Australia Covid live update: Gladys Berejiklian to announce one-week Sydney lockdown extension

Schools to return to online learning after holiday break, as New South Wales battles to get on top of its growing Covid outbreak. Follow latest updates

But don’t think that favouritism is going to tempt the federal treasurer into bringing back JobKeeper. He was just asked about it, and the answer is pretty clear.

I do remind you... that across the economy, we’ve seen the unemployment rate fall to 5. 1%.

We saw in the month of May 115,000 new jobs being created. We, ahead of any other advanced economy in the world, have seen more people in work today than before the pandemic began, and our economy is bigger today...

Now I thought parents weren’t supposed to play favourites?

What, you’re telling me that doesn’t apply to the relationship between federal and state governments? Well good because the treasurer just told the Today Show that Gladys Berejiklian was his favourite.

I back Gladys Berejiklian, out of all the premiers she’s been very effective in what she has been able to achieve even when there are [set backs].

It is difficult, obviously, and there are challenges posed by the new Delta variant. Obvious it is a hit to the economy as well whenever we see restrictions like we see in NSW and recently in Victoria and Queensland. But this is what the challenges before us are about and that’s why rolling out the vaccine is our priority.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2021/jul/07/australia-covid-live-update-nsw-sydney-lockdown-gladys-berejiklian-schools-online-learning-coronavirus-vaccine-rollout

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