15 Apr 2020

Covid party rumour retracted, plea to save Virgin Australia

From Nine To Noon, 9:52 am on 15 April 2020

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about how Australia's chief medical officer Dr Brendan Murphy has retracted comments he made to New Zealand's parliamentary committee about a cluster of cases stemming from "an illegal party" as it was unconfirmed. The Labor opposition party and unions want a billion-dollar loan to save the airline Virgin Australia and Rugby League is determined to get its season up and running again by the end of May.

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