Sonia's business was located in a JobKeeper hotspot. Now the subsidy is about to end

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JobKeeper is ending in less than a fortnight. These are the hotspots, and people who work there, that will be hit hardest when the subsidy winds up.

"The really worrying statistic is over the next 90 days leading into May, there's a vacancy rate in Sydney of 91 per cent."Around 6,400 businesses in the Sydney city 2000 postcode area applied for JobKeeper payments in December.Dark purple and pink mark the hotspots, lighter orange and yellow have fewer claims.That's just over half the 963,074 businesses who applied for the subsidy at its peak in August.

The after effects have also been felt across many of Melbourne's suburbs, which dominated the list of postcodes most reliant on JobKeeper. But they're also particularly exposed to overseas tourism, business travel and international education.

 

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'some casual for 17years'...that is the ISSUE..if you have someone working for you for 17years how the F can they be on a casual contract? AusUnemployment

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