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NSW COVID: British sailor quarantined for two days after yacht started sinking off NSW

30,600 fewer people in work amid warnings easy wins are over

Advertisement The number of Australians in work fell for the first time in six months in April, the first full month without the JobKeeper wage subsidy, prompting warnings the nation’s stunning early recovery from the coronavirus pandemic may become a slow grind. In figures showing a widening gap between the Victorian and NSW jobs markets, the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Thursday reported the national unemployment rate fell by 0.2 percentage points to 5.5 per cent. Employment fell by more than 30,000 in April when the JobKeeper wage subsidy came to an end. Credit:Sam Mooy The fall was due to a 0.3 percentage point drop in the participation rate – the number of people in work or looking for it – as the total number of people in a job slipped by 30,600.

Melbourne CBD safe-injecting room proposal faces council fight

Advertisement A Melbourne city councillor has moved a motion opposing a safe-injecting room anywhere in the CBD, arguing such a centre would cause the city’s “economic decimation”. Cr Roshena Campbell made the move on Thursday and the council will now vote on Tuesday over whether to fight a proposed second safe-injecting room on the grounds it would thwart the CBD’s post-COVID recovery. The proposed site of the new safe-injecting room at 248 Flinders Street, Melbourne. The Age revealed this week that a new service is expected be located opposite Flinders Street Station, near popular al fresco dining laneway Degraves Street.

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