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Victoria Stage 4 Business Closures and Changes

SpaceX Guiding NASA Astronauts to 1st Splashdown in 45 Years

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Victoria Stage 4 Business Closures and Changes

Stage Four Business Closures and Changes for Melbourne

Open for on-site work with COVID-19 safe plan:

* Supermarkets and grocery stores including liquor shops

* Fuel retailers

* Pharmacies

* Post offices

* Hardware, building and garden supplies for trade

* Specialist stationery for business use

* Maternity supplies

* Motor vehicle parts for emergency repairs

* Locksmiths

* Laundry and dry cleaners

* Farms

* Commercial fishing

* Vet clinics, pounds and shelters

* Construction of critical infrastructure and services to support those projects

* Critical repairs to residential premises where required for emergency or safety

* Cafes and restaurants for takeaway

* Newspaper and magazine publishing, radio, television and online broadcast

* Bank branches

* Critical service call centres

* Medicare

* Justice – for urgent or priority court or tribunal matters including bail, family violence, remand, child protection, warrant, human rights, residential tenancy and other matters

* Law enforcement

* Prisons, facilities for parolees, Adult Parole Board, youth justice facilities

* Emergency services

* Schools for permitted workers and vulnerable children, specialists schools – remote learning for all other children

Closed For On-Site Workers:

* Furniture wholesalers

* Personal care including hairdressers

* Car washes

* Pubs, taverns and bars

* Clubs, nightclubs

* Food courts

* Legal and accounting services

* Architectural, engineering and technical services

* Travel and tour agencies

* Standard call centre operations

* Non-urgent elective surgery

* Museums, parks and gardens

* Gambling

* Alpine resorts

* Brothels and prostitution services

* Places of worship

Restricted Operations:

* Large scale construction (buildings more than three storeys) restricted to 25 percent normal employees with a High Risk COVID Safe Plan, workers at a single site only

* Small scale construction (three storeys or less) with a maximum of five workers including supervisors with a Universal COVID Safe Plan, workers at a single site only

* Meat processing with 33 percent reduction in production (state-wide), workers at a single site only

* Shopping centres for access to permitted retail only

* Public transport, rideshare and taxis only to support access to permitted services for permitted workers

* Thoroughbred, harness and greyhound racing with minimum number of essential participants to operate safely

* Places of worship broadcasting religious ceremonies

* Places of worship and community facilities operating food banks and soup kitchens

(Source: Victorian Government)

By Karen Sweeney in Melbourne

Focus News: Victoria Stage 4 Business Closures and Changes

Trump to Act on Chinese Software Companies in Coming Days, Pompeo Says

WASHINGTON鈥擯resident Donald Trump will take action shortly on Chinese software companies that are feeding data directly to the Beijing government and posing a risk to U.S. national security, Secretary of State Mike聽Pompeo聽said on Aug. 2. “President Trump has said ‘enough’ and we’re going to fix it and so he will take action in the coming days with respect to a broad array of national security risks that are presented by software connected to the Chinese Communist Party,”聽Pompeo聽said on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” The news comes after Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One on Friday that he would issue an order for social media platform TikTok to be banned in the United States. Over the last several months, U.S. officials have repeatedly said TikTok under its current Chinese…