Australian politics live: WA lifts quarantine requirements for visitors from Victoria and NSW ed.3
New WA border rules to start on 8 December; Paul Fletcher complains to ABC chair about Four Corners program; MPs hit back at China over provocative tweet. Follow latest updates Poll: three-quarters of Australians back target of net zero by 2030China rejects Australian PM's call to apologise for ‘repugnant' tweet Follow our global coronavirus live blogAustralia's coronavirus restrictions explained: state by state 2.41am GMT It is almost question time - the second one Scott Morrison will spend at the Lodge, appearing virtually.Yesterday, Labor directed questions away from him (the audio link is not great) 2.36am GMT The office of government services minister Stuart Robert told my colleague Elias Visontay yesterday that part of the reason the government would not move from Covidsafe to using Apple and Google's exposure notification framework was in part because it “puts health information in the hands of IT companiesâ€.When I asked a spokesman in the office what was meant by that, because Apple and Google never holds the data – it remains on a person's phone – the office sent back a lengthy response stating the aims of the two systems are different: Apple and Google's version only serves to notify people who might need to isolate and get tested, but by passing on details of every identified close contact to state health authorities, Covidsafe is a fuller contact tracer feeding back into the state contact tracing systems.The inherent risk is that a person doe
