Air New Zealand has put a three week hold on new inbound international bookings at the request of the government to align with the nation's quarantine facility capacity.
Air New Zealand has put a three week hold on new inbound international bookings at the request of the government to align with the nation's quarantine facility capacity. The airline has reduced their passenger capacity on some flights as NZ’s quarantine system choked under the surge in returned residents.
NZ Health Minister Chris Hipkins revealed the government was dissatisfied with the amount of coronavirus testing taking place with only 1,100 tests conducted on Monday. Mr Hipkins said 4,000 tests a day were necessary for the government to be sufficiently confident about the rate of community transmission. Image: News Corp Australia
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Australia has ‘demonised coal fired power’: Alan Jones | Sky News AustraliaTo secure Australia’s international strategic advantage, the best thing the country could do is to become a “global energy superpower” according to NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham.\n\nSky News host Alan Jones spoke to Mr Latham and Nationals Senator Matt Canavan about how Australia in recent years has “demonised coal fired power”.\n\n“Yet we’ve got hundreds and hundreds of coal fired power plants being built around the world,” Mr Jones said.\n\nMr Latham said coal and energy is one of the most important strategic questions for the Australian economy.\n\n“The immediate smart thing we could do is to become a global energy super power (because) we flourish in coal, nuclear, gas, renewables if they could hold their weight”.\n\n“That should be Australia’s international strategic advantage, reliable power, cheap power, and manufacturing jobs”.\n\nMr Canavan said if Australian coal was “good enough for the Chinese to use” then why isn’t it good enough for Australians to use.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia
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Labor’s Eden-Monaro primary vote shows it’s being ‘deserted by hard-working Australians’ | Sky News AustraliaLabor’s 36 per cent primary vote in the Eden-Monaro by-election underlines how the ALP is “being deserted by hard working Australians” according to Sky News contributor Campbell Newman.\n\nLabor’s Kristy McBain secured a victory in the by-election on Sunday afternoon, but the party recorded its lowest primary vote in the seat for 30 years.\n\nMr Newman said the election results equally highlight an issue for the Liberal Party,\n\n“A prime minister with a stratospheric approval rating hasn’t moved the needle”.\n\n“There needs to be some soul searching about why this is the case in the Liberal Party”.\n\nImage: Getty
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Daniel Andrews has to be held to account for ‘china-like’ tower lockdown | Sky News AustraliaThe Victorian government has “just done what China’s done” by locking up 3,000 people in housing commission towers in order to get on top of the state’s COVID-19 outbreak, according to Liberal Senator James McGrath.\n\nPolice moved in, on Saturday, to secure the nine public housing towers placed into a five-day mandatory lockdown by the Victorian government amid the state's second major outbreak of COVID-19. \n\nVictorian Premier Daniel Andrews has taken the unprecedented step to lock down 3,000 residents in nine public housing estates in the suburbs of Flemington and North Melbourne for five days from Sunday. \n\nThe extraordinary measures come as Victoria recorded 108 new coronavirus cases in the preceding 24 hours, the highest since March 28.\n\n“I can’t believe people aren’t more angry about this,” Senator McGrath told Sky News host Paul Murray.\n\n“Daniel Andrews has got to be held to account.”\n\nImage: Getty
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Labor has been ‘captured by a pro-China faction’ | Sky News AustraliaLiberal Senator James McGrath says the Labor Party needs to stop acting like a “second rate defence agent” for the action of the Chinese communist dictatorship.\n\n“The Labor Party have been captured by this pro-China faction,” Mr McGrath told Sky News host Paul Murray.\n\nIt comes as Labor members continue to criticise the government and coalition backbenchers for publicly disparaging the actions of the Chinese Communist Party including the introduction of radical national security laws onto Hong Kong.\n\n“We are facing a serious problem here,” he said.\n\nImage: AP
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Don’t ‘rule out’ the prospect of President Kanye | Sky News AustraliaIf Donald Trump was able to defy expectations and win the presidency in 2016, perhaps Kanye West can do the same in 2020, according to the Australian’s Institute’s Ebony Bennett.\n\nMr West has announced he is running for US president - and he has already won the backing of billionaire Elon Musk.\n\nThe American rap star posted a message to his 29.4 million Twitter followers in which he suggested he was entering the 2020 presidential race.\n\nIt was not immediately clear if Mr West was serious about vying for the presidency four months before the vote takes place on 3 November, or if he had filed any official paperwork to appear on state election ballots.\n\nThe deadline to add independent candidates to the ballot has not yet passed in many states.\n\nUS President Donald Trump - who West has been a vocal supporter of in the past - is set to go head-to-head with Democratic candidate Joe Biden in November's election.\n\nMs Bennett told Sky News said Mr West has never shied away from politics.\n\n“If Donald Trump can become President of the United States, then I think Kanye could do it,” she said.\n\nHe has been very political, not only in his artistic career, but also in his personal life, I recall him talking about George Bush not caring about black people in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.”\n
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FULL MEDIA CONFERENCE: Albanese congratulates Kristy McBain the wake of Eden-Monaro victory | Sky News AustraliaOpposition leader Anthony Albanese has congratulated Kristy McBain for her victory in the Eden-Monaro by-election and denied he was under political pressure to retain the ultra-marginal seat.\n\nWith well over 80 per cent of the votes counted, Ms McBain leads Liberal candidate Fiona Kotvojs 50.59 to 49.41 on a two candidate preferred basis.\n\nSpeaking with reporters on Sunday, the former Bega Mayor said she will focus on the bushfire recovery effort when she arrives in Canberra and promised to work in a bipartisan manner to help the region.\n\nLabor's primary did drop between three and four per cent, however preferences allowed the party to get over the line in the tight contest.\n\nThe by-election was sparked by former Labor MP Mike Kelly deciding to retire from politics due to long-standing health issues. \n\nMr Albanese said it was always going to difficult for Labor to retain the seat.\n\n'We have won a by-election against the odds, after the government, as you would be aware, were briefing out earlier in the week that they were going to win,” he said.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n
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