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Leaders of the world's largest economies on Saturday unveiled an infrastructure plan for the developing world to compete with China's efforts, but the democracies didn't immediately agree on how to publicly call out Beijing, including for its forced labour practices.

The proposal on labour practices is part of US President Joe Biden's escalating campaign to get fellow democratic leaders to present a more unified front to compete economically with China in the century ahead.

But while they agreed to work toward competing against China, there was less unity on how adversarial a position the group should take with Beijing.

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Canada, the United Kingdom and France largely agreed with Biden's exhortation to condemn China's forced labour practices, while Germany, Italy and the European Union showed more hesitancy in Saturday's first session of the Group of Seven summit, according to a senior Biden administration official who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to discuss the plans publicly.

White House officials have said Biden wants G7 leaders to speak in a single voice against forced labour practices targeting Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities.

Biden hopes the denunciation will be part of a joint communique to be released Sunday when the summit ends, but some European allies are reluctant to so forcefully split with Beijing.

China had become one of the more compelling sublots of the wealthy nations summit on the freshly raked sand of Carbis Bay in southwest England for their first gathering since 2019.

Last year's gathering was canceled because of COVID-19, and recovery from the pandemic is dominating this year's discussions, with members of the wealthy democracies' club expected to commit to sharing at least 1 billion vaccine shots with struggling countries.

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The allies also took the first steps in unveiling an infrastructure proposal dubbed "Build Back Better for the World," a name echoing the American president's campaign slogan.

The plan calls for spending hundreds of billions of dollars in collaboration with the private sector while adhering to climate standards and labour practices.

It's designed to compete with China's trillion-dollar "Belt and Road Initiative," which has launched a network of projects and maritime lanes that already snake around large portions of the world, primarily Asia and Africa.

Critics say China's projects often create massive debt and expose nations to undue influence by Beijing.

Britain also wants the world's democracies to become less reliant on economic giant China. The UK government said Saturday's discussions will tackle "how we can shape the global system to deliver for our people in support of our values," including by diversifying supply chains that currently heavily depend on China.

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Not every European power has viewed China in as harsh a light as Biden, who has painted the rivalry with the techno-security state as the defining competition for the 21st century. But there are some signs that Europe is willing to put greater scrutiny on Beijing.

Before Biden took office in January, the European Commission announced it had come to terms with Beijing on the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment, a deal meant to provide Europe and China greater access to each other's markets.

The Biden administration had hoped to have consultations on the pact.

But the deal has been put on hold, and the European Union in March announced sanctions targeting four Chinese officials involved with human rights abuses in Xinjiang. Beijing responded by imposing sanctions on several members of the European Parliament and other Europeans critical of the Chinese Communist Party.

Biden administration officials see the moment as an opportunity to take concrete action to speak out against China's reliance on forced labour as an "affront to human dignity."

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While calling out China in the communique wouldn't create any immediate penalties for Beijing, one senior administration official said the action was meant to send a message that the G7 was serious about defending human rights and working together to eradicate the use of forced labour.

An estimated 1 million people or more — most of them Uyghurs — have been confined in reeducation camps in China's western Xinjiang region in recent years, according to researchers. Chinese authorities have been accused of imposing forced labour, systematic forced birth control, torture and separating children from incarcerated parents.

Beijing rejects allegations that it is committing crimes.

The G7 leaders — the US, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Italy — also hope three days of meetings at a seaside resort in southwestern England will help energise the global economy and sharpen a focus on combating climate change. The leaders were slated to attend a barbecue Saturday night and listen to sea shanties.

Hundreds of environmental protesters took to the Cornish seaside early Saturday in a bid to draw the attention to climate issues. A crowd of surfers, kayakers and swimmers gathered on a beach in Falmouth for a mass "paddle out protest" organised by Surfers Against Sewage, a group campaigning for more ocean protections.

British Prime Minister Johnson opened the summit on Friday by warning that the world must not repeat errors of the past 18 months , or those made during the recovery from the 2008 global financial crisis. If not, he said the pandemic "risks being a lasting scar" that entrenched inequalities.

Johnson said the goal of the measures was "to make sure that never again will we be caught unawares."

Brexit will also cast a shadow Saturday as Johnson meets separately with European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron amid tensions over Britain's implementation of UK-EU divorce terms. Macron will also hold talks with Biden — a meeting between allies who recalibrated relations during the four years of President Donald Trump's "America first" foreign policy.

Biden ends the trip Wednesday by meeting in Geneva with Russia's Vladimir Putin. The White House announced Saturday that they will not hold a joint news conference afterward, which removes the opportunity for comparisons to the availability that followed Trump and Putin's 2018 Helsinki summit, in which Trump sided with Moscow over his own intelligence agencies.

