The Business Council of Australia’s ‘Strong Australia Network’ has kicked off its first event for 2020 in Busselton, Western Australia.
Sky News business editor Ticky Fullerton sat down with the Business Council’s CEO Jennifer Westacott and a few key business leaders to discuss the issues facing this region. Image: Getty
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‘Australia’s tough travel bans’ are ‘pretty wise and well-executed’ | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Chris Kenny says Cai Liping, the head nurse at the Wuhan Hospital in the epicentre of the epidemic is “distraught as a van leaves with the body of her husband”.\n\nMr Kenny said Liping’s husband Liu Zhiming was “the hospital director” and was “killed” by the coronavirus. \n\n“How harrowing is all this for health professionals exposing themselves to grave risks as they care for others,” he said. \n\n“The death toll has reached well over 2000 now - from more than 75,000 infections - the overwhelming majority of them in China.\n\n“All this makes Australia’s tough travel bans and quarantine provisions look pretty wise and well-executed so far.”\n\nImage: AP
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Rate of child poverty increases in Australia | Sky News AustraliaOne in six children and one in eight adults in Australia are living in poverty according to a new report by the Australian Council of Social Services and the University of New South Wales.\n\nThe report said the poverty rate in Australia was worse than it was in most other wealthy countries with low welfare rates, with a lack of affordable housing and unemployment being blamed. \n\nThe report also identified a person living in poverty as anyone whose disposable income fell below a reasonable level to achieve an acceptable standard of living. \n\nThe current poverty line remains at $450 per week for adults and $960 a week for two adults and two children. \n\nImage: Getty\n ACOSS UNSW This is the result of DELIBERATE POLICY DECISIONS BY THE LNP to take from the poorest and give to the Richest. Auspol ACOSS UNSW The definition of poverty? ACOSS UNSW
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Aus looking to build 'strong and reliable on shore recycling industry' | Sky News Australia'By world standards Australia does pretty well in terms of our recycling and recovery rates” but there are some 'very big challenges across the board in our recycling and waste management industries” says Liberal MP Trevor Evans. \n\nThe government issued a pledge to ramp up recycling, in part because of China import bans set to start in the middle of this year, however a number of recycling plants have shut down as a result of the ban. \n\nMr Evans told Sky News “there is an opportunity here which is to bring a level of national leadership and coordination of the states and other players in this space to try to make sure industry locally is more sustainable and strong”.\n\n“We want people to have more confidence in the fact that when they do put something in the right bin it actually gets recycled and turned into other products” he said. \n\n“One of the things that lets us down is we have been relying far too much on overseas and offshore options for what we do with our plastic recycling.\n\n“We want to build a very strong and reliable on shore recycling industry.” \n\n\n\n Nobody is interested in Sky News or their advertisers until Bolt and Henderson are removed What a joke you can't be serious Australia pretty good at recycling more Fake News.
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First look: 'MH370 The Untold Story' premering tonight on Sky News | Sky News AustraliaSky News Australia brings you the untold story of MH370 in an exclusive two-episode special investigation into what happened to the infamous Malaysia Airlines flight. \n\nThe investigation - MH370: The Untold Story – will reveal shocking allegations and startling information about what happened to cause the flight’s disappearance and how much authorities really knew. \n\nSky News has pieced together the clearest picture yet of the most mysterious aviation disaster in history. Watch or stream on Foxtel from 8pm AEDT tonight on Sky News. Sounds good. Is it on WIN i wonder? Let me guess...Lefties did it! WTF Sky News Australia disgraceful.
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Young adult dies from meningococcal disease as W strain appears againA young adult dies from meningococcal disease in Western Australia after contracting the W serogroup strain, the WA Health Department reports.
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