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10 things you need to know this morning in Australia Morning, folks.

The government will let Australian businesses rack up bad debts with no repercussions until 2021 Australian businesses will be allowed to trade while insolvent until December 31 under an extension of relief measures implemented by the federal government in March.

Tasmania's $7.5 million travel voucher scheme closed after registration filled up in