Full Top Headlines 7NEWS Australia for August 12

Victoria has reported its deadliest day in the coronavirus pandemic with 21 new deaths in the 24-hour reporting period to 8pm Tuesday; the Royal Commission into Aged Care has been told that hundreds of older Australians will die prematurely because of the government’s ‘failure to act’ to protect them from COVID-19; a major breakthrough in the cold case murder of New South Wales teen Michelle Bright has seen a man arrested and charged with murder.