Australian politics live: Queensland reports three Covid cases in hotel quarantine; NSW and Victoria to ease restrictions

NSW to lift tranche of restrictions while in Victoria it will no longer be compulsory to wear face masks in offices or cafes; federal parliament returns for the final sitting week of 2020 – latest updates

12.14am GMT

NSW has recorded no locally acquired Covid cases in the past 24 hours. Four people in hotel quarantine have tested positive.

We are still waiting to hear what WA will do with NSW travellers.

12.01am GMT

Labor’s Tony Burke also commented at his doorstop on the Coalition bill to make it easier for branches to opt to de-merge from a union (the CFMEU divorce bill):

We’re still looking, we haven’t seen the final legislation on this and we’re looking carefully at the detail. The concept of workers in a division being able to make a democratic decision is something that we want to look at constructively. We want to make sure that it’s done in a way that doesn’t tie every union up in red tape. So that’s something where once we see the detail of legislation I’ll be able to offer you more.

What we’re talking about here is a limited situation where, and there’s already under the legislation a period of time where divisions can decide that an amalgamation isn’t something they wanted to stay with. The extent to which the government wants to expand that is something it’s impossible to give a concluded view on until we see the detail.