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Joel Fitzgibbon is another who had some undeclared dealings with Chinese interests. https://www.smh.com.au/national/secret-payments-to-labor-mp-listed-in-liu-files-20100202-nb49.html

I put this up on the Melbourne board, this sort of situation was talked about in the lead-up to the legislation being implemented, and was seen by several legal groups and sporting unions as an erosion of athletes individual and human rights. There are substantive legal minds who think the High...

I think several other athletes and player unions will be alarmed, I doubt many will be complaining about punishment for a positive result on a match day, but then going further and alleging trafficking when it's potentially from evidence that is being compelled out of you, is wrong to me and...

Sporting Integrity Australia have extraordinary powers, on par with the ATO and ASIC, and can compel people to answer questions and reveal information that could be self-incriminating. There are questions as to whether the use of these powers would stand up in a High Court challenge, but they...

Looking more likely there could be a retrial - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/01/07/ghislaine-maxwell-juror-mistrial-saga-hires-fake-heiress-lawyer/

As Nothing said, they are restricting the genomics to certain location and random samples of cases, the publicly available samples on Nextstrain don't have anything from the past 2 weeks from NSW and Victoria...

This is a step in the right direction https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/police-body-camera-footage-allowed-in-victorian-civil-lawsuits-20211221-p59j8j.html But they also need an independent and well resourced body investigating VicPol when incidents do occur. The failure to activate...

Pretty much agree with you, particularly with stadiums where masking while moving does make more sense. But for the rest of hospitality it doesn't really make a difference in terms of risk of getting infected, but has an outsized impact on businesses needing to use draw staff away to enforce...

If your indoors at any hospitality venue and there is an infected person there, you'll be a close contact regardless of where you were sitting/standing or whether you walked in with a mask and took it off only when you sat down to eat or drink/ or put it on when ordering at the bar. In my view...

Feels like a 'seen to be doing something' sort of announcement, when the settings they already have in place are appropriate.

It's been a bit of time, but the school teacher was revealed on the 3rd-4th of August, and the first sample in that 3rd group is on the 3rd of August, so it looks to match up. But it's hard to tell with certainty.

New genomic samples from Victoria on NextStrain after a 2 1/2 month wait. For the few months, there have been reports that there was a 3rd incursion from NSW, based on genomic data that wasn't publicly available. The samples released today show a very distinct cluster originating in NSW, that...

Will hopefully show up on NextStrain over the next fortnight. From what I understand it will mean there has been another incursion somewhere (HQ breach, border worker etc), but given the current situation in NSW and VIC, and the end of pursuing Covid-0, incursions are mostly irrelevant now...

Some talk about the new engine regs for 2026 and Volkswagen potentially entering. https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/58775836

Really interesting radio from all drivers when the rain hit, in order of finishing place. Haven't heard so much from Kimi in a while, but he knew exactly what he wanted and it was the best decision. And Tsunoda's/Alpha Tauri's race would have been completely different if they went to inter...

My heart was crazy last night in the 3rd quarter watching the mighty dees, just as crazy tonight with the closing stages of this race!

This is the key thing for me, the situation around the limo driver, and it has very similar themes to the situation in Hotel Quarantine in Melbourne last year. It seems like there was poor oversight of the drivers of the air crew, just like there was poor enforcement and oversights of the...

Exactly that, there are some theories about anxiety in the leadup to the injection or pain leading to trigger it. However when it happened to me I didn't have a conscious anxiety of the vaccination or anything like that. Maybe I just didn't eat enough breakfast? :straining:

This is actually quite common with a significant part of the population after the process of vaccination and is called vasovagal syncope. Basically your blood pressure drops and many faint or get to a pre-syncope state, feeling very clammy/faint/nauseous. Those who are wheelchaired get taken to...

Unfortunately not for Victoria, but they are still sequencing. From what I understand, there is another service they are putting results on called Austrakka, however there is no public access to it. Sounds like it contains more details that could potentially identify patients and is reserved for...

The prevalence of the Delta variant in sampled test results Worldwide. South America the only real outlier with the Gamma, Lambda and Mu strains, but all have been in decline as a proportion of cases for at least 2 months. Source Nextstrain GISAID Global Europe North America South America

Agreed, the protests are stupid and counter-productive, but some of the footage looks like 'kettling' from the Police, blocking both ends of the protest. Given the past experience with the type of hardcore crowd involved, it meant that a conflict was almost an inevitability...

Really interesting read, 256 deaths from what were considered true breakthrough infections and the average age of those was 84 years of age. 76% of those were also classed as extremely clinically vulnerable and only 59 did not have a serious medical condition...

Something of interest, but not overly surprising, in The Age today regarding the genomic data in Victoria. Hopefully the data will be released publicly soon, but that certainly sounds like its pointing to another person coming into Victoria from NSW while infected. Some of the major outbreaks...

Got my first dose of Pfizer at a state hub in the first few days of September, and was able to book second dose with a GP for 3 weeks later. You will have to check a few times during the day, but HotDoc.com.au will list any GPs with dose appointments for dose 1 or 2 which you can then book. But...

I'll do some more digging and try to find out why. I overwhelmingly believe it will be related to some mundane sort of data formatting or administrative issue, but there is a sliver of cynicism based on last years events that it could be being held back for other reasons. I can confirm that...

Nothing new, It's hard to understand why but it's approaching 2 months since the last update from Victoria. I don't know why they have stopped. Globally Delta is making up 90% of sampled cases, and most of the variants that have got headlines recently (Mu, Gamma, Lambda) are stagnant or...

Nothing from Victoria, but I'm awaiting until the next update (should be Saturday), just in case Victoria went to monthly uploads of data. A few other countries should also see some data updated which will provide a better picture Worldwide. Last samples from Australia are from NSW and WA ~9-10...

I suspect that is probably it, but there was also talk of an infected passenger on another flight from Sydney. Regardless there isn't much they can do, but it would support the need for much stronger border controls with NSW, if we are even able to get this outbreak under control.

I really don't know, its very odd to go from weekly updates to nothing in more than a month. Every other jurisdiction in the region is uploading samples so it seems like a deliberate decision to hold off uploading. It could be that they are doing a big batch once a month from now on, but that...