CAAMA News 18th August 2021

  • The Top End’s snap lockdown looks likely end on Thursday at noon after no new cases of Covid-19 were recorded overnight.
  • The man at the centre of the NT’s three day lockdown has been identified as Department of Defence contractor.
  • New South Wales has recorded 633 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 and three deaths as Premier Gladys Berejiklian warrned the state still hasn’t seen the worst of it yet.
  • Victoria has recorded 24 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 after nearly forty thousand tests.
  • Football legend Eddie Betts, who is set to retire this weekend, says racism faced by Indigenous players was draining and tiring and that he  believes the AFL is not a safe environment for them.