Anthony Albanese is set to temporarily reinstate the $750 pandemic isolation support payment following backlash from unions, state premiers and his own backbench.
more troops and equipment on its way to kazakhstan. the intervention marks the first deployment by the eurasian military alliance of five former soviet republics and russia. after days of violence in which more than 20 protesters and also many security personnel have died, kazakhstan s government is seeking to regain control of the covenant. the us has this warning for the regime of its reliance on moscow. one lesson from recent history is that once russians are in your house it is sometimes difficult to get them to leave. in it is sometimes difficult to get them to leave. them to leave. in a televised broadcast them to leave. in a televised broadcast to them to leave. in a televised broadcast to the them to leave. in a televised broadcast to the nation, - broadcast to the nation, kazakhstan s president said he had given orders to his security forces to shoot to kill without warning, describing the street the restrictions as coordinated attacks by foreign fled agents. events in
vaccinated populations, with omicron, which is a less severe variant than previous ones, the impact on overall all cause mortality has been much more muted. in fact, essentially not visible compared to their previous waves. now, i thought because there are some changes now i would like to make some additional kind of forward views about what is going to happen and then patrick is going to add a few as well. the first is just to say something about the omicron way. the omicron wave is still high and if you look around the uk, we are still between one and 20 and one and 25 people have got omicron if they were tested according to an estate which is slightly backward looking. the rates are coming down but this is still a very common infection and it is important to view the next period when we will still have testing all the way up to april, in which changes are happening steps. people think about this is one big step.
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has been embarrassing for australia. absolutely. some have said that the australian authorities response has been driven by the public outcry. that is right. this is again one thing that we have seen in those documents, that novak djokovic had been granted that exemption by tennis australia, by the victorian state government, only for the federal government to revoke that because of the public outcry, referring there to the political handling of this entire situation. remember, scott morrison s government has been under a lot of political pressure because of way that they handled covid 19, especially the omicron way. many australians have been quite angry at the chaos at testing clinics, skyrocketing numbers. it is an election year. observers have said that the government is using this essentially to appear tough on borders and to say that rules apply