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CORONAVIRUS
The staying home rules
Tas Govt media release, 31 Mar 2020
 Premier Peter Gutwein has
outlined the new rules about staying home and their exceptions.
CORONAVIRUS
Second death in Tas
ABC News, 31 Mar 2020 UPDATED
An elderly man from southern
Tasmania who had been on a cruise ship is Tasmania's second
death from coronavirus.
CORONAVIRUS
Now 69 cases
ABC News, 30 Mar 2020
Three new coronavirus cases
have taken Tasmania's total to 69.
CORONAVIRUS
First COVID-19 death in Tas
ABC News, 30 Mar 2020
A woman in her eighties from
north west Tasmania is the first person to die in the state from
the coronavirus.
CORONAVIRUS
Today's total 66
ABC News, 30 Mar 2020 UPDATED
Four cases of COVID-19 detected
overnight have taken Tasmania's total to 66.
Two cases in the
Devonport area are being assumed to have occurred by community
transmission until evidence suggests otherwise.
CORONAVIRUS
Now Boris has it
ABC News, 27 Mar 2020
 British PM Boris Johnson has
announced he has tested positive for coronavirus.
CORONAVIRUS
Tas backs 10 max
ABC News, 27 Mar 2020
 From
6.00pm tonight (Fri 27 Mar 2020) Tasmanians will not be able to
gather in groups of more than ten people, except where there are
more than ten people living in their private residence.
CORONAVIRUS
Tas students now asked to stay home next week
The Mercury, 27 Mar 2020
 In a change to recent
policy, Premier Peter Gutwein this morning asked for children to
be kept at home from Monday next week (30 March) instead of
finishing term on Friday 3 April.
Schools will still be able
to look after the children of essential workers and other
children who would be unable to learn at home.
Keep kids at home, ABC News, 27 Mar
2020
CORONAVIRUS
Rise of five makes 47 cases
ABC News, 26 Mar 2020
Two children are among the five
additional Tasmanian coronavirus victims (all from a cruise
ship) that have taken the total to 47.
CORONAVIRUS
Unprecedented support package supported unprecedentedly
Tas Govt media release, 26 Mar 2020
The Premier, Peter Gutwein, has
announced a massive coronavirus Social and Economic Support
 Package that has received strong
support from both Labor leader Rebecca White and Greens leader
Cassy
 O'Connor.
Tas Govt Coronavirus site: Stimulus and Support
Water prices frozen, no power disconnections,
ABC News, 26 Mar 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Year 11 and 12 students reassured
Tas Govt media release, 26 Mar 2020
 Education minister Jeremy
Rockliff has outlined some implications for the TCE of the
coronavirus, stressing that the government is committed to
ensuring no student will be disadvantaged by the pandemic.
CORONAVIRUS
Qld, SA and WA to commence student-free days
Press conferences, 26 Mar 2020
Queensland schools will have student-free days
from Monday next week (30 Mar 2020) until end of term.
South Australian schools will commence
their shorter period of student-free days on Mon 6 April.
Western Australian students will continue
to be taught until Fri 3 Apr 2020, although parents who are able
to do so are encouraged to keep children at home. Four days of
teacher professional development will occur over the last four
days of term (6-9 April).
CORONAVIRUS
30-minute hairdresser limit scrapped
ABC News, 26 Mar 2020
 The National Cabinet has
decided to now allow hairdressers to take longer than 30 minutes
with each customer if they need to.
CORONAVIRUS
Prince Charles gets coronavirus
ABC News, 25 Mar 2020
 Heir to the British throne
Prince Charles has tested positive for coronavirus.
CORONAVIRUS
Six more makes 42 cases
ABC News, 25 Mar 2020
An additional six confirmed
coronavirus cases has brought Tasmania's total to 42.
But
there are still no community transmission cases.
CORONAVIRUS
Tas students to finish earlier now
ABC News, 25 Mar 2020
Tasmanian government school
students will finish Term 1 classes on Friday 3 April 2020,
allowing teachers to spend the last four days of term (Mon 6 to
Thu 9 Apr 2020) preparing distance learning material.
In Term 2, learning predominantly takes place on
school sites, but "some at home" learning continues,
Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for Education and Training, 25 Mar
2020
TasTAFE to move to online learning, Jeremy
Rockliff, Minister for Education and Training, 25 Mar 2020
CORONAVIRUS
It's now Tokyo 2021
ABC News, 23 Mar 2020
 The Tokyo Olympic Games has finally been postponed
until next year, 2021.
However the event will still be called
"Tokyo 2020".
CORONAVIRUS
Now it's 36
ABC News, 24 Mar 2020
A further eight coronavirus cases
has taken Tasmania's total to 36.
CORONAVIRUS
Rise of six
to 28 as Tas Minister self-isolates
ABC News, 24 Mar 2020
Tasmania's confirmed
coronavirus total has risen by six cases to reach 28.
There
are still no community transmission cases.
Tasmanian minister
Jane Howlett is in self-isolation as a precaution.
