It’s been a tense start to the inquiry, with NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard stepping in for Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant at multiple points. Follow our live coverage:
Prime Minister Scott Morrison will not say if Australia will update its mid-term emissions reduction targets ahead of an international climate summit in Glasgow in November.
Mr Morrison said no one was seeking to eliminate COVID, but it had to be minimised before the country moved into the next, “transition” phase of the pandemic once 70 per cent of the eligible population was vaccinated. “Just look north to Sydney, about what happens when, geographic, local government area based decisions are made,” he said.“It doesn’t stop in geographic areas ... it’s the nature of those surrounding communities that are part of that. So there’s no plans to change that and the alternative is what’s been happening, of the inevitable creep that we’ve seen in New South Wales.”“If you want to have Victoria Police pounced on you, then, fine, take a risk that you’ll be caught,” he said.
Earlier in the press conference, Premier Gladys Berejiklian was asked what she thought about unvaccinated children returning to school while the virus was still circulating.Credit:“The NSW government never has and never would take decisions which would impact the safety of our citizens,” she said.
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