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Happy Monday and welcome to August, even if it does feel like we never left 2020.
Parliament starts its spring sessions tomorrow, but there’s a bit of drama over what to do with the south-east Queensland MPs, who have been expecting to join the sitting, but who are now in the hardest lockdown Queensland has seen all year. Queensland recorded nine locally acquired Covid cases on Sunday, which is its highest daily total this year, as it works to contain an outbreak of the Delta variant. All indications so far are the lockdown won’t be lifted at midnight on Tuesday as planned, and will be extended.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2021/aug/02/australia-covid-live-update-army-troops-police-sydney-restrictions-aged-care-queensland-outbreak-parliament-returns
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