As it happened: A nursing home resident becomes Australia's 81st coronavirus victim; National PPE stockpile under review

Kevin Roberts faces arguably the most important week of his tenure as chief executive of Cricket Australia as the organisation tries to reunite the nation's cricket family amid pandemic-induced unrest.

By the end of this week, CA aims to have reached a compromise with the players and states over what financial burden they need to carry as part of the game's cost-cutting measures.

The players at least have protection from the game's pay agreement, but there is extra anxiety among the states over how lean they will have to become as a result of belt-tightening at head office.

CA's undermanned staff are spending the weekend compiling data and crunching numbers to present to their disillusioned stakeholders, possibly as early as Monday.

There is quiet confidence at headquarters that the game will have more clarity and unity by the end of the week, but there is much to do and little time to do it.

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The state's weekly coronavirus total has fallen sharply as the number of Queenslanders fined for breaching public health orders keeps steadily climbing.

Only 16 patients tested positive for COVID-19 in the week to Saturday, even as testing criteria was expanded on Friday to include anyone with symptoms, anywhere in the state.

That's less than a third of the coronavirus 54 cases recorded in the previous seven-day period.

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The laborious lockdown means children are being taught by their parents – who are learning just as much as their young charges.

This is a revealing read on one family's entry to home schooling.

Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember, from time to time, that nothing worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde

Day 1

0500 hours: The era of acronyms is upon us: our family’s first day of WFH (working from home) with CAH (child at home). My partner and I get up at 5am to get a head-start on (paid) work before child gets up. Start typing.

0520: Seven-year-old daughter, the Primary Schooler, is woken by the cat and gets up. Stop typing.

0525: Not the cat, as it turns out. Nits. Here’s another acronym: WTF.

No work possible until 0900, when our school program, drafted on the kitchen table last night, takes effect. Spend intervening hours doing nit treatment, making school lunch in attempt to maintain order and routine (VIP, according to Google home-schooling advice), and attempting to create enticing classroom environment using Primary Schooler’s very low desk and tiny kid’s chairs. Realise I will be performing all new duties as high-powered teaching professional while sitting only 30 centimetres from the floor.

0855: Primary Schooler attempts to log on to Mathletics on her father’s phone. Drops phone, smashes screen. Home schooling begins.

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We lost our freedoms quickly and brutally when COVID-19 cases began to soar in Australia. We have spent much of the past month or so stuck inside our homes.

Some of us have lost our incomes. Others are now struggling to earn one while also home-schooling children.

It is understandable that we are getting restless, especially as the good news grows and outside, the sun is shining.

In Melbourne, growing numbers of people have been flocking to parks and the St Kilda promenade as the falling number of new cases in Australia fuels optimism – and possible complacency.

In Sydney on Friday, Randwick Council had to close down Coogee and Maroubra beaches just five days after reopening them for exercise, because too many beachgoers were more interested in "having a splash" than having a workout.

The reason the numbers are falling is because we have pulled together as a nation. We have stayed home.

Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy said on Friday that with the exception of north-west Tasmania, the coronavirus reproduction rate in Australia had been kept at less than one – each person with SARS-CoV-2 infects no more than one other person. It's an achievement that we all own.

And we earned it through unity.

But our unity is being tested.

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Our picture editors have put together a gallery of 12 of the best photos from the international wire services this week.

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An 83-year-old man who tested positive for coronavirus has died at Newmarch House, the Anglicare aged care facility in Sydney's west.

He is the sixth resident to die since coronavirus hit the facility earlier this month.

A statement from Anglicare Sydney said the man had multiple health issues.

"His family were contacted where they were able to visit and pay their respects," the statement said.

"All the relevant authorities have been informed. His cause of death will be officially confirmed over the coming days.

"We continue to think of, pray for, and remember all our residents who have died and for their families as they mourn the loss of their loved ones."

A statement from NSW Health earlier today said there were an additional two residents and two staff who have tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total to 48 cases, including 17 staff and 31 residents.

On August 9, 1941, two death notices appeared in The Age, one after the other, paying tribute to soldiers killed in active service.

The first notice honoured Corporal R.J. Barassi, the father of Australian football legend Ronald Dale Barassi and a Melbourne premiership player himself who lost his life in Tobruk on July 30, 1941, aged 27. His son was just five years old.

He was the first known VFL footballer to die in that war.

Just below the Barassi notice is that of Tom Brislane, less famous, but just as well remembered as the brother of my grandmother, Maisie. Tom was killed in Syria on Friday, June 27, 1941, aged just 31.

Maisie, his younger sister, was 29.

She died just before her 96th birthday remembering Tom every step of the 65 years she spent without him.

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