Health Minister Greg Hunt has announced $66 million in funding for COVID-19 vaccine development.
About $19 million will go to vaccines with $5 million going to the University of Queensland, which has one of the world’s leading vaccine projects in relation to coronavirus prevention. Nine anti-viral projects around the nation are also being funded. Image: News Corp Australia
GregHuntMP I hope it has nothing to do with Novotech the 'Australian Lab Rat' conglomerate. Sorry Hunt not a reliable 'Health' Minister.
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Federal government 'looking to hold up' construction industry amid COVID-19 | Sky News AustraliaPopulation Minister Alan Tudge says the government is investigating “what we can do to really hold up” the construction industry in Australia as the economic ramifications of the coronavirus pandemic continue to be felt. \n\n Mr Tudge said the government is “looking at seeing if we can stimulate the residential construction sector” within the nation. \n\n“The construction sector as a whole is, about 1.3 million jobs, it’s a massive part of the economy,” Mr Tudge told Sky News host Chris Kenny. \n\nSky News revealed on Sunday the government will introduce new homeowner grant to encourage the construction of new homes, with the Australian revealing today the program will be available for renovations.\n\nThe scheme will allow people buying newly constructed homes or renovating their existing home to access between five to ten thousand dollars.\n\nThe payment threshold is expected to be on homes worth $500,000 to $800,000. \n\nThe construction sector is expected to experience a significant slowdown, with demand constricting due to the COVID-19.\n\n“The main-focus will still be on trying to get new houses constructed … (as) that obviously produces more jobs,' Mr Tudge told Sky News. \n\nHe said the federal government is investigating “what we can do to really hold up that industry”. \n\nImage: AP AlanTudgeMP BUILD HOUSING...helps ppl need housing and helps create work~JOBS ...everyone wins. AlanTudgeMP Another me to Dan Andrews,Morrison cant think for himself, the great prentender AlanTudgeMP Are these idiots or psychopaths finally realising we are economically strangled due to past & present political policy & how they deliberately destroyed our capability using trade agreements to destroy us ignoring our Constitutional Laws? I say swim in it they built the swamp!
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Trump would have to 'surpass all presidential achievements' to resolve race tensions | Sky News AustraliaFollowing the “heartless and appalling” death of African-American man George Floyd, the protests are now giving 'way to violent opportunism,” Sky News host Chris Kenny says. \n\nPolice and protesters are facing off in another night of unrest in the United States as violent demonstrations continue to erupt over the death of Mr Floyd.\n\nMr Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes as he told them 'I can't breathe'.\n\nNationwide protests have subsequently been sparked across the country, leading to violence, the burning of buildings and further deaths and arrests. \n\n“There are so many acts of violence, so many horrific stories in cities across the US,” Mr Kenny said. \n\n“And there is a lot of ill-informed, whether deliberate or not, commentary about this being the destruction of America, the inevitable result of Donald Trump's divisiveness”. \n\n“Barack Obama had to deal with recurring race rights in Ferguson, Missouri, after another African American man, Michael Brown, was killed by police and those riots spread across the nation,” he said. \n\nHe said US President Donald Trump must now “check himself” and “make sure he doesn't tweet or do anything to make it worse”. \n\nLast week, a Tweet by US President Donald Trump relating to 'looting and shooting' and the violent protests in Minneapolis was 'hidden from view' on the social media platform with Twitter stating it violates rules about 'glorifying violence'.\n\n“There is no doubt there is a partisan strain to all this, the left who first began violent protests against Trump the day he was elected, are certainly part of the push now, still taking out their frustrations again”. \n\n“The question now is when and how it will stop, or at least subside?” Mr Kenny said.\n\nImage: AP \n\n Both good descriptions of the behavior of the police. 'So let's blame the protestors, and not the systemic racism of the police, for whom murder is a normal occurrence' Right wing loud mouth abusive president turns into loud mouth abusive protests. Go figure..... It wouldn't happen under a real leader like Mandela or Ghandi. Talk abuse get abusive people simple.
