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Trump may support US Postal Service funding if added to virus stimulus
Australia suffered another deadly day with aged care homes again in focus. Follow our live updates here.
- Natasha Rudra and Fiona Buffini
Taylor to keep clamps on gas exporters
The Morrison government is poised to extend conditions on gas exporters that it says will help push down contract gas prices on the east coast.
- Phillip Coorey, Angela Macdonald-Smith and Elouise Fowler
'Absolute garbage': fury mounts over Australia's travel bans
Health Minister Greg Hunt says moves to lift the cap on Australians returning home might have to wait until Melbourne is on top of the virus.
- Andrew Tillett
No one in charge of Victoria's hotel quarantine
The lawyer leading the inquiry into Victoria's hotel quarantine debacle has 180,000-plus pages of documents but still has no idea who was in charge of what. There were "multiple and potentially overlapping" areas of responsibility.
- Hannah Wootton
Fury mounts over Australia's travel bans
Thousands of Australians remain stranded overseas; Victoria's second wave likely escaped hotel quarantine; Gladys Berejiklian says sorry for the Ruby Princess breach. Follow updates here.
- Ronald Mizen, Tom McIlroy and Fiona Buffini
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Letters: Don't blame states for border closures
Decentralisation, Victoria, lockdowns, productivity.
Opinion & Analysis
Berejiklian makes the right call backing staff
When governments make mistakes, none more so that cost lives, the public demands accountability, usually in the form of heads. The NSW Premier refused to give them one.
Senior correspondent
My virulent career: get ready for diseased jobs of the future
Like all great disruptors, a tiny virus is going to destroy jobs and create new ones.
Columnist
Everybody pays the price for border populism
States cannot attempt to keep a clean sheet on infections at home while they undermine the collective economy.
Editorial
If NSW falls so does the PM's virus narrative
NSW has been held up as the competent systemic face of dealing with a pandemic. So if things fall apart, the narrative that this is a failure of politicians, rather than a series of systemic failures, starts to fray.
Columnist
Yesterday
- Analysis
- Coronavirus pandemic
Berejiklian makes the right call backing staff
When governments make mistakes, none more so that cost lives, the public demands accountability, usually in the form of heads. The NSW Premier refused to give them one.
- Aaron Patrick
Investment needed to shore up gas supply shortfalls: ACCC
The competition watchdog has presented its latest snapshot of Australia's gas supply arrangements.
- Tom McIlroy
Tax Office probes early super withdrawals
More than 400 account holders withdrawing retirement savings through the government's superannuation early access scheme are being investigated by the tax office.
- Tom McIlroy and Ronald Mizen
This Month
States to remove border barriers for tradies, teachers
Should the deal go as planned, the only barrier to cross-jurisdictional movement would be any remaining border bans still in place due to the coronavirus.
- Phillip Coorey
'Real hope': Victoria's numbers start to fall
Victoria's harsh restrictions appear to be working as cases stabilise, but a 'cautiously optimistic' Premier Daniel Andrews has warned against complacency as numbers fall.
- Natasha Boddy
Class action lawyers find failings in Ruby Princess report
Lawyers leading a class action into the Ruby Princess debacle say a report has shown up significant mistakes by the ship's owners and cruise operators.
- Tom McIlroy and Fiona Carruthers
- Exclusive
- Coronavirus pandemic
Banks hand COVID-19 spending data to the ABS
Major banks have finalised a deal with the Australian Bureau of Statistics to hand over detailed data on the spending habits of business and consumers to better track investment and consumption.
- Tom McIlroy and Matthew Cranston
Labor turns up heat on aged care response
Former Labor leader Bill Shorten slammed the Morrison government's handling of the virus among aged care residents, saying their carers are paid 'crap' wages, as additional federal assistance was deployed to aged care facilities in Melbourne.
- Tom McIlroy
Faster Victorian lockdown backed by AFR readers
The Victorian government should have introduced a stage four lockdown sooner to get the state's second wave of coronavirus under control, the majority of readers of The Australian Financial Review say.
- Finbar O'Mallon
Victoria's curve flattens; hopes for vaccine by 2021
Premier Daniel Andrews announced that Victoria's state of emergency had been extended, but restrictions appear to be working; Jacinda Ardern's coalition partner Winston Peters wants the NZ election delayed; Labor says Australia is 'behind the world' in vaccine race. How Sunday unfolded.
Victoria reports 303 new cases, 4 more deaths
Study hints, can't prove, survivor plasma fights COVID-19. Germany declares most of Spain a virus risk region. Follow updates here.
- Timothy Moore
Feuding states create roadblock to Australia's recovery
The 'Team Australia' approach of just a few months ago has given way to competing state agendas, leaving businesses and families isolated and making Scott Morrison's task more difficult.
- Phillip Coorey and John Kehoe
The power of one: Rex Patrick's solo move shakes up the Senate
Senate powerbroker Rex Patrick's belief he needs to be a solo act for his political survival has thrown another wildcard into Senate horse-trading.
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Satire
My virulent career: get ready for diseased jobs of the future
Like all great disruptors, a tiny virus is going to destroy jobs and create new ones.
- Rowan Dean
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Everybody pays the price for border populism
States cannot attempt to keep a clean sheet on infections at home while they undermine the collective economy.
- The AFR View
NSW zooms in on travellers from Canberra
Strict new arrival procedures have been implemented on flights from the ACT, and officials are checking temperatures and IDs.
- Ronald Mizen
Spend big but don't make whoopee, PM tells states
The states must spend on productive measures such as social housing and infrastructure, not "make whoopee" with taxpayers' money.
- Phillip Coorey and Matthew Cranston
Victorians warned to avoid third and fourth wave
Average case numbers have dropped by a third as Victorians are warned early relaxation could cause a third and fourth wave.
- Tom Burton
Morrison apologises for aged care COVID-19 failures
The Prime Minister conceded that on some days COVID-19 'gets the better' of the national response in aged care.
- Tom McIlroy
