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Child welfare groups are urging the Morrison government to permanently raise the rate of welfare payments in the October budget.
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Global coronavirus cases have pushed past 20 million, with the United States, Brazil and India accounting for more than half of all known infections.
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Another 400,000 people are expected to lose their jobs as a result of Victoria’s virus lockdowns, pushing the national unemployment rate up to 10 per cent.
New Zealand’s stage four lockdown was deep, immediate and didn’t involve masks or curfews. Victoria has belatedly imposed harsher restrictions on its capital, but not including the whole state could be a serious mistake, argues Siouxsie Wiles.
About 3000 jobs will go at Virgin Australia under a trimmed-down vision of the carrier, which has been hit by the turmoil in the aviation market caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Morrison government will allow other states and territories to join Victoria in accessing $1500 pandemic payments for workers without sick leave.
