Covid-19 update: Victoria Two new Covid-19 cases were reported overnight in Victoria, authorities say. One of those cases was a resident aged care facility in Bright, in the state’s north east. The 25 remaining residents are now in quarantine. The two new infections takes the total number of cases to 1,687. There are currently 71 active infections, with seven people in hospital. Two of those people are in intensive care. A statement from the state’s Department of Health and Human Services said 1,595 people had now recovered after testing positive to the coronavirus virus. “Of yesterday’s cases, one was detected in returned travelers in hotel quarantine,” the department said. Of the aged care resident who rested positive in Bright case, the department said: “The person is currently being isolated in hospital where they were transferred for an unrelated condition. “About 25 remaining residents of Hawthorn Village in Bright have been placed in quarantine and contact tracing has begun. “The families of residents have been advised of the situation.” Dr Brett Sutton, Victoria’s chief health officer, said it was vital those who attended Melbourne’s Black Lives Matter protest and develop symptoms get tested He said: “Our clear advice was not to attend last Saturday’s protest as thousands of people flooding the city in close contact was a risk. “If you attended and go on to develop any symptoms, no matter how mild - it is critically important that you go and get tested.” In these extraordinary times, the Guardian’s editorial independence has never been more important. 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Aboriginal woman in hospital after prison incident: report There are reports an Aboriginal woman is fighting for life after she was allegedly body slammed by a prison guard at Bandyup prison in Western Australia. The West Australian newspaper reported late last night the woman was at St John of God hospital in a critical condition. The paper reported allegations that inmates witnessed her being “body slammed” on Saturday. She was then taken to hospital a short time later, it said. A WA Department of Justice spokesman told the newspaper: “The corrective services commissioner is aware of the allegation and has referred the matter to the Department of Justice professional standards division for review.” A response to Mathias Cormann from the Greens senator Rachel Siewert. Cormann said the Black Lives Matter protesters were “selfish”. “Fifty-four First Nations peoples have died in custody since 2008 in Minister Cormann’s home state of WA and I haven’t seen him say anything about that,” she said. “At least 432 people have died since the royal commission into deaths in custody, no government can claim to have done a close to adequate job at pursuing justice for First Nations peoples. “This has to be a wakeup call. The commonwealth has to show leadership and ensure an end to deaths in custody. “It’s the same vicious cycle, a royal commission or committee is held, truth is told, credible, tangible solutions are offered and governments cop out. “The fact is governments don’t like their failures being highlighted and this lack of justice is a massive failure of Australia’s governments.” Parents and visitors are now allowed on school grounds in Western Australia as the state government moves to lift more coronavirus restrictions, AAP reports. Under the changes from Monday, events and activities such as assemblies, excursions, choirs and examinations can resume providing schools abide by a limit of 100 people indoors and 300 people outdoors. School camps will also be permitted for up to 100 people. “Thanks to the hard work and diligence of school staff, parents and students, we’re able to make these changes and get schools closer to their usual operations,” the WA education minister, Sue Ellery, said. In other changes under the phase three guidelines, sports training and swimming classes can recommence and senior students can engage in work placements as long as employers are complying with Covid-19 guidelines. Canteens can also provide a dine-in service for up to 100 people and school libraries can allow 100 people in a shared space. Thanks to Calla for her work this morning – and a nod to her use of unusual abbreviations. I’ll be with you for the next few hours. Get in touch by email luke.henriques-gomes@theguardian.com or on Twitter @lukehgomes. I am going to hand over to m’colleague Luke Henriques-Gomes who will take you through the morning. A Victorian police officer is under investigation for using his boot to pin down a 42-year-old man during an arrest in the Melbourne suburb of Abbotsford on Saturday. The investigation by the professional standards command followed the airing of footage on Channel Seven, which drew a comparison with the killing of George Floyd. AAP reports that five police officers attended the arrest, after receiving reports that a man was “behaving erratically” From AAP: It was believed he had been making threats to passers-by and damaging property while armed with a hockey stick, police said on Monday. The man then allegedly locked himself inside the Johnston Street business. Officers used capsicum spray during the arrest and the man was treated at the scene for minor injuries. He appeared in court on Sunday, charged with various offences including theft, riotous behaviour and resist arrest. Citizenship ceremonies can now be conducted in person again, AAP has reported. For the past few months citizenship ceremonies have been conducted online, but councils can now choose to conduct ceremonies in person, or online. Acting immigration minister Alan Tudge said: The government is also working to resume citizenship testing and interviews in the coming weeks so we can have people moving through all stages of becoming Australian citizens. Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy was on Channel Nines’ Today show this morning, and she was asked what she thought of Mathias Cormann’s comment that the Black Lives Matter protesters were “quite irresponsible”. She said: Well that’s his opinion and I will tell you mine, Karl and my opinion is this, that we have way too many deaths in custody, way too many people incarcerated in terms of First Nations people and this was an opportunity by leaders across Australia, Aboriginal leaders, non-Aboriginal leaders, not politicians. They were people who came together, pulled all sorts of people together. They had police involved in Queensland, for example, giving out masks. They had hand sanitisers. People in many of these marches were trying to keep their distance. This issue of First Nations people dying in custody is what is reckless in this country and irresponsible and that’s where this focus was all about. Socceroos goalkeeper Mitch Langerak is facing a stint on the sidelines after testing positive for coronavirus at J-League club Nagoya Grampus. Langerak, 31, did not report any symptoms but became the second player at the Japanese club to become infected, the J-League club confirmed. Teammate and striker Mu Kanazaki registered a positive test result on Tuesday. Subsequent to Kanazaki’s positive test another 19 players were tested at the club. On Saturday, Grampus announced players would be sent home and club facilities disinfected. Another 26 individuals at the club then underwent tests at their request. Langerak produced the only new positive test result. In March, Vissel Kobe defender Gotoku Sakai tested positive for the virus, but he has resumed practising with teammates after making a full recovery. The J-League top flight is set to resume behind closed doors on July 4 following a roughly four-month suspension due to the coronavirus pandemic. Langerak joined the Japanese top-flight club in 2018 after a lengthy stint in Germany. He has played eight matches for the Socceroos since 2013 but has been largely a back-up to No.1 keeper Matt Ryan. Meanwhile, in Queensland, more than 250 people have been tested for Covid-19 after a 24-year-old man travelled form Melbourne to Brisbane while infectious. The man, who was going to work as a fruit picker in Bundaberg, socialised with friends and family in Brisbane before travelling on to Bundaberg and checking into shared accomodation to work at a strawberry farm. Some 147 tests were conducted at a pop-up clinic at the farm worker accomodation and to date 57 have returned negative results, including 15 who socialised with the man in Brisbane. The results for the remaining tests are expected today. Said Queensland chief health officer, Dr Jeanette Young: These are early days and we have much more work to do before we can be confident there has been no further transmission. Morrison retains record high approval rating: Newspoll Scott Morrison has maintained his record high approval rating, the latest Newspoll published in the Australian this morning shows. Morrison’s approval rating is at 66%, and his disapproval rating has fallen a point to 29%, the highest prolonged approval ratings for a prime minister since the early days of Kevin Rudd’s first prime ministership. The two-party preferred figure remains unchanged at 51-49. Although the poll shows that support for the Coalition dropped a point to 42% while Labor’s primary vote dropped a point to 34%. The primary vote for the Greens rose two points to 12%, while support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation lifted one point to 4%. Morrison was also ahead of opposition leader Anthony Albanese as preferred prime minister, with 56% to Albanese’s 26%. Albanese’s personal approval rating dropped three points to 41%, and his disapproval rating lifted one point to 38%. The poll was conducted between June 3 and June 6, based on 1,512 online interviews of voters. It has a 2.5% margin of error. Dodson was also asked about the destruction of a rock shelter in Juukan Gorge near Tom Price in the Pilbara, despite significant archeological evidence showing it had been occupied for at least 46,000 years. He said that “some heads will have to roll” at Rio Tinto, for failing to properly implement its monitoring of and consultation about cultural heritage sties with traditional owners. Rio Tinto has apologised, but not said it was in the wrong. But Dodson said the federal government could have acted to stop the destruction, after lawyers for the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura peoples sent an 11th hour plea to federal Indigenous affairs minister Ken Wyatt. Dodson said: The commonwealth could have issued an injunction for that activity to stop and they failed to do that. He said that Wyatt, who referred the matter to environment minister Sussan Ley, should bear some responsibility: The palming off by the minister of Aboriginal Australians to [Ley] … he’s a West Australian, he knows now draconian the Aboriginal Heritage Act is in Western Australia ... They have just failed in their duty. They have failed to act in a way that could give Aboriginal people any confidence that the federal crown and the state crown have any interest in their welfare and their cultural values. Dodson: without a voice to parliament, people will protest to "get their points across" Western Australian senator and Labor’s spokesman for reconciliation, Patrick Dodson, is also speaking on Radio National. He was travelling and did not attend a protest on Saturday, and said he hoped there would be no transmission of