LIVE: Coronavirus Victoria: Premier savages ScoMo's 'reckless' plan
Scott Morrison today announced his plan for bringing stranded Australians home - but one outraged premier has revealed they won't be taking part.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison today announced his plans to bring some 24,000 stranded Australians home from overseas - but WA Premier Mark McGowan revealed his state won't be taking part.
Following today's National Cabinet meeting, Mr McGowan said he was outraged when he first heard of the PM's proposal, saying the Commonwealth was "bossing people around...basically saying they're just going to fly people in and dump them on our doorstep".
"Recklessly doubling the number of arrivals into Western Australia overnight is not the way we should be approaching this issue, especially when we are dealing with a deadly virus and we do not have hotel quarantine capability to deal with it overnight," he told reporters.
"Hotel quarantine is not simply about available beds. It is about the capacity of qualified people to provide medical support, security and police services. The more health specialists we pull from our hospital system to assist with hotel quarantine, the more complications we have in managing demand across our hospitals.
"I have made it clear I do not want to reduce the standard of our hotel quarantine system. We have seen the problems that occurred in Victoria. We desperately don't want to see what happened in Melbourne happen in WA. We cannot afford to make the same mistakes here.
"Compromising the integrity of our WA hotel quarantine system is simply not acceptable to us."
Following a "pretty robust conversation", Mr McGowan said WA would instead take an extra 200 repatriated Aussies per week from September 28 and a further 300 per week from October 12, on the condition it gets ADF support to police hotel quarantine.
It comes as Victorian health authorities race to suppress clusters spreading through five households who have broken lockdown rules.
Premier Daniel Andrews said households visiting eachother was a "real issue" and it was "disappointing" to see families ignoring the rules.
"The rules are in place for a reason and anyone who undermines this, undermines entire strategy and it means the rules will be on longer," he said.
Our live coverage has ended for the day, here's how it played out.