CORONAVIRUS
Pupil-free three weeks for ACT schools
ACT Education Department, 23 Mar 2020
 Schools in the ACT will be
pupil-free from tomorrow (Tuesday) until the end of term (9
April 2020).
This move will enable teachers to prepare
distance learning materials.
Students who do go to school
will not be turned away.
CORONAVIRUS
2021 Olympics?
ABC News, 23 Mar 2020
The Australian Olympics Committee has advised its
athletes to plan for the Japan Olympic Games to be postponed
until 2021. However, a delay has not been officially announced.
CORONAVIRUS
NZ schools close
ABC News, 23 Mar 2020
 New Zealand schools will close
from Wednesday this week as the country is locked down with
appropriate exceptions, Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern has
announced.
CORONAVIRUS
Kids can be kept at home
ABC News, 23 Mar 2020
Parents can start taking their
children out of school from Wednesday this week if they wish,
but school still remains the best place for them during the
current coronavirus crisis, Premier Peter Gutwein said today.
Western Australia has reiterated that it
will also allow parents to take their children out of school.
(ABC News, 23 Mar 2020)
CORONAVIRUS
Tassie corona cases now 22
ABC News, 23 Mar 2020
Tasmania has had yet another
five cases of coronavirus cases in one day.
CORONAVIRUS
Schools will remain OPEN until end of term
ABC News, 22 Mar 2020
 The Prime Minister, Scott
Morrison, announced tonight that until the end of this term
parents may keep their children at home but schools will remain
open and will eventually provide those parents with distance
learning materials.
Schools will reopen for term 2 subject to
the advice of medical experts.
CORONAVIRUS
AFL, AFLW games called off
ABC News, 22 Mar 2020
 All AFL games have been suspended until 31 May 2020
(at least),
AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan has announced.
He added that the
AFLW season would end immediately, without a premiership award.
CORONAVIRUS
Big decision on schools closing possible tonight
ABC News, 22 Mar 2020
Although Victoria and NSW will
keep their schools open tomorrow (Monday) they will argue for a
national closure at tonight's National Cabinet.
UPDATE: Victoria has brought its school holidays forward,
by only a few days, to
commence on Tuesday 24 March 2020.
CORONAVIRUS
Tassie corona cases jump
ABC News, 21 Mar 2020
The number of confirmed
coronavirus cases in Tasmania has risen from 11 last night to 16
late today.
The new cases include a woman and two men who
were on a cruise ship that recently docked in NSW.
UPDATE 22 Mar 2020: The number of cases has risen to 17.
CORONAVIRUS
Coronavirus case no. 11
ABC News, 21 Mar 2020
UPDATED
Tasmania's eleventh coronavirus
victim is a woman who had returned from a trip to the UK.
Another Tasmanian has tested positive after arriving in NSW on a
cruise ship but has elected to remain in that state to be
treated.
CORONAVIRUS
Attendance falling
The Examiner, 20 Mar 2020
The attendance rate at
Tasmanian government schools has fallen to 75 per cent as many
parents decide to keep their children at home in the face of the
coronavirus.
CORONAVIRUS
NAPLAN tests called off
ABC News, 20 Mar 2020
 This year's NAPLAN tests for
students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9, due to be held in May, have
been cancelled in a decision made at today's COAG meeting.
THE ECONOMY
Lowe's lower low
ABC News, 19 Mar 2020
 Reserve Bank of Australia
governor Philip Lowe
has reduced the official interest rate by a further 0.25 per
cent to new low of 0.25 per cent.
He has also announced a
"money-printing" program to make more funds available in the
economy
CORONAVIRUS
Tas border tightened, state of emergency to be declared
ABC News, 19 Mar 2020
Premier Peter Gutwein has
announced that a state of emergency will be declared today and
that from midnight on Friday night "non-essential" travellers to
Tasmania will be required to undergo 14 days of self-quarantine.
CORONAVIRUS
Qantas closes all international flights
ABC News, 19 Mar 2020
 Qantas and Jetstar will abandon all international
flights from late March.
CORONAVIRUS
Boris closes UK
schools
BBC News, 19 Mar 2020
British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson has announced the closure of all UK schools apart from
some that will care for the children of key workers.
CORONAVIRUS
Are older teachers at risk?
The Conversation (opinion by Gerard Fitzgerald),18 Mar 2020
 Although Australian teachers
currently do not face a significant coronavirus risk, those over
65 and those with a chronic condition "should consider not going
to school", a public health academic writes.
CORONAVIRUS
Coronavirus cases 8, 9 and 10 in one day
ABC News,18 Mar 2020
The confirmation of three new
coronavirus cases in Tasmania was announced today.
CORONAVIRUS
New My School results avoid school comparisons
ACARA website, 18 Mar 2020 [pdf]
My
School results released today omit data that could be used to
enable school-versus-school comparisons to be made.
CORONAVIRUS
Schools to stay open
ABC News, 18 Mar 2020
The Prime Minister, Scott
Morrison, has stressed that Australia's schools are to remain
open in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
He also said
there will be a 100-person limit on the size of non-essential indoor
gatherings.
