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Australia will soon have access to up to one million doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines per week, with supplies of the jab set to triple.
The country currently has between 300,000 and 350,000 Pfizer vaccines doses a week to administer.
That will jump to one million a week in the second half of July, with 4.5 million expected in August - significantly more than first anticipated.
The boost is not due to extra supplies. The 4.5 million doses were previously expected in September, and are now being brought forward by a month.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison is confident the bringing forward of doses will give his government’s troubled vaccine rollout a shot in the arm.
Working families will be thousands of dollars worse off over the next four years as wages fall behind the cost of living.
The Federal Government s May budget forecast wage growth would be outpaced by the cost of living over the next two years.
It will finally increase and reach the same level over the third and fourth years.
Families on average household incomes are likely to be down anywhere between $9,000 and $21,000.
A couple earning $170,000 will be $3,800 worse off this year, and $4,300 next year.
Australian working families are expected to become $21,000 worse off over the next four years as wages fall behind the cost of living (stock image)
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MUA national secretary Chris Cain addresses the protest. Photo: MUA Victoria
More than 100 maritime workers and trade unionists protested outside Svitzer Australia tug boat operators on June 28 demanding it reinstate local tug boat crews who had been replaced by labour hire contractors.
The workers made redundant by Svitzer last December were joined by fellow Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) members, along with other unionists, to demand that local workers be given their jobs back,
Svitzer provides towage in more than 30 countries around the world. It is owned by Maersk, the biggest multinational shipping company in the world.
In December, Svitzer sacked 18 locals, saying that Geelong was no longer a viable port.