it? I didn’t expect that hundreds of thousands of doses that should come to Victoria would have gone to Sydney, but they did.
“Maybe while I was talking to you, there’s a missed call on my phone, I don’t know.
“Let’s get (vaccines) into arms, that’s what I’m about ... Maybe if they’d been ordered last year, maybe they would have been in arms already.â€
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