Korumburra is a resilient community with so much positivity during such a difficult and challenging time.
Most Southern Gippsland tourism businesses began the summer season with a sense of real optimism. Forward bookings at accommodation places were looking particularly strong and for the year ended December 2019,
Major Initiative by State Govt to Match Workers to Employers
The State Govt announced today a new program that will allow for unemployed people to find work with various types of employers. Employers and the unemployed sign up and are then matched to appropriate jobs. Positions will be for at least 3 months.
Working for an organisation that has long offered flexible work arrangements, our recent experience being forced to work from home for an extended period of time has thrown us some interesting insights why this option wasn’t more widely taken up in the past.
The growing signs that some of the social isolation restrictions are likely to be eased in the near future is good news for all of us.
With so much negativity being broadcast by some sections of the media recently, you could be forgiven for assuming that the Victorian property market had ground to a complete halt since ‘social isolation’ became such a common part of our language.
We can’t rely on the local economy just returning to normal in six months or even twelve months by itself. The Federal and State governments have done what they can; the rest is going to be up to us and, to a degree, fate. According to Ken Henry, the former head of Treasury, the economy is not in hibernation, but is on ‘Life Support’. Local business and former employees need help.
The Victorian Government is working closely with the state’s agricultural sector to ensure its crucial supply chains can continue unbroken during the coronavirus pandemic.
The speed at which the corona Virus swept around the world is staggering. The effect is akin to bumper to bumper traffic driving at full speed down the freeway only to find everyone coming to a screeching halt at the front followed in quick succession by everyone in the chain behind.
From the economies point of view Corona Virus is likely to affect the way we do business far more than people realise.
Victorians will continue to get the skills they need to get a job and help us through the coronavirus crisis, with emergency funding from the Victorian Government to support the state’s TAFE and training system with student numbers expected to drop.
The coronavirus crisis has helped us to understand the power and influence of the property industry. Consider the following media reports from this week.