House prices have dropped nationally over September but climbed everywhere except the two large markets of Melbourne and Sydney. CoreLogic’s national home price index showed a 0.1 per cent fall last month, but that has been entirely driven by a 0.9 per cent slide in Melbourne and a 0.3 per […]
The soaring coronavirus infections in healthcare workers
New data published by Victoria’s health department has revealed over 100 health workers were infected with coronavirus at two Melbourne hospitals since the onset of the pandemic. There have been 1,020 confirmed cases in healthcare workers in Melbourne and an extra 61 instances in regional Victoria in those who listed […]
Covid-19 deaths probably under reported
On Tuesday, figures in the Johns Hopkins University ticked over the grim milestone of one million coronavirus deaths. It was a staggering number considering the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Wuhan less than 1 year ago. But that figure doesn’t depict the entire scale of this loss. Professor […]
Flight Center closes more retail outlets
Flight Centre will close down another 91 outlets across Australia, after widespread travel bans and border closures led to tens of thousands of dollars of cancelled bookings. Hundreds of workers will lose their jobs at these newest store closures. This was on top of the 4,000 sales and support employees […]