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The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, is on Queensland’s Gold Coast joining the state’s election campaign and he’s giving a media conference.

He’s of course wearing the election campaign uniform of choice – a hi-vis vest.

I know that from my own experience before I went into parliament, and Queensland’s domestic tourism industry has always relied heavily on the New South Wales and Victorian markets coming up for what is always a great holiday in Queensland.

They are not something, I suppose, to boast of, they are things that are necessary but are regrettably necessary in many occasions, and so when you have to have them, well, let’s have them based on medical advice and for only as long as you absolutely have to because the longer they are there, the more they do stop jobs.

The Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, has clashed with a journalist who suggested he should hand over his phone records voluntarily to the state’s hotel quarantine inquiry.

On Friday Andrews said he would hand over his phone records to the inquiry if he was asked.

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