Overview and Introduction

08 April 2020

• Australian cases near 6000; three children hospitalised
  08 April 2020
  Street Talk · Politics · Federal · Canberra Observed · Federal Election · Policy · Economy · Energy & Climate · Foreign Affairs & Security · Tax & Super ...
• Coronavirus JobKeeper support package worth $130 billion set to pass Parliament
  08 April 2020
  Australian citizens over the age of 16 are eligible if they are full-time or... be altered to allow politicians to work from home, as some have suggested.
• Coronavirus pushed the race to become Donald Trump's opponent to the background. Here's what ...
  08 April 2020
  Here's what you missed - US Election 2020 - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) ...

08 April 2020

• ACCC: 'We Cannot Stop Price Gouging, But New Biosecurity Act Powers Will Protect Some Products'
  08 April 2020
  ... such as Amazon and eBay, as well as at smaller retailers in Australia.... the ACCC cannot stop excessive pricing, the Australian Federal Police was ...
• Parliament returns for wage subsidy
  08 April 2020
  ... Senate select committee to scrutinise government policy. After weeks of sustained pressure from Australians stuck overseas, the federal government ...
• National cabinet usurps COAG role Paul Kelly
  08 April 2020
  That means a departure in executive government in Australia reflecting the... Morrison now operates on the principle of “the policy not the politics”.

08 April 2020

08 April 2020

• Prime Minister Scott Morrison warns COVID-19 fight could last more than six months
  08 April 2020
  Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese said Labor will allow the wage subsidy legislation to pass today, but called for the parliament to meet more often ...
• Stimulus debated as S&P cuts outlook
  08 April 2020
  Labor leader Anthony Albanese said the opposition, which supported the economic measures, would keep the government accountable over spending.
• Virus a threat to sovereignty, PM declares
  08 April 2020
  Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese said politicians came to Canberra with open hearts and open minds. "But we owe it to all Australians to keep our ...

08 April 2020

• Australia coronavirus live: parliament returns to pass stimulus measures as death toll hits 49 ...
  08 April 2020
  Australia coronavirus live: parliament returns to pass stimulus measures as death toll... Anthony Albanese then moves on to critics of Labor's position of... has put in place), which includes a very strong message to his party's base:.
• Labor Mp Nsw
  08 April 2020
  Leave State Labour Economics Office ReportsBack to upper level. MP (Legislative Assembly) Member for Mount Druitt ; Australian Labor Party ...
• Alp full form in medical term
  08 April 2020
  ALP | definition of ALP by Medical dictionary. https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/ALP. alkaline phosphatase test (ALP) a blood test used ...

08 April 2020

• Documents: South Coast Track Huts Walk; Order for the Production of Documents (27 Feb 2020)
  08 April 2020
  Nick McKim:...corrupt management plans. They have secretly handed over unknown amounts of cash to tourism developers and have then refused to reveal the terms of that exchange of funding. If we had a Commonwealth ICAC, I would be referring it to that ICAC today, because this is an absolute disgrace. But, of course, we don't have a Commonwealth ICAC, because the Liberals will not deliver an ICAC. Nearly...
• Statements by Members: Liverpool City Council (25 Feb 2020)
  08 April 2020
  Anne Stanley: The majority of the Liverpool City Council falls within the boundary of the electorate of Werriwa. The council has had a chequered history: ICAC raids, four CEOs in eight years, police being called to council meetings and industrial unrest. The election of Mayor Wendy Waller and the appointment of Kiersten Fishburn as CEO in 2016 put that to bed. Under this new leadership, Liverpool has...
• Documents: Community Sport Infrastructure Grants Program; Order for the Production of Documents (12 Feb 2020)
  08 April 2020
  Mehreen Faruqi:...will satisfy the community outside of this chamber. The shameless Morrison government is rotten to its core. They are compromised right from the top down. That is why they run scared from a federal ICAC. That is why they hide behind secret reports. That is why they betray the public in rort after rort. We will keep holding Scott Morrison and his cronies to account. We will keep doing...

08 April 2020

• CSIRO begins testing coronavirus vaccines
  CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, has started the first stage of testing potential vaccines for coronavirus (COVID-19). The testing, expected ...
• Australian update, NYC's deadliest day
  Coronavirus: Australian update, NYC's deadliest day. April 8, 2020: Parliament will vote on the government's proposed $130 billion Jobkeeper plan ...
• Coronavirus: Australia leads global economic fightback, and property will signal the way out
  Australia is now among the top three countries in the world best placed to ride out the coronavirus economic fallout, latest analysis of G20 countries ...

08 April 2020

• Coronavirus: More than 200000 register for government support
  08 April 2020
  ... payment have been finalised in the past few weeks, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in his opening statement to Parliament on Wednesday.
• Virus a threat to sovereignty, PM declares
  08 April 2020
  Scott Morrison channelled British wartime leader Winston Churchill in an address to federal parliament on Wednesday before it considered legal ...
• Secretary Pompeo's Call with Australian Prime Minister Morrison
  08 April 2020
  As stated by Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus:‎. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo spoke with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison today.

08 April 2020

• Coronavirus Australia live updates: Three quarantined children taken to hospital from Hilton hotel
  08 April 2020
  It will also send text messages with updates on COVID-19 in the state.... The university representative body Universities Australia, conservatively ...
• Coronavirus Australia live news: Adult and child in Sydney hotel quarantine test positive for COVID ...
  08 April 2020
  129 of the 227 federal politicians must be present in Parliament House for the House of Representative and Senate to function. That means almost half ...
• Coronavirus update: Australia's death toll hits 50 after Ruby Princess-related death, Thomas Modly ...
  08 April 2020
  On Monday night (local time), Mr Modly issued a public apology, but by then the calls among Democrats in Congress for his resignation were mounting.

08 April 2020

• Today in history, April 8: Death of Margaret Thatcher
  08 April 2020
  Australia's first bank note printed by the Bank of NSW in 1817.... 1982: John Howard is elected Australian Liberal Party deputy leader following Sir ...
• Coronavirus updates LIVE: Global COVID-19 cases surpass 1.4 million as Australian death toll ...
  08 April 2020
  Mr Bandt urged Labor to work with the Greens, not the Liberal Party, in an effort to "improve the government's coronavirus legislation, which leaves so ...
• Today in History, 8/4
  08 April 2020
  1933 - Unemployment in Australia reaches 500,000, or 24.4 per cent of the... 1982 - John Howard is elected Australian Liberal Party deputy leader ...