This news could have some serious implications for Australian media, who could be held responsible legally for the comments others make on their social media pages. Former Northern Territory youth detainee Dylan Voller, whose mistreatment in Don Dale youth detention centre prompted a Royal Commission into youth detention, pursued defamation proceedings against Fairfax Media, Nationwide News and Sky News for comments left by readers in the Facebook comments sections of articles relating to Voller. The media sites involved include the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Sky News, The Bolt Report and The Centralian Advocate. Australia to join the G7 summit Looks like Australia might be hanging with the big dogs again this year. ScoMo has told Syndey radio station 2GB that President Donald Trump was keen for Australia to attend the G7 summit. “We’re expecting an invitation there,” he said. Mr Morrison attended last year’s G7 meeting as a guest of French President Emmanuel Macron. “It’s a good opportunity to deal with a lot of like-minded countries,” the prime minister said. The G7 is made up of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, US and the United Kingdom. The NSW decision to reopen poker machines has been criticised by the NSW Council for Social Service, Wesley Mission and the Alliance for Gambling Reform. The groups say they “have major concerns for a lack of preparation by the NSW Government to manage the risks associated with people being exposed to gambling again after a nine-week enforced break”. Other states have opted to keep the pokies closed for another month. “NCOSS remains extremely concerned about the harmful impact this form of gambling causes to individuals and the broader community, especially at such a vulnerable time,” said the council‘s chief executive, Joanna Quilty: This decision to reopen poker machines is not a solution to addressing concerns around social isolation, it is a recipe for disaster and our members will no doubt be left to pick up the pieces. Guardian Australia has spent the past week examining aspects of the federal government’s response to coronavirus, investigating problems with jobkeeper, the childcare support package, and the potential economic impact of the sudden cessation of stimulus. The Australian government has handed major pathology companies lucrative Covid-19 contracts through limited tenders, shielded their closed collection centres from takeover, provided large subsidy increases after industry lobbying, waived normal registration fees and promised to provide additional assistance outside jobkeeper. This report comes from Christopher Knaus: 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. Queensland is also gearing up for more intrastate travel. Queenslanders can now holiday anywhere in the state, but, much to the disappointment of NSW, outsiders are still not allowed in. Several Queensland cities and towns, including the Gold Coast, are reliant on tourism from other states and territories, but the premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, has been steadfast that state borders will remain closed. This is in part due to the persistent low-level community transmission in Victoria and NSW. South Australia’s premier, Steven Marshall, is encouraging residents to plan their next holiday inside the state. Notably, he is not asking any outsiders to join in, with mandatory 14-day quarantines still in place for anyone entering SA. Restriction have been relaxed in the state today. Venues can have up to 80 patrons, provided they are contained to groups of 20 in separate rooms or areas. Just on Scott Morrison’s comments to 2GB earlier about the US riots. He said: “As upsetting and terrible that the murder that took place – and it is shocking, that also just made me cringe – I just think to myself how wonderful a country is Australia.” Australia has its own history of institutional violence against vulnerable groups, as Lorena Allam reports. The family of David Dungay, an Aboriginal man who said “I can’t breathe” 12 times before he died while being restrained by five prison guards in a Sydney jail, said they have been traumatised anew by the footage of US police killing George Floyd. Here’s what Gladys Berejilklian told 2GB earlier. We’re working through the list, and can I be so bold as to suggest that I will be saying something publicly about that this week. What we need to do is make sure everybody’s safe, everybody reopens in a Covid-safe way and that’s our mantra ... There’s two things that we want to say something about in the near future and that’s children’s community sport, but also gyms and studios. I will say something about that in the very near future. Announcement of NSW gyms and children"s community sport expected this week Sydney fitness junkies rejoice, it seems there might be an announcement on gyms coming soon. Scott Morrison has told the Sydney radio station 2GB he does not believe violent protests in the US will bring change. The US has been gripped by violence, with protests boiling over after George Floyd died after a white Minneapolis police officer, now charged with murder, knelt on his neck while he was under arrest. The Australian prime minister said the footage from the US was disturbing. “I saw a good meme on the weekend – Martin Luther King didn’t change anything by burning anything down or by looting any shops,” he told 2GB on Monday. (King’s quote, “in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard”, has become a rallying cry in the US protests.) Morrison said video of the officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck was awful. “As upsetting and terrible that the murder that took place – and it is shocking, that also just made me cringe – I just think to myself how wonderful a country is Australia.” He discouraged Australians from joining similar protests planned for later in the week. “There’s no need to import things happening in other countries here to Australia,” he said. The foreign affairs minister, Marise Payne, has announced plans to establish a “Pacific humanitarian pathway” to help combat global supply chain disruptions in the Oceanic region. Payne says this will