Send us your stories! Six mobile testing sites to open across Melbourne Victoria Health has just announced this: Six new mobile coronavirus testing sites across Melbourne will open today, as part of the Victorian Government’s blitz to test up to 100,000 people in two weeks. The new sites located at Bunnings West Footscray, Pacific Werribee, Pacific Epping, Watergardens Town Centre, Westfield Fountain Gate and Bayside Shopping Centre in Frankston are due to begin conducting tests this morning. It comes after four new mobile coronavirus testing sites opened yesterday at Chadstone, Doncaster, Highpoint and Northland shopping centres – bringing the total so far to 10. Jobseeker and other social safety net payments and the response are the focus of today’s Covid Senate select committee hearing. That includes Stuart Robert’s “my bad” hack that wasn’t. The national disability insurance scheme heads will also be at the meeting, where they will be asked about what is missing for those living with a disability in this response, or caring for someone with a disability. There is an easy answer to that straight off the bat – the Covid supplement. Queensland has recorded no new cases. In these extraordinary times, the Guardian’s editorial independence has never been more important. Because no one sets our agenda, or edits our editor, we can keep delivering quality, trustworthy, fact-checked journalism each and every day. Free from commercial or political bias, we can report fearlessly on world events and challenge those in power. Your support protects the Guardian’s independence. We believe every one of us deserves equal access to accurate news and calm explanation. No matter how unpredictable the future feels, we will remain with you, delivering high quality news so we can all make critical decisions about our lives, health and security – based on fact, not fiction. Support the Guardian from as little as $1 – and it only takes a minute. Thank you. Anthony Albanese will stand up with Mike Kelly at 10am to officially announce the Labor MP’s resignation. You’ll find the Tasmanian Health report into the north-west outbreak here. It is Senate Covid committee day. The Tasmanian report will add fuel to the fire for the tit-for-tat between Peter Dutton and Kristina Keneally: (For some context, Keneally has previously called Peter Dutton’s criticisms and focus on her “unhinged”, which is one of the reasons he used it here. And for the record, Dutton’s criticism that Keneally is attacking “uniformed officers” of Border Force leaves out that it was Dutton who changed the department to first of all create “Border Force”, secondly make them “officers” and thirdly, put them in uniforms. The Labor MP says it wasn’t the choice he wanted to make, but his health determined it for him: I found it to be the greatest privilege in my life to represent his community because Eden Monaro is deep in my blood and my heart. This region has been my family story for over 160 years, you know, the pioneers who helped to build the region. My great, great, great grandfather built the Tathra wharf and my great-great-grandfather ran the Bega cheese coop and my great-grandfather ran for Eden Monaro in 1940 and was a big part of fighting the battles during the Great Depression and other things, so it was a proud part of my life to be part of that family tradition in serving the region, and so to have two lay down that torch is very emotionally charged and distressing. Labor MP Mike Kelly retires Mike Kelly spoke to the ABC about his “gut-wrenching” decision to retire: What we will do now is put Eden Monaro squarely at the front and centre of the national debate. It will be number one on the radar, it will be a battleground for the policy ideas we have to now have in terms of what we do for climate change, but also importantly for the recovery process through all of this. No region has suffered more through the double whammy, if you like, of climate change, bushfires and the coronavirus situation than Eden Monaro, so it will be an opportunity for our issues to be front and centre for our particular trauma to be addressed and it will be our competition for who can provide those answers for our community. There are a lot of things that have been slipping from consciousness and below the radar that really need urgent attention, so by falling on my sword now I think I’m doing the best in the region to make sure we are front and centre in the debate and we get the commitments that we need. It’s been incredibly gut-wrenching. Tasmania reports one new Covid-19 case Just one person in Tasmania was diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. Premier Peter Gutwein says the government will be taking the lessons from the report into the north-west Tasmanian outbreak, seriously: I do want to say that what this report will demonstrate very clearly is that most likely the Ruby Princess is the root cause of our problems on the north-west coast. In terms of how this highly infectious disease has then been spread, to be frank it is something that we will never know. What we do know is that healthcare workers caught this, healthcare workers who would have been doing their very best to serve Tasmanians and to look after their patients and, as a result of that spread we have had the north-west cluster, the north-west outbreak and importantly then as a government with the support of our health experts took the responses and the actions that we did but I would say to everybody, don’t use this report to blame people, use this report to ensure that we learn and as a state that we go forward and, importantly, we take every step that we possibly can to keep people safe. Peter Gutwein repeats that “no one is to blame” for the north-west outbreak. What we have is a dedicated health workforce, what we have is a highly infectious disease and, unfortunately, we have had an outbreak and we have done everything that we possibly can to get on top of that outbreak. There are lessons ... though, from all of this and by all of us I mean the entire state of Tasmania. One point that I do want to make is that sometimes our strong work ethic can be our worst enemy. It is a stark reminder to us that this virus moves quickly, that this virus, once somebody has been infected, can demonstrate no symptoms at all and it’s important that whether people work in a hospital, whether they work in a manufacturing plant, whether they work in a shearing shed, the lessons from this report are such that we should all take on board that we need to ensure that no matter how good we feel, if we have a sniffle we shouldn’t turn up to work. If we have any concern whatsoever then we should take the precautionary principles. We must continue to be cautious and we must continue to vigilant. "Ground zero" for Tasmanian north-west outbreak was the Ruby Princess Tasmanian premier Peter Gutwein says no passenger was to blame, and no health worker was to blame, but the north-west Covid outbreak started with the Ruby Princess cruise ship. Another woman, a 86-year-old, died in Tasmanian yesterday. She had been diagnosed with Covid-19. The woman was the 12th death in Tasmania. Eleven people have passed away in the north-west. Gutwein: Last night when I was thinking about how to outline this report today, and I would ask everybody to consider this as well, I thought that it was important to actually take a walk in the steps of the issues of those that have been Ruby Princess passengers but also those who have been healthcare workers. This is simply a case of people going about their lives, going about their jobs, while this dreadful set of circumstances has ensued and has wreaked havoc and misery on so many people. Hard-working and passionate healthcare workers continue to turn up to serve their community. What the report will indicate in many cases, unaware that they were carrying symptoms. In fact, most of them were unaware that they were carrying symptoms. Now, we know that our state is not immune to the virus and unfortunately, like the rest of the country, we are not immune to outbreak. What we do know is that this insidious disease is one that spreads very quickly, is highly infectious and the learnings that we take from this report today will enable us to consider our systems to ensure that we work even harder to keep people safe. As expected, Mike Kelly will announce his retirement this morning. We’ll bring you that announcement, when it is (officially) made, when it happens.