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'Pent-up' demand for holidaying as restrictions ease | Sky News AustraliaStephen Howard, Group Director of Marketing at Ovolo hotels says there's been 'pent-up demand' for holidaying and 'staycations' noting a surge in bookings over the last three to four weeks as restrictions ease.\n\nCOVID-19 has impacted nearly every industry across the country with the hospitality sector among those affected the most.\n\n'Social distancing's played a big part in what we do... we've taken on the challenge in a truly Ovolo way and tried to do things differently,' Mr Howard said.\n\n'We've done things like 'Restaurant in a Room' where you can have a full restaurant experience through social distancing inside a room.'\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n
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'Limited access to high speeds' as $51bn NBN project nears completion | Sky News AustraliaTech Guide Editor Stephen Fenech says 'not everyone will be able to access gigabit speed' as the government nears completion of its contentious $51 billion NBN scheme.\n\n'Australia ranks well down the list compared to other countries who have way more gigabit speed access than we do,' he said.\n\n'It's up to the NBN now the initial rollout has been completed to come up with a plan to improve parts of the network, to offer higher speed to customers that need them.\n\n'Less than 28 per cent of people can access those speeds.'\n\nMeanwhile, Amazon has launched a Fulfilment Centre in Western Sydney, expected to create 2,000 jobs for the region.\n\n'This Fulfilment Centre will include some of their cutting edge robotics technology,' Mr Fenech said.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n
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Prince Andrew 'evading' US authorities | Sky News AustraliaA lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein's victims has told Sky News Prince Andrew is deliberately evading US authorities.\n\nSources close to the Duke of York's working group said he communicated twice with the Department of Justice and had no response.
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New Australian Made logo a 'leftover of Malcolm Turnbullism' | Sky News AustraliaFormer speaker of the house Bronwyn Bishop says the new Australian Made logo representing a Golden Wattle is “a leftover Malcolm Turnbullism”.\n\n'I think it should just be ignored, a mistake was made lets just move on,' she told Sky News host Gary Hardgrave.\n\n“I just don’t know how it could have cost $10 million dollars?” she said.\n\nThe Institute of Public Affairs’ Gideon Rozner said instead of spending taxpayer’s money overseas on marketing projects it would be better to take “the foot of government off the throat of businesses, so they can produce better goods more efficiently and cheaply”. \n\nHowever he admitted he had “always found the kangaroo a “little bit daggy and dated”. \n
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People ‘dismayed’ after WA wildlife manager poses with dead animals | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Chris Kenny says people don’t expect national parks to be managed by environmental campaigners or hippies however they do expect them to be at least run by conservationists. \n\nHe said a “shocking little story” has emerged from Western Australia, as people from the Esperance are now “dismayed” about the man appointed as the district manager of parks. \n\nJewell Crossberg, who was appointed by Western Australia's department of Biodiversity and Conservation, has been heavily criticised after he posed alongside dead game animals in South Africa. \n\n“When locals saw these pictures on his Facebook page you could hardly blame them for thinking this is not what they would expect from an Australian park ranger,” he said. \n\n“So, for now at least, the hunter stays on as the wildlife keeper”.\n\nMr Kenny also spoke with the Shadow WA Environment Minister Steve Thomas about the issue.
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What’s happening in Victoria is serious ‘but we’re seeing a comedy of errors’ | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Chris Kenny says Victoria claims to be “the education state” so maybe its citizens should be made aware getting tested for COVID-19 is the least they can do during a public health crisis. \n\nOn Friday Victoria’s Opposition Leader Michael O’Brien criticised the Andrews government for its handling of Melbourne’s hotel quarantine fiasco.\n\nAn inquiry has been launched into Melbourne’s failed hotel quarantine system after it was revealed more than 50 new cases of the coronavirus in Victoria have been linked back to breaches.\n\nWhile Victoria’s Chief Health Minister Jenny Mikakos has been forced to insist coronavirus is not a 'conspiracy' as she revealed more than 10,000 Victorians have refused COVID-19 testing in the past week.\n\nMr Kenny said a “comedy of errors” has played out in the state’s handling of the virus. \n\nHe said the organisation of overseas quarantine in Melbourne has been “shambolic” as dozens of new cases of the deadly virus emerge daily.
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