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Contact tracers are disease detectives. Their job is to track down everybody an infected person might've come into contact with so they can be isolated and stop #coronavirus spreading further. #abc730 @Chris_Gillett_ #COVID19Aus #ContactTracers
“We feel like we are preparing for battle. How do you track a virus you can’t see?” Dr Annaliese van Dieman, contact tracer. #abc730 #coronavirusaustralia #COVID19Aus
“It is a significant piece of detective work to ascertain all of those places to find out where the patient might have acquired the illness, but also who they might have exposed or given the illness to.” Dr Annaliese van Dieman, contact tracer. #abc730 #coronavirusaus #COVID19Aus
"Even in the presence of Government stimulus, and even in the presence of very relaxed monetary policy settings, we're going to look at some reduction in Australia's real standard of living over the next couple of years." @MrKRudd #abc730 #coronavirusaus
"We need to accustom ourselves to the idea that we're not going to be as prosperous as we were before until this virus is behind us." @MrKRudd #abc730 #coronavirusaus
"For me the big thing of concern to me is the real danger right now, given the nature of the Trump presidency, and nationalism and protectionism normalised around the world the last several years, would be an outbreak of protectionism." @MrKRudd #abc730 #coronavirusaus
Since the #coronavirus pandemic started the Australian #superannuation pool has lost 13% or $350 billion. #abc730 @AlanKohler
“Someone in their 20s has 40 years of super savings in front of them, so time is on their side, but someone else set to retire this year or next is going to get less than they bargained for. That’s got a name – it’s called sequencing risk.” - @AlanKohler #abc730 #coronavirusaus
“With interest rates so low, that’s serious. If you were sitting on a super balance of $700,000, that’s already less than $600,000, and your income on that has gone from $21,000 a year to less than $18,000.” - @AlanKohler #abc730 #superannuation #coronavirus
For many people, #coronavirus means they are navigating the welfare system for the first time. #Centrelink is facing an unprecedented challenge and leaked emails from inside the organisation reveal confusion over new government policies. #abc730 @FarrellPF #COVID19Aus
Amanda Colton applied for #Newstart in January when her casual hours were reduced. “I don't know how many phone calls I've made to #Centrelink. However, I've only spoken to somebody once. And that was after I think waiting for two, two and a half hours.” #abc730 #coronavirus
Amanda Colton’s claim was finally approved after 11 weeks. “You couldn’t say it has achieved the goals #Centrelink is there to achieve, which is to help people as quickly as possible when they're in trouble.” #abc730 #coronavirusaustralia #COVID19Aus
"If you have a place with a #childcare centre, and you want to keep your children at home, then you will get that continuity with that centre through the pandemic." @DanTehanWannon #coronavirusaus #auspol
"Why we have completely reshaped the #childcare system in the space of the last 7-10 days is because parents were taking their children out and that was putting enormous pressure on the system." @DanTehanWannon #abc730 #coronavirusaus #auspol
"We continue to seek the advice of the medical experts as to what we need to be doing to protect our teachers, to protect our educators in #childcare centres." @DanTehanWannon #abc730 #coronavirusaus #auspol
Parents are finding it tough to teach kids at home during #coronavirus pandemic. #abc730 @P_McCutch abc.net.au/news/2020-04-0…
“They’ve been pretty well-behaved and accepting of the fact that they’re going to have to do some school work with me rather than at school, so that's been good.” – Mother of four Sarah Praag. #abc730 #coronavirusaus
Complete Education produces materials for home schooling. It has seen a 40-fold increase in hits on its website and hundreds of new customers. #abc730 #coronavirus #homeschooling
There are currently 41 infections of residents and workers at 17 #agedcare facilities around the country - figures which may explain why so many nursing homes have gone into total lockdown. #abc730 @anneconnollyabc #coronavirusaus
But there are calls for exemptions for families who give basic care to relatives with dementia who they say will suffer because overworked staff won’t have time to give them necessary one-on-one care. #abc730 #coronavirus #agedcare
Anne McMenamin’s 97-year-old father has dementia. “We know that the home is understaffed and that our time that we put in, two hours every day feeding, is essential for Dad's well-being.” #abc730 #coronavirus #agedcare
‘It feels like we’ve been left behind’: Meet the workers who can’t get the #wagesubsidy. #abc730 @carringtonAU #coronavirus #auspol abc.net.au/news/2020-04-0…
Niall Harden & Sarah Wyllie were working at MONA when it closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Because they are not permanent residents they are not entitled to the Government’s new $1500 a fortnight #wagesubsidy. #abc730 #coronavirusaus
“We’ve spent more than half a decade living here, trying to build a home and community here, and pay the same taxes as everyone else. We’ve made it quite clear that we intend to stay here and keep doing that. And it feels like we’ve been a bit left behind.” Sarah Wyllie. #abc730
With job losses expected to be in the millions, how can the government keep the wheels of the economy spinning so there’s something left to salvage when the #coronavirus crisis subsides? @latingle #abc730 #covid19australia
“We're dealing with two crises. We're dealing with a health crisis that has caused an economic crisis.” @ScottMorrisonMP #coronavirusaus #COVID19Aus #auspol
.@ScottMorrisonMP has rejected wage subsidies as an option. “The best way to get help to people is through the existing payment channels, through the existing tax system arrangements.” #abc730 #auspol #coronavirus
SUPER LONG JUSTICE CORONA THREAD: In response to #coronavirusaus Victoria's courts have announced the following this afternoon. Here is a thread with some gifs to help ease you into the changes @abcmelbourne
Starting from next week the Court of Appeal will no longer be conducting in-person hearings. Videolink is the go. Only judges and court staff will be present.
