Thursday: Locked-down Australians struggle to get help. Plus: Brisbane to host the 2032 Olympic Games
Good morning. Poor Covid support payment access causes community anger, the World Health Organization confirms the rapid global spread of the Delta variant, and Brisbane gets ready for Olympic fever … in 2032. Those headlines and more, in Thursday’s morning mail.
Locked-down and out-of-work Australians are struggling to access Covid-19 support payments, with online systems and in-person services overwhelmed with demand. Requirements including in-person identification have been slammed by the union representing Centrelink workers as “unacceptable”, leaving staff liable to infection and causing queues at branches. New retail figures suggest lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne will drive economic contractions, with the construction industry hit especially hard, affecting nearly half a million workers in Sydney alone. But a Perth-based private boys’ school has announced an operating surplus of $8m last year, after receiving $7m worth of jobkeeper subsidies. The Hale school has not yet clarified whether it will return the funds.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/22/morning-mail-covid-support-payment-anger-grows-deltas-rapid-spread-matildas-triumph
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