ABC新闻:澳大利亚推进15个大型项目 以创造就业并挽救经济

The prime minister will today unveil a list of 15 major projects that governments have agreed to bring forward in a bid to create thousands of jobs and boost the struggling economy. They'll include an inland rail link between Brisbane and Melbourne and a second underwater power cable to Tasmania. The prime minister will also announce a new pool of funding for smaller projects, in a bid to create scores of jobs at the local level.

Channel Nine and the Age Newspaper claim they've uncovered branch-stacking on an "industrial scale" in the Victorian Labor party. Last night's Sixty Minutes program aired footage which purports to show a senior ALP figure withdrawing large sums of cash which the program claimed was to be used to purchase branch memberships. Party rules state people must use their own money to become Labor members. The politician at the centre of the allegations told Sixty Minutes he emphatically denies any wrongdoing.
More coronavirus restrictions are set to end from next week despite another 18 new cases recorded yesterday, nine each in New South Wales and Victoria. Up to fifty people will be able to go to pubs and clubs in Victoria from next Monday, while all businesses will be allowed to open next month across New South Wales. Laguna Street primary school in Sydney's south has been closed after a teacher tested positive. Last night's NRLgame between the Roosters and Canterbury has been postponed as a precaution, as one of the players has a child who attends that school.