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The campaign to stop the campaign to have Jobkeeper payments made public is whirring up. There has been a push from non-government MPs to make the amount companies received from the taxpayer wage subsidy public, given some used it to pay dividends or made a profit during the time the subsidy ran.
The senate attempted to have the Tax Commissioner disclose the information last week. The government put in a last minute public interest immunity challenge to stop it. But the memo seems to have gone out for industry organisations to come out against it (there is also a piece in the Australian lashing the opposition for attempting to have this information public). Here is the hotels lobby:
A group of truck drivers have protested against Queensland’s vaccine mandate – essential workers entering the state from NSW will have to have the vaccine in order to be able to enter Queensland. AAP has more:
Traffic was backed up for kilometres after two prime movers were parked in the two southbound lanes of the Pacific Motorway at Reedy Creek South on the Gold Coast about 5.30am on Monday.
End all lockdowns, people go back to work and kids go back to school,” he told Nine’s Today show.
That’s what we want out of it, we’ve had enough of it.
Vaccination seems to be the way for us to be able to get through this, to get back out of lockdown and to get ourselves back to the freedoms that we love here in Australia.
The rest of the world is doing it. Sure, there is carnage left, right and centre, but there is carnage left, right and centre here.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2021/aug/30/covid-coronavirus-health-hospitals-nsw-victoria-vaccines-scott-morrison-gladys-berejiklian
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