{"id":18253,"date":"2020-05-15T17:29:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T08:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/15\/australian-government-pledges-extra-48m-to-combat-mental-health-impacts-of-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-05-15T17:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T08:29:35","slug":"national-cabinet-meets-as-coronavirus-restrictions-ease-across-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18253","title":{"rendered":"National cabinet meets as coronavirus restrictions ease across Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Morrison announces mental health boost as he welcomes easing of Covid-19 lockdown in Australian states<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2020\/mar\/28\/sign-up-for-guardian-australias-daily-coronavirus-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s daily coronavirus email<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Download the free Guardian app to get the most important news notifications<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/datablog\/ng-interactive\/2020\/may\/07\/coronavirus-cases-australia-numbers-map-how-many-new-today-stats-statistics-graph-hotspots-by-postcode-covid-19-deaths-death-toll?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Coronavirus Australia maps and cases: live numbers and statistics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Morrison government has committed an extra $48m to mental health measures after states and territories met on Friday to consider the supports in place for Australians as Covid-19 lockdown restrictions ease around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Morrison welcomed news that states and territories were \u201coverwhelmingly through step one\u201d of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/may\/08\/scott-morrison-details-australias-three-step-path-out-of-coronavirus-lockdown\">the three-stage easing of restrictions outlined on 8 May<\/a>. From this weekend, cafes and restaurants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/may\/15\/social-distancing-rules-australia-when-will-end-guidelines-coronavirus-laws-physical-covid-19-restrictions-signs-posters-nsw-victoria-qld-queensland-act-sa-wa-nt-tasmania\">will be open to 10 dine-in customers in most eastern states<\/a>, except Victoria.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/15\/australian-government-pledges-extra-48m-to-combat-mental-health-impacts-of-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Morrison announces mental health boost as he welcomes easing of Covid-19 lockdown in Australian statesSign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s daily coronavirus emailDownload the free Guardian app to get the most important news notificationsCoronavirus A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,324,50,1069,1110,386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-greg-hunt","category-scott-morrison"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18255,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18253\/revisions\/18255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}