Victoria has recorded 12,653 new cases of COVID-19 and 32 deaths. There are currently 872 people with COVID in hospital including 33 in ICU and 11 on a ventilator. That story and more in today's live blog. auspol COVID19Vic
Returning to the climate minister’s morning media blitz, and Chris Bowen has assured voters there won’t be the same level of political sledging under the Labor government when it comes to question time.
“In terms of my job, it hasn’t changed. All of my powers, functions and duties are derived from [the] act,” Stephen McBurney told the ABC’s“None of them changed as a result of the announcement on Sunday other than some responsibilities under the code.”The government views the agency, established by the Coalition in 2016 to specifically oversee the building industry, as a discredited and politicised organisation that hounds unions.
“It’s not for me to pass judgment on the unions. It is for the courts to assess the evidence we put before them and to apply the law accordingly,” he said. The commissioner added that the Fair Work Ombudsman, which will take the agency’s 39 outstanding cases and assume its oversight functions, would need adequate funding to do so.To international news briefly, and former US president Donald Trump has returned to Washington for the first time since the end of his term in office.
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