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1.34am BST
In other news, some childcare centres in Melbourne say they will close without government support because of falling enrolments caused by the second lockdown, Matilda Boseley reports.
One childcare manager, Mandy Kelly, from the Melbourne University Family Club Co-operative, said:
It looks like six weeks is the maximum we could go for and following that will have to think about closing. It makes me feel terrible. We have been here for 55 years.
Related: 'Disastrous': new lockdown means some Melbourne childcare centres could shut in weeks
1.25am BST
Neal said the inquiry had received a number of submissions about what went well, and what went less well" in managing hotel quarantine in Victoria.
He said that, without pre-empting anything to come in the inquiry, the following issues had arisen for discussion:
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