The Informer: Pandemic troubles continue while Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faces tension with the Greens

The pandemic is certainly not over as experts predict cases in the ACT and beyond are set to triple in the next four weeks.

“I could never rule out introducing a mandate. We don’t know what’s around the corner,” Dr Coleman said.

The payments for workers who needed to spend time away from work while they isolated ended on June 30, but there have been calls for the payments to be reinstated.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he wouldn’t bring back the payments because of the need for government to rein back spending due to $1 trillion of debt.

“They are circumstances which my government faces … there are a range of things we would like to do, but we intend to be fiscally responsible in how we deal with issues,” he said.

“If the Greens party haven’t learned from what they did in 2009, that was something that led to a decade of inaction and delay and denial, then that will be a matter for them,” he said.

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