MELBOURNE, May 24 — Australia’s prime minister stressed the need to create jobs as a way to minimise government welfare spending, while the country’s second-most populous state Victoria set out measures to resume tourism to regions ravaged by bushfires and virus-linked curbs. “Whether...
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“Whether it’s how we access markets, how we deliver assistance, whether it’s to bushfire affected communities ... the thing that gets Australia back to where we want to be is making jobs,” Scott Morrison told reporters today. “You just don’t go around and borrow A$60 billion on a whim. You carefully consider every dollar you have to borrow.”
Tourists will be able to stay overnight from June 1 in regional areas in the state, Premier Daniel Andrews said. The state has reported 1,603 cases, of which 180 are community transmissions. Its testing rate is 6,340 per 100,000 people, which if it were a nation, would be the sixth highest for testing in the world, a state health official said.
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