Australia news live update: Colbeck defends attending Ashes during aged care crisis; 69 Covid deaths recorded including child aged under 10
Richard Colbeck defends attending Ashes during aged care crisis; raising interest rates won’t solve housing affordability, Philip Lowe says; nation records at least 69 Covid deaths; Grace Tame condemns ‘civility for the sake of civility’. Follow all the day’s news
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Speaking of which:
Scott Morrison is asked about those leaked text messages between a cabinet minister and former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian put to him at the National Press Club that suggested he was, among other things, a “horrible person”.
I can’t speak about it because I don’t know anything about it, Gladys doesn’t know anything about it and those that are raising it, well, frankly, there are a lot of questions being asked about them at the moment.
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