Coronavirus Australia live update: alert issued for Melbourne to Sydney flight after passenger tests positive
by Naaman Zhou (now) and Amy Remeikis (earlier) from World news | The Guardian on (#58PTY)
The government will announce tax and deregulation measures on Friday, as declining Covid-19 cases offer hope for economic revival. Follow all today's news
- Tax breaks ahead in the budget
- Covid-19 aged care provisions insufficient'
- Full Australian Covid stats; Covid restrictions state by state
- NSW cases map; Vic cases map
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And that's where we'll leave the blog for today. Thanks, as always for reading.
A huge day today, with the news in the afternoon that US president Donald Trump has contracted Covid-19.
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The Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, has called on his party to choose an Indigenous person to take the parliamentary vacancy left by former health minister Jenny Mikakos, AAP reports.
We've got an opportunity now, a moment, and I don't think we should miss it," Andrews said on Friday.
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