Coronavirus Australia live updates: national Covid-19 cases pass 8,000 as Victoria suburbs in lockdown – as it happened
Prof Michael Kidd says the milestone was passed in the last 24 hours; stay-at-home orders in place for 10 postcodes in Melbourne's north. This blog is now closed
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10.21am BST
Just before we go, we wanted to let you know that the Australian Federal Police has this evening announced that it will refer ABC journalists Dan Oakes and Sam Clark for prosecution over their 2017 reports, the Afghan files.
The AFP have sent a brief of evidence to the Commonwealth DPP, after years of investigating ABC journalists Dan Oakes and Sam Clark over the 2017 Afghan Files' series of stories.
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10.12am BST
We will leave our live coverage of the coronavirus crisis in Australia there for the night. You can continue to follow our rolling global coverage here and read a wrap of the day in Australia here.
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