State lockdowns to stop the spread of coronavirus hit retail activity hard in June, with turnover down 1.8 per cent nationally. Follow all our coverage live at our blog.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has acknowledged there had been “significant challenges” with the vaccine rollout.“What matters is how you fix the things that need to be fixed and get the program doing what it needs to be doing,” he said.
Asked whether he was successful, Mr Morrison replied: “Once the doses are on planes, then that’s when I’ll count them. And this week, a million doses on planes.” “All the supports we are providing are not designed as replacement income. They never were and neither was JobKeeper. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is urging people aged under 60 to consider the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.He noted more than 32,000 under-40s have now had AstraZeneca shots with the advice of their doctors.
He says the disaster payments available to people who have lost work during the lockdowns are set at the same level Jobkeeper was in the December quarter - at $600 or $375 a week, depending on the number of hours of work lost. The only difference is the government is paying people directly instead of funnelling the money through employers.
Mr Morrison says the Delta strain “is taking a heavy toll all around the world” and “what Australia is dealing with right now is no different to countries all around the world”.
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