Only Biden will address the news media. Aides have suggested there was little interest in elevating Putin further by having the two men appear together in such a format. Others have expressed concern that Putin could try to score points on Biden, 78, who will be in the final hours of a gruelling eight-day European trip.

Putin, in an interview with NBC News, portions of which aired Friday, said the US-Russia relationship had "deteriorated to its lowest point in recent years."

He added that while Trump was a "talented" and "colourful" person, Biden was a "career man" in politics, which has "some advantages, some disadvantages, but there will not be any impulse-based movements" by the US president.

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A 10-year-old boy has undergone surgery after being bitten by a shark off the coast of Western Australia.

Jackson was snorkelling with his dad at Five Finger Reef, near Coral Bay on Friday when a shadow began to follow him in the water.

"He looked behind and saw it was a shark," his mother told 9News.

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"It went to bite him … it missed the first time then bit one flipper off the second time … and third time it bit his flipper and foot and then it swam off."

His dad raised the alarm and rushed his son back to shore.

It was a two-metre bronze whaler that left two gashes on the boy's foot.

Off-duty doctors and bystanders at the beach administered first aid and tied a tourniquet bandage to stop the bleeding before paramedics arrived.

He was then flown to Perth Children's Hospital to undergo surgery.

Jackson and his family had been exploring Australia for the past nine months. They have thanked everyone who helped them out during the detour to Western Australia's capital.

The boy is recovering from surgery, and Fisheries officers have recovered his flippers and will now test the marks.

Five Fingers Reef has reopened to the public.

A man has been charged over the alleged murder of a woman near Nowra on the NSW South Coast.

Denise Brameld, 51, was found dead in her home about 11.30am Friday. Her son made the confronting discovery and called police.

Officers from the South Coast Police District along with NSW Ambulance paramedics arrived a short time later and she was pronounced dead.

Today her neighbour Louis Woodham was charged with murder, making no application for bail.

Friends have remembered Ms Brameld, who lived in the area for 30 years, as a keen gardener and a devoted grandmother.

"She was happy-go-lucky, always on the go," one friend said.

On Friday, Detective Inspector Scott Nelson, South Coast PD Crime Manager, said Ms Brameld had suffered serious injuries.

"The scene was quite confronting," he said.

Woodham was arrested nearby a short time later. He was taken to Nowra Police Station and charged with murder.

A report will be prepared for the information of the Coroner.

Officers are asking anyone who travelled on the Comerong Island Road in the region in the past 24 hours to hand over any dashcam footage they have to Nowra Police.

Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews has revealed he will return to work on Monday, June 28, three months after being hospitalised by a fall.

"I want to share some good news with you," Mr Andrews said in a statement tonight.

"My vertebra has almost fully healed and my ribs are well on track. The team taking care of me has given me the all clear to get back to work soon.

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"To Cath, the kids and the doctors, nurses, ambos and physios who've taken care of me — I can't thank you enough."

Mr Andrews said with the vertebrae fully healed he has finally been able to ditch the brace he's worn for 18 hours a day for the last three months.

"But ribs are not fully healed, they'll take a while, and the doctors have told me these next few weeks will be quite a painful adjustment to getting used to not having that brace on."

Mr Andrews once again thanked Acting Premier James Merlino for "an amazing job".

"On Monday 28 June I'll be back to work — and back to getting things done. I can't wait," Mr Andrews said.

Mr Andrews suffered broken ribs and spinal damage after falling on wet stairs on March 9.

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A popular live music venue on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland has been raided by police and accused of breaching coronavirus restrictions.

Night Quarter is accused of failing to control dance floor density regulations and keep people in their seats at a Spacey Jane concert last week.

At 8.30pm on Friday, a week after the concert, police attended Night Quarter and reviewed security vision, allegedly identified the breaches and then shut the venue down indefinitely.

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"We can't control people standing up and dancing to a concert and the majority of the concert was actually seated," co-owner Michelle Christoe said.

The nightspot's other owner, Ian Van der Woude, added: "This is really, really hard, we've had musos phone, they're in tears, it's really, really tough."

The pair were sent a letter from the Queensland government outlining the breaches in order:

1. Operating a dance area with an occupant density of greater than 1 person per 2 square metres
2. Failure to ensure patrons were seated
3. Failure to ensure patrons remain seated
4. Failing to implement adequate crowd control

The venue was supposed to host pop sensations San Sisco tonight and Daryl Braithwaite on Sunday.

The owners said the government was not being transparent, and opposition MP Jarrod Bleijie said it was hypocritical to hold the State of Origin but not concerts.

"It's ok to go to a sporting event, stand up and dance at a stadium and yell and scream and spit, or whatever you do at a stadium," Mr Bleijie said.

Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeanette Young hit back, saying the risk of transmitting coronavirus in confined spaces and on dancefloors was far greater.

