Rio Tinto boss Jean-Sébastien Jacques bowed to investor tension over the Juukan Gorge debacle and resigned, along with two top executives.
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School graduates attending formal schools in New South Wales have won Covid-19 guidelines.
The SPG reports on the formalities announced through the state’s Minister of Education, Sarah Mitchell.
So how do you like it in 2020?
Avoid spontaneous crowds, live stream to others who can’t attend, restrict the number of guests, don’t mix before and after events, and schools must abide by the four-square-foot rule for each participant.
Oh, and the students bring their own pen (to point to the yearbook).
Victoria’s judicial investigation into her hotel quarantine program continued today, with evidence from two Health Department workers suggesting ambiguity as to who is to blame for the program.
The SPG reports that Pam Williams and Merrin Bamert of the Department of Health and Human Services shared the role of commander of Operation Soteria, the force that led the program.
The other two people were asked who in the rate of each hotel.
Williams said the branch took over its own services and subcontractors, but that hotel managers cared for their own ArraySecurity corporations controlled their guards.
She:
We work as a team. It was a difficult team to manage, an environment where the same things you always do to expand a team were not possible.
The investigation won an email from Bamert in which he stated that he is “not sure who you believe is responsible for” the program.
“This operation is controlled from a number of sites without a transparent operational structure,” Bamert wrote in the May 21 email.
Responding to an email from Safer Care Victoria, an authority investigating the death of a quarantined man at a hotel in April.
Williams said more than 20,000 people had completed the quarantine program from March 29 to their suspension in June.
She:
Of these, seven other people in 3 rooms were concerned about the spread, so in fact 96. 8% of other HIV-positive people in hotel quarantine did not continue to spread the virus.
About 99% of the covid-19 state wave can be attributed to returning foreign travelers who have been quarantined at two hotels.
The Deputy Director of Health, Annaliese van Diemen, attended the investigation as planned.
She will appear next week along with Health Director Brett Sutton, Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp, Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton and former police officer Graham Ashton.
Our Friday began with the recurring risk of New South Wales Deputy Prime Minister John Barilaro to blow up the state coalition for new legislation for the big koalas.
But was it the non-marsupial bear?
Adam Morton, editor of Guardian Australia, has this problem.
“We all make mistakes. . . “
Victoria Police Commissioner Luke Cornelius’ assistant police commissioner, his reaction to the melbourne blockade protests, gave him the feeling that “a dog is coming back to eat his own vomit. “
In comments reported through SPG this afternoon, Cornelius said he is fed up with the protests. There are some other proposals for the city on Saturday, a “Melbourne Freedom Walk,” which would require significant police resources, he said.
“I feel a bit like a dog reeating his own vomit . . . I’m in poor health.
If other people were less self-centered and a little more adult, we wouldn’t have to keep doing it.
Cornelius has hinted that claiming that walking is a legal “exercise” under the blockade of the city can be treated with skepticism.
“Don’t take us for fools, ” he said, “we will hesitate to impose fines. “
Police had warned several people that they were making plans to demonstrate in the city, he said.
Cornelius suggested that anti-lockdown protesters “be creative” in the house by speaking and encouraging demonstrations.
Also on Friday, Victoria’s Prime Minister Daniel Andrews told protesters, “All they do is the virus. “
Approximately 1,100 other people had expressed interest in the march and 340 had pledged to attend before Facebook got rid of the event’s online page on Wednesday.
Victoria’s chief police commissioner, Shane Patton, has reported additional protests elsewhere this weekend.
The “Freedom” posters for this Sunday and every Saturday until the end of the restrictions run online.
Victoria’s investigation into the state’s quarantine program will hear testimony from the state’s fitness director, Professor Brett Sutton, next week.
The investigation has announced its witness list for next week, and Sutton must appear Wednesday and Victoria’s chief police commissioner Shane Patton will appear in court on Thursday.
The investigation examines how and why Covid-19 has been controlled to escape the state hotel quarantine program.
On Tuesday, the survey posted photos of “quarantined” visitors going to a convenience store. A former police officer had also sent emails to the police, according to the investigation, raising considerations about the personal security corporations that ran the facility.
The afternoon people. Graham Readfearn succeeds Amy Remeikis.
If occasions are on your list of ‘things to watch out for in the event of a pandemic’, then Rugby Australia boss Rob Clarke welcomed today’s news.
He spoke to the CBA about Rugby Australia’s announcement that Australia will host what it described as a “mini World Cup” in November and December. It’s the 2020 Rugby Championship.
Argentina, New Zealand, South Africa and Australia will play 12 games for six weeks with rounds in New South Wales and one in Brisbane.
