Breaking | Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will sign off on restoring the $750 pandemic isolation payment, reversing course on his earlier stance to let the payment lapse over winter. covid19
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will sign off on restoring the $750 pandemic isolation payment, reversing course on his earlier stance to let the payment lapse over winter.
He also backed a debate about reducing the current seven-day isolation period to five days, though he insisted he did not want that to happen while Sydney faced a challenging flu season and a surge in COVID cases. Albanese tweeted that he would “report to National Cabinet tomorrow [Saturday] morning and we will discuss proposals to ensure the vulnerable are protected over coming weeks”.
“We should move on it,” one minister said. “Do we actually want people at work when they’ve got COVID?” Perrottet said on Friday said he was open to “all discussions” at National Cabinet about funding isolation payments, including the potential for a 50-50 split, but he later told the“If the government forces you to not go to work because of public health orders, I fundamentally believe the government should compensate you,” he said.
“And whilst that is the case for the UK, they are not in winter. We have to be conscious of the fact we are in the middle of winter.”While Victoria supports the return of emergency payments and free rapid antigen tests for concession-card holders, the state has been relatively muted in the debate while Premier Daniel Andrews is on leave.
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