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Donald Wilson, the TV screen writer and producer was born on September 1st in Dunblane.

You may not have heard of him but Wilson, as head of the BBC script department, along with Sydney Newman and C E Webber created the successful Sci-Fi series Dr Who.

Wilson studied at the Glasgow School of Art and began his career as a newspaper cartoonist and sketch writer, but the lure of the silver screen could not be ignored.

When MGM set up a centre of operations at Elstree Wilson got a job there, early  assistant director credits include Love in Exile, Jericho and Goodbye Mr Chip, he was recruited by the BBC’s Head of Drama, Michael Barry. He swapped the silver screen for the small screen and a remit that tasked him with finding new writers for the BBC.

With Dr Who he was very anti-Daleks prior to their debut, he was a gentleman in his response to their success; Wilson summoned producer Verity Lambert to his office where he admitted she had been correct in championing them and assured her that he would trust her judgement in future.

Wilson later relinquished his position as Head of Drama to give his undivided attention to a long-cherished project - bringing The Forsyte Saga to television. He procured the rights, adapted the original work, served as producer and was even hands-on in securing the ideal cast for the production. It ranks as one of the BBC’s most ambitious epics and proved popular with critics and audiences across the world.

Wilson later acted as adapter and producer on the prestigious costume dramas The First Churchills and Anna Karenina. He died in 2002 and aside from his work on Doctor Who, he is remembered as a kind and thoughtful man, and one of the BBC’s most prized and passionate programme makers.

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The Queen, Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton

5WANT to stay up to date with the Royal Family, the Queen and the Sussexes and Cambridges? We’ve compiled all of the latest news from the British monarchy from public appearances, royal tours and everything in between. 5Cleaners hoping to work for the Queen must spot a dead fly that has been planted in the interview room to secure the jobCredit: AP:Associated PressSo what is the famous family up to today? The Queen’s cleaners must spot a dead fly hidden in their interview room to get the job According the head of royal recruitment Tracey Waterman, applicants hoping to work at Sandringham must spot a dead fly before she will consider them. Speaking on the Channel 5 documentary Sandringham: The Royals at Christmas, Waterman explains that she deliberately plants the fly in an interview room to spot whether the candidate has a good eye for detail. She explains: “The difference between housekeeper in a five-star hotel and in a royal Palace would be attention to detail. “One of the tests I like to do, to see if a candidate has potential eye for detail, is to place a dead fly, either in the fireplace or on the carpet.” Meghan Markle and Prince Harry promote ‘joy’ in 2020 by supporting Good News Movement 5Harry and Meghan announced they would be using their Instagram account to promote one inspiring account a monthCredit: sussexroyal/InstagramThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced on Wednesday they would be using their popular SussexRoyal page to promote one inspiring account each month in 2020.  January’s pick is the @goodnews_movement, which “celebrates acts of kindness and good news in our global community”.  The Sussexes wrote on Instagram: “Happy New Year! For 2020 we will be continuing our tradition of highlighting accounts that inspire, and that remind us of all the good that is happening in the world.  “However, this time we will be focusing on just one account each month.  “For January, we would like to shine a spotlight on @goodnews_movement.” Meghan Markle includes sweet photo with Kate Middleton as one of her highlights of 2019 5Meghan included a photo of Kate on her Instagram story Credit: Paul Edwards – The SunMeghan and Harry treated fans on New Year’s Eve to a round-up of their year’s highlights.  The sweet video included an unseen photo of baby Archie, and Meghan also paid tribute to sister-in-law Kate Middleton.  The minute-long video included a photo of Meghan smiling with Kate during their day out together at Wimbledon tennis over the summer.  Kate Middleton tweaks her clothes to make them less sexy 5 Kate got rid of the plunging neckline on this Alessandra Rich dress for BBC’s A Berry Royal Christmas, and also added a bow The Duchess of Cambridge, 37, often has garments tailored before she wears them to remove any necklines and sexy slits.  One of the occasions the royal has redesigned an item is when she appeared on BBC’s A Berry Royal Christmas with Mary Berry in December.  The mum-of-three wore a red Alessandra Rich dress that was altered to hide the revealing keyhole neckline opening.  WRAPPED UP The mums who have their Christmas shopping for next year sewn up by January ICE WORK! Woman shows how you’re actually meant to use ice cube bags CHECK IT OUT Mum in hysterics over 3-year-old’s impression of Aldi’s checkouts at Christmas AULD LANG SLY Mum tricks kid, 6, into thinking it’s midnight so she can ‘get wasted’ on NYE ‘WE MISS THEM’ Pregnant mum-of-21 calls 2019 hardest of her life after ‘devastating losses’ TOYING WITH US Mums slam £25 Scruff-a-Luvs toy pets which look nothing like the ad In other royal news, we told you how Kate confessed that she regretted her outfit choice on Christmas Day. Plus The Queen always stays up until midnight on New Year’s Eve as she celebrates with Prince Philip at Sandringham. And Zara and Mike Tindall danced and partied with Rebel Wilson as they celebrated New Year in Sydney. Kate Middleton wears a faux fur coat and green hat for the Royals’ Christmas service at Sandringham