In the Supreme Court's criminal division, trials to mid-May this year will be adjourned until AFTER October 2020 or reassessed closer to the trail date.
"We’ve had to stand down 20,000 people, shared amongst a lot of different employees, but we’re allowing people to use up their leave, long service, annual. Some have months, so they’ll be paid for months." Alan Joyce, @Qantas CEO. #abc730 #coronavirusaus
"we're also talking to the people like @woolworths. I have spoken to Brad Banducci this week and he thinks Qantas employees are ideal employees to have in loading shelves." Alan Joyce, @Qantas CEO. #abc730 #coronavirusaus
"Myself, Richard (Goyder), all my direct reports, and the entire board, will not be taking any pay until at least the end of June. If this #coronavirus continues, that will continue." Alan Joyce, @Qantas CEO. #abc730
"Today we saw extraordinary measures from the Reserve Bank and from the Federal Government with over $100 billion injected into our financial system." @JoshFrydenberg #auspol #coronavirusaus
"We need to build that bridge to the recovery phase and there's an alignment of interests here between the small businesses and their banks because both parties want to succeed." @JoshFrydenberg #auspol #coronavirusaus
"This second package will be designed to do is to cushion the blow for Australians, particularly those who have lost their jobs, but also for those small businesses who are facing this very, very difficult moment." @JoshFrydenberg #auspol #coronavirusaus
“If everyone just bought what they needed, we would rapidly see a full shop again.” @woolworths CEO Brad Banducci on panic buying. #abc730 #coronavirusaus #Supermarkets
The empty shelves are “all about this demand surge. We've had more sales in the last week than we would in the week before Christmas.” @woolworths CEO Brad Banducci on panic buying. #abc730 #coronavirusaus #supermarkets
“We're working as hard as we can with our supplier base to get as much product as possible into our stores, in particular on those key lines such as toilet paper.” @woolworths CEO Brad Banducci on panic buying. #abc730 #coronavirusaus #supermarkets
Today @ScottMorrisonMP announced a raft of changes to how we go about our lives in an attempt to stop the spread of #coronavirus. @normanswan answers some of your questions about what is going on. #abc730 #COVID19 #auspol
“If you let the pandemic go unchecked, huge numbers won’t be able to receive treatment and will die, but the epidemic will be over sooner.” - @normanswan. #abc730 #coronavirusaus #COVID2019AU
“You need multiple strategies to throttle the epidemic down to low levels. And that includes keeping the over 70s isolated and closing schools and universities.” - @normanswan. #abc730 #coronavirusaus #COVID2019AU
I've been tracking every #Covid_19 case in Australia since it started. Here are a few interesting charts from that data covid19data.com.au #coronavirusaus #auspol #covid19australia #covid19
This one shows Australia’s #Covid_19 cases over time. There was a lull in Feb and things have gathered pace in March. You can see we’re in the midst of *exponential growth* with a hockey stick curve just like some of the hardest hit nations. 
NSW accounts for a significant part of that, although VIC and QLD have seen an uptick in the last couple of days.
Victoria’s health minister inadvertently stepped on a minefield yesterday by saying she was flabbergasted a GP worked with upper respiratory symptoms, later found to be #COVIDー19, thread. #SpringSt #auspol #coronavirusaus
This highlights a deep flaw in our health system. States and state health ministers have almost nothing to do with primary care. State health departments offer advice and a lot of rules to GPs, but no funding. When a health emergency strikes, the state has limited influence.
GPs are self-employed or, contractors to health care chains (run by sharp financial operators), or to other GPs. GPs and private specialists are paid a fee for service by Medicare (federal), often plus private patient fees.
Dear @JennyMikakos : thanks for presser. Just wanted to comment about you being "flabbergasted" that the doctor worked. Agree that it's not good but wanted to tell you why. There is no sick leave cover for most doctors. 1/n
2/n If I am sick, I usually still work unless I am physically unable to get there because all my outpatients will get cancelled OR my colleague has to see double. Doing double work is hard. Even less chance of getting lunch than usual. No chance of leaving on time.
3/n patients are angry with you because you are running late (remember, seeing double the booked patients.) You do things faster. You might make an error. You probably finish 2 or 3 hours late and your overtime is not paid of course cos overtime is never paid.
Online teaching is HARD. It requires a complete shift from classroom-based teaching. It requires new skills & equipment to do WELL. It requires SIGNIFICANT uni support and infrastructure. And that does not happen overnight. The stress on teaching staff is HUGE.
For context: I have 15 years experience teaching in graduate and undergrad classrooms. Three years ago I moved online. I’m STILL learning about how to translate the dynamism of face-to-face to online to make it a quality experience for my students. It’s not easy.
To my colleagues here and abroad, as we navigate the demands our institutions put on us to go “online” - happy to share my tricks of the trade. I found a way that makes it work for me, relatively low-tech. DM or ask for threads on how. #solidarity #coronavirusaus
