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Melbourne residents hit cafes, restaurants and shops as lockdown lifted as Victoria records two Covid cases and two deaths. Follow live
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It is, as Murph would say, a very character building day today, isn’t it.
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The Greens senator Rachel Siewert has responded to the government re-starting the Service Australia debt recovery process:
We are in a recession and a pandemic and instead of giving Australians certainty about their future and ensuring they won’t be living on $40 a day come December this Government is choosing to create more anxiety and fear in our community by chasing people for debts at a time in their life when many are at their most vulnerable.
This Government has an ideological obsession with punishing people on income support.
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