Former PM Paul Keating says Australia ‘has lost its way’; RACGP says urgent action is required to ramp up Indigenous vaccination rates; three new local Covid cases in Qld; Victoria records 14 deaths and 1,003 new cases; NSW records 216 cases and three deaths; international students to return to Victoria by the end of the year, Scott Morrison says – follow all the day’s news
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- Victoria vaccination rate map; NSW vaccination rates map
Prime minister Scott Morrison is speaking this morning at the Victorian chamber of commerce, where he is making it clear that Australia won’t be heading back into rolling, month-long lockdowns as long as he can help it.
Accused Sydney drug smuggler and fugitive Mostafa Baluch has been re-captured after more than two weeks on the run.
