Easing restrictions in Victoria in a COVIDsafe way is vitally important so that more Victorians can get\u00a0back to work and resume their normal lives.
\nToday\u2019s announcement is a small but further important step in that direction. The removal of the\u00a0curfew, the ability of sole traders to operate garden maintenance and related services and the\u00a0improvements in supermarket capacity and manufacturing are all welcome.
\nIt will be important that more be done in the weeks ahead to safely ease more restrictions.
\nWe note that at similar case levels NSW was fundamentally open while remaining Covidsafe due to a\u00a0world class contact tracing facility.
\nAs many epidemiologists have encouraged, we would support Victoria in reviewing the trigger of five\u00a0and zero cases with regards to the third and last steps.
\nAs it stands this lockdown is already longer than that faced by residents in many cities around the world.
\nWe remain deeply concerned about the mental health impacts of a prolonged lock down on Melbourne\u00a0residents.
\nThe Morrison Government has already delivered more than $27 billion in economic support to
\nVictorians during this crisis and we have extended JobKeeper for another six months which is estimated\u00a0to see an additional $16.8 billion be paid to Victorians in the December and March quarters.
\nThe Government will continue to support Victorians during these challenging times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Easing restrictions in Victoria in a COVIDsafe way is vitally important so that more Victorians can get\u00a0back to work and resume their normal lives. Today\u2019s announcement is a small but further important step in that direction. The removal of the\u00a0curfew, the ability of sole traders to operate garden maintenance and related services and the\u00a0improvements in … Continue reading “Victorian restrictions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}