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The chief executives of seven of Australia's biggest companies urge Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews to speed up reopening the economy. Follow live.

Restrictions in the Republic of Ireland are set to be ramped up from midnight on Wednesday at midnight, with a lockdown being imposed to similar levels to those seen in March.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin announced that all non-essential stores will be closed, restaurants will be limited to takeaway services only and people will be required to stay within five kilometers of their homes, while banning visits to other households — although social bubbles are in place for people to exercise together under limited conditions.Schools, construction sites and manufacturing industries will remain open, and top-level sport will still be able to take place behind closed doors.

If people comply with the restrictions, which will be in place until December 1, the country will be able to celebrate Christmas “in a meaningful way,” Mr Martin said. Ireland reported 1,269 new cases — who had a median age of 34 — the majority of which were in Meath, Dublin, Cork and Cavan. The Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said there was a "substantial" increase in the number of hospitalisations from the disease across the country.

 

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Chin chin didn’t seem to concerned when they underpaid workers. Wage theft is a crime !!!!!!

Company bosses care only for the $. We see the result of what happens if they are paid any heed to in the US.

Of course they do because of three things, money, profits and shareholder value. Oh, and executive maybe bonuses. Not sure where those four things fit on a medical chart or an epitaph.

Sure hope the company directors didn’t give themselves bonuses or shareholders dividends from the jobseeker monies given out by the Government. If they did they shouldn’t be lecturing anybody about anything. Probably should be in jail themselves.

Shouldn’t the company bosses add that they will take all responsibility for any future outbreaks?

They talk about their great COVID safe plans but it is exceedingly hard to trust that businesses screaming to just hurry up and reopen faster are going to take enough care with protecting workers and customers when we do.

Must be Josh’s mates?

Trigger warning.. In melb right now 85% of all ambulance callouts are suicide attempts. I think this needs to be covered in the media, and IMMEDIATELY. Please call lifeline on 13 11 14 if u or anyone else u know is struggling.

Victorians watch & see, your acceptance of VicLabour’s illogical & illegal dictatorial rules will start an EXODUS of companies lining up to leave Victoria. Why risk having a head office in a state where normal business activities can be stopped whenever at the WHIM of a MARXIST

This isn’t good reporting Michael, it’s just creating more vitriole. Get off it, say something nice. IStandWithDanAndrews

How ridiculous. The spread isn't near slowed enough. Do you want numbers like QLD or not

So they look at numbers all day but cannot tell the difference between a happy customer and a very sick/dead one.

Every company boss who comes out with this shit needs to to spend a couple of weeks as a volunteer in the community testing for COVID. Say 80 hours worth. Let's see how interested they are then.

Company bosses urge Dan Andrews to speed up people dying of covid. Fixed it for you. 🤦‍♀️

The media/LNP/Big Business opened us too quickly last time. The only reason hotel quarantine was a major problem was community transmission, an often neglected issue in the media. I wonder why there has been no reflection on the role of the media. Now rinse and repeat....

Short memories. It was the IPA who wanted everything opened up quickly in the first wave and look what happened then. Media should bite their tongues.

But what does ABC think?

Do tell. How is he going to do that. Wave some fairy dust? Wave his hands around and say abracadabra? Just have a bit of patience FFS. We are nearly there.

Why they still need to open when people are still receiving income from the government?

If the ABC had reported honestly and factually about Daniel Andrews Daniel Andrews would have been gone out of politics long ago the man has mental issues is it controlling narcissist gaslighting all of Victoria assisted by groups like the ABC non-reporting of his incompetence

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Fuck company bosses

Live. Big business does not care about public health

You want him to reopen, but not races, but open... give it up already

It's really has trashed the ABC's reputation.

Why don't they urge people to follow the rules, that's what's gonna make / is making a difference and open community up sooner... How is that so difficult to understand?

Better to be Lockdowned with Covid requirements than opened and dead with Covid complications. COVID19Vic

New daily cases; US 45000 UK 15000 India 55000 France 13000 Australia 9 Victoria 2

Of course they do! So what?

How much money have company bosses made out of Jobkeeper?

How does one become a company boss? By putting money above all else. Let’s not have them deciding things any more pls

Ita running the ABC like it's the Woman's Weekly

MSM got it’s coordinated strategy for today from PMO.

Meanwhile, Socialist Andrews wants to tag Victorian's with electronic devices and TheirABC stays silent.

Are company bosses going to be held accountable if there is an outbreak in their company? If not then they can STFU.

You should get abc730 to do a story on it.

Arts and entertainment sector (live performers) will not be able to get back to work for months. Will any one of these signatories shed a tear for the actors, dancers, musicians, comedians unable to work? Unlikely.

Does that include the ABC, which is controlled by Liberals?

LOL, just keep dutifully tweeting this for your corporate bosses.

This is not news. 🙄

Live: Company bosses don’t care if Aussies die.

We get it. It’s a pandemic. You want businesses to open. Have you anything else to report at the moment? Is there nothing else going on in Victoria? What about the daily attacks on the chief health officer? Report with some perspective please.ThisIsNotJournalism VictorianCHO

Stop it

Name and shame the business is so I can boycott them. Putting profits before lives is not the Australia I want to live in.

So enough of asking business organization what they think Because there not going to pay for the funerals and greif counselling for all the people who'll loss loved ones + It makes ecconomic sense to look after the population of your country after all there the ones with the $$

Name the companies so we know who to avoid when we do re-open. Safety profit.

So over daily attack on Victoria. is now so compromised don’t know the difference between them and MurdochMafia

Quelle surprise!! CEOs from big business want to make money quicker! Let's just stick with the staged reopening as planned. No-one wants a 3rd wave. We won't have a strong economy until we can be sure we've kicked COVID's butt.

Gerry Harvey is pushing the Libs because profit is better than lives.

Health before the economy Sick and dead people don’t work

To all you people having a go at these owners, what did the medical experts say about the government allowing 1250 people to attend the races? Where was the science behind that decision?

The headline should be 'Dan Andrews follows medical advice despite an extraordinary right wing political campaign against the science'

Who cares what company bosses want? It's a pandemic being managed by experts, getting great results. Company bosses want lower wages, less holidays and poor working conditions too but they can't have it!

Business leaders - hahahah - I bet they haven’t done lockdown for 7 months !

Andrew is doing great job working non stop and hard restrictions is for our well being..

Once again, rich bitching. The greedy wanting money put ahead of people.

Victorian public urges company bosses to pay their taxes and just be decent corporate citizens.

Are you just going to regurgitate the same story every morning? Of course businesses want to make money, also water is wet

Can you give us a full list of their businesses so can make sure I boycott them Sick of those in ivory towers

I wonder what WorkSafe will say to these CEOs if COVID-19 rips through buildings of workers (off to the big house I reckon). If you need to manage with 'bums on seats', then you are doing it wrong. auspol

What are the companies so I can do my best not to use their services.

What are medical experts saying ?

Ok lets get serious Have a look at whats happening in Europe and the USA there going through a massive second wave simply because they've aloud free movement between states and countries Now understand that the only reason it hasnt happened here is because of travel restrictions

Dandrews has given strong indications that he's advancing the timeline for reopening. What more do they need? Dandrews presser: 'OPEN UP NOW!' 'Company bosses': 'We need to open sooner!'

Give it a rest ABC with the constant articles and picking. There will be more opening next week.

How many have epidemiology qualifications?

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