Scott Morrison says it’s time for Australians to go back to the house and report quarantine of returning travelers.
Q: In 1949, Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley sent troops to the coal mines to prevent a strike. Given that Australia is in a national emergency, would you like a similar query on the docks?
Scott Morrison:
I don’t happen to prejudge that kind of thing, we’re still on a level where I think this kind of thing would be dead and that it would never happen to something like that, my undeniable message today is to fix and avoid extortion, think of your fellow Australians and get back to work.
Q:
On the boardwalk, MUA said he had introduced himself to remove [medical supplies] from ships, but was rejected by Patrick. And why do they give up the right to take trade action while politicians continue to push for wage increases?
Morrison:
Well, they’re not.
Q: Politicians are receiving pay rises.
Morrison:
Well, they’re not.
Q: Why shouldn’t they take legal action?
Morrison:
We’re in the middle of a Covid recession, and the materials on the ships are going to have to land. It’s extortion and I won’t settle for that.
Q: Yesterday the freezing of childcare expenses in all states of Victoria was lifted. Given what we know about how families do things, what is their message to the centers?strategic options for childcare?
Scott Morrison:
Well, some points. Because, unless Victoria, the scenario is different, and the treasurer may have to comment on it in particular, what we are seeing across the country is the recovery of the Australian economy.
There is still a long way to go, however, if you look at the recent maximum employment figures we have observed at the national level and the task measured, more than 400,000 tasks have been returned, more than 400,000.
Now it was even more than that across the country when it eliminated the effect on Victoria, which saw the number of jobs pass.
So we see that all states and territories return to a much more powerful position.
We have said that our supports will be temporary, specific and proportionate and that we cannot be stuck in the same march in terms of our reaction to the Covid-19 recession.
We have to keep moving forward.
We will have to keep looking at the next step so that our economy strengthens and does not slow it down by keeping the supports in position for too long.
What we need to see is that economies continue, and as economies continue, family budgets will strengthen further and employment clients will be further strengthened.
Business and revenue will be further strengthened and this will allow Australians across the country to regain a position as close as possible to Covid.
Where there have been measures in the past, it’s time for them to move on.
Where there are particularly complicated scenarios, such as the Victoria scenario, we have been flexible and, I think, meaninglessly unusual in making exceptions and arrangements in those cases, but in other cases where we are moving forward and in Western Australia, for example. , the Prime Minister will tell you, I am sure, with pride that Western Australia, which is even contemplating having a smaller budget this year, will tell you the concept of keeping up. I think a lot of those guys in this environment would be contrary to intuition. It is vital that we continue to move forward and that we do not get stuck in the same direction when it comes to economic recovery.
Q: A theme through several of your recent announcements has been deregulation and the desire to release elements from controls. I wonder if you are convinced that this, in the end, will not be counterproductive in some cases. I’m thinking specifically of the announcement of your credit the other day, which, it turns out, can lead other people to be in a worse situation, to assume obligations they can’t afford.
Josh Frydenberg:
We had no less authority than the governor of the Reserve Bank to communicate how lending legislation had led to an aversion to threats to loans and array.
Q: But I’m talking about banks, consumers.
Frydenberg:
It’s about the consumer.
It’s about expanding into consumer credit, whether for a credit card, whether for a loan, and I know that industries like automotive, the housing industry, and others have embraced this government proposal.
We already have Apra as a prudential regulator with a popular loan that applies to banks, and it requires banks to identify the customer’s source of income and ability to repay.
What has happened over the past decade is that these regulations, which started with aspirin, are sometimes prescriptive, costly, and complex.
This leads to delays in lending. This means that loans are not obtained as they should otherwise, as banks’ aversion to threats decreases. So what we see that 20 is doing here is boosting Australia’s economic recovery by reducing non-compulsory bureaucracy, encouraging and facilitating loans if they are mandatory, but of course with mandatory customer protections.
Q: Do you have in the reaction of the Victorian bureaucracy to the pandemic?
Scott Morrison:
I’m guilty of many things, but I’m not guilty of Victoria’s Victorian government, it’s a Prime Minister’s matter, and you’ve opened an investigation into it, given the seriousness of the case and that report has not yet been presented. . I note that there have been lawyers who have commented, but the final report will be published and I am sure that the Prime Minister will communicate on this in due course.
Q: A consultation on what is happening in the riverside area at the moment with slow action in reaction to the search for a pay increase and other conditions, the Minister of Industrial Relations raised the prospect of some kind of intervention. federal government in this regard? And what would I take a look at?
Scott Morrison:
Well, I’m serious. There are 40 ships, and I’ve been told there are about 90,000 boxes there, these medical supplies.
I mean, we can’t get the militant end of the labor motion to have a good interaction in a crusade of extortion opposite the other Australian people in the midst of the Covid-19 recession. It’s ordinary, dreadful behavior.
And they admitted it the same on morning television this morning, so [they] are ambitious demands. It’s just extortion. It’s reprehensible.
Now, as I made some comments on Saturday, while I was in Adelaide, I thanked the labor movement, I thank the ACTU.
I thank Sally McManus for the way she has brought the motion to work down as a component of this process, I think, in the intelligent religion that the lawyer is directing and I think what’s going on with the MUA in Port Bat is at odds with the spirit of intelligent religion. I believe that the industry’s trade union motion should distance itself from this behaviour as much as the government does in condemning it.
If the time is for exorbitant demands, I would never say there never are, but not when Australians do such deceptive things. I mean, it’s probably exasperating.
Now, the express steps the government can take, well, I’ll leave it to the lawyer’s suggestion for the time being, but I must guarantee Australians that we’re not taking this lightly. That’s not the case and we’ll take it, steps to make sure this can lead, I think, to a more meaningful and quicker conclusion.