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The 'Healing Bishop': How Archbishop Philip Wilson rose to prominence in the Catholic Church

By Rebecca Brice Updated July 03, 2018 13:00:14

Photo: Archbishop Philip Wilson was known as the "Healing Bishop". (Facebook: Lithuanians in South Australia) Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson has been sentenced to 12 months' detention for concealing child sexual abuse. Here's a look at how the man once known as the "Healing Bishop" rose through the ranks, and what his sentencing means as the most senior Catholic convicted of covering up abuse. Is Archbishop Wilson senior in the context of the Catholic church? Yes and no, according to Catholic commentator, church historian and former priest Paul Collins. "It's simply from his title as an Archbishop," Mr Collins said. "He's not particularly senior in terms of the pecking order of the Catholic Church, but certainly as an archbishop and the Archbishop of Adelaide, that makes him the most senior person ever convicted. "Certainly in the English-speaking world no one as senior as an archbishop has actually been charged with a failure to report a crime."

Photo: Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson was appointed to coadjutor archbishop in 2000, in the anticipation of the retirement of Leonard Faulkner. (Alan Porritt: AAP) Wilson was the Bishop of Wollongong before being elevated to Archbishop of Adelaide and was also the President of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference. "In terms of the Australian bishops, he would be seen as both an influential and important bishop," he said. "There's no two ways about that although with due respect to Adelaide Adelaide is not seen as necessarily a particularly prestigious diocese." The more priests, parishes and parishioners, the more prestigious the diocese, ranking Melbourne at the top, followed by Paramatta and Sydney. The 'Healing Bishop' During his time as the Bishop of Wollongong, Wilson earned the nickname "The Healing Bishop" for his work with victims of child sexual abuse. "He was very effective as Bishop of Wollongong," Mr Collins said. "Wollongong had been a diocese that had been run down by his predecessor. "It was badly administered and not in good shape and there were a couple of quite bad paedophile cases in Wollongong and they had not been dealt with particularly adequately." He said when Wilson went to Wollongong "he certainly pulled the diocese into line". "There's no doubt he did a very good job in the diocese, he did a very good job not just administratively but pastorally as well and it was because of respect for his, I think, good performance in Wollongong that he went up the ladder to be appointed Archbishop of Adelaide." What was Philip Wilson actually charged with? In 2015 he was charged with concealing a serious indictable offence, under Section 316 of the New South Wales Crimes Act which states: (1) If a person has committed a serious indictable offence and another person who knows or believes that the offence has been committed and that he or she has information which might be of material assistance in securing the apprehension of the offender or the prosecution or conviction of the offender for it fails without reasonable excuse to bring that information to the attention of a member of the Police Force or other appropriate authority, that other person is liable to imprisonment for 2 years. University of New South Wales Law Professor Annie Cossins described it as a very general offence often used against people who were affiliated with one another, such as gang members. "If you were charged with this offence, the prosecution has to prove that you knew or you believed that some particular serious indictable offence had been committed and you basically did nothing about it," she said. "You had no reasonable excuse for not bringing that information to the attention of the police or some other appropriate authority. "It's not an offence that is well used by police. It's not regularly prosecuted." The case against