Covid-19 from the gatherings. But he said deaths in custody were a real, present threat to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and not a sign of a lack of care by Aboriginal people and other activists about the coronavirus threat. I have lost a nephew recently ... he still has to come back from Perth. Family are distraught about that. It’s affected everyone and I don’t think it’s responsible to describe people as uncaring. Dodson said the dismissal of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, particularly the request for a constitutionally-enshrined Indigenous voice to parliament, meant many felt they had no option but to protest. I think the Aboriginal community feel very much disconnected and uncared for in society, particularly since the Uluru Statement … there’s no real progress taking place in the deaths in custody arena, and then we have the awful and disgraceful destruction of ancient sites in Western Australia. Unless there is a voice to parliament, he says, “then you are going to have people defying the odds, as it were, to try and get their points across”. Trade minister Simon Birmingham has told Radio National that he thought the timing of the Black Lives Matter protests this weekend was “incredibly unfortunate” but acknowledged, when pushed by host Fran Kelly, that the timing was sparked by the alleged murder of George Floyd by US police officers and therefore not of the protesters’ choosing. Said Birmingham: The timing was unfortunate and I accept that events that occurred in the US were not in the control of the protest organisers … nonetheless there would have been other ways of trying to create the kind of movement of symbolism that people sought without coming out in a mass gathering. He suggests something like the driveway lights on Anzac Day. A mass gathering, he says, shows a “lack of regard for the other Australians who have been making sacrifices” during lockdown, but adds that he “understands the sentiment” of the protesters. In other news, Tony Abbott has been made a companion of the order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday honours. It’s the top gong. Abbott was awarded it for his contributions to border control and the Indigenous community. Other former Liberal politicians Bronwyn Bishop, Philip Ruddock, former NSW premier Mike Baird, former Victorian premier Denis Napthine were made officers of Order of Australia, the second highest honour. Bishop was awarded the honour for “distinguished service to the Parliament of Australia, to the people of New South Wales, and to women in politics”. Marcia Langton, the foundation chair in Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, was also made an officer of the Order of Australia for “distinguished service to tertiary education, and as an advocate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people”. Langton said she was: ... very pleased to accept [the award] because it is a way of turning the tide on the historical racism and low expectations that typified an older Australia, and one which I hope we can leave behind. More on this from Elias Visontay here. Good morning and welcome to our continuing live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in Australia. The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee will meet today to discuss “stage three and beyond” of lifting the lockdown restrictions. The deputy chief medical officer, Paul Kelly, said the AHPPC would take into account the potential spread of the virus at the large protests on the weekend. About 30,000 people gathered in both Melbourne and Brisbane and an estimated crowd of 20,000 gathered in Sydney in solidarity with US protests over Black Lives Matter and the death of George Floyd, and to protest the number of Indigenous deaths in custody in Australia. Hundreds more gathered in smaller cities and towns. Kelly told AAP: At the moment, it won’t change how we are viewing those processes, but in particular states it may do, depending what happens in relation to [any] cases that crop up. The protests have seen business owners place increased pressure on state governments to open up lockdown restrictions, according to a report in the Australian. Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett told the Oz: Don’t tell me after thousands of people attended the rally, we couldn’t have had thousands of people at the footy on the weekend social distancing. We need to open up the borders. We need to start moving. Protesters at all rallies were told to wear face masks and remain 1.5m apart whenever possible. Face masks and hand sanitiser were distributed at entry points to the major rallies in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The order to wear masks was almost universally obeyed. Victoria’ deputy chief health officer, Annaliese van Diemen, told reporters yesterday that she was “hopeful” Victoria’s case numbers continue to trend downwards. She said: If we have no outbreaks in general in [the next] two weeks, and we continue to trend downwards, we will see that as a positive in terms of low levels of community transmission. Stage three restrictions could see gatherings of up to 100 people permitted, employees returning to their workplaces, and interstate travel. Some states are going slightly off book: in Western Australia gatherings of up to 100 people have been permitted since midnight on Saturday, and the premier, Mark McGowan, has maintained his insistence that the hard border between WA and the rest of the country will not lift. As of last night, there have been 7,260 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Australia and sadly 102 people have died. Oh, and in case you’re wondering: today is Monday.