Weekly Covid fatalities rising steadily since March
Josh Nicholas
Covid deaths have been rising previously couple of months.
Deaths had been as little as 144 per week at the start of March however at the moment are hovering round 300 per week.
There have already been 96 reported deaths within the first two days of this week.
Nick Evershed
Use our census knowledge interactive
The primary lot of information from the 2021 census is out. Use our interactive to learn how your space was affected by coronavirus demographic modifications and extra.
The 2021 census was performed on 10 August, when a lot of the nation was deep in Covid-19 lockdown. The primary tranche of information offers a snapshot of mid-pandemic Australia.
The nation is altering. Millennials have gotten the nation’s largest era, overtaking the infant boomers, and the inhabitants in regional areas is rising.
Discover our interactive right here:
Anthony Albanese is talking from Madrid, the place he’s condemning Russia’s assault on a shopping center in Kremenchuk in Ukraine which killed 16 folks.
The audio from that press convention was pretty patchy, however the prime minister is about to enter a gathering of Nato nations.
We must always hear extra shortly.
Weekly Covid fatalities rising steadily since March
Josh Nicholas
Covid deaths have been rising previously couple of months.
Deaths had been as little as 144 per week at the start of March however at the moment are hovering round 300 per week.
There have already been 96 reported deaths within the first two days of this week.
Josh Taylor
Good Guys pauses trial of facial recognition expertise
The Good Guys has paused its trial of facial recognition expertise following a Alternative grievance to the Workplace of the Australian Info Commissioner (OAIC) about its use.
The retailer was one in all three recognized to be utilizing the expertise as a part of an investigation by the buyer group earlier this month. The corporate stated it was utilized in two shops solely as a part of a trial for retailer security and theft prevention.
A spokesperson for Good Guys stated on Tuesday the corporate would watch for “clarification” from the OAIC in regards to the expertise:
The Good Guys immediately confirmed it should pause the trial of the upgraded safety system with the optionally available facial recognition expertise being performed in two of its Melbourne shops.
The Good Guys take the confidentiality of non-public data extraordinarily critically and stays assured that the trial complied with all relevant legal guidelines. The expertise was solely used to overview incidents of theft, and for the needs of buyer and workforce member security and wellbeing.
The choice was made to pause the trial at the moment pending any clarification from the OAIC relating to the usage of this expertise.
Josh Nicholas
Rents rising, census reveals
The census reveals rents have shot up in lots of areas across the nation. The median weekly hire elevated $90 in Hobart between the 2016 and 2021 census, to $350.
Median weekly rents elevated $70 in The ACT, to $450. That’s simply $20 behind Sydney, which elevated simply $30 over the identical interval.
Nationwide Covid replace
Listed here are the newest coronavirus case numbers from round Australia on Tuesday, because the nation information a minimum of 75 deaths from Covid-19:
ACT
- Deaths: 0
- Instances: 1,159
- In hospital: 121 (with nobody in ICU)
NSW
- Deaths: 40
- Instances: 8,623
- In hospital: 1,540 (with 49 folks in ICU)
Northern Territory
- Deaths: 1
- Instances: 302
- In hospital: 17 (with 1 particular person in ICU)
Queensland
- Deaths: 19
- Instances: 5,268
- In hospital: 593 (with 14 folks in ICU)
South Australia
- Deaths: 0
- Instances: 2,626
- In hospital: 246 (with 8 folks in ICU)
Tasmania
- Deaths: 0
- Instances: 1,228
- In hospital: 45 (with 4 folks in ICU)
Victoria
- Deaths: 11
- Instances: 7,758
- In hospital: 468 (with 35 folks in ICU)
Western Australia
- Deaths: 4
- Instances: 4,810
- In hospital: 246 (with 11 folks in ICU)
A lady has died whereas snorkelling within the Whitsundays, the Courier Mail stories.
The girl, aged in her 50s, reportedly developed chest ache and respiration difficulties on Tuesday.
When she got here up for air and indicated her points, the lady was introduced again on board the industrial boat she had been out on and was taken again to shore, at about noon.
First responders reportedly met the lady on the Coral Sea Marina about half an hour later, nevertheless the lady couldn’t be revived.
Josh Nicholas
Extra Census knowledge, displaying the highest ancestries of respondents:
Christopher Knaus
Pastoralist firm in search of injunction towards fracking in Beetaloo Basin
Some information out of the Beetaloo Basin within the Northern Territory, the place a gaggle of fracking corporations are presently conducting exploratory drilling, which was incentivised by tens of tens of millions of {dollars} in subsidies introduced by the final authorities.
One in every of Australia’s largest pastoralists, Rallen Australia, has simply introduced it’s in search of an injunction towards fracking firm Tamboran and its subsidiary Sweetpea Petroleum.
Rallen and Sweetpea have been engaged in a bitter dispute over the latter’s plans to conduct exploratory drilling on the Tanumbirini cattle station, which Rallen holds the lease for. A tribunal has beforehand ordered that Rallen enable Sweetpea entry to the land to conduct exploratory drilling.
The present dispute includes Sweetpea’s makes an attempt to construct an entry street throughout Newcastle Creek, house to quite a lot of sacred websites protected by Northern Territory regulation.
The injunction will search an instantaneous cessation of the roadworks. Its argument is supported by one Indigenous group, the Nurrdalinji Native Title Aboriginal Company, which says it has repeatedly requested Sweetpea to halt the roadworks. Sweetpea holds the right authorisation it wants from the NT authority that protects sacred websites.
It submitted detailed plans about its work round Newcastle Creek and says it has left a buffer round sacred websites. Sweetpea says it has consulted extensively with recognised Indigenous teams by means of the Northern Land Council and has consent for the work.
The case will come earlier than the NT supreme courtroom at 2.30pm Australian japanese time.
Josh Nicholas
Inhabitants density unchanged
A lot has been stated a few shift away from residences and dense dwelling throughout Covid but it surely doesn’t appear to be the case.
Nearly precisely the identical share of the inhabitants dwell in residences and indifferent homes as in 2016.
