Leaders have also agreed to a lengthy list of businesses and places that must close from midnight Wednesday night.

* From midnight on Wednesday food courts in shopping centres will only be available for takeaway food.

* Auctions and open house inspections are banned.

* Outdoor and indoor markets are banned while rules around major food markets will be addressed by states and territories.

* Personal services such as beauty therapy and tattoo parlours (but not physiotherapy) are banned.

* Hairdressers and barbers can continue but must strictly manage social distancing and restrict the amount of time a patron can be in the premises to no more than 30 minutes.

* Amusement parks and arcades, and indoor and outdoor play centres must close.

* Boot camps and personal training must be limited to 10 peoeple.

* Galleries, museums, libraries and swimming pools must close.

* Weddings can continue to be conducted where it is just the couple the celebrant and two witnesses, no more than five people.

* Funerals are limited to no more than 10 people.

* It is safe to send children to school up to the end of the term.

* But some pupil-free days will be needed to plan distance learning.

* Schools will reopen after the term break with a mix of distance learning and in-school learning for all "essential workers".

* PM to meet with teachers and other sector representatives about keeping schools open and protecting staff.

* Everyone who still has a job is an essential worker.

* The official "do no travel" warning will turn into an outright ban on overseas travel, with some exceptions such as aid workers and compassionate travel.

* New offence of profiteering and seeking to export goods overseas, relating to such things as medical supplies and masks.

AAP