QUESTION: Prime Minister, as a component of the ongoing investigation into the melbourne hotel on 27 March, you appeared in that courtroom and announced this programme. It has given states a very short period of time to begin. Time was discussed at hearings, which put a lot of pressure on government officials.
Do you assume duty for the consequences of these time constraints?
Should they have had time?
Accept the suggestion of the board assisting in the investigation that, if the ADF offer has been made, it does not necessarily want to be accepted and it is not worth drawing any conclusions contrary to the Victorian government accordingly.
And since there is now the fear that some of those other people would be illegally detained, shut down the national office, take a look at some kind of hybrid style where you essentially have a classification system, see if other people will be quarantined. at the hotel and drop them off. move to their own homes?
Scott Morrison:
First of all, I do not forget very well the national cabinet meeting, it was the states and territories that pushed as hard as possible to move forward and advised us to act on a temporary basis to identify quarantine in hotels and we supported that. a fairly long yes and states were eager to move forward and get it going, so it was a genuine resolution of the national cabinet to launch states and territories to act as temporarily as they did.
I appreciated the fact that they were so interested in acting so temporarily and implemented those quarantine arrangements.
In all other states and territories, I think the delight in many others of Victoria’s, and it is a wonderful disgrace [for] Victoria. But, you know, that’s what happened and it’s all transparent to people.
With regard to the question of the moment, well, he proposed that the ADF be available, assumed by the maximum states, not by some, and it is a resolution of states and territories, so the maximum productive way to continue for the states and territories to be determined, so I will let the investigation make its own recommendations.
Thirdly, with regard to home quarantine problems, which is largely what I think is referring to, if we do not forget February and March this year, this is how it worked and I must say that among the Chinese. An Australian network, where the threat was greatest, where other people were returning from mainland China and even From Wuhan at one point, this home quarantine was followed incredibly diligently through our Chinese European network and this, as I have said many times, certainly proved important. Australia’s good fortune in managing the effect of that first wave.
Now I think home quarantine can play a long-term role and this is anything that is considered through the AHPPC and especially as we go beyond the phase we are in now and are looking to see . . . somewhere, to put either New Zealand or parts of the Pacific or places like South Korea or Japan or countries that have had, I think, a much higher rate of fortune, so there are opportunities to take a look at those methods of choice, sorting if you wish. And many countries do. Denmark uses a gentle formula for traffic that follows these lines.
In Greece, they have a set of rules that classify others according to their country of origin and position and quantify risk.
At the end of the day, the answer to your query is how you will manage the threat and how you will identify it, and then apply the appropriate solution to the threat that arises and I think over time we will want a more flexible technique that provides us with more functions to handle that, so I think it is anything that is actively under attention and Array when it arrives , which will obviously be decided basically through the fitness forums that can give the soft green to those kind of features again, but I hope we can get through it.
Everything is fine. So there are a lot of ads, but there’s only a week to go before the budget.
We move on to the questions.
Josh Frydenberg highlights some of the other settings: customer data:
The other initiative worth mentioning is the right to customer data. Prime Minister, when he was treasurer, he sold and proceeded to exchange electronic customer data in a secure and reliable way so that customers have more choice and get a less expensive product.
And we’ve already implemented customer knowledge through the open banking system, as it applies to credit cards today, but we’re also extending it to mortgages and non-public loans later this year.
This means that if you have a home loan of $ 250,000 and you are a trusted visitor to a bank, a long time visitor, you could possibly be paying $ 1000 more for the variable interest on your loan compared to the more productive you are. it is offered in the market place that is found in a different way. and we broaden customer insight directly into the energy sector and why it is vital, because again if you are on a state based payment system you would possibly be paying $ 400 more for an average set of energy materials you would get in a different way if you had the most productive medium source in the market place Array if you get the most productive deal available in the market place.
Finally, we all see virtual transformation as an opportunity, not a threat.
We need existing Australian companies for themselves by employing the virtual opportunities offered to them. We need new businesses in Australia to be born virtually, and in doing so we will help Australian consumers and Australian businesses.
Any of those changes? Electronic invoices.
Josh Frydenberg:
Electronic document distribution will now be an important task for companies. We now allow documents to run digitally and also allow virtual general meetings to be held.
For example, last year, Telstra published and issued 650,000 subpoenas at a charge of approximately $1 million, which will no longer be necessary. We also go to electronic invoicing through Commonwealth agencies.
This is when seller and buyer systems connect automatically and this reduces the cost of an invoice by approximately two-thirds. And it’s smart for small businesses that can pay much faster.
So, if you’re a fruit and vegetable supplier for a military barracks, if you’re an IT representative in a government department and switch to e-invoicing, we can get you paid much faster.
Today, 90% of small businesses still use paper bills, and if taken to the Commonwealth with states, governments are guilty of about 10% of all business expenses, and that’s a challenge I recently raised with state treasurers. Like last week and the Commonwealth was expected, by taking the e-invoicing initiative with states—and I know New South Wales already has ongoing action—other states will follow the Commonwealth’s example in this regard.
We’re Josh Frydenberg’:
As we all know, Covid-19 has replaced the global. Covid-19 has replaced Australia and Covid-19 has replaced corporations doing business. Nine out of ten Australian companies have used generation to adapt. In fact, it has been said that we have made five years of progress in advancing the use of the generation in this country and around the world in just 8 weeks.
Zoom has replaced air travel, telehealth consultations have replaced visits to GPs and e-commerce, which is already being developed, has taken it to the next level.
Now, Morrison’s passing government has made a number of transitory adjustments to our regulations through Covid to make sure companies can continue to do business and that others can continue to work despite the virus. those settings have permanent and pass extra in other areas.
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