Monday 10 January 2022

Australia news live: Djokovic trains on centre court as supporters take to Melbourne streets; Morrison government yet to decide on visa cancellation

Tennis star attends midnight training session at Rod Laver Arena as police called amid wild scenes in Melbourne; immigration minister threatens to revoke entry visa for a second time. Follow all the day’s news live

A 14-year-old girl swept away in floodwaters north of Brisbane on the weekend is still missing as residents in the region assess the damage after days of extreme weather, AAP reports.

Water levels started to drop on Monday after the remnants of tropical cyclone Seth dumped more than half a metre of rain on the Wide Bay-Burnett region in two days.

Prime minister Morrison and home affairs minister Karen Andrews have a whole lot of explaining to do because what we have seen from this is Australians now know they cannot trust the Morrison government to enforce the rules at the border and they have done incredible damage.

The Morrison government looks like a pack of idiots that could not organise a meat raffle in a local RSL. Come on, here. This is extraordinary circumstances. The Morrison government issued Novak Djokovic a Visa on 18 November. The Australian Open is not a secret event, the fact Novak Djokovic, a known anti-vaxxer, wanted to come to Australia and play was not a state secret and yet Mr Morrison, as he has done at every stage in this pandemic, failed to plan, failed to act. Quite frankly, his failures, whether around ordering rapid antigen tests, ordering enough vaccines, making sure the supermarkets are well stocked and enforcing the rules at the border, all of these failures from Mr Morrison are hurting real Australians.

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