Travellers are being quarantined at the airport at which they entered Australia, meaning they will not be able to board a connecting domestic flight.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is yet to confirm the cost of the program but says it will be paid by states and territories. Image: News Corp Australia
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Only TWO MONTHS TOO LATE 🤦♀️ If GregHuntMP ScottMorrisonMP had any concern for peoples lives this would have happened in February.
I would argue tough new rules would be sending them straight back to where they came from
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News Corp offers free digital news | Sky News AustraliaNews Corp Australia will give readers a free 28-day subscription to give the public access to premium content while the coronavirus forces many people into self-isolation.\n\nThe offering will give readers access to digital news from their favourite mastheads, including the Daily Telegraph, Courier Mail, Herald Sun and Adelaide Advertiser.\n\nDaily Telegraph executive editor Louise Roberts told Sky News her paper was working tirelessly to provide important health updates to the public.\n\nNews Corp Australia is the publisher of skynews.com.au\n\nImage: Getty News Corp. is an untrustworthy source of news. realpetersawyer Paywalls aren’t the reason you’re being smashed by the ABC on digital platforms, but sure thing go your hardest. Expect to see an even higher proportion of ABC-attack pieces to ‘inform the community on coronavirus’ from this point forward 🙄
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Australian authorities need to keep 'an eye on China's games' | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Paul Murray says although talking about China during this crisis is “a rabbit hole that we don’t need to go down” there are a few new developments that need attention.\n\nReports have emerged about a Chinese-owned property company shipping more than 80 tonnes of medical equipment including 'millions of facemasks' from Australia to China.\n\nMr Murray said if this was to happen now it “would be a criminal offence” because these products are “meant to help us here”.\n\nIt seems for these Australian businesses “their first loyalty isn’t to their fellow citizens here but it’s to the mother country”.\n\nMr Murray said it is important to be wary of ‘predatory’ corporate acquisitions given Australian companies “are worth less than they were going into” coronavirus which makes them “absolute rife targets for takeover”. \n\nThe absolute bad news of the coronavirus is ' keeping an eye on the games of China,' he said.\n\nImage: AP we all know about China's government, but we should not dissuade our fellow neighbours that quickly... if your listening to a child US government under trump that is... You are so far out of date it is ridiculous Never mind Russia being a threat to the world, China has taken it to the next level as they have shown a total disregard to human lives out there. They’re arrogance is absolutely suffocating
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Australian hospitals 'well and truly ready' to cope with COVID-19 | Sky News AustraliaThe Deputy Chief Medical Officer assures Australians the nation's hospitals are 'well and truly ready' to cope with coronavirus. \n\nProfessor Paul Kelly said the heathcare system is very fexible, and intensive care capacity has doubled. \n\nThe median age of patients is 48-years old, the eldest 98, and the youngest a baby.\n\nA third of infections were locally-acquired, the majority having made clear contact with a confirmed case. \n\nImage: AP Yes his spin is now we can cope what about 2 weeks,I am immunity compromised, waiting heart surgery,64yr old may get sick in 2 weeks? Any mention MORE respirators etc.?Or trust School b open cause kids safe & not spreaders bull,don't trust Slow Mo's apprentice spinner & Gvt lacky I sincerely hope they are because I’m sure that’s what we all thought in Europe and the UK BigCall
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Australian army to be deployed to enforce mandatory quarantine measures | Sky News AustraliaThe Australian government is deploying the army to ensure overseas travellers comply with mandatory self-isolation rules.\n\nNew quarantine measures will force all returning Australians to quarantine in hotel rooms for two weeks.\n \nEach day between 3,000 and 5,000 people are expected to arrive in Sydney.\n Martial Law nickbarnesaus Cheap labour? Just like when we were used for cheap labour doing security checks for the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 06. Excellent decision. Maybe now people will get the message as still, people just don’t get it. First it was Bondi and it was St Kilda beach. What part of social distancing people don’t get. It is serious so get with the program
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Iconic Australian stores close amid pandemic | Sky News AustraliaIconic Australian brands R.M. Williams, Country Road and Cotton On Group are among the latest retail stores to close their doors as the coronavirus continues to spread across the country. \n\nThe move came after Myer announced it would shut down for at least one month, putting 10,000 employees out of work. \n\nImage: Getty CountryRoad CottonOn Proving that you don’t make profits without workers. CountryRoad CottonOn Again, surprised they were still open. CountryRoad CottonOn You can thank your mate Slomo
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China essentially treats Australia ‘like a shopping mall’ | Sky News AustraliaCountries should be 'asking for reparations” from China after its insistence coronavirus posed no danger to the rest of the world says Sky News host Rowan Dean.\n\n“The damages done to the world by the Chinese cover up … is running into the trillions of dollars,” he said.\n\nMr Dean's comments come in light of recent revelations of Australian-based Chinese companies buying pallets-worth of medical supplies like masks, hazmat suits, and gloves to be sent over to China in January and February.\n\nMr Dean said these supplies are “the sort of stuff we desperately need now but don’t have because they bought it all up and took it back to China”.\n\nHe told Sky News host Peta Credlin China basically “treats us like a shopping mall” with Chinese companies stripping away “whatever it wants (to) take it back home”.\n\nImage: AP Omg shut up... let’s just get through this without the blame game, or pointing fingers sheesh Step up to the plate Mr Morrison Xi Jinping will be signing cheques left, right and centre on Dean's say so.
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