Wilson centred around his responsibility to report abuse to police in the mid-2000s, rather than in the 1970s, when he was first made aware of it. He was charged for not divulging information which may have helped secure the conviction of paedophile priest Jim Fletcher between 2004 and 2006, when he was facing justice for his crimes. "It does [set a precedent] in the sense that you would hope that the police would be more willing to charge people where there's sufficient evidence of course with this offence," Professor Cossins said. The role of a Royal Commission Dr Cossins questioned whether Wilson would have been charged were it not for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which held 57 hearings over five years with some 1,300 witness accounts and more than 8,000 personal stories. "I think the Royal Commission has really brought this issue to the fore," she said. "It's pulled aside the curtain on the extent of cover up of child sexual abuse. "Very few in the community either as professionals or lay people knew of the extent of it. Now, individual victims would have known that they told someone at some time 20 years ago, say, and nothing was done about it. "But individual victims and the rest of the community haven't known how widespread it is, so yes, the Royal Commission has revealed that it seemed to be normal every day practice in some institutions to move the person on, not say anything and maybe give the victim a payout or something." Are new laws needed? The Royal Commission recommended governments across Australia have laws which ensure people in religious ministry are required to report child sexual abuse. Professor Cossins thinks that could mean new laws are needed in some states. "It depends on whether or not governments decide that a specific offence covering up child sexual abuse should be easier to prosecute or whether something like Section 316 already does the job," she said. "It's going to depend on whether or not state governments think they already have the legislation on their statute books or whether the specific recommendation by the Royal Commission is an improvement on what they already have." Topics:community-and-society,religion-and-beliefs,religious-leaders,catholic,royal-commissions,law-crime-and-justice,courts-and-trials,newcastle-2300,nsw,australia,adelaide-5000,sa First posted July 03, 2018 11:20:56 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-03/who-is-archbishop-philip-wilson/9883638

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Match preview: Carlton versus Fremantle

WHERE AND WHEN: Etihad Stadium, Saturday June 16, 1.45pm (AEST) RECENT HISTORY: The Dockers have claimed the points in four of their past five matches against the Blues. SUMMARY: Carlton will be hopeful of registering just its second win of the season when they lock horns with a Fremantle outfit that is yet to experience success on the road this year. The Blues have responded to a 109-point thrashing at the hands of Melbourne in round nine with competitive showings against top-four aspirants in Geelong and Sydney in recent weeks, and will be bolstered by the return of spearhead Levi Casboult from injury. The Dockers, meanwhile, kept their slim finals hopes alive with a thrilling three-point win over Adelaide last-start and have been strengthened by the return of star trio Nat Fyfe (suspension), Aaron Sandilands (concussion) and line-breaking midfielder Stephen Hill (quad). KEY PLAYERS: Patrick Cripps (Carlton) Cripps had a quiet night at the office in the loss to the Swans, managing just the 17 possessions, which is well down on his season average of 27.4 disposals. The 23-year-old is a midfield bull and curtailing his influence at the coalface will go a long way toward preventing Carlton's forwards from receiving enough quality supply to kick a winning score. Rookie bolter Bailey Banfield has shut down some of the game's brightest young stars this season and shapes as the obvious choice to tag Cripps in what will be a pivotal duel in determining the outcome of this match. Nat Fyfe (Fremantle)

