No coverage on Seven today
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10 need to fix whatever issue it is in the system that see’s the blue 10 logo next to the red News First text - looks awful.
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Did the Australian Seniors insurance ad mention excluding COVID-19? 
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First time Seven Melbourne have not chosen to take Daniel Andrews press conference. I guess the advertorial we’re complaining. ABC and Nine Melbourne still taking it live today.
Interesting this would be the first time in months.
They now appear to be showing the press conference again most days.
Personally my preference would be to continue showing The Morning Show/Seven Morning News, and people who want to watch the press conference on a Seven platform can go onto the YouTube channel.
Keeps everyone happy as viewers can choose between the conference or the normal programming and also keeps advertisers happy, plus is good promotion for 7news.com.au.
Can Victoria’s hotel quarantine failure be described as a “fiasco”?
The ABC’s independent editorial complaints investigation unit, Audience & Consumer Affairs, has rejected a complaint that political correspondent Jane Norman breached impartiality standards when, in a live cross on the ABC News Channel, she referred to the Victorian Government’s handling of hotel quarantine as a “fiasco”.
The A&CA finding says:
“The focus of (the News Channel report) was the 25,000 Australians stranded overseas and the different political views about how to resolve this problem.
“The reporter explained: ‘Right now, only 4000 Australians can return home each week and that’s because of the caps that were imposed back in July in response to the Victorian hotel quarantine fiasco.’
“While we note your objection to the term ‘fiasco’, we are satisfied that this description is grounded in demonstrable evidence and is duly impartial.
“The failures in hotel quarantine in Victoria have allowed a second wave of coronavirus to take hold in that state, leading to avoidable illness and deaths and the longest and most stringent lockdowns in Australia.
“As the report explained, the ‘ripple effects’ of these failures also led to this problem of thousands of Australians stranded overseas, with no certainty as to how or when they will be able to return home. The consequences of the failures in hotel quarantine have been disastrous for many Australians.”
Experienced reporters such as Jane are expected to be able to form evidence-based conclusions about the consequences of events and decisions made by public officials.
The conclusion that hotel quarantine in Victoria was a failure is demonstrably true.
Whether it is described as a “failure” or a “fiasco” is a matter of style, not substance.
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The Melbourne reporter on ABC breakfast/mornings has a new negative adjective every day to describe the Victorian quarantine system. At least she is mixing it up I guess.
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NSW digital editor for ABC News, Riley Stuart, has drawn the ire of former federal ministers and his own colleagues at the national broadcaster for a tweet suggesting people from NSW “may die of boredom” if they cross the border into South Australia. Riley tweeted this on Wednesday night:
Former long-serving ABC Radio Adelaide breakfast co-host and Sunday Mail columnist Matthew Abraham replied yesterday:
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/coronavirus/abc-editor-fires-off-sasledge-on-twitter-as-the-state-opens-its-borders-to-new-south-wales/news-story/df90039dbda05ce535911e52b993af44
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Agree. It is shocking.
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Today’s front pages of the Herald Sun and The Age following Premier Daniel Andrews speaking at Victoria’s Hotel Quarantine Inquiry yesterday.
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ABC Local Radio in Victoria taking coverage of Daniel Andrews 3pm press conference in the middle of women’s Twenty20 cricket match from Brisbane. However there is no coverage on 3AW.
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Premier Daniel Andrews press conference will be at 12.30pm today. Expect all channels (Bar SBS) to take today’s announcements live.
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The women who authorities claim were responsible for Queensland’s recent COVID-19 clusters will face court today. The scrum:
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Expect all networks (in Victoria / Melbourne ) to take todays press conference live. No announcement has yet been made on a time.
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Seven Melbourne said the other day that it will be “before 1pm”.