Coronavirus Australia live: 300,000 Victorians enter lockdown in 36 Melbourne hotspot suburbs – latest updates

By Amy Remeikis

Stay-at-home orders are now in place for 10 postcodes in city’s north as state steps up action to contain Covid-19

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Meanwhile, despite what you may have heard, the higher unemployment payment has not stopped people from applying for work. Quite to the contrary, as Luke Henriques-Gomes reports:

Related: Employers flooded with job applications despite higher rate of welfare benefits, data finds

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Dress your kid in yellow, and prepare to have your TV interview invaded.

I don’t make the rules. It’s bigger than all of us, apparently.

Related: ‘Mummy, what’s his name?’: expert’s daughter invades BBC interview

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