As reported through SPG, Argentina has lately had Covid-19 cases in its camp and the South African team will want their government to ease the restrictions.
The CBA asked Clarke if it was right for sports groups to come in and out at a time when millions of Victorians are still facing difficult blockades.
I think the game has a really vital role to play in helping give Australians everything they lack. If there’s nothing bigger than chasing a rugby mini World Cup, then I don’t know what it is. people will do it with our teams.
I sense the difficulties other people are going through, particularly in Victoria right now, but as long as this festival arrives in November, I hope it unifies Australia and gives them something to cheer them on.
Now I’ll deliver the document to Graham Readfearn for the rest of the afternoon.
I’ll be back early on Monday morning, but probably not with a bushy tail, because, well, it’s Monday.
Thank you all for joining me this week. In fact, I appreciate it. Take the time to turn off and do nothing this weekend, anything that looks like you, don’t do anything or turn it off. There’s a lot of data out there and you just have to turn it off.
Once again, thank you for us. Take care. Cut
Penny Wong issued this statement:
Labour’s mind is with Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert and her circle of relatives as they announce the anniversary of their detention.
According to them, it is two years of “unimaginable pain,” a pain that will no doubt continue until Dr. Moore-Gilbert returns home. In the meantime, we wish you continued strength.
The Labour Party supports the government’s efforts to secure the release of Dr. Moore-Gilbert and to discharge normal consular access until this happens.
We reject the fees you are in detention.
Dr. ‘s family, friends and colleagues. Moore-Gilbert have worked tirelessly to make sure she is not forgotten, and the Labour Party will continue to advocate for her to return to them soon.
Executive Vice President Michael Kidd provides covid’s national update, which includes this information:
Today, the leaders of the tactile search procedure in Victoria and New South Wales met with Australian chief scientist Alan Finkel to share their reports and concepts on how measures can be further simplified in both states.
The fight opposing the Covid-19 requires a dynamic and global reaction, this is the hallmark of the reaction to the Covid-19, both nationally and in each of our states and territories.
I note the innovations that have been announced through the Victorian Premier in the contact localization procedure in that state and would like to congratulate everyone involved in public fitness efforts in Victoria on their determination and commitment to temporarily master this wave of moments.
The Legal Council is too comfortable with the extension of the emergency measures on the occasion of the insolvency of Josh Frydenberg and Christian Porter, which has ended any challenge for the corporations to probably negotiate in the event of insolvency:
The Australian Legal Council has raised a number of considerations on the federal government’s announcement this week of its objective of taking major emergency transitional action in the event of insolvency, caused by the Covid-19 crisis, until 2021.
The joint announcement, made through the Treasurer and attorney general, proposed increasing the transitority that accumulates at the threshold at which creditors can factor legal notice, increase transitional bankruptcy protections, and increase the transitional exemption for non-public entity administrators. responsibility for insolvency operations.
Australia’s Legal Council President Pauline Wright noted that the laudable justification for the proposed extension of these measures to reduce the risk of movements that can unnecessarily push companies into insolvency and external management at a time when they continue to be affected. through fitness restrictions.
However, on the basis of the recommendations of the Insolvency and Restructuring Committee (Committee) of the Commercial Law Section of the Australian Legal Council, Ms Wright suggested that the government thoroughly review all emergency insolvency measures before extending them beyond December. 31, 2020 to accidental consequences.
Delaying the steps that would otherwise lead to the liquidation of non-viable businesses exposes more viable companies to vital creditors of these unsustainable companies, which can spread contagion, making the wave of prospective insolvency more widespread and difficult to resolve.
Temporary emergency measures and any other relief for struggling businesses, the existing pandemic will eventually be eliminated. When this happens, the remaining banks will likely be so disadvantaged from potential assets or recoveries that external administrators, who generally run small businesses, would possibly be reluctant to take on the arduous responsibilities of liquidating bankrupt entities.
In addition, prolonging the inevitable start of settlements and bankruptcies allows even longer from the date of potentially nullifiable transactions in a different way, thus expanding the opportunities for pre-insolvency advisers to help design the affairs of a bankrupt entity to derail. creditors’ claims Such extension may result in illegal activity by Phoenix.
As a result of these concerns, the Legal Council considers that, in order to avoid accidental negative consequences, any additional extension of the emergency measures of transitority in the event of insolvency shall be considered conscientiously as and, if it continues beyond 31 December 2020, any existing measures. can only be formulated after extensive consultation.