And he commented that the coronavirus pandemic
could last at least six months.
CORONAVIRUS
Agfest
called off
ABC News, 18 Mar 2020
 Tasmania's
agricultural field day Agfest has been cancelled for 2020 as a
result of the coronavirus outbreak.
CORONAVIRUS
Notify
school of non-attendance
Tas Govt media release, 17 Mar 2020
Closing of schools is not
currently required as an anticoronavirus measure but if parents
wish to keep their children at home they should notify the
school, education minister Jeremy Rockliff says.
CORONAVIRUS
Coronavirus
spread hits snags
ABC Radio, 17 Mar 2020
Hardware
retailer Bunnings has announced that as a coronavirus precaution
it will no longer be allowing sausages to be sold outside its
stores.
CORONAVIRUS
Public health emergency for Tas
ABC News, 17 Mar 2020
Premier Peter Gutwein says a a
public health emergency for Tasmania will be declared today.
CORONAVIRUS
Anzac Day services cut
ABC News, 16 Mar 2020
 Anzac Day services and marches
in Tasmania have been cancelled due to the coronavirus epidemic.
CORONAVIRUS
Case no. 7
ABC News, 16 Mar 2020
A woman in her 50s who is a
close contact of an earlier case is Tasmania's coronavirus
victim number 7.
CORONAVIRUS
Activities ban in corona fight
Tas Govt media release, 15 Mar 2020
Education minister Jeremy
Rockliff has announced severe restrictions on school activities
to reduce potential exposure to the coronavirus.
The social
distancing measures will require CANCELLATION of
 assemblies
excursions
travel
some events and conferences
and POSTPONEMENT of
fetes and fairs
concerts with audiences
presentation nights
all sports carnivals
school camps
parent-teacher meetings
...
CORONAVIRUS
Now case no. 6
ABC News, 15 Mar 2020
A woman in her 60s who is a
close contact of coronavirus case no. 5 is in the Royal Hobart
Hospital being treated for the disease.
CORONAVIRUS
Case no. 5 already
ABC News, 14 Mar 2020
(UPDATED)
A man in his 60s who had
travelled from North America is Tasmania's fifth person to
contract coronavirus is being treated in the Royal Hobart
Hospital...
CORONAVIRUS
Peter Dutton has coronavirus
ABC News, 13 Mar 2020
 Federal minister Peter Dutton
has revealed that he has tested positive for coronavirus. Is the
PM among the contacts who will now have to go into 14-day
isolation?...
CORONAVIRUS
Mass gatherings max set at 500
ABC News, 13 Mar 2020
An advisory against mass
gatherings of more than 500 people will apply from Monday next
week, PM Scott Morrison announced after a COAG meeting today.
As the restriction will apply only to organised
non-essential gatherings, attendance at schools and
universities will not be affected...
CORONAVIRUS
UTAS Launceston hosts fourth corona case
ABC News, 13 Mar 2020
Tasmania's fourth coronavirus
victim is a woman in her 40s who has been isolated in
accommodation in Launceston provided by UTAS...
CORONAVIRUS
Extension to school holidays?
ABC News, 12 Mar 2020
Federal education minister Dan
Tehan says the federal government is considering the idea of
extending the forthcoming April school holidays as a tactic in
slowing the spread of the coronavirus - but not necessarily a
nationwide extension.
CORONAVIRUS
Third corona case was at UTAS Sandy Bay
ABC News, 12 Mar 2020
(UPDATED)
Tasmania's third person to test
positive for coronavirus was a woman in her 30s who had
spent a day at the UTAS Sandy Bay campus...
CORONAVIRUS
It's a pandemic, says WHO
ABC News, 12 Mar 2020
The current coronavirus
outbreak has been declared a pandemic by the World Health
Organisation...
Denmark joins 22 other countries in closing all schools,
ABC News, unesco.org, 11 Mar 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Dark Mofo cancelled
ABC News, 11 Mar 2020
The Dark
Mofo festival due to be held in June has fallen victim to the
coronavirus...
CORONAVIRUS
UTAS slashes degrees and courses
ABC News, 10 Mar 2020
 The University of Tasmania is to cut the number of
courses from 514 to 120 in response to the reduced number of
students expected from China...
CORONAVIRUS
Coronavirus case no. 2
ABC News, 7 Mar 2020
The Royal Hobart Hospital is
treating the second person to be tested positive for the
coronavirus in Tasmania...
Infected man went to work at Grand Chancellor after
self-isolation instruction, ABC News, 8 Mar
2020
THE ECONOMY
How low can you go?
ABC News, 3 Mar 2020
The Reserve Bank of Australia
has reduced the official interest rate by 0.25 per cent to a
new low of 0.50 per cent to combat the coronavirus impact on the
economy...
STUDENT LEARNING
Don't ignore their emotional skills
The
Conversation (opinion), 3 Mar 2020
 As well as intelligence,
students' emotional awareness and emotional self-regulation play
an important part in the overall learning process, three
academics write...
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