30 Sep 2020

Lockdown eases, waterfront dispute, Pell flies to Rome

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 30 September 2020

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to look at the winding back of the harsh lockdown in Melbourne as infection rates fall.Some travel between state is to be allowed. Forty ships are being held up at the border over a dispute between the Maritime Union and Patricks Stevedores in an echo of a similar dispute 20 years ago. Cardinal George Pell appears to have secured an exemption to leave Australia to head to the Vatican, five months after being freed from jail on child sexual assault charges. And cricket fans are mourning the loss of Australian batsman Dean Jones who died of a suspected heart attack in India this week.