Construction industry warns buildings will close if Sydney lockdown is extended

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There are warnings that a large number of building firms would go under, with thousands of jobs lost, if the NSW lockdown is extended beyond July 30.

"Every day I'm receiving more and more phones calls of people just needing help," he said.He said there was a danger of "lockdown fatigue" setting in.

"People are willing at the moment to do everything they've been asked, they're getting vaccinated, they're getting tested," he said.He said hearing that daily case numbers were not going down despite the lockdown was "playing on people's psyche". "There is that real sense of deflation in the community at the moment simply because everything we've tried so far doesn't seem to have worked," Mr Dib said.Epidemiologist Angela Webster from the University of Sydney said it was "highly unlikely" that conditions would be right to lift the lockdown next Friday.

Stephen Leeder, Emeritus Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Sydney, said infection numbers were stabilising. "It's a matter of opinion whether we should be going harder and wider but my interpretation of the numbers is we are actually doing quite well," he said."There really is no other visible way forward at the moment,' he said.Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.

 

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They can claim the Delay of The Completion Dead Line on their Tax.

No special privileges. Now if DanielAndrewsMP could stand up to the CFMEU here in Victoria and order them to stop working instead of giving them special privileges, then we might be all in this together

Construction industry in not an essential service just another lobby group...

🙄 please.

How are construction workers any different to other people who can not work due to lockdowns any different? Hospitality, retail, tourism…

. Talking the language of Liberal Party now! The impact on rich people's wallets! .

We get it…… the construction industry is suffering just like all other business industries right now

I hate it when buildings close but the often reopen next day

No use keeping buildings open if the virus is going to kill hundreds of people. The buildings will get over it eventually the dead people won’t

'Hi there!' From the Arts, University and Tourism sectors.

Everybody else had had to stay at home. Time they helped out too.

That's kind of the point. Stay home for a few weeks. Not like developers haven't stolen billions from us by ruining our cities and way of life. Make THEM pay.

It’s rich to use that he is concerned for construction workers mental health now after unions have been fighting for mental health reform for years in the construction industry.

That’s constructive.

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