FREMANTLE skipper Nat Fyfe will be primed for a big game in what will be his 150th match. The superstar skipper is enjoying a better year from a statistical standpoint than he did in his Brownlow year of 2015. Not only is Fyfe elite in the clinches, he is also one of the best decision-makers in the AFL, the 26-year-old ranked seventh in the League for score involvements. Fremantle's inability to kick a score of note on the road has been well-documented, Ross Lyon's men averaging just 59 points per game away from the comforts of Optus Stadium. Putting the clamps on Fyfe will surely be a focus for Brendon Bolton and his coaching team, as they look to turn this encounter into a low-scoring grind, with Ed Curnow set to be given the job on the Freo champion. Matthew Wright (Carlton) Wright started the season strongly, but has struggled to impact the scoreboard in recent times, the 28-year-old managing just the two goals from his past four outings. The former Crow will run out for his 150th match on Saturday and will be keen to put in a big performance. Wright doesn't need to have a lot of the football to have a profound influence, as evidenced by his five goals from just 11 possessions in the season-opener against Richmond. The Blues rank second last in the competition when it comes to putting points on the board, and they will need Wright to find a way to get involved early for the sake of his confidence if they're to kick enough goals to secure the four premiership points. Nathan Wilson (Fremantle) Wilson has made a strong start to his life as a Docker, the former Giant averaging career-best numbers in terms of possessions (19), marks (six) and metres gained (504.8). One of Fremantle's best users of the football, operating at a disposal efficiency rating of 78.5 per cent so far this season, Wilson's drive off half-back will be something Carlton will be looking to nullify, with antagonist Jed Lamb bound to be assigned the task of making Wilson accountable. OUTCOME: Carlton's effort has been there in their last two outings, but they have simply lacked the polish to get the job done. On the other side of the coin, Fremantle have class performers on every line and should get up in this one. Dockers by 22 points. Read the full article

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Donald Wilson, the TV screen writer and producer was born on September 1st in Dunblane. 

You may not have heard of him but Wilson, as head of the BBC script department, along with Sydney Newman and C E Webber created the successful Sci-Fi series Dr Who. 

Wilson studied at the Glasgow School of Art and began his career as a newspaper cartoonist and sketch writer, but the lure of the silver screen could not be ignored.

When MGM set up a centre of operations at Elstree Wilson got a job there, early  assistant director credits include Love in Exile, Jericho and Goodbye Mr Chip, he was recruited by the BBC’s Head of Drama, Michael Barry. He swapped the silver screen for the small screen and a remit that tasked him with finding new writers for the BBC.

With Dr Who he was very anti-Daleks prior to their debut, he was a gentleman in his response to their success; Wilson summoned producer Verity Lambert to his office where he admitted she had been correct in championing them and assured her that he would trust her judgement in future.

Wilson later relinquished his position as Head of Drama to give his undivided attention to a long-cherished project - bringing The Forsyte Saga to television. He procured the rights, adapted the original work, served as producer and was even hands-on in securing the ideal cast for the production. It ranks as one of the BBC’s most ambitious epics and proved popular with critics and audiences across the world.

Wilson later acted as adapter and producer on the prestigious costume dramas The First Churchills and Anna Karenina. He died in 2002 and aside from his work on Doctor Who, he is remembered as a kind and thoughtful man, and one of the BBC’s most prized and passionate programme makers.

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Julilan Wilson’s world title hopes crash

AUSTRALIA will finish the 12 months with three of world browsing’s main crowns, a rookie award however not the boys’s title after Julian Wilson’s slim hopes of victory had been worn out on the Pipeline Masters.

Tyler Wright and juniors Ethan Ewing and Macy Callaghan all finish 2017 as world champions, Sydney’s Connor O’Leary has nabbed Rookie of the Year honours however Wilson has missed his alternative so as to add to the haul in Hawaii.

Wilson wanted his younger compatriot Ewing to knock defending champion John John Florence out of the competitors in spherical 4 to maintain alive his slim hopes of securing a maiden crown.

And whereas Ewing got here inside a whisker of inflicting mass disruption to the world order of browsing, Florence finally superior with a zero.07 benefit.

“Definitely a crazy, close heat,” Florence stated.

“Ethan (Ewing) is such a fantastic surfer.

“I’m clearly super-stoked to maintain going on this occasion. But that was actually laborious on the market. It’s powerful to search out the great ones.”

