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TASMANIAN POLITICS
Harassment allegation: David O'Byrne stands down
ABC News, 30 Jun 2021
 Opposition leader
David O'Byrne will stand down following an allegation of
sexual harassment against him which is being investigated by
the Labor Party.
UPDATE 4 Jul 2021:
O'Byrne to resign as leader but remain in Parliament
(The Mercury)
CORONAVIRUS
QR code check-ins to be required in Tas
ABC News, 30 Jun 2021
 The Tas
Check-in app to record QR codes will be required to be
displayed from next
week for
Tasmanians who visit shopping centres and large retailers such
as supermarkets and Bunnings.
SCHOOL RETENTION RATES
Retention rate hits record
Tas Govt media release,
30 Jun 2021
 The Year 10 to Year 12
retention rate in Tasmania has risen by almost five
percentage points to a record 76.1 per cent based on Term 1
data, education minister Sarah Courtney says.
CORONAVIRUS
Alice Springs into lockdown
ABC News, 30 Jun 2021
 Alice Springs is
entering a coronavirus lockdown on the basis that a
potentially positive miner passed through its airport.
CORONAVIRUS
Queensland announces lockdown too
ABC News, 29 Jun 2021
 Southeast Queensland,
Townsville and two islands will undergo a lockdown until
Friday.
CORONAVIRUS
Now
Perth, WA, has lockdown
ABC News, 28 Jun 2021
 The city of Perth and the
nearby Peel region in Western Australia are being placed
into lockdown for a four-day minimum period.
CORONAVIRUS
NT
lockdown extended
ABC News, 28 Jun 2021
The two-day Darwin
area lockdown has been extended by a further three days to
end on Friday.
CORONAVIRUS
Now the NT has a lockdown
ABC News, 27 Jun 2021
Darwin and two other
Northern Territory areas will undergo a coronavirus lockdown
from 1.00pm today (Sunday), "initially" for 48 hours.
CORONAVIRUS
Sydney lockdown widened
ABC News, 26 Jun 2021
 Greater Sydney and some
other areas have been placed in lockdown until Friday 9
July.
CORONAVIRUS
Partial lockdown for Sydney
ABC News, 25 Jun 2021
 Four local government areas
in Sydney will go into lockdown from 11.59pm today
(Friday).
CORONAVIRUS
Sydney lockdown averted
ABC News, 24 Jun 2021
NSW residents are
relieved as fears of a lockdown of the Greater Sydney area
being announced today did not eventuate.
FEDERAL POLITICS
Barnaby's back
ABC News, 17 Jun 2021
 Barnaby
Joyce has defeated Michael McCormack for the position of
leader of the Nationals. He is expected to be sworn in as
the Deputy Prime Minister tomorrow.
Major bank outage
17 Jun 2021 3.20pm
An outage affecting Australia's banks and some other large
corporations is gradually being resolved.
See
DownDetector
for latest status
CORONAVIRUS
Pfizer rollout now includes 50-59 year-olds
ABC News, 17 Jun 2021
The AstraZeneca coronavirus
vaccine is now recommended only for people 60 years and over
rather than 50 years and over.
TASMANIAN POLITICS
David O'Byrne now Labor leader
ABC News, 17 Jun 2021
David O'Byrne has won the
vote for the leadership of the Labor Party in Tasmania,
defeating Shane Broad and becoming Leader of the Opposition.
O'Byrne announces Shadow Cabinet,TasLabor
website, 17 Jun 2021
Shadow Cabinet [pdf]: Josh Willie continues as Education
spokesperson
TASMANIAN POLITICS
New Governor commences
Government House, 16 Jun 2021
 Tasmania's new Governor,
Barbara Baker, has been sworn in.
SCHOOL INTAKE ZONES
Zones promote equity
The Conversation (opinion
by Christina Ho), 15 Jun 2021
Requiring parents to send their children only to the local
school fosters equity and diversity, an academic says.
CORONAVIRUS
COVID joy
ABC News, 11 Jun 2021
Victoria has recorded zero
new local coronavirus cases on the first day of freedom
after lockdown.
SCHOOL UNIFORM
Uniform should be sports-like
The Conversation
(opinion), 10 Jun 2021
A school uniform that was more sports-like would enable
students to be more active every day and would be more
comfortable and cheaper, four academics say.
CORONAVIRUS
Vic lockdown ends
ABC News, 9 Jun 2021
Victoria's coronavirus
lockdown will end on Thursday night, but many restrictions
will apply from Friday onwards.
CORONAVIRUS
Childrern no longer safe from COVID
ABC News, 4 Jun 2021
Melbourne's coronavirus
Delta strain, a variant of the Indian strain, is believed to
be more transmissible and to affect children more severely
than other variants.
AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
Crowded curriculum a complex matter
The Conversation (opinion
by Chris Hickey), 3 Jun 2021
 Although many people
criticise the Australian Curriculum as being too "crowded",
a better approach is to regard it as being complex for a
complex world, requiring good teaching, an academic says.
CORONAVIRUS
Longer lockdown announced
ABC News, 3 Jun 2021
The Victorian lockdown is
being extended for a further seven days with some
modifications and easing of certain restrictions for
regional Victoria.
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