NSW hotel guard tests positive as federal officials confirm no pension increase until at least March – as it happened

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Here's what we learned today:

9.39am BST

The security guard who appears to have contracted Covid-19 while working at a hotel quarantine facility later worked at Sydney's Flemington market and Parramatta local court, but did not work at Bankstown Central shopping centre, as chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant indicated earlier.

A previous case attended the shopping centre on 8 August.