On the identical day Wilson’s world title dream ended, Bede Durbidge retired to take up a task guiding Australia’s first surfers to the Tokyo Olympics. “It’s super exciting for me and something I’m very passionate about,” Durbidge stated.

“I have a really good job moving forward and transitioning into working with the Olympic Australian team at HPC and Surfing Australia.”

Also bowing out of the Pipeline Masters was Josh Kerr, Mick Fanning, Jack Freestone, former world No.1 Matt Wilkinson and finest mate Owen Wright.

Wright made a fairytale return to browsing at the beginning of the 12 months however he was unable to duplicate the feat in his final aggressive surf of the 12 months.

He did not advance out of the elimination second spherical on the website of a wipeout which practically ended his profession in December 2015.

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Five year boom: Suburbs with best price growth since 2012 – Ballarat Courier

The year 2012 was a different time in Melbourne: The Age was still a broadsheet, smashed avocado was just a trendy breakfast dish (and not a symbol of financial failure), and a house in South Yarra cost $766,000. But then the boom began.

Fast-forward five years and buyers need about $1 million more to get in to the suburb in 2017. The median house price in South Yarra has rocketed to $1,780,000 since the boom started in 2012 – a 132.3 per cent increase.

The suburb, and its inner-city neighbours, are the clear winners of Melbourne’s recent property boom lottery. Houses in Middle Park, Parkville, Toorak, South Melbourne, Armadale and Windsor have all doubled in price since March 2012, Domain Group data shows.

Although Melbourne house prices have undergone a series of boom cycles in the past few decades, the latest consistent uptick started about five years ago in early 2012, following interest rate cuts in November and December 2011.

“The lower interest rates just lit the fuse of something waiting to happen, there was a lot of latent price capacity in the market,” Domain Group chief economist Andrew Wilson said.

But Melbourne was going through an economic rough patch at that time, which meant not every sub-market was ready to boom following the rate cut. Dr Wilson said the shakeout of the manufacturing industry – the anchor of the working class and the budget price suburbs – held the lower end of the market back with jobs security concerns.

In contrast, the higher interest rates that held the prestige market back were quickly dropping, with the Reserve Bank cutting the official cash rate again in May and June of 2012. Any lingering fear from the GFC had also subsided for the wealthier end of town, Dr Wilson said.

“Early on in the boom, it was the higher-priced inner suburban suburbs that really took off strongly,” he said, adding that it was the opposite case north of the border in Sydney, where budget suburbs to the west led the pack.

At a city-wide level, house prices have increased almost 60 per cent since the boom began, from a median of $530,774 in March 2012 to $843,674 in March this year. The lower end of the market has since played “catch-up mode” in the more recent years of the boom, Dr Wilson said.

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Jellis Craig’s Nathan Waterson said the biggest change to South Yarra had been the influx of buyers taking advantage of the strength in areas such as Balwyn and Glen Waverley to trade up into the prestige postcode.

“We’ve seen owners of those homes in the east who would not have been able to afford [South Yarra] before, but they are cashed up and want to enjoy closer proximity to the city,” Mr Waterson said.

“Particularly with homes in that $1.5 million to $3 million bracket, which are largely single fronted cottages, they are in huge demand from downsizers.”

In Middle Park, an investor who bought an Edwardian rental property in September 2012 last week walked away with almost $1 million in that time. The owner only made cosmetic refurbishments to the home in that time, according to Michael Szulc of Cayzer Real Estate, who sold the property.

Domain Group data shows the three-bedroom home, with no parking, traded in 2012 for $1.15 million. It sold after auction at the start of the month for $2.01 million – a $860,000 gain in less than five years.

“Of course there’ll be some tax to pay on way through, but there’s not too many investments that can turn that sort of money around that quickly,” Mr Szulc said. “It’s a classic case of how the market has boomed in Middle Park.”

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Five year boom: Suburbs with best price growth since 2012 Ballarat Courier

The year 2012 was a different time in Melbourne: The Age was still a broadsheet, smashed avocado was just a trendy breakfast dish (and not a symbol of financial failure), and a house in South Yarra cost $766,000. But then the boom began.

