Australia politics live news: Victoria records 50 new Covid cases; calls to stick to national cabinet plan for reopening

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12.01am BST

Scott Morrison – continuing his round of morning interviews – is on 3AW.

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In case you missed it yesterday, the prime minister said this:

To realise the plan at 70% and 80%, the task is not to walk away, the task is not to delay, the task is not to fear, the task is to embrace, prepare, plan, ensure that we are in a position to do that. Now, we’ve got time to achieve that and already we’re seeing our public health system stand up very strongly, and I would envisage that in the time we have between now and when we reach those targets that there will be the opportunity to reinforce those plans, for states and territories to know that they will be able to deal with this, because we have to deal with it. Otherwise, we stay in the cave forever. And, that’s not a sustainable solution.

Now it’s like that movie The Croods. Some wanted to it stay in the cave and the young girl wanted to deal with the challenges of living in a different world. Covid is a different world. Covid is a different world. We need to get out of there and live with it. We can’t stay in the cave.

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source: theguardian.com


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