![]() This has prompted state leaders to urge Morrison to speed up the booster program and allow people to get their additional dose four months after their second shot. On Tuesday the country reported around 4,600 new cases, beating the previous high of 4,100 set over the weekend. Children, at best, are peripheral but are often invisible and so we are not naturally accustomed to thinking about the needs of children and recognising that children and young people’s needs are not the same as adults’s need and that sometimes actually it’s better that we listen to them and find out what they need rather than assume we know.Morrison’s statement comes at a time when Australia faces its worst-ever surge in Covid-19 cases, fueled by the highly infectious omicron variant. In this country, adults’s issues dominate centre stage. That is just not OK in this country so we’ve got to get those response services available to that younger age group but we’ve also got to do the upstream reform to prevent the problems getting to that stage. I can tell you recently, I did some consultations with kids and families around Australia and I heard really shocking stories about families turned away from mental health services with children under 12 who were suicidal and they were sent away and told they cannot be helped. It’s a matter of seeing them through now. Hollonds calls it a “huge step forward” for everyone involved: National children’s commissioner Anne Hollonds just appeared on teh ABC’s Afternoon Briefing, discussing a world-first mental health strategy for children under 12 announced by health minister Greg Hunt this morning. This act of horrific cruelty is unconscionable and inexcusable and the suffering endured by these kangaroos is unimaginable. The Animal Justice party MP Mark Pearson, who is also the deputy chair of the NSW parliamentary inquiry into kangaroo health, said the community’s anger was “righteous”: Locals condemned the “tragic and disturbing” event. It is a tragic and senseless act that has left an indelible mark on our dedicated mid-south coast branch volunteers who attended the scene, as well as the local residents. The police and volunteers located an injured joey, which is now being looked after by a local Wires volunteer. Officers and animal welfare volunteers from Wires subsequently found five adult kangaroos and one joey dead on Blairs Road and Sandy Place.Īnother seven kangaroos and a joey were later found killed in the Maloneys Beach area. On Saturday morning, south coast police received reports that several kangaroos had allegedly been killed in the Long Beach area near Batemans Bay. The two boys, both aged 17, have been charged with recklessly beating and killing animals and are due to appear at a children’s court on 22 November, police said today. Two teenagers have been arrested for allegedly killing 14 kangaroos on the New South Wales south coast on the weekend, Wing Kuang reports. ![]() And the commonwealth has announced a world-first plan to tackle childhood mental illness among under-12-year-olds.Queensland has also expanded its vaccination rollout to Bunnings Warehouse stores, on a day the state recorded its seventh consecutive day of no local transmission.The prime minister, Scott Morrison, is facing increasing pressure to head to the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow in three weeks, including from Prince Charles. Queensland has committed to net zero by 2050.The premier, Dominic Perrottet, today announced further business support as the state emerges from lockdown. ![]() NSW recorded 360 cases and five deaths as it passed 90% first-vaccination doses among the eligible population.There have been no surprise resignations today. Victoria recorded 1,466 new local Covid-19 cases and eight deaths, as the second day of Ibac hearings continued.Australia will get a new domestic airline, Bonza, from 2022.The ACT recorded 28 new local Covid-19 cases today. It has also loosened the current border bubble with NSW. The ACT has confirmed it will exit lockdown from 11.59pm Thursday, with licensed venues returning with caps, public gatherings allowed for up to 25 people and private gatherings of five people.With that, we’ll wrap up the blog for this evening. ![]() 08.38 BST What we learned today, Tuesday 12 October:
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