… There will not be congregating up at the trampoline venue.” There had to be very strict rules around social distancing, he said. Morrison said the coming school holidays “will not be a holiday as it is normally known”. If you choose to keep your child at home, you are responsible for the conduct and behaviour of your children.” "It’s not an excuse for them to go down the shopping centre or to go and congregate somewhere else or potentially put themselves in contact with the vulnerable and elderly population. He stressed to parents who decided to keep their children home that they “must take responsibility for those children. The case for Endgame C: stop almost everything, restart when coronavirus is gone But for all of those parents who wish to send their children to school for an education at the school, those schools will remain open”.Īsked about Andrews’ comments about reviewing the schools position after the holidays, Morrison said: “the Premier has reaffirmed his commitment this evening that is the intention of the Victorian government to reopen schools subject to the health advice at that time”. “What we will be doing, though, is allowing parents to the end of this year’s school term to be able to keep their children home where they choose to. If you’re a four year old child at pre-school, you don’t get your four years old year back”. “I don’t want to see our children lose an entire year of their education, ” Morrison said. Leaders agreed children should go to school on Monday and “committed to re-open schools at the end of the school break, subject to the advice of the Australian Health Principal Protection Committee”. He said there was no change in the medical advice that schools should remain open. “This should highlight to all Australians how serious this is,” Morrison said. Funerals in enclosed spaces can proceed only with very small groups and where the 1 person per 4 square metre rule applies. Religious gatherings cannot go ahead and places of worship are to close. Restaurants and cafes will be restricted to takeaway and/or home delivery Gyms and indoor sporting venues will be closedĬinemas, entertainment venues, casinos, and night clubs will shut Pubs, registered and licensed clubs will be shut (excluding bottle shops attached to these venues), as well as hotels (excluding accommodation) Morrison said from midday on Monday a range of facilities where social gatherings took place would be closed or have their operations curtailed. It has been estimated that closing schools could cut the health workforce by 30%. The Prime Minister pushed back over schools, anxious to keep them open for educational reasons and to maintain the numbers of health workers. Scalable without limit: how the government plans to get coronavirus support into our hands quickly NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said she would have something to say about schools on Monday morning. In his afternoon statement, Victorian premier Daniel Andrews said the state was bringing forward school holidays to start Tuesday (rather than Friday) with a decision on whether schools will reopen to be taken on medical advice. It is not clear how much further (if any) the “shutdowns” in the two states will go beyond the baseline of closures set at the national cabinet. The premiers’ actions seemed in part to force the federal government’s hand. Earlier, the premiers of the two biggest states had announced they were shutting down non-essential services and activities over the next 48 hours.