Tag: Lockdowns

ABS figures show a slight rise in retail spending in September, but industry expects even better times as lockdowns ease prior to Christmas.

Business body hails State Government’s decision to wind back hotel quarantine as ‘common sense’ and ‘risk-based’.

New South Wales unsurprisingly suffered the biggest drop in employment and hours worked. Qld and Victoria were other big losers.

Changed shopping habits caused by lockdowns mean consumers may have to wait longer for their goods to be delivered, retail body warns.

Home cooking, digital downloads and online shopping shoot up. But bakeries, cafes and fast-food outlets take a massive hit.

Payroll jobs in Greater Sydney have fallen by almost 9 percent since the latest lockdown began and city seems worse off than in 2020.

Many performers have been stranded by lockdown, have no work and can’t return to their families interstate, media union says.

Property body says the ACT’s decision to reopen the construction industry next Friday is a ‘step in the right direction’.

While lockdowns have impacted retail sales across various states, NSW has been hardest hit, with latest stats showing an almost 9 percent drop.

Couples denied their dream white wedding by ongoing lockdown restrictions are being encouraged to elope instead.

After two weeks of restrictions, another two weeks of lockdown has kicked in for metro Melbourne. Nightly curfew from 9pm.

Retailers welcome the return of the Leasing Code of Conduct to protect small tenants, but property owners are not so sure.

Just 12 percent of office workers are present in Melbourne’s CBD, the lowest level since late 2020. Retailers and hospitality sector suffering.

Organisation says situation in the state is heart-breaking and warns businesses can’t be ‘switched on and off at random like a lightbulb’.

State locked down last night after several new infections were detected and traces of virus were found in wastewater in regional Vic.

Predictability about how restrictions are triggered and enforced will improve confidence in the management of outbreaks, says Business Council.

Airline’s workers are already at breaking point and JobKeeper must be reintroduced as lockdown crisis worsens, union says.

As the struggle to contain the virus continues in NSW, three areas in the central west are in lockdown. Victoria extends for seven days.

Business body says decision to use lockdowns sparingly will hopefully stop retailers being ‘treated like an on-off light switch’.

National business employer group warns of state and territory overreactions and cautions ‘This isn’t the gunfight at the OK Corral’.