After 14 months of COVID-induced isolation, there was one thing they missed most: their grandchildren
By Evan Allen Globe Staff,Updated April 1, 2021, 10:26 a.m.
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Jackie Jones and her husband Jeffrey Abramson hugged their 5-year-old grandson Henry Halloran for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
CONCORD â Finally, the grandchildren would be here any minute. For more than a year, Jackie Jones and Jeffrey Abramson had ached for this moment.
When was the last time they held Henry and Amelia? It had to have been January of 2020, but neither of them could remember it exactly â the smell of the kidsâ hair, whether their little hands were hot or cold. It hadnât seemed momentous then. Just another goodbye, just for a little while. And then the virus came.
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The Australian housing market is going gangbusters and all the signs are the boom is here to stay.
When property data firm CoreLogic tracked 1,191 auctions last weekend, it found 86.1 per cent of properties that went under the hammer sold, a 2.3 per cent increase on the week before.
The company’s head of research, Tim Lawless, says it is a result not seen since 2015.
“When auction clearance rates are high, you expect house prices to be rising and vice-versa,” Lawless said. “At the moment we’re seeing clearance rates well above 80 per cent. The last time we saw the same was in 2015, but you have to go back a decade to see auction markets as strong as this.”
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Economist Dr Cameron Murray has backed the government’s view that the JobKeeper wage subsidy scheme does not need to be extended again. Murray argues that relatively few industries still need government support, and he believes that increasing the JobSeeker payment would be a better option as the financial support would go to people who need it.
The Blueprint Institute’s chief economist Steven Hamilton also believes JobKeeper should be phased out on 28 March as scheduled.
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Economist Cameron Murray said it made “total sense” to withdraw JobKeeper at the end of March.