Fast-forward five years and buyers need about $1 million more to get in to the suburb in 2017. The median house price in South Yarra has rocketed to $1,780,000 since the boom started in 2012 – a 132.3 per cent increase.

The suburb, and its inner-city neighbours, are the clear winners of Melbourne’s recent property boom lottery. Houses in Middle Park, Parkville, Toorak, South Melbourne, Armadale and Windsor have all doubled in price since March 2012, Domain Group data shows.

Although Melbourne house prices have undergone a series of boom cycles in the past few decades, the latest consistent uptick started about five years ago in early 2012, following interest rate cuts in November and December 2011.

“The lower interest rates just lit the fuse of something waiting to happen, there was a lot of latent price capacity in the market,” Domain Group chief economist Andrew Wilson said.

But Melbourne was going through an economic rough patch at that time, which meant not every sub-market was ready to boom following the rate cut. Dr Wilson said the shakeout of the manufacturing industry – the anchor of the working class and the budget price suburbs – held the lower end of the market back with jobs security concerns.

In contrast, the higher interest rates that held the prestige market back were quickly dropping, with the Reserve Bank cutting the official cash rate again in May and June of 2012. Any lingering fear from the GFC had also subsided for the wealthier end of town, Dr Wilson said.

“Early on in the boom, it was the higher-priced inner suburban suburbs that really took off strongly,” he said, adding that it was the opposite case north of the border in Sydney, where budget suburbs to the west led the pack.

At a city-wide level, house prices have increased almost 60 per cent since the boom began, from a median of $530,774 in March 2012 to $843,674 in March this year. The lower end of the market has since played “catch-up mode” in the more recent years of the boom, Dr Wilson said.

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Jellis Craig’s Nathan Waterson said the biggest change to South Yarra had been the influx of buyers taking advantage of the strength in areas such as Balwyn and Glen Waverley to trade up into the prestige postcode.

“We’ve seen owners of those homes in the east who would not have been able to afford [South Yarra] before, but they are cashed up and want to enjoy closer proximity to the city,” Mr Waterson said.

“Particularly with homes in that $1.5 million to $3 million bracket, which are largely single fronted cottages, they are in huge demand from downsizers.”

In Middle Park, an investor who bought an Edwardian rental property in September 2012 last week walked away with almost $1 million in that time. The owner only made cosmetic refurbishments to the home in that time, according to Michael Szulc of Cayzer Real Estate, who sold the property.

Domain Group data shows the three-bedroom home, with no parking, traded in 2012 for $1.15 million. It sold after auction at the start of the month for $2.01 million – a $860,000 gain in less than five years.

“Of course there’ll be some tax to pay on way through, but there’s not too many investments that can turn that sort of money around that quickly,” Mr Szulc said. “It’s a classic case of how the market has boomed in Middle Park.”

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Every new COVID-19 case in Victoria could be linked to botched hotel quarantine

Every single new case of coronavirus within Victoria in recent weeks could be linked to the botched hotel quarantine program.

The possibility the state’s second deadly outbreak of COVID-19 could be the result of mistakes made while housing returned travellers will be investigated in a formal inquiry.

The state government launched the investigation, headed by retired judge Jennifer Coate, after new COVID-19 cases in late May and early June were linked to infection control breaches by security guards at quarantine hotels. 

Senior assisting counsel Tony Neal QC on Monday suggested the failures of the mandatory isolation could be far more widespread than initially anticipated.

‘Comments made by the chief health officer to the media have suggested that it may even be that every case of COVID-19 in Victoria in recent weeks could be sourced to the hotel quarantine program,’ he said. 

Every single new case of coronavirus within Victoria in recent weeks could be linked to the botched hotel quarantine program

The possibility that the state’s second deadly outbreak of COVID-19 could be the result of mistakes made while housing returned travellers will be investigated in a formal inquiry. Pictured: A staff member inside a quarantine hotel

‘Information already available to the inquiry suggests the possibility of a link between many of the cases of identified in the Victorian community in the past few weeks and persons who were quarantined under the hotel quarantine program.’ 

