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Scott Morrison will meet with state premiers and territory chief ministers this afternoon for the first national cabinet meeting in more than a month.

We're told the agenda includes an update on international border arrangements and an update on testing, tracing, isolation and quarantine protocols.

We don't know where and we don't know when but this is community transmission.

He has caught it from someone in the territory but we don't know who ... Right now this bloke has no idea how he caught Covid and neither do we.