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8.48am BST

Scott Morrison has travelled to Sydney and back to the ACT over the father's day weekend. Morrison flew to Sydney on Saturday and returned on Monday morning with an exemption from ACT chief health officer, Kerryn Coleman.

ACT Health strongly advises residents against travelling into NSW and the ACT usually requires residents returning from NSW to undergo a two-week quarantine period, although Morrison and other federal parliamentarians are classed as essential workers and can apply for exemptions.

The ACT chief minister, Andrew Barr, was asked about the prime minister's travel at the Covid briefing earlier today. Barr said:"I understand he may have travelled back to Sydney ... I'm sure he has abided by the requirements."

In July Labor queried whether Morrison was pushing the bounds of home quarantine at the Lodge, by holding outdoor press conferences there despite advice from Australia's chief medical officer that anyone who attends his Canberra residence should be vaccinated against Covid-19 and take daily saliva tests.

8.34am BST

Hi, this is Michael McGowan, back in the chair.

Incredibly distressing news here from our Indigenous affairs editor Lorena Allam, who reports that more than a thousand Aboriginal people in NSW now have Covid-19, with half of those cases in the west and far west of the state.

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