Security staff contracted to monitor the quarantine program have been accused of breaking protocol among returned travellers.

Early investigations suggest some security staff contracted the virus, only to take it home to their families and wider communities. 

As part of the inquiry, the decisions and communications between the government, hotel operators and private contractors will be examined.

Various government departments and hotels have been ordered to make submissions to the inquiry by the end of July.  

That includes the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Department of Treasury and Finance, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria Police, Emergency Management Victoria and Ambulance Victoria. 

Security staff contracted to monitor the quarantine program in Victoria have been accused of breaking protocol among returned travellers. Pictured: A bus waiting to move guests who finished their mandatory quarantine in Sydney

Medical workers and police are seen at a Government Commission tower in North Melbourne while it was under strict lockdown as the region battled a second outbreak of COVID-19 cases

Two hotels with known large coronavirus outbreaks, Rydges on Swanston and Stamford Plaza will also be required to provide information. 

Travelodge Melbourne, Park Royal Hotel Melbourne Airport, Holiday Inn Melbourne and Four Points Sheraton should all also expect to contribute to the inquiry.

Security guards working were supplied by the government and were not employed by the hotels.   

The eight security companies of interest to the inquiry are Wilson Security, United Risk Management, Unified Security Group, Ultimate Protection Services, MSS security, Elite Protection Services, Australian Protection Group and Security Hub.

Medical experts, hotel staff and returned travellers who stayed in quarantine are also predicted to be called to give evidence.

Employers face significant penalties if they attempt to deter employees from giving evidence to the inquiry.

‘I expect no less than full, frank and timely cooperation from all government entities and persons to enable me to do my job for the people of Victoria,’ Justice Coate said.

A COVID testing sign is seen on the fence of Government Commission tower in North Melbourne

It is not yet clear if Premier Daniel Andrews, Health Minister Jenny Mikakos or Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton will be called to give evidence.

Mr Andrews confirmed neither he nor any government minister had been approached to contribute to the inquiry thus far.

‘I won’t tell a former judge how to do her work. She will call whomever she thinks she needs to call. Anyone who is called should turn up,’ Mr Andrews told reporters on Monday.

‘What has gone on here is completely unacceptable to me – and unacceptable to all of us.’

Opposition Leader Michael O’Brien said Mr Andrews and responsible ministers should front the inquiry.

‘When the government has made mistakes and people have died as a result, Victorians need answers. First of all to work out what went wrong and secondly to make sure nothing like this can ever happen again,’ he said.

Victoria recorded an additional 275 cases of COVID-19 and a woman in her 80s died in the 24 hours to Monday

A sign in a resident’s window is seen at a Government Commission tower in North Melbourne amid the lockdown

Corrections Victoria now manages the hotel quarantine program.

International flights have been diverted from the state until the situation is under control.

Public hearings will be held from August 6 and a final report is due on September 25.

It comes as Victoria recorded an additional 275 cases of COVID-19 and a woman in her 80s died in the 24 hours to Monday.   

Victoria’s figure is less than Sunday’s total of 363 and well below Friday’s record of 428, giving hope the spread is decreasing during Melbourne’s six-week lockdown.

Premier Daniel Andrews said 147 Victorians are in hospital, including 31 fighting for their lives, and 26,588 tests had been conducted.

VICTORIA’S BUNGLED HOTEL QUARANTINE PROGRAM: KEY DATES: 

March 16 – State of emergency declared in Victoria, returned travellers instructed to undergo 14-days of quarantine at home.

March 27 – National cabinet decides returned travellers will be subject to mandatory 14-day quarantine ‘at designated facilities, for example, in a hotel’.

May 27 – Outbreak at Rydges on Swanston first identified.

May 31 – Victoria’s state of emergency extended for three weeks ahead of stage-three restrictions easing the next day. Four new COVID-19 cases, 74 active cases.