Victoria health authorities have warned undiagnosed coronavirus cases are likely circulating in the community after a Melbourne man tested positive with no known links to previous clusters.

The mystery case was revealed on Saturday as a young City of Melbourne man who lives with three other family members. He developed symptoms on Friday morning, was tested straight away and returned a positive result in the afternoon.

"I'm always concerned when you see new cases coming up," COVID-19 Response Commander Jeroen Weimar said.

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Health authorities are urging a testing surge after rates dropped to 15,110 swabs on Friday, significantly below the daily target of 20,000 or more.

"My personal view is that there are certainly more cases out there, I think we're talking very small numbers, but we really need to track them down," Mr Weimar said.

Victoria Health Minister Martin Foley said the young man diagnosed on Friday had done everything correctly. His family members have been tested.

The man had made limited excursions outside, mostly for care reasons.

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Whilst he was not a primary close contact of any known cases, the man has been linked to a number of existing exposure sites, Mr Weimar said.

He urged Victorians to keep getting tested and to not dismiss potential COVID-19 symptoms as "winter sniffles".

He said he had been confident in testing numbers up until about three days ago, but that the high numbers needed to continue as new cases were still emerging.

"I am concerned the testing numbers are dropping, and while we are still dealing with new cases emerging," he said.

"I would really encourage people to keep those testing numbers up. That will give us the best feel if we are getting a good cross-section of people coming forward."

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Health teams are also continuing to work with the Reservoir family cases, and with the Melbourne couple who have tested positive to COVID-19 in Queensland.

More than 20,000 people were vaccinated in Victorian state clinics yesterday, while 15,110 people were tested statewide.

Mr Foley said all elective surgery would begin again in Melbourne on Tuesday, but reminded residents that other restrictions remained in force.

Melbourne residents cannot have visitors at home except for their intimate partner or a single-person social bubble.

Outdoor gatherings are restricted to groups of 10 people maximum.

It follows a result of zero new cases in the state announced yesterday.

In the past 24 hours, Victoria issued 20,660 vaccine doses and received 15,110 test results.

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Victoria's new COVID-19 case is "likely" to be connected to the Whittlesea outbreak, Mr Weimar has said.

That would link the case to the Arcare Maidstone, Reservoir, and Queensland traveller COVID-19 cases.

There are still more than 2300 Victorians in isolation as close contacts of the Whittlesea outbreak.

More than 4000 close contacts have been allowed to leave quarantine.

"We've seen in the outbreak and number of people turn positive on day 13 so we have to make sure we finish those isolation periods with negative test and you are released by our public health team to continue working around the clock to ensure we support everybody in isolation and quarantine and detecting other cases we may have out there," Mr Weimar said.

In Victoria's West Melbourne outbreak of the Delta variant, 761 primary close contacts have been released from quarantine, while 764 are still in isolation.

"I'm pleased to confirm that North Melbourne Primary School will reopen on Tuesday," Mr Weimar said.

"Now completely deep-cleaned, cleared – great to see so many kids coming out of isolation."

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Mr Weimar said the positive Victorian cases who travelled to Queensland "increasingly" appear to be an older set of cases who had come to the end of their infections period.

"There are a number of Tier Two sites we've identified that go back a number of weeks to May 18," he said.

"There are a number of those Tier Two exposure sites that I'd ask people to check and it goes back to the conversation from earlier that we believe there are other branches that may be out there that we've not yet discovered."

Mr Foley has played down suggestions Victoria's vaccine supply is in trouble, saying the federal government was meeting the demands of the schedule.

"The prime minister was very clear that he didn't want the states to stockpile and he wanted the states to get those jabs into people's arms as quickly as possible and they would manage the supply to all the states for the second doses, and I'm confident as the evidence supports this," he said.

Mr Foley said there was no doubt, if the current delivery rate was maintained, that people who had received their first Pfizer jab would receive the second within the recommended three to six weeks.

Mr Foley said he was not worried about decreasing confidence in the AstraZeneca vaccine following a second death linked to the jab this week.

He said people over 50 appeared to be increasingly confident in the dose, and that Commonwealth data showed more and more were queueing up.

Another day of zero local cases in Queensland

There was good news for Queensland, which recorded another day of zero local COVID-19 cases, continuing a run of happy results after a traveller from Melbourne tested positive.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced this morning that the Sunshine State had only recorded one overseas-acquired case in the past 24 hours.

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It is the second day in a row the state has had no locally-acquired cases.

The result came after a further five people were caught trying to dodge Queensland's border restrictions yesterday.

Two were detected coming across the border at Goondiwindi, another came into Dalby via the Coolangatta border and two people were found in the Wide Bay.

They've been fined and put into hotel quarantine.

New South Wales has also notched up another "donut day" with no new cases.

A record number of 16,288 vaccines were administered and 19,304 people tested across the state.