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In Melbourne, testing at Albert Park has been suspended before opening after reaching capacity for the third day in a row:
Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles is up on ABC radio national, and is asked about Morrison’s response to the Doherty Modelling which predicted up to 200,000 cases a day. To refresh, Morrison said it was “very unlikely”:
Modelling is what it is, it gives a range of possibilities, I guess the prime minister was outlining that but there’s a whole lot of challenges that are now being faced by the country and what’s really clear is we need leadership and what’s also clear is we’re not getting that from Scott Morrison.
If the gap in getting the booster is reduced to four months, 7.2 million Australians become eligible to get a booster as of Saturday week...the first thing here is the government needs to guarantee there is going to be supply. All of this scenario should have been foreseen, we’ve known for months the country is going to be opening up...we’ve known for months a proper booster rollout is critical in this time.
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