help ensure the transportation of humanitarian and medical supplies within the Pacific during the pandemic. She said: As a member of the Pacific Islands Forum, Australia is doing its part to operationalise the Pacific Humanitarian Pathway including through the implementation of protocols for freight and passengers that minimise the risk of COVID-19 transmission. This aid will include $5.5m to the World Food Programme, including $4m going towards air transport and logistics services, the delivery of humanitarian and critical medical supplies, and assessments of the impact on food security. For once there might actually be a bigger story than Covid-19 today: the now-global protests against the police killing of unarmed black man George Floyd in the US. You can check out coverage of the protests here, including those within 100 metres of the White House: But make sure you hurry on back. We have a big day of Australia’s coronavirus news ahead of us. Andrews didn’t provide many details on the significant outbreak in Melbourne’s north-west that has caused 100 school students to self-isolate after two schools had children test positive last week: I’ll let the chief health officer provide a fuller update later on today. That’s a serious outbreak. All outbreaks are serious. The important point to note is that the prime minister made this point, Brendan Murphy and myself, said that as we open up, we will see positive cases. That’s why so much testing is important. And my message to your Victorian viewers this is morning – if you have even the mildest of symptoms, come forward and get tested. Victorians urged to keep working from home if possible Speaking of Victoria, the premier, Daniel Andrews, is speaking to the ABC now, doubling down on his “work from home” message: One of the biggest challenges that the chief health officer has identified is literally hundreds of thousands of people coming back to the office, pressing lift button, sharing bathrooms and kitchens. Not necessarily maintaining social distancing. And then, of course, there’s the issue of how they get to work. If everyone tries to cram in on public transport, well, we won’t have any social distancing maintained at all ... So if you have been working from home, you have to keep working from home. Now today is the first day Victorians will be allowed to enjoy a strong cup of coffee at their local cafes. If you are enjoying the first morning back out for breakfast, shoot me a photo on Twitter. Just on the NSW wage freeze, the president of the state’s Teachers Federation, Angelo Gavrielatos, told ABC that the $1,000 bonus wasn’t acceptable. Our teachers in NSW have not received a pay increase since November 2018. We had finalised negotiations for pay in March and then our pay for teachers was struck with the wage cap. It’s unacceptable. There is a bit of news to unpack from the papers today. The Daily Telegraph and Syndey Morning Herald are reporting that NSW public servants may get a one-off $1,000 stimulus payment after the government of the premier, Gladys Berejiklian, decided to freeze their pay for 12 months. The treasurer, Dominic Perrottet, called union leaders on Sunday night with the offer, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The wage freeze for 410,000 public sector workers is facing a tough battle to get through the upper house. The government wants to freeze pay rises to include the entire NSW public service and MPs, citing the economic hit brought on by the Covid-19 restrictions. The freeze would save about $3bn, which would be reinvested in public projects. Berejiklian has said public sector jobs would otherwise be at risk. She said frontline workers had received 2.5% annual pay rises since the Coalition took office in 2011. The Australian has reported the federal government is considering giving householders cash grants for home renovations under a multibillion-dollar stimulus package to boost the economy. The measure will be considered by a cabinet expenditure review committee meeting this week. But there would be limits on the type of renovations that could be undertaken under the plan, which could be worth up to $4bn. Good morning Matilda Boseley here to take you through the morning. The big thing to look out for today is that Australians will experience more freedom as much of the country enters a new phase of Covid-19 restrictions. The more flexible restrictions – which differ across the states – will mean more movement in public places, including pubs, cafes and restaurants. But authorities continue to urge the public to practise safe hygiene and social distancing measures. From midday, Queenslanders will be able to travel statewide, while pubs, clubs, restaurants and cafes will be allowed to seat up to 20 people. The state’s strict border closure will remain in place. NSW pubs, beauty salons and museums reopen, and holiday travel inside state boundaries will also be permitted. In Victoria, libraries, galleries, museums, places of worship and beauty clinics are among the venues that will be allowed to reopen to no more than 20 people. In South Australia, venues can have up to 80 patrons, provided they are contained to groups of 20 in separate rooms or areas. Australia’s deputy chief medical officer Nick Coatsworth says the lifting of restrictions is a balancing act between the socioeconomic benefit from their removal and the public health risk. He told reporters in Canberra on Sunday: We’re taking a deliberately safe and cautious approach. Most importantly we’re taking the time to gather the data over the coming weeks to determine whether it’s safe to move to the next round of lifting restrictions. Almost 7,200 Australians have tested positive to Covid-19 with more than 1.45 million tests conducted. Some 478 virus cases remain active across the country, while the death toll sits at 103. More than 62% of Australia’s Covid-19 cases have been acquired overseas since 22 January. A three-year-old child is one of three new cases in Western Australia, but all were in quarantine after returning from overseas, while one of the cases from the Al Kuwait livestock ship has been hospitalised. The ship has accounted for 20 of WA’s 28 active cases.