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Monday 20 April 2020

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Virgin Australia has collapsed into voluntary administration

Virgin Australia has officially entered voluntary administration. The airline confirmed the move on Tuesday, saying it entered voluntary administration to "recapitalise the business" and "help ensure it emerges in a stronger financial position on the other side of the COVID-19 crisis." Deloitte was appointed as the voluntary administrators.
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Around 1.6 million Aussies are expected to withdraw part of their super from Monday, as the government begins accepting applications

Australians affected by the economic downturn will be able to apply to access their superannuation from Monday. 1.6 million are expected to do so, with the government promising to streamline the application process to five days.
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Australia will force tech titans like Google and Facebook to pay news publishers for content. Similar efforts in Europe show it can be a tough battle.

The Australian government has announced it has ordered the establishment of a mandatory code of conduct compelling companies like Facebook and Google to share advertising revenue with news publishers.
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Myer says its online sales have been strong enough to allow it to rehire 2,000 stood-down workers

Online sales at Myer rose 800% during Easter, after the company shut its doors amid the coronavirus pandemic and was forced to stand down 10,000 workers.
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1 in 4 Australians could be out of a job as a result of the coronavirus shutdown, new analysis suggests

Australia's unemployment rate could peak at 15%, according to new analysis by the Grattan Institute. The working paper suggests as many as 26% of the workforce could be out of jobs as a direct result of the COVID-19 shutdown.
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Denmark and Poland are refusing to bail out companies registered in offshore tax havens

Denmark and Poland won't give financial aid to companies registered in offshore tax havens. Governments around the world are scrambling to bail out their economies with huge stimulus packages amid the coronavirus crisis.
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'Bears are out for blood': Oil plunges 21% to a 2-decade low as coronavirus shatters demand

Western Texas Intermediate reaches a low of $US14.30 a barrel, dropping to its lowest level since 1999 as coronavirus tanks demand for the commodity.
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Zoom took months to repair a flaw that would allow hackers to take complete control of a computer, even after multiple researchers and clients reported the vulnerability to the company

Last year, Zoom took three months to fix a security flaw that allowed hackers to potentially gain control over certain user's computers running Apple's macOS, according to a report from the New York Times on Monday.
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Sweden has nearly 10 times the number of COVID-19-related deaths than its Nordic neighbours. Here's where they went wrong.

Sweden, which has yet to order any lockdown amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, has seen 14,777 COVID-19 cases so far, and 1,580 deaths from the virus.

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