QR codes now mandatory in NSW as restrictions on cafes and restaurants due to ease – live news

The one active case left in Victoria is a person in the Greater Dandenong local government area, according to the department of health and human services. That person is in hospital, but not in intensive care. We wish them all the best.

Today marks 24 days in a row of no new Covid-19 cases in Victoria. Just four days to go until the state meets the requirements for Western Australia and Queensland opening the border (although they haven’t guaranteed that they will open up).

Just 7,261 Covid-19 tests were conducted in Victoria yesterday.

Speaking of borders, there’s now a permit system in place for people from South Australia wishing to enter Victoria, which you can find here. If you’re in the cross-border bubble, which is 70km on either side of the Vic-SA border, you don’t need a new permit from the Victorian government but you do need to keep using the existing permit system, issued by the SA government, or present your drivers licence to cross the border.

DHHS has also issued a reminder to people living or staying in Benalla and surrounds, Portland and surrounds, and Altona and surrounds that fragments of the virus were detected in wastewater testing. So, if you have any symptoms, even very mild symptoms, get a test. There are additional pop-up testing sites in every location.

I bullied my dad to get a test because he lives in one of those catchment areas. Dear reader, I will bully you too. Get a test.

A teenage boy has been stabbed by another teen at their western Sydney high school in what police believe was a targeted incident.

Police say the 14-year-old boy was stabbed in the back and arm by another 14-year-old boy at Arthur Phillip high school in Parramatta on Monday morning, reports AAP.

He has been taken to Westmead children’s hospital in a stable condition, a NSW Ambulance spokesman said.

“Our paramedics did an exceptional job in stabilising and providing treatment for the teenager who had suffered some pretty serious injuries,” NSW Ambulance inspector Joe Ibrahim said.

“It’s absolutely horrific when we respond to jobs like these, especially when it involves someone so young. It’s every parent’s worst nightmare.”

NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller said the attack appeared to be targeted, and the families of both boys were speaking to police.

He said the accused 14-year-old assailant was not yet in custody.

Lessons have resumed but police are still at the school.

The disability royal commission is sitting today.

AAP reports that mothers whose children were removed by the state will tell their stories at hearings that will examine the experiences of Indigenous people with disabilities in the child protection system.

The week-long hearing beginning in Brisbane on Monday will hear from 25 witnesses over five days, including several Indigenous people who have direct experience with child protection systems in various states.

Senior counsel assisting the commission, Lincoln Crowley, said he has repeatedly been told that people involved in the system are not getting the support they need, and neglect occurs on a systematic basis.

In his opening address, Crowley cited ABS figures that show 22% of First Nations children have a disability, compared with 8% of the general population.

In adulthood, this increased to 48% and 13% respectively.

Crowley said First Nations children were almost eight times as likely as non-Indigenous children to have received child protection services.

Commissioner Andrea Mason said the examination of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of First Nations parents with a disability and their interactions with the child protection systems had been largely invisible in past inquiries.

“This week, this changes,” she said.

“We will hear stories of First Nations parents with a disability and their attributes of resilience, courage, persistence and about their love for their children.”

Chair Ronald Sackville said that as of June last year 30,300 children in Australia were in long-term out-of-home care.

“Of these, over 40% were First Nations children,” he said.

Sackville said reasons for the over-representation were complex, highlighting the legacy of past policies of forced removal and the intergenerational effects of previous separations.

Police in South Australia believe more than one person may have lied to health authorities investigating Adelaide’s Covid-19 cluster.

After entering a snap lockdown last week, authorities lifted the measure after learning a Covid-19 positive case, who worked in the kitchen of a quarantine hotel, lied to contact tracers about working at a pizza restaurant.

He initially claimed he was only a customer at the Woodville Pizza Bar, but later clarified that he had been working both jobs.

On Monday, police commissioner Grant Stevens told ABC Radio Adelaide the pizza worker may not have been the only person to lie to contact tracers.

Stevens said:

I think it’s fair to suggest that the individual who contracted [Covid-19] who also worked in the pizza bar is not the only person that has not been truthful with us

We’re investigating that at the moment … It makes it very difficult to get to the truth.”

Earlier on Monday, premier Steven Marshall said authorities were still investigating whether the pizza bar worker broke any laws in lying to contact tracers, saying: “We will look at every opportunity for there to be some consequences for this person because it is really important that when a public health official asks you questions you provide them with accurate information.”

Police cars have been stationed outside the pizza restaurant in Woodville amid threats against the bar after the lockdown was lifted.