Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Finally we really are all in this together. Follow live. Picture: Ian CurrieSource:News Corp Australia. Organisations from World Vision to the Smith Family to the Ardoch foundation have warned about the impact of home schooling on kids whose families simply do not have the resources or the capacity to cope with massive disruptions and demands like these. Andrews’ antagonists like to call him “Dictator Dan”, so let us also recall Shakespeare’s words about a slightly more prominent dictator: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is holding a press conference. The quick and panicked reaction to the pandemic has been met with the lava-like flow of the social and economic consequences. Sign up, Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout. WATCH LIVE: Dan Andrews press conference today. For too long this somewhat nauseating platitude was the biggest myth of the corona crisis. The early promise of political unity – with the formation of a “national cabinet” of the PM and state and territory leaders – was soon proved a fig leaf with premiers pursuing their own political or ideological agendas. Watch the press conference above from 12pm. We don’t yet know exactly how many kids have fallen behind or slipped through the cracks. Video. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Closer to home, Laurie Oakes made the astute observation about former PM John Howard, as recalled by Peter Van Onselen in The Australian last week, that John Howard made every mistake in the book – but only ever once. 113. Victoria has recorded one other day of no native or interstate acquired COVID-19 instances for a sixth consecutive day, the Division of Well being and Human The Best Live Bands Ever Ranked In Order (Beatles Not Top 5) Well lend me your ears because today I come to praise Andrews, not to bury him. Coronavirus live news: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says he's requested more ADF personnel to enforce Melbourne 'ring of steel' By James Maasdorp and Sophie Meixner This isn't Victoria's greatest pub crawl. Victoria has recorded more than a week in triple-digit coronavirus cases with another spike after the weekend. January 8, 2021. Something like a balance has been struck, something like an understanding has been reached. Victorian premier Dan Andrews announces Covid lockdown â as it happened ... From 10.45am today Greater Melbourne including the Airport is a declared hotspot for the ... Australia news live ⦠We also now know beyond doubt that Victoria’s more hard line extended shutdowns achieved no added benefit in the suppression of COVID-19 – this is clearly self-evident. Energetic COVID instances throughout the state have additionally dropped to 38 – a lower of two instances. Likewise Queensland and South Australia are at last opening up their borders – albeit to all except Victorians – so as to breathe life back into their withering tourist economies. It is no secret that I have been deeply critical of Dan Andrews’ overly hard line approach to COVID-19 lockdowns, most especially the shutdown of schools. 0. URGENT INVESTIGATION: Three new COVID cases in Victoria NOT in hotel quarantine. There have been 18,139 checks performed previously day. Victoria has now recorded two straight weeks of less than 20 new COVID-19 cases. Joe Hildebrand is a columnist for news.com.au and co-host of Studio 10, 8am-noon weekdays on Channel 10. And a little earlier than both, the 18th century English poet Alexander Pope wrote “To err is human, to forgive divine”, a truism that might be eternal in philosophy but is fleeting in politics. Most importantly he has declared that children even in these areas should continue to go to school because, as he has finally admitted, there is “no real evidence that school attendance is a big driver of the spike”. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has not had an easy task, presiding over divided states. While it is clear that Andrews went too hard, too early and too long in trying to crush the virus the first time it is now clear that he has learned from these excesses. From today, we're discounting off-peak travel for three months. News and updates from Dan Andrews and his team. Former US President George W. Bush fumblingly made infamous the old adage: “Fool me once, shame on you. Instead he has implemented intensive targeted testing – as was long ago done in NSW hot spots – and locked down only the 10 postcodes where the virus has been most prevalent. 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