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- "We have a major change in direction with people being asked to go get their own rapid antigen tests, these tests aren't available... there is the issue of affordability, it's just not good enough, this government always responds too little too late"- Opposition Leader @AlboMP
- "It's quite extraordinary that on the day in which pensioners are eligible to receive a rapid antigen test so many of them won't be able to find one"- Labor Leader @AlboMP
- Trucking tycoon Lindsay Fox on Daniel Andrews and the harsh Melbourne lockdown: "To the Premier's credit, he's had the balls to stay through the problem that started, and he's carried it through."
- The ABC has learned that a former Afghan army officer who worked as an interpreter for the ADF was executed just a day or two ago. His wife and children are still in hiding, but his sister who lives in Australia had been trying for months to secure humanitarian visas for them.
- "I, the AMA and other groups asked the government about the testing strategy several months ago...it was put to us that the government would not intervene when the private market could take over" - Dr Chris Moy, @ama_vice
- Paul Keating on what should be done to stimulate the economy and lift it out of the recession: "We could be building public housing til the cows come home" #auspol #recession
- Ten's @vanOnselenP tells RN Breakfast: "I'm working on a story today. I need to verify a few things and fact check what I've got. But I do now have written evidence of the Prime Minister's office being more involved in the Sports Rorts saga than what the Prime Minister has said"
- "I am very confident the current Solicitor General will explain to the PM that his excuses about the rule of law are absurd, that an independent inquiry [into a rape allegation against Christian Porter] is no threat to the rule of law." - Shadow Attorney General @MarkDreyfusQCMP
- Dr @NormanSwan says it won't be a normal Christmas for Sydneysiders... And he says if health officials and the Government doesn't lock down the city to try to stop the spread "they will rue that day"
- With experts predicting the northern hemisphere winter will produce a new variant and hundreds of thousands of people expected to develop long COVID, Independent MP Dr Monique Ryan @Mon4Kooyong has called for a rethink of our approach to the pandemic.
- "[Linda Reynolds] needs to be able to turn up to the parliament and answer questions, and if she is not well enough to do that, then we have to seriously ask, is she available to do the job as Defence Minister?" - Shadow Home Affairs Minister @KKeneally
- Today the 2nd week of the COP26 climate talks begins. "There's a long way to go but a great deal has happened. I don't think it's been helped by the Australians, which is a great disappointment to the rest of the world." - Lord Deben, Chair of the UK Committee on Climate Change
