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Auckland border worker tests positive | Fear of blood clots will delay vaccination program | George Floyd died from a lack of oxygen | $A, Gold & Bitcoin Up.

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09-04-21 | Auckland Virus | AstraZeneca Halt | George Floyd
Auckland border worker tests positive | Fear of blood clots will delay vaccination program | George Floyd died from a lack of oxygen | $A, Gold & Bitcoin Up.

News Story Summary:

Latest updates on Key Economic Indicators

Australian Dollar: $0.7652 USD (up $0.0042 USD)

Iron Ore May Spot Price (SGX): $165.60 USD (up $0.60 USD)

Oil Price (WTI): $59.79 USD (up $0.23 USD)

Gold Price: $1,755.96 (up $18.46 USD)

Bitcoin: $57,738.53 USD (up 2.71% in last 24 hours)

Dow Jones: 33,503.57 (up 57.31 points on yesterday's close)

All changes compared to 7am yesterday.


UK halts AstraZeneca jabs for under-30s

The Australian Financial Review - Page 14 : 9 April 2021 - Original article by Hans van Leeuwen - PortMac.News Summary

Britain's Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has recommended that people under the age of 30 should not be given AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine due to the potential risk of blood clots.

MHRA CEO June Raine says the decision was made out of "Utmost caution", and notes that the incidence of blood clotting is extremely rare.

More than 20 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine have been administered across the UK to date, with 79 cases of blood clots having been reported; 19 of them were fatal. The MHRA has stated that the benefits of vaccination outweigh any risks.


Auckland border worker tests positive for COVID-19

Brisbane Times - Page Online : 9 April 2021 - Original article by Sarah McPhee - PortMac.News Summary

The New Zealand government has advised that an unvaccinated security guard at a quarantine hotel in Auckland has been diagnosed with COVID-19.

The announcement came one day after the government revealed plans for a two-way travel bubble with Australia.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has signalled that quarantine-free travel between the two nations could be suspended in the event of a new outbreak in either country.

NZ has reported 23 new COVID-19 cases among returned travellers; 17 had arrived from India, prompting Arden to temporarily put flights from that country on hold.


Call to ease foreign student work visa limits

The Australian - Page 4 : 9 April 2021 - Original article by Ewin Hannan - PortMac.News Summary

Business groups are calling for an easing of visa work restrictions on foreign students and backpackers to help ease pandemic-driven labour shortages until overseas travel resumes.

They want overseas students to be allowed to work unlimited hours and for backpackers to be able to work for the same employer for six months.

Australian Industry Group chief executive Innes Willox notes that visa holders are more flexible in terms of where they are prepared to travel for work, while Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry acting CEO Jenny Lambert contends regional communities are "Intensively feeling the loss of migrants"


Harassment reforms 'Unfair to employers'

The Australian - Page 1 & 6 : 9 April 2021 - Original article by Rosie Lewis - PortMac.News Summary

The federal government has finally issued its full response to the 'Respect@Work' report produced by Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins, having sat on the report for over 12 months.

The report made 55 recommendations, with perhaps the most controversial one being a recommendation that would result in giving victims of sexual harassment at work two years in which to make a complaint, up from six months.

Employers contend this recommendation will see them vulnerable to vicarious liability claims.


High Court puts the taxman in his place after gold debacle

The Australian - Page 21 : 9 April 2021 - Original article by Robert Gottliebsen - PortMac.News Summary

The High Court has rejected the Australian Taxation Office's attempt to lodge an appeal in the so-called 'Gold case'.

The ATO had already spent $40 million of taxpayers' money on the case, and the High Court has now made the ATO pay both its costs and that of its opponents.

The 'Gold case' is arguably one of the biggest cover-ups in Australia's recent history, namely the disappearance of over $3 billion in state GST revenue as a result of the ATO's mismanagement.


Crime journo 'Tried to blackmail alleged tax fraud syndicate'

The Australian - Page 3 : 9 April 2021 - Original article by Kieran Gair - PortMac.News Summary

The son of former Australian Taxation Office commissioner Michael Cranston is one of nine people who are embroiled in Australia's largest white-collar crime, the $105 million Plutus Payroll scam.

