The Australian is reporting “Scott Morrison will throw a further $15bn lifeline to workers and businesses devastated by the Victorian lockdown under a major expansion of JobKeeper payments”. Mr Cunningham said “what we are seeing in Victoria we know is shocking from a health perspective, but the impact on business has just been diabolical”.
“This relief was absolutely needed and will be welcomed by those businesses down there in Victoria that have been absolutely shot to bits by this latest lockdown”. However, “if we don’t find a vaccine, we are going to have to find another way out of this” because the expense of lockdowns are too great to sustain on an ongoing basis. Image: News Corp Australia
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Victorian parents given reprieve of childcare costs | Sky News AustraliaEducation Minister Dan Tehan has announced Victorian childcare centres will give parents an additional 30 days of allowable absences for their children amid stage four lockdowns. \n\nUnder the scheme, children forced to stay home due to restrictions will be able to do so at no extra cost and stay enrolled at their childcare centre. \n\n“That means if you’re not in a position to be able to send your child to care, you can use those absences, providers can waive the gap fee so there will be no cost to you for keeping your child enrolled while you can’t access child care for the next 30 days,” Mr Tehan said.\n\n“So that’s 30 days, additional allowable absences, on the already, on top of the 42 days we’ve already allocated for that.”\n\nMr Tehan said the government was asking centres to waive the gap fee however the decision was ultimately up to the provider. \n\n“But what this package does is incentivise providers to waive the gap fee,” he said. \n\n“Because what that means is enrolments will stay strong, they will also get access to the childcare subsidy and also to that additional 5% top-up payment.\n\n“As I’ve said, that should give, on average, all centres revenue of between 80 to 85% based on that pre-COVID fortnight period.”\n
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Mayor slams state govt for allowing 400 Muslim worshippers to gather | Sky News AustraliaA Sydney mayor says his council was not notified about a special exemption given to a local mosque for up to 400 worshippers to attend a service for Eid.\n\nThe New South Wales government granted the permit for a service last Friday, allowing more than the current limit of 100 people into the Auburn Gallipoli Mosque in Western Sydney. \n\nCumberland Mayor Steve Christou told Sky News he wasn't told, and that's not good enough. \n\nA spokesperson for New South Wales Health said local councils were not usually involved in health order exemptions but the police and local health district were informed.\n We've missed Easter, ANZAC day, funerals cancelled weddings and funerals, lost loved one, business and jobs and these grubs allow this? Fuck off Government And they tell us it’s all about a virus 🦠 🤔🤔Hydroxychloroquine HydroxychloroquineSavesLives People are still crying over this 🤣
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'Political apathy' typifies the Australian response to Chinese espionage activities | Sky News AustraliaSky News contributor Cory Bernardi says political apathy has characterised the response of government leaders to incidents linked to subversive Chinese activity.\n\nHe said the police raid on the home and office of Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane as part of an espionage investigation was “just the latest example” in a long line of events connected to communist Chinese intervention in Australian affairs.\n\nSky News host Peta Credlin said it has now been revealed the staffer under investigation, John Zhang, allegedly used a private social media chat group to advance the interests and policy goals of the Chinese government.\n\n“We’ve seen the Sam Dastyari affair, we’ve seen Aldi bags of cash and any number of allegations,” Mr Bernardi told Sky News\n\n“Politicians have been asleep on the watch”.\n\nImage: Getty Hydroxychloroquine Should Be Available Over The Counter Cory ...you are most right about political apathy. The slackers not doing much given that Scott Morrison is not that interesting in Parliamentary sittings. LIKE YOUR WUHAN LIE SKY NEWS. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE.
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Coalition minister criticises Andrews government over ‘hotel quarantine debacle’ | Sky News AustraliaSenior Coalition MP Michael Sukkar has slammed the Andrews government for the “hotel quarantine debacle” as he reveals the extent of suffering caused by stage four lockdowns.\n\nIn an exclusive interview with Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell, the housing minister could barely contain his anger at the Andrews government.\n\nMr Sukkar – also the assistant treasurer – mentioned the quarantine “debacle” ten times in the interview.\n\n“Sukkar mentions he is in touch with businesses who have built up over decades who are just finished because of this and I also asked him his biggest fear out of this lockdown,” Mr Clennell said.\n\n“This is different from the rhetoric we have heard from the PM Scott Morrison and Victorian ministers Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Greg Hunt who have tried to keep the peace with Victoria as they deal with what is essentially a national crisis.”\n\nMr Clennell said the Victorian lockdowns could cost between $10-$12 billion and leave Australia with a GDP decline of 2.5 per cent in the September quarter. MichaelSukkarMP Finally!!!! TimSmithMP MichaelSukkarMP Anyone going to ask the government about Child Care? It’s pushing woman out of the workplace and creating highly stressful situations for families everywhere. The feeling is that the government wants to reduce woman to the bare foot and pregnant slur of yesteryear. auspol MatthewGuyMP MichaelSukkarMP Thanks for being a voice.
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Virgin Australia CEO calls for continued govt support | Sky News AustraliaVirgin Australia CEO Paul Scurrah says the airline needs an extension of the JobKeeper wage subsidy due to the volatility of the industry and the uncertainty around borders. \n\n“The prediction that this will go for a little longer will mean that we will need continued government support for the whole sector,” Mr Scurrah told Sky News.\n\n“We will continue to lobby for that, and I think it’s necessary.”\n\nThe airline yesterday axed 3,000 jobs and discontinued the Tigerair brand, after the company released its plan for the new and improved version of the airline.\n\nMr Scurrah also could not definitively say whether more jobs would be lost.\n\n“No CEO of any airline in the world right now can guarantee anything like that,” he said.\n\n“We are still in the middle of a pandemic and the industry is going through the biggest crisis it has ever seen before.\n\n“No one can give a guarantee like that.”\n Just Bail everyone out ScottMorrisonMP Of course they do after firing 3000 odd staff and prob collecting $$ from the Qld Gov.. So much for Palachuk and her promises. She wanted Virgin headquarters to stay in Brisbane to support jobs! Out the window - don't care - you're on your own. Elections looming 20 Oct.
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