June 6 – No new cases for the first time since March 5.

June 9 – Students return to school.

June 17 – Stamford Plaza outbreak identified; Victoria records 21 new COVID-19 cases – its highest increase in more than a month.

June 21 – Further easing of restrictions.

June 26 – Concerns grow about the program after it’s revealed 30 per cent of travellers are refusing tests. Confirmed COVID-19 cases continue to rise.

June 29 – Hot spot suburbs in Melbourne’s north and north-west return to lockdown and all international flights into the city are put on hold for two weeks.

July 2 – Inquiry into Victoria’s hotel quarantine program announced.

July 4 – A full lockdown is announced at short notice for nine Melbourne public housing towers. Victoria records 108 new cases – its first day above 100 since late March.

July 6 – The Victoria-NSW border shuts for the first time in a century.

July 8 – Melbourne and Mitchell Shire placed into stage-three lockdown for six weeks.

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Five year boom: Suburbs with best price growth since 2012 – Ballarat Courier

The year 2012 was a different time in Melbourne: The Age was still a broadsheet, smashed avocado was just a trendy breakfast dish (and not a symbol of financial failure), and a house in South Yarra cost $766,000. But then the boom began.

Fast-forward five years and buyers need about $1 million more to get in to the suburb in 2017. The median house price in South Yarra has rocketed to $1,780,000 since the boom started in 2012 – a 132.3 per cent increase.

The suburb, and its inner-city neighbours, are the clear winners of Melbourne’s recent property boom lottery. Houses in Middle Park, Parkville, Toorak, South Melbourne, Armadale and Windsor have all doubled in price since March 2012, Domain Group data shows.

Although Melbourne house prices have undergone a series of boom cycles in the past few decades, the latest consistent uptick started about five years ago in early 2012, following interest rate cuts in November and December 2011.

“The lower interest rates just lit the fuse of something waiting to happen, there was a lot of latent price capacity in the market,” Domain Group chief economist Andrew Wilson said.

But Melbourne was going through an economic rough patch at that time, which meant not every sub-market was ready to boom following the rate cut. Dr Wilson said the shakeout of the manufacturing industry – the anchor of the working class and the budget price suburbs – held the lower end of the market back with jobs security concerns.

In contrast, the higher interest rates that held the prestige market back were quickly dropping, with the Reserve Bank cutting the official cash rate again in May and June of 2012. Any lingering fear from the GFC had also subsided for the wealthier end of town, Dr Wilson said.

“Early on in the boom, it was the higher-priced inner suburban suburbs that really took off strongly,” he said, adding that it was the opposite case north of the border in Sydney, where budget suburbs to the west led the pack.

At a city-wide level, house prices have increased almost 60 per cent since the boom began, from a median of $530,774 in March 2012 to $843,674 in March this year. The lower end of the market has since played “catch-up mode” in the more recent years of the boom, Dr Wilson said.

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Jellis Craig’s Nathan Waterson said the biggest change to South Yarra had been the influx of buyers taking advantage of the strength in areas such as Balwyn and Glen Waverley to trade up into the prestige postcode.

“We’ve seen owners of those homes in the east who would not have been able to afford [South Yarra] before, but they are cashed up and want to enjoy closer proximity to the city,” Mr Waterson said.

“Particularly with homes in that $1.5 million to $3 million bracket, which are largely single fronted cottages, they are in huge demand from downsizers.”

In Middle Park, an investor who bought an Edwardian rental property in September 2012 last week walked away with almost $1 million in that time. The owner only made cosmetic refurbishments to the home in that time, according to Michael Szulc of Cayzer Real Estate, who sold the property.

Domain Group data shows the three-bedroom home, with no parking, traded in 2012 for $1.15 million. It sold after auction at the start of the month for $2.01 million – a $860,000 gain in less than five years.

“Of course there’ll be some tax to pay on way through, but there’s not too many investments that can turn that sort of money around that quickly,” Mr Szulc said. “It’s a classic case of how the market has boomed in Middle Park.”

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