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Violent protests and looting 'occurring out of anger and frustration' | Sky News AustraliaCNN reporter Darryl Forges in Minneapolis says protesters, looters and the ensuing violence has stemmed 'out of frustration' and ' out of anger at the injustice they believe is happening throughout the country' following George Floyd's death. \n\nPolice and protesters are facing off in another night of unrest in the United States as violent demonstrations continue to erupt over the death of Mr Floyd.\n\nMr Floyd was an unarmed black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes as he told them 'I can't breathe'.\n\nSky News host Chris Kenny said anyone who has seen the video of George Floyd's death 'would be sickened and demand justice' and said the 'lawlessness' of the subsequent protests 'is shocking not just the US, but the rest of the world'. \n\nMr Forges said the protesters want 'stiff charges' laid against the four officers who were allegedly involved in the incident. \n\nImage: AP CNN 🤪 Yes and they are looting out of frustration also 🤔 Truth doesn’t fit your narrative ?
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We can’t pretend President Trump is ‘personally responsible’ for violent riots: Murray | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Paul Murray says as another day passes with more violence spreading in the US the “further we get away from the entire reason why these riots took place”.\n\n\nPolice and protesters are facing off in another night of unrest in the United States as violent demonstrations continue to erupt over the death of George Floyd. \n\nMr Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes as he told them 'I can't breathe'. \n\n“You can’t pretend looting shops has anything to do with police brutality,” Mr Murray said.\n\n“You can’t pretend Donald Trump is personally or even tangentially responsible for what happened here”.\n\nMr Murray pointed to President Trump’s announcement of classifying Antifa as a terrorist organisation, and said there is now a “particularly nasty strain of extremists who are starting to get involved ginning up these crowds”.\n\nImage: AP\n realDonaldTrump Today slip is ready don't miss it check my dm we engage realDonaldTrump Today slip is ready don't miss it check my dm we engage realDonaldTrump
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Instead of 'trying to discover COVID origins,' the ABC 'tries to rubbish revelations' | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Chris Kenny says the ABC is engaging in an “extraordinary move” as its investigation unit attempts to discredit a Sharri Markson exclusive which “attracted international interest” on the COVID-19 outbreak, all at the taxpayers' expense. \n\nHe said the exclusive by Sky News host Sharri Markson, which was published in the Daily Telegraph concerned an alleged cover-up by Chinese authorities regarding the coronavirus outbreak. \n\n“It attracted international interest and amplified calls for a full and independent inquiry into the outbreak – something that China has not only strongly resisted but has punished Australia with trade sanctions for daring to suggest”. \n\nHe said the ABC’s “priority is to rubbish” the exclusive and “refute” Ms Markson’s story. \n\nDiscussing the issue, Sky News host Sharri Markson said, 'it’s quite extraordinary that you have the public broadcaster trying to bully journalists out of pursuing a legitimate line of inquiry that western governments all around the world know is a possibility if not a strong possibility”.\n\n'Media Watch and the ABC seem to be against anyone breaking a story, unless the vision is supplied by animal activists, the research is done by unionists or it mentions some cooked up claims about Russian collusion,' Mr Kenny said.\n\n'I think this is extraordinary because the ABC is doing all this at your expense ... rather than spending their resources, their investigations unit, trying to find out what happened, where the virus came from, they want to spend all their efforts trying to knock over a story because it came from News Corp'. \n\n'And because maybe it's a story that Donald Trump likes'. \n\nImage: Getty Um - that’s because it was BS. Mind you, it sucked in the morons at FauxNews . Sharri got to be on racist Tucker Carlson’s show. Giddily exciting. 5 eyes - more like 5 lies... When is SkyJoke going to focus on actual news?
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National broadcaster ‘is self-absorbed' in spruiking ABC | Sky News AustraliaThe national broadcaster acts as if “a billion dollar a year public institution shouldn’t be accountable” and engages in 'self-absorption,' says Sky News host Chris Kenny. \n\nMr Kenny said, “there is no one so obsessed with the ABC, as the ABC”. \n\nHe said even when their hosts, such as Kerry O'Brien and Barrie Cassidy “leave to live off their ABC retirement deals” the national broadcaster “brings them back to do more for the ABC”. \n\nMr Kenny said those at the ABC, like presenter Paul Barry, seem “to think the only access to information” which can be utilised “is through the ABC”. \n\nHe also said predictions which were expressed on the national broadcaster over the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia ended up being 'wildly alarmist and wrong' given how the coronavirus curve has been flattened in the nation. \n\nImage: Getty The most accurate part of this is that Chris Kenny said it. What he said, not so accurate. Sky feeling threatened by real dependant journalists
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