Australian News Live: Victorian Covid quarantine centers reopen for flood evacuees. Optus customer blocked from using passport as online identity | Australian news

This concludes Friday’s live blog.

Here’s what made the news today:

• The rain has subsided in both Victoria and Victoria Tasmania On Friday, however, both states are still dealing with flooding conditions that will continue for some time.

• Victorian Prime Minister, Daniel Andrews, said 500 Victorian homes were flooded and another 500 were stranded. That number is expected to grow.

• Officials warn that up to 4,000 homes in Shepparton alone could be flooded by next week.

• Starting next week, Mickleham Quarantine Facility will be used as emergency accommodation for up to 250 people affected by the Victorian floods.

• The 100,000 Optus customers whose passport numbers were exposed in the data breach will automatically lose their passports for online identity verification, but will be able to use them for international travel.

• CEO of the company, Kelly Bayer Rosmarinsaid the word “sophisticated” is subjective, and reiterated that the breach was the result of a “sophisticated” cyberattack and not human error.

• Treasurer, Jim Chalmershe said, the budget he will unveil in the week starting Tuesday is “not fancy, not flashy, but it will be responsible, prudent, and appropriate for the times.”

• Medibank Group has restored access to systems that were down following Thursday’s “cyber incident” and said it “found no evidence that customer data was accessed.”

Until tomorrow, please stay safe.

Wentworth Independent MP, Allegra Spenderannounced the death of her father John Spender KC,One night.

Spender is a former Liberal MP from North Sydney who held a shadow portfolio in Attorney General and Foreign Affairs in the 1980s. He was appointed Australian Ambassador to France in his 90s.

he was 86 years old.

Feminist new wave unafraid of sexism, working on structural reforms, ex-Prime Minister Julia Gillard Say.

Guillard wrapped up the tour for her book Not Now, Not Ever in Adelaide on Friday afternoon.

The book contains essays by prominent women. Brittany Higgins, Anne SummersWhen Catherine Murphy of Guardian Australia.

She wrote that she regretted not calling out sexist treatment during her tenure, marking the 10th anniversary of her famous misogyny speech that denounced the then-opposition leader. Tony Abbott.

On Friday she praised the next generation of women, like Grace Tame, who are ready to stand up for themselves, know the side effects, and do it anyway.

Gillard also warned about the prevalence of misogyny in the dark corners of the internet, where incels and other subcultures lurk in the manosphere.

The Victorian government, following talks with the federal government, has announced that Mickleham, which was set up to house people quarantined during Covid-19 for those who need to respond to crisis situations as a result of the floods. We have confirmed previous reports of consent to use isolation facilities.of Victoria.

The site will reopen early next week and will accommodate 250 seats in 6-8 weeks.

Federal Emergency Management Minister, Murray Wattannounced that disaster assistance is now available in 17 council areas. Tasmania.

LGA is Break O’Day, Burnie, Central Coast, Central Highlands, Circular Head, Devonport, Dorset, Flinders, George Town, Kentish, Latrobe, Launceston, Meander Valley, Northern Midlands, Waratah-Wynyard, West Coast, West Tamar . .

The Optus CEO says the term ‘sophisticated’ is subjective when describing cyberattacks.

In a second interview with ABC today, the Optus CEO said, Kelly Bayer Rosmarindespite the Home Secretary defending claims that the Optus data breach was the result of a “sophisticated” cyberattack. Claire O’nealsaying it’s not.

Bayer Rosmarin Said The term “sophisticated” is subjective, reiterating that this attack “breaks through defenses.”

She said a Deloitte review would determine the facts of the case “once and for all,” even though the report has not been made public in full.

This is a forensic review of our cyber defenses and these cyber defenses must be kept confidential.

She said she didn’t want to provide cybercriminals with a “roadmap” for providing a full report.

NAB says it is still processing the last of its backlog of delayed transactions after a major industry-wide outage earlier this week.

You can read the report on the causes below.

aerial video from Tasmaniashowing the flood at Deloraine.

Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin reiterated that the Optus data breach was not the result of human error.

Bayer Rosmarin told ABC the company intends to learn from its mistakes.

There is no reason to believe it was human error. I know there is a team dedicated to stopping all these attacks and trying to stop all of them from intruding perfectly. But we will learn that we are not perfect, learn from the mistakes we may have made, and get better.

Obviously, ever since we found out about the attack, we’ve found ourselves, shut it down, and circled around. [an] Outside cyber consultants, they helped us circle our boundaries. We work with the Australian Center for Cyber ​​Security that circles our borders. We take as much expert advice as possible and utilize all the tools at our disposal. to ensure that it is as safe and secure as possible.

The CEO denied that the company was trying to keep customers from leaving Optus by charging them or trying to buy them time. She said most customers do not have contracts.

Bayer Rosmarin said he had no intention of stepping down and was focusing on his future work and rebuilding trust with customers.

ABC reports that Optus has just given ABC four minutes for an interview.

Guardian Australia has been accepting requests for several weeks, but so far Optus has not offered an interview.

Wendy Muffett is canoeing down the driveway to her house and looking out the window.

“I have the ocean right in front of me, ducks and waterfowl of all kinds,” Muffett told AAP from her home outside Forbes in the New South Wales interior.

Hundreds of properties in the central-western town were ordered to quarantine or evacuate on Friday as the Lachlan River reached massive flooding levels.

Many rural properties west of Forbes have been oversaturated for months after streams in the area filled with heavy rains that dragged on.

Farmers are losing crops or unable to sow, and many are moving livestock to dry land holdings.

Muffett and her husband, Kim, run a bed and breakfast on a small property south of town that has long been prepared for water outages caused by flooding.

They were expected to be quarantined for up to three weeks, subsisting on fruits, snow peas and asparagus from permaculture gardens.

“We were well prepared,” Muffett said. “We have a very large garden, so it’s very comfortable to have a few goodies from the freezer, a little chocolate in the fridge, and a lot of coffee. We’ll be fine.”

Living in a house designed to withstand flooding, the couple made sure they weren’t in a dangerous area and could use a canoe to get out of the house in an emergency.

People at Forbes tended to be realistic about flooding, but farming communities were exhausted, Muffett said:

I see it as something beautiful, but it’s not about our livelihoods rumbling.

I think most people understand that a healthy floodplain ecosystem needs flooding from time to time, but I look at it and say that I don’t see a year of lost income. have luxury.

Most of my farming friends are pretty down-to-earth. They know you live and work on a floodplain.

But it’s been a long road for them. 3 weeks is easy, 6 months is very exhausting.