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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews faces a motion of no confidence in parliament over his handling of COVID-19. The motion is expected to be tabled in the state's lower house on Thursday. 'I will be moving a motion of no confidence in this premier. Victorians have had enough,' Opposition Leader Michael O'Brien said. The premier brusquely dismissed the move when asked in his daily media conference. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews (pictured on Thursday) faces a motion of no confidence in parliament over his handling of COVID-19 'Cheap politics is no vaccine against this virus, and that is all I will say about him and that,' Mr Andrews said. Victoria has been hard hit by coronavirus, leading the nation's case numbers and deaths. Victoria recorded another eight deaths on Thursday, taking the state's death toll to 745 and the national figure to 832.  Most of the deaths can be linked to Victoria's bungled hotel quarantine system, which is under investigatio

The cousin of a man who was hit and killed by South Dakota AG Jason Ravnsborg has said police would not let him take pictures when he showed up to the scene two days after the Saturday night accident. Former Democratic State Lawmaker, Nick Nemec, 'had to see it for myself' when he learned Joe Boever had been fatally injured, and on Wednesday revealed details of what he saw a little over 1/4 mile west of the junction of US14 and SD47 on Tuesday. Nemec said tire skid marks stretched for over 200 feet before there were two parallel blood skid marks still on the paved shoulder. 'This first blood marks were about 6″ wide and 6′-8′ long,' he told the Dakota Free Press. 'There was then a skip for about 20 feet before a wider blood skid mark closer to the edge of the shoulder that was about 1′ wide and 20′ long. Former Democratic State Lawmaker, Nick Nemec, saw the vehicle involved in his cousin's death being taken to the SD DOT on Tuesday, days after the fatal collisio

New Zealand's strict COVID-19 lockdown has plunged the nation into recession for the first time in a decade. The country, led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, saw its economy shrink by a record 12.2 per cent in the June quarter. The eye-watering figures, released on Thursday by Statistics New Zealand, are significantly more severe than Australia's record seven per cent plummet during the same period.  The figures are also far worse the Westpac bank's prediction of an 11.5 per cent decline and marked New Zealand's first technical recession since the Global Financial Crisis in 2009. The second-quarter plunge followed a downwardly revised 1.4 per cent contraction during the first three months of 2020.  The nation, led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, saw its economy shrink by a record 12.2 per cent in the second quarter The popular 'Eat Street' in Rotorua, New Zealand is seen empty during the COVID-19 lockdown The second quarter reporting period, from April to Ju

Furious demonstrators blocked one of Scott Morrison's security cars and shouted obscenities in a heated climate change protest on Thursday. Four women waving flags walked in front of the car as it left Blue Scope Steel in Port Kembla, New South Wales, where the prime minister had just announced new investment in renewable energy.  Climate change activists have been angered by Mr Morrison's threat this week to build a new gas-fired power station to replace a coal plant which is shutting down in 2023. Furious demonstrators blocked one of Scott Morrison's security cars and shouted obscenities in a heated climate change protest on Thursday 'Scott Morrison wants to come here and say he wants to destroy people's lives,' the woman leading the protest shouted. Referencing last year's shocking bushfire season, she said: 'He wants the entire f****** country to burn again this summer. 'He doesn't give a f*** about anyone else but himself or the pockets of b

Women are leading Australia out of the coronavirus recession with unemployment falling in August for the first time since the health crisis began - creating 111,000 new jobs. The jobless rate fell from a 22-year high of 7.5 per cent in July to 6.8 per cent last month, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed. Unemployment is still higher than March's 5.2 per cent level, with that data compiled before the World Health Organisation declared a coronavirus pandemic. Nonetheless, joblessness has fallen for the first time since February when the Australian share market peaked despite Melbourne recording the first case of COVID-19 in January.  Women are leading Australia out of the coronavirus recession with unemployment falling in August for the first time since the health crisis - creating 111,000 new jobs.Pictured is Sydney Mitre 10 hardware manager Ching Ching The number of Australians officially without work rose above the one million mark in July for the first time ever but

CDC Director Robert Redfield has walked back his Senate testimony that masks work better against COVID-19 than vaccines, after Donald Trump called him 'confused' and 'mistaken' and dismissed his claims a vaccine will not be available until next year. Redfield told a Senate committee Wednesday 'this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine' and said a vaccine wouldn't be widely available to Americans until the second quarter of 2021.   Hours later Trump hit back at Redfield saying the CDC head was 'confused' and must have 'misunderstood' the question being asked of him. The president said he had called Redfield to set the record straight and said the CDC boss had agreed he 'answered that question incorrectly' about the masks.   Redfield responded on social media Wednesday evening, where he appeared to bow to pressure from the president insisting 'I 100% believe in the importance of v