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It’s Monday 19 April, and
national cabinet is meeting today to try and resurrect the vaccine rollout. Meanwhile, our readers say Australia’s
mental health system is “the worst it’s ever been”. This is Imogen Dewey with this morning’s main stories.
Tackling growing vaccine hesitancy, supply and speeding up the rollout will be the main focus of the
renewed biweekly national cabinet meetings, back on today for the first time leaders have met since Scott Morrison recalled twice-weekly meetings. Yesterday both the prime minister, and health minister Greg Hunt hinted vaccinated Australians may be allowed to travel overseas and
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Regional Queenslanders lacking specialist support are the focus of a new mental health support and suicide prevention provider in North Rockhampton.
Not-for-profit Selectability offers NDIS and clinical services, as well as certificate training and short courses.
At the official Rockhampton opening on Wednesday morning, attended by about 30 people, Selectability chair Tom Ryan said he was surprised at the demand for mental health support in the Beef Capital.
“The first thing we did was have a look and see, ‘Is there a need?” he said.
“We got a bit of a shock actually, to discover that there’s virtually no service.
Updated Feb 23, 2021 | 16:37 IST
Facebook and Google have been the target of landmark legislation in the Land Down Under, which, last week, was tabled in Australian Parliament. Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison had condemned Facebook s move to temporarily ban Australian news publishers content from its platform. | Photo Credit: AP
Key Highlights
On Thursday last week, millions of Australians woke to realise that Facebook had temporarily suspended displaying content of Australian news publishers on their home feeds
The stand-off between Facebook, Google and the Australian government is being closely monitored by nations across the world including India
India s 282 million unique visitors make the country the second-largest news consuming nation in the world behind only China
A senior Facebook executive has apologised for blocking health and emergency services pages but signalled the social media giant will not back down in a dispute with the government.