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The next tranche of assistance is expected to be announced later in the week, so the government can fast-track its passage through the parliament. Meanwhile, Qantas has announced it will slash international capacity by 90 per cent until at least the end of May as demand plummets amid the coronavirus crisis. Domestic capacity will also be reduced by about 60 per cent as the airline grounds around 150 aircraft.
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And many, many people will lose their lives. 😥 This is primarily a health crisis.
They haven't released the 1st stimulus yet.
Of course he did. Classic LNP.
Sounds to me like a win situation for those already unemployed, as on the upturn they will get an opportunity!
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PM readies expanded stimulus package | Sky News AustraliaThe Morrison government is working on a second stimulus package as the COVID-19 outbreak worsens. \n\nJust five days after the government announced its $17.6 billion stimulus package, it is readying itself to deliver billions more to help prevent the country from slipping into recession. \n\nWith the second stimulus package, the government will reportedly target businesses hardest hit by the coronavirus including the airline industry – which has called for more government assistance amid the COVID-19 outbreak. \n\nThe prime minister will return to Canberra on Tuesday to meet with state and territory leaders to consider tightened measures to curb the spread of the virus. \n\nImage: Getty Putting the economy before the people. Has the first stimulus package even been implemented yet? He hasn’t even delivered the 1st one ffs. It’s all too late. He should of done this weeks ago. Morrison has ample warning. Remember AustralianBushfire ’s ? TooLittleTooLate
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ANZAC Day services cancelled | Sky News AustraliaANZAC Day services across New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia have been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nNSW RSL Acting President Raymond James said the decision was made based on their responsibility to the general public and veterans - keeping in mind the elderly were most vulnerable to the virus. \n\nLiberal Senator Jim Molan told Sky News he believed some services should still go ahead. \n\n“I think if we’re going to make a compromise on this, we make it on the big ones, and we allow the smaller groups to have their commemorations in the local areas,” he said. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia It shouldn’t stop Australians pausing for remembrance. This could be done via the media. National minutes silence. C’mon you guys kick it off. 👍 I’ll still be there
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Actor Idris Elba diagnosed with COVID-19 | Sky News AustraliaIdris Elba has become the latest celebrity to test positive to COVID-19. \n\nThe actor took to Twitter to say he self-isolated after finding out he had contact with a known case of the virus. \n\nImage: AP idriselba Another star. Woopy doo
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'We are heading for a deep global recession' | Sky News AustraliaFormer treasurer Wayne Swan has told Sky News Australia he believes “we are heading for a deep global recession”. \n\nIn order to prevent the country from slipping into recession, Mr Swan said the Morrison government must “act; act decisively and act quickly”. \n\n“In many ways, it does mirror what happened through the Global Financial Crisis, which in itself became a deep global recession and threatened to become the Great Depression part two,” he said on Tuesday. \n\n“To begin with, the government was slow out of the blocks,” he said. \n\n“They had the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia last year advising them last year to stimulate the economy because it was very weak and consumption was low, and they didn’t take that advice then so we go into this episode far weaker than we should have been had they acted last year.” \n\nDespite this, Mr Swan said he supported the government’s $17.6 billion stimulus package which was announced last week. \n\n“I think we should be doing everything we possibly can to avoid a deep recession because it destroys lives, it destroys communities and it destroys productive capacity,” he said. \n\nHe advised the government to “listen closely to officials, consult widely and consult internationally”. \n\n“The costs of inaction are greater than the costs of action,” he said. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia SwannyQLD My mother-in-law who is 86 and has played the markets most of her life, said yesterday that she predicts another depression... not recession but depression. She is very old and very rich so I tend to trust her opinion. SwannyQLD Mr Surplus Swan preaching all things economy, LOL. SwannyQLD NO !!
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W.H.O calls for increased COVID-19 testing programs | Sky News AustraliaThe World Health Organisation has called on all countries to ramp up their testing programs as the best way to slow the advance of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nWHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said cases could not be isolated and the chain of infection would be broken if this was not done.\n\nMultiple countries declared a 'state of emergency' to contain the spread of the virus and have diverted funds to increasing testing kits.\n\nThere are more than 174,000 cases worldwide and more than 6,000 deaths.\n\nImage: AP How tests, Reagants are in short supply? Australia is in a good position to contain the Corona-virus Thanks to PM Morrison who stopped travel from China 9 Days before the World Health Organization tells the world to stop travel World Health Organization, Hmm?
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