Victoria Health has published their official knowledge of the day:
The average number of cases diagnosed in the last 14 days for the city of Melbourne is 65. 3 and regional Victoria is 4. 7. The average cellular case is calculated by averaging the number of new cases in the last 14 days.
The total number of instances of a stranger in the last 14 days is 134 for the city of Melbourne and seven for the Victoria region. The 14-day era for acquisition knowledge ends 48 hours before the 14-day era used to calculate the average of new instances due to the time required to fully investigate a case and assign its acquisition method.
In Victoria right now:
Of the 1,336 assets in Victoria:
Of the total number of cases:
Outbreaks of active elderly care with the number of cumulative cases are:
In Victoria, there are currently thirteen active housing instances for people with disabilities:
Outbreaks of non-elderly care with the number of active cases include:
The Department is investigating cases involving two circles of family teams in southeast melbourne and a Monash Health Service.
The Anglican dean of Brisbane, Peter Catt, cast a vote on behalf of environmental activist Ben Pennings and said a court order against him was a “sad accusation. “
The court order, requested through mining company Adani and granted through the Queensland Supreme Court, orders Pennings to remove social media posts and other content data about Adani’s Carmichael mine.
In a statement, Catt Pennings to anti-slavery and suffrage activists, who were “punished through the legal or political systems of the time. “
It is an unhappy accusation that a local man fighting for transparency has been gagged, as well as engaging in non-public activities on social media. The irony of this scenario is not lost to any of us, who have the right of Americans to use their Public Social Media Channels for the common good.
Despite today’s failure, I sign up for many others who are encouraged and encouraged through other people like Mr Pennings, who strives to keep our communities healthy and, at wonderful non-public and monetary spending.
His courageous example will actually motivate other Australians to sign up for the developing motion to protect our iconic Great Barrier Reef and the groundwater resources our farmers have so much count on.
Course.
The parliamentary committee that examined what happened in Juukan Gorge responded today to Rio Tinto:
The Northern Australian Committee welcomed the resignation of top Rio Tinto executives following the destruction of Aboriginal heritage sites in Juukan Gorge.
Committee Chairman Warren Entsch noted that the need for a high-level duty to the Juukan Gorge incident has been evident to all stakeholders.
“The evidence obtained through the Committee evidently showed that Rio Tinto’s internal culture is a vital factor in the destruction of these sites.
New leadership, new structures and new operating principles within the company will prevent such mistakes in the future.
The Committee welcomed the commitment made through Rio Tinto President Simon Thompson to ensure that “the destruction of a heritage of such exceptional archaeological and cultural importance never happens again in a Rio Tinto operation”. Entsch expressed the hope that similar commitments would be made through other mining companies.
The committee also expressed its preference to meet with outgoing executives as soon as possible to discuss Rio Tinto’s past testimony of the investigation and explore the implications of the adjustments announced at the company.
Earlier this week, the Committee announced that research into the destruction of Juukan Gorge sites would continue, despite the postponement of its planned stopover in Western Australia due to difficulties similar to interstate travel.
Other main points of the investigation can be found on the Committee’s website.
The Victorian hotel quarantine program did not stick to national cabinet decisions, revealing the minutes of meetings held in May for the hotel quarantine management operation.
In the minutes of the Assembly of Operation Soteria on April 10 published on Friday from the quarantine investigation of the hotel, the assembly notes read:
The Commonwealth makes secure decisions at the border. Victoria makes its own decisions on detention, in some cases we have aligned ourselves with decisions made at the national level, but in others we have several and it has been accepted at the national level that states and territories are linked.
Pam Williams, head of accommodation for the hotel quarantine operation at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), said she understood the discussion that Victoria had a much stricter policy regarding sea arrivals.
Williams asked if the lack of a leader explained in hotel quarantine environments had made the situation worse.
She said it was confusing because she was operating in a hotel and the Department of Employment, Circumscriptions and Regions controlled contracts, in addition to DHHS’s role, she said that before leaving office and that the Justice Department had taken over quarantine control at hotels, she is creating clearer structures and more qualified team leaders.
If I had had the ability, over time, to have a more qualified and capable organization of other people as team leaders, and I could have expected more of them [then] I would have needed a control design above them than more traditional for [the program], than we had.
Unbelievable, that we all have that of a middle-aged man.
Juan Barilaro:
What regrets are there? Today, it’s a victory for the regions.
This is a victory for farmers, it is a victory for those who fought against the habitat of the koalas, our stakeholders, the forestry industry. Now we have the opportunity to put it on the agenda, outside the doors of the Cabinet, at the most sensible on the agenda, but the conversations I have had with the Prime Minister have convinced me a great thing about where it will come from.
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