Victoria's unemployment rate has been tipped to pass 10 per cent after Premier DanielAndrewsMP's decision to extend Melbourne's tough stage four lockdown for two weeks.
Victoria's unemployment rate has been tipped to pass 10 per cent after Premier Daniel Andrews' decision to extend Melbourne's tough stage four lockdown for two weeks.
economist David Hayward claimed Treasury’s previous predictions, which said unemployment would top nine per cent, were outdated once the premier unveiled his roadmap on Sunday. About 350,000 Victorians started receiving welfare payments since the beginning of the pandemic. Image: News Corp Australia
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
PM Morrison labels Vic lockdown extension as 'crushing' | Sky News AustraliaA “road to nowhere” is how Victoria’s path out of lockdown is being described as it sparks fury from businesses.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison labelled the restrictions as “crushing” and urged the state to strengthen its health response to the virus.\n
Read more »
Jim's Mowing founder to launch compensation claim from Vic govt | Sky News AustraliaJim Penman, founder of Jim’s Group, says the restrictions on sole operators in Victoria are “ridiculous” as he prepares to claim compensation for his workers from the Andrews government.\n\n“The original stage four lockdown based on expert medical advice was that our people pose no danger to public health at all,” Mr Penman told Sky News.\n\nUnder the current restrictions, sole traders are not able to operate due to fears of the coronavirus spreading.\n\nMr Penman estimates around 700 sole traders are out of work in Victoria.\n\n“We’re going to help our franchisees to claim compensation from the government,” he said.\n\n“We don’t know whether it will work or not.”\n\nThe Jim’s Mowing founder said he is yet to hear back from Premier Daniel Andrews.\n\n“The premier hasn’t even given me a two-word reply, he doesn’t even acknowledge my letters except some ridiculous thing that everyone gets.\n\n“There’s no attempt to listen at all.'\n
Read more »
Fake news in the US as democrats try to 'soften up the military' | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Paul Murray says the biggest example of fake news played out in the United States in the last week and leveled unfounded and wrong attacks at President Donald Trump.\n\nFar left-wing publication, The Atlantic, released an article written by four nameless people who suggested Donald Trump didn’t want to go to a war cemetery in France because those who died in war are “losers” and “suckers”.\n\nThe unsourced story, with no names and big claims, became mainstream after it was talked about by presidential hopeful Joe Biden, Mr Murray said. \n\nPresident Trump said what was written in the second-rate magazine was a ‘disgrace’.\n\nFormer national security advisor to Donald Trump John Bolton, who was with the president when he reportedly insulted war heroes, said he had “not heard either of those comments or anything even resembling them.”\n\nMr Murray said Mr Bolton disliked the president who fired him, and had written a book full of attacks at Trump, and yet he reported the news story released by Alliance included statements he had never heard Trump make. \n\nMr Murray said this piece of fake news was an attempt to “change the subject and soften up the military should they be needed at some point in time during a contested election.”\n\n “I know that sounds crazy but we live in crazy times,” he said. \n
Read more »
Anti-lockdown protesters defy Premier and Police in Victoria | Sky News AustraliaProtesters have gathered in Melbourne's CBD to demonstrate the state's stage four lockdowns despite warnings of arrests and fines from authorities.\n\nTwo people were arrested this week for posts on social media allegedly 'inciting' state residents to disobey government restrictions to attend protests.\n\nPolice were out in force, arresting one man, as anti-lockdown protesters gathered out the front of Victoria's Parliament House and Shrine of Remembrance for so-called 'Freedom March'.\n\nPremier Daniel Andrews said there would be a 'significant' police presence in the city for 'selfish, dangerous and unlawful' individuals who remained resolute in their desire to attend protests.\n\nMr Andrews confirmed a further 71 coronavirus infections and 11 deaths overnight with more than 100 historical coronavirus deaths added to Victoria's death toll in the past week.\n\nThe State's Chief Health Officer said he could not rule out further COVID-19 fatalities were yet to be reported.\n\nThe Premier will release a highly anticipated roadmap to recovery tomorrow detailing the states return to eased restrictions.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia
Read more »
Tristan MacManus joins Sarah Harris as new co-host of Studio 10In August, the network axed Studio 10 presenters Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Natarsha Belling, who will farewell viewers on Friday.
Read more »