First shipment of vaccine lands in Australia – as it happened
by Luke Henriques-Gomes and Amy Remeikis (earlier) from World news | The Guardian on (#5E614)
Parliament remembers apology to stolen generations, and quarantine-free border to New Zealand closed after new cases. This blog is now closed.
8.08am GMT
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Here are today's main developments:
7.54am GMT
Prof Tony Blakely, a top epidemiologist at the University of Melbourne, says the federal government should set up an independent agency to accredit and audit Covid quarantine hotels.
Blakely also says some federal politicians have politicised the most recent Victorian outbreak by talking about the state's contact tracing regime in a diversionary tactic to take the discussion off the federal government providing better quarantine facilities and support".
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