Adam Cranston is currently facing a joint criminal trial over the tax fraud, along with Jason Onley and Dev Menon, Cranston's tax lawyer.

The court has been told that crime journalist Steve Barrett tried to blackmail members of the syndicate behind the fraud, saying he would expose the fraud on '60 Minutes'.


Alarm over NT's largest-ever groundwater extraction licence

The Guardian Australia - Page Online : 9 April 2021 - Original article by Lisa Cox - PortMac.News Summary

Fortune Agribusiness has been granted the largest-ever groundwater extraction licence in the Northern Territory.

It intends to develop up to 3,500 hectares at Singleton Station to grow crops such as grapes and mandarins, and intends to use 40,000 megalitres a year to irrigate its operations.

Environmentalists and local residents are worried that Fortune Agribusiness' drawdown of an aquifer in what is an arid zone will have an adverse impact on groundwater-dependent ecosystems.


ACM gets go-ahead to raise stake in Prime

The Australian - Page 15 : 9 April 2021 - Original article by Sophie Elsworth - PortMac.News Summary

Australian Community Media, owners of The Port Macquarie News,  have been cleared to increase its stake in Seven Network affiliate Prime Media Group to 19.99%.

The deal to buy a 5% stake in Prime from WIN Corporation owner Bruce Gordon had to be cleared by the Australian Communications & Media Authority, as ACM would exceed the 15% threshold that is deemed to be a controlling interest under the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

ACM's Anthony Catalano says the legislation needs to be updated, as the 'Voices test' for regional areas does not include digital media.

He adds that ACM will have to sell two newspapers in Victoria and New South Wales unless the legislation is changed.


Record property prices still climbing

The Australian - Page 15 : 9 April 2021 - Original article by Mackenzie Scott - PortMac.News Summary

New figures show that house prices in Australia's capital cities increased by 5.6% in the March quarter.

House prices rose by 2.8% nationally in March, and Eliza Owen of CoreLogic says the combined value of Australian dwellings topped $7.9trn during the month.

Meanwhile, the national median house price is now 5.6% above the previous market peak in 2017.


Back-up plan for Whyalla if Gupta falls

The Australian - Page 13 & 16 : 9 April 2021 - Original article by Perry Williams, Jared Lynch - PortMac.News Summary

The recent collapse of Greensill Capital, the main lender to GFG Alliance, has put the future of the Sanjeev Gupta-owned company in doubt.

Creditors have moved to take control of Gupta's Australian operations, which include the Whyalla steelworks and the Tahmoor coal mine.

The South Australian and federal governments have been involved in talks that would see the provision of bridging finance to help keep the steelworks operating, while Finance Minister Simon Birmingham says the federal government does not want to see a 'Carve up' of GFG's Australian assets.


Claims war to heat up after Greensill Bank's assets frozen

The Australian Financial Review - Page 16 & 23 : 9 April 2021 - Original article by Jenny Wiggins, Simon Evans, Hans van Leeuwen - PortMac.News Summary

Courts in Germany and the UK have given the German administrators of Greensill Bank control over its assets.

The bank is a direct subsidiary of the failed Greensill Australia, which means Australian creditors of the latter will not be able to make a claim on any of the bank's assets.

Greensill Australia had just $2.2 million in the bank when it collapsed in early March, and its former employees have been told by its administrator that they are unlikely to receive their full entitlements.


ASX in five-day winning streak

The Australian - Page 20 : 9 April 2021 - Original article by Rebecca Le May - PortMac.News Summary

The Australian sharemarket's rally continued on 8 April, with the S&P/ASX 200 adding 1.02% to close at 6,998.8 points.

The benchmark index peaked above 7,000 points for the first time since late February 2020, and James Tao of CommSec notes that it is now 2.8% shy of its record high.

Fortescue Metals Group was up 2.54% at $21, Westpac advanced 1.29% to $25.16 and EML Payments rose 5.72% to $5.73.


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