National cabinet has been brought forward to Saturday in a snap decision that underscores the urgent need to address growing COVID caseloads.
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 will advocate for a time-limited reinstatement of the payment at the cabinet meeting as infections skyrocket and hospitalisations increase.
Albanese flew back from the Pacific Islands’ Forum in Fiji and straight into the briefing with Butler, Kelly and Murphy over surging COVID infections and hospitalisations.Australia recorded 43,488 new cases over the last 24 hours and another 90 hospitalisations, taking that current total to 4,602 people.
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.”
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