Morning mail: aged care Covid failures, Osaka withdraws, Australia’s winter forecast

Tuesday: where did the government go wrong with its aged care Covid response? Plus: Naomi Osaka pulls out of French Open

Good morning. How is Melbourne's aged cared sector again facing a Covid outbreak? That's the question many are asking as the number of cases continues to rise in Victoria, despite the lockdown. If the winter blues are starting to settle in, we've got news on the season's forecast and some warm grub recipes as we officially enter winter.

A woman whose parents died in Melbourne's aged care Covid outbreak last year has slammed the failure to prevent a repeat as unbelievable". The Melbourne outbreak has again exposed the failure to fully protect the sector, despite federal promises aged care workers would be vaccinated by March. Covid has infected staff who were working across multiple aged care homes, a practice experts and unions have repeatedly warned against. For once I would like one of these politicians to stand up and honestly answer questions about what the fuck they've been doing these past few months. Why aren't they being more proactive? Because lives are now at risk here," says Liz Beardon who lost both parents last August. The chief executive of a national chain of care homes has described the federal government's attempts to vaccinate staff as a dog's breakfast" and a shitfight".