“What matters is that the trading relationship, the economic relationship is able to be pursued. 'You don't have to hold onto every measure forever. 'The measured rate of unemployment will depend on how many people, what the participation rate is, and all of those things. “Today, the Indo-Pacific is the epicentre of strategic competition. ', Women are leading Australia out of the coronavirus recession with unemployment falling in August for the first time since the health crisis - creating 111,000 new jobs. Almost two-thirds, or 55,000 of those leaving the unemployment queues, were women. The prime minister criticised Queensland’s ‘mystifying’ decision which meant Canberra woman Sarah Caisip missed her father’s Brisbane service, Thu 10 Sep 2020 08.55 EDT in an online address from the Australian capital, Canberra. Is Scott Morrison … Queensland’s chief health officer, Dr Jeannette Young, told reporters permission to attend the service had been denied because funerals were very risky environments for the spread of coronavirus and the state had taken a deliberately risk-averse position. We’ve got to set out and wed ourselves to the objectives here and that is not the suppression or containment of any one state, it’s about the productive and strategic balance that can be achieved,” he added. The PM said once Victoria finally got out of lockdown there would be many more back at work, and he expected hundreds of thousands more by Christmas. Victoria's unemployment rate of 7.1 per cent was above the national average, as the number of people employed fell by 42,400 as a result of the COVID-19 restrictions. Morrison said building an Indo-Pacific alliance with like-minded nations will be a “critical priority” for his government, warning the pace of militarisation in the region was unprecedented. Morrison resumed his attack against Queensland on Sky News on Thursday night, saying the premier and health officials needed to use more discretion in their decision-making. Queenslanders go to the polls in a state election in October. Australia rejects Beijing’s South China Sea claims, Australia steps up Hong Kong action in wake of China security law, Australia considers ‘safe haven’ offer for Hong Kong people, Inside Story: Will international pressure improve human rights in China? Scott Morrison repeatedly refused to say whether Australia's unemployment has peaked amid the coronavirus pandemic. “We have to take an optimistic attitude but not an unrealistic or naive attitude. Scott Morrison is new Australian PM as Malcolm Turnbull ousted. Asked whether Australia was in danger of “losing our humanity”, Morrison replied: “The way these decisions are being made, we are in danger of that.”. The heartwarming and unexpected stories of how COVID-19 made one community closer than ever before. JobKeeper will be dropped from $750 a week to $600 a week from September 28, which could cause businesses to retain fewer staff. 'Well it's a bit hard to say, on the measured rate, I must say and there are conflicting views,' he said. A quarter of middle-aged women say sex is still 'highly important' to them. Morrison said China’s rise as a major economic partner has been good for the global economy, Indo-Pacific region and Australia, “but with economic rise comes responsibility”. Morrison has been attempting to persuade premiers to end border restrictions in favour of localised lockdowns in the event of a Covid-19 outbreak. The premier said a pandemic was a time to be working collaboratively “and this politics of division is disgusting and disgraceful.”. It has its frustrations from time to time.”. However, what that would do for the actual unemployment rate, he refused to make a prediction. The brawl has been continuing unresolved for several weeks. Subway workers reveal the WEIRDEST sandwiches they've ever had to make, from a toasted tuna sub with SPLENDA... Now pubs are banned from playing loud music! Scott Morrison, Australian conservative politician who became leader of the Liberal Party and prime minister of Australia in August 2018 after a challenge by the right wing of the party to the leadership of Malcolm Turnbull, who stepped down. Morrison said his administration “expresses it differently and certainly not as dramatically” as Rudd’s views. There are other measures that come in and pick up from where other measures left off,' the PM said. Morrison’s comments at the Aspen Security Forum on Wednesday came days after former Australian Prime Minister and China scholar Kevin Rudd wrote in the Foreign Affairs journal that the risk of armed conflict between the United States and China in the next three months was “especially high”. Published 24 August 2018. (25:00), Counting the Cost: South China Sea: Beijing extends its military and economic reach (26:01), Analysis: What to watch for during the first Trump-Biden debate, Texas issues disaster order after brain-eating amoeba kills boy, In Pictures: Glass Fire in California quadruples in size, Five takeaways from Trump’s tax return report, Nagorno-Karabakh battles rage for second day: Live news, Why you should care about conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Israel’s ‘silent transfer’ of Palestinians out of Palestine, ‘The future is uncertain’: India coronavirus cases top 6 million, Al Jazeera Centre for Public Liberties & Human Rights. 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Too many children are being tested for coronavirus, top paediatrician claims as he demands schools stay... 'I'd like to show them the HELL Kate Garraway's gone through!' Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group, New tougher clampdown bans ALL households from mixing in the North East, while Manchester mayor Andy Burnham calls for alcohol sales be outlawed after 9pm to stop post-pub parties, Government sneaks out new covid curbs: Now you can be fined £4,000 for 'recklessly' leaving self-isolation and £1,000 for giving false details for close contacts in rules introduced overnight, Is THIS why men are more badly affected by Covid-19? Mr Morrison instead said he was pleased the economy was adding more jobs and expected there would be more over the next three months. we’ve acknowledged that what was previously inconceivable and not considered even possible or likely in terms of those types of outcomes is not considered in those contexts anymore,” he said. Tensions over territorial claims are growing,” he said. The prime minister said he had not sought to make the case public. The Queensland government later confirmed the young woman would be permitted to attend a private viewing of her father to say farewell after the funeral. What do YOUR dreams say about you? New curb joins chaotic curfew scheme as it emerges hospitality... Jennifer Arcuri turns on 'dictator' Boris Johnson and accuses 'cowardly' PM of being a 'puppet on a string'... Matt Hancock says he will meet with Tory rebels amid fury over plunging the country into new lockdown... Could a nasal spray offer hope against Covid-19? The program has been extended to the end of March while unemployment welfare will stay doubled at $550 a week, with tighter criteria, until the new year. However, he had no answers for how China’s push for power in the South China Sea, on the Indian border and in Hong Kong should be handled. He is a composer, writing jazz charts for ensembles of various sizes and proficiency levels. The chief health officer also told reporters she had allowed sporting administrators and people in the entertainment industry to enter the state with more favourable quarantine rules “because that is bringing a lot of money into this state and, can I say, we need every single dollar in our state.”