Topics: Labour force figures; Rapid antigen tests; forklift drivers; 20/01/2022 7:45AM AEST Lisa Wilkinson: And Finance Minister Simon Birmingham joins us now. Minister, you’ve got the lowest unemployment figures in 13 years. Congratulations on those numbers. But the survey period doesn’t include the devastating impact of Omicron. What sort of numbers will you…
Topics: Labour force figures; Rapid antigen tests; 20/01/2022 04:30PM AEST Scott Emerson: Increased by 65,000, that’s a monthly change of 0.5 per cent. Now, while the underemployment rate fell 1.9 per cent to 6.6 per cent, the participation rate remains constant at 66.1 per cent. Now the bottom line here is there’s a sensational…
Topics: Rapid antigen tests; Student and working holiday maker visa holders; Peter Stefanovic: On that point, let’s go to the Finance Minister live from Adelaide, Simon Birmingham joins us live. Minister, good to see you. Thanks for your time this morning. Now National Cabinet today. Prime Minister wants states to abandon those daily rapid tests…
Topics: Return to school; student and working holiday maker visa holders; Living with COVID; 20/01/2022 7:32AM AEST Madeleine Morris: Let’s go back to our top story national cabinet meeting today, Finance Minister Simon Birmingham joins us now from Adelaide. Thanks so much for your time, Senator Birmingham. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, Madeleine. Good…
Topics: Booster vaccines; COVID-19 drugs; George Christensen; 20/01/2022 7:15AM AEST David Koch: The interval for COVID booster shots is being brought forward to three months in an urgent move to protect parents and dampen another explosion in cases when schools go back next week. It comes as the federal government admits it was blindsided by…