Sky News host chrissmithonair says Victoria has presented itself as a “runaway train with no brakes” after recording more than 310 cases in the past 24 hours.
Sky News host Chris Smith says Victoria has presented itself as a “runaway train with no brakes” after recording more than 310 cases in the past 24 hours. It comes as the federal government announced an unemployment rate of 7.4 per cent, the worst rate in 22 years.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics said 992,000 Australians are now formally unemployed, with the underemployment figures expected to be much higher. “They tell us today that almost one million people are unemployed. That’s the worst number since we began calculating this in 1978,” Mr Smith said.
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