. Sarah Caisip, a 26-year-old from Canberra, was denied permission to attend the Brisbane funeral of her father, Bernard, who died from cancer last week, but was escorted by authorities to a private viewing after the service. Unemployment rate fell from a 22-year high of 7.5 per cent in July to 6.8 per cent in August, Participation rate rose from 64.7 per cent to 64.8 per cent, Number employed rose by 111,000 to 12,583,400, Jobless ranks fell by 86,500 with women making up 55,000 or 64 per cent of those. 'We're in the middle of a global pandemic recession and so Australia's growth is also going to be affected by that and they're issues that are well beyond our control,' he said. Western Australia has refused to sign up to Morrison’s plan to reopen state borders by Christmas while Queensland has expressed reservations. It might have peaked Prime Minister? Hadley put the case first to the home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, on Thursday morning. Morrison ascended to the … The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. expresses it differently and certainly not as dramatically” as Rudd’s views. Available for everyone, funded by readers. Mr Morrison said he was trying to answer the question, but failed to give Speers a straight answer for a third time. The Prime Minister was asked if the unexpected drop in the jobless rate from 7.5 per cent in July to 6.8 per cent in August meant the worst was over. Right Said Fred are hit by backlash for joining anti-lockdown march in London. The Prime Minister was asked if … Tasmania, however, had the lowest unemployment rate among all the states of 6.3 per cent with only the Northern Territory (4.2 per cent) and the Australian Capital Territory (4.2 per cent) having lower jobless figures. All rights reserved. Morrison said it had been an awful year and his objective was to provide “hope to a family who just desperately needs the whole country to put their arms around them today”. First published on Wed 9 Sep 2020 23.24 EDT. What's your sense of it?'. But a visibly irritated Palaszczuk declared she had no intention of being “bullied” or “intimidated” by Morrison. Lorraine Kelly brands anti-lockdown... We're too sexy for our MASKS! 'I've got to say, I hope it's lower, but at the moment it's hard to say where the course of the pandemic is,' he said. Australia’s relations with China, its most important trading partner, has plummeted to new lows in part because of Canberra’s calls for an independent investigation into the origins of and responses to the coronavirus. ', Speers tried again: 'But has it peaked now? Palaszczuk told parliament she had taken a call from the PM on Thursday morning and told him she would pass the information on to the state’s chief health adviser. “I’m an optimist, Australians are indefatigable optimists about these things,” Morrison said. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Morrison, whose father died earlier this year, said Thursday’s dispute wasn’t “about the premier of Queensland and me or anyone else” but, he argued, surely an exception could be made to allow a young woman to attend her father’s funeral. Australia's youth unemployment also fell from 16.3 per cent to 14.3 per cent. Scott Morrison has doubled down on his attack against the Queensland government for refusing to allow a young woman to attend her father’s funeral, declaring Australia is in … Early on Thursday, Morrison called the Sydney radio host Ray Hadley to ratchet up political pressure on the Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, who later accused the prime minister of trying to bully her into allowing Caisip to attend her father’s funeral. Scott Morrison repeatedly refused to say whether Australia's unemployment has peaked amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Today just hurt,” the Liber leader said. Scott Morrison has doubled down on his attack against the Queensland government for refusing to allow a young woman to attend her father’s funeral, declaring Australia is in danger of losing its humanity during the pandemic. An emotional Morrison said he had contacted Palaszczuk in an effort to persuade her to make an exemption to Queensland’s border controls and allow the young woman, who was in hotel quarantine in Brisbane, to farewell her father on Thursday afternoon. The comments below have not been moderated. Young told reporters “the last thing I would want to happen, is to have an outbreak at a funeral, and by definition, there are always older people attending funerals”. Caisip told her story on Hadley’s radio station earlier on Thursday. Morrison also disagreed with many in Washington that Washington was in a new Cold War with China, saying the “circumstances are quite different”. So now you can get a £4,000 fine for 'recklessly' leaving self-isolation and £1,000 for making a fake Covid... Is THIS why men are more badly affected by Covid-19? We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Published 18 May 2019. PM Scott Morrison suspends extradition pact with territory and extends visas for Hong Kong people already in Australia. He stressed that China and the US together have a “special responsibility” to respect international law and should resolve their disputes peacefully. Pictured is Sydney Mitre 10 hardware manager Ching Ching. Study claims disease depletes testosterone and weakens the immune system - and even men with no symptoms 'lose their sex drive', COVID-19 patients are now three times less likely to have highly infectious levels of the virus compared to the early days of the pandemic, Is your local Pizza Hut set to close? 'I'm saying there are going to be more jobs come back in. The woman works in Canberra and had relocated to Queensland hotel quarantine to try and see her father before he died last Wednesday but that attempt failed.
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