National Cabinet

"These horrific and disturbing deaths and vile violence must be prevented."

Australia will build 1.2 million new homes in a plan agreed by National Cabinet - hundreds of thousands more than planned last year.

If you're a top politician in Australia, you will make a whole lot more than most people you are elected to represent.

It will see pharmacists delivering more services, GPs incentivised to open for longer and outreach for repeat Emergency visitors in order to ease pressure on strained hospitals.

National cabinet has agreed to an Australia-wide firearms register to counter crimes like the murders of two police officers in the Queensland village of Wieambilla last year.

Australia's state and territory leaders have signed a statement of intent to secure a successful referendum this year.

Australia's embattled health system will be in the spotlight when Australia's leaders meet for National Cabinet in Canberra today.

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Australia's leaders have agreed on an "extraordinary" energy price relief plan to help ease pressure on household budgets.

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The prime minister has locked in a day, amid mounting criticism the postponement would delay a crucial chance for leaders to consider energy price caps.

Anthony Albanese is struggling to reach agreement with two premiers.

Soaring electricity bills are set to top the agenda at the next national cabinet meeting.

Australians who test positive to COVID-19 are no longer required to isolate for five days.

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Australia's last remaining COVID-19 restrictions could change in a matter of hours as National Cabinet prepares to meet today.

The change will be discussed at this week's national cabinet meeting and is likely to get consensus from all states and territories.

Two COVID-19 support payments will be reinstated to ensure Australians who catch the virus and cannot work are financially protected.

Dominic Perrottet says he will push for the return of COVID-19 leave payments for workers who lose income during isolation at the snap National Cabinet meeting next week.

National leaders have agreed to tackle health system reform and skills shortages.

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Health, the energy crisis and even the make up of the body itself will be high on the agenda as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese chairs his first national cabinet meeting on Friday.

There are 10 women in his shadow cabinet, made up of 24 members, with the Nationals securing six cabinet positions.

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A forecast double winter wave of COVID-19 and the flu will be top of the agenda when National Cabinet meet today.

Greg Hunt said today the federal government has worked with the states to resume cruising in Australia, but the responsibility will lie with the individual state to "ensure they are ready".

Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews has said there could be different vaccination rules for visitors to the state and those that are there long-term, after National Cabinet agreed to not impose a booster mandate on international arrivals.

The next phase of looser COVID-19 restrictions are set to come into effect soon, after National Cabinet agreed to transition to Phase D of the national plan.

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Each state and territory is expected to announce the specifics of its own plans in the coming days. 

'The goal is not to stop everyone in the country getting COVID,' Scott Morrison said.

National Cabinet is set to consider allowing more close contacts to go back to work with a negative test.

The Prime Minister's office issued a statement today stating the confirmed COVID-19 cases will continue to take PCR tests if they are symptomatic, instead of the rapid antigen test on day six.

'If you have to wait for eight hours in a queue and then 72 to 96 hours to get a result, it's not fulfilling any useful public health function.'

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Following an emergency National Cabinet meeting today, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the government is taking the new strain "very seriously".

An emergency National Cabinet meeting will today respond to the growing crisis of the Omicron variant, with a warning daily COVID-19 cases could soon reach 200,000.

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Scott Morrison insists lockdowns will not return despite the leader of the AMA calling for harsher COVID-19 restrictions this Christmas.

Tuesday's National Cabinet meeting comes after the confirmation of five cases of the new Omicron variant among new arrivals to Australia — four in New South Wales and one in the Northern Territory — all of whom are isolating.

Two "crucial" meetings scheduled in the next 24 hours could dictate if stricter quarantine and border restrictions are rolled out across Australia as the new Omicron coronavirus variant hits our shores.

Bad blood remains between the state and federal governments after days of confusion even after the situation was mostly clarified on Tuesday night.

Australia has officially passed the critical milestone of 70 per cent fully vaccinated, triggering "Phase B" of the national plan out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed that international travel for Australians will resume from next month.

Two residents of the Calvary Haydon aged care facility with COVID-19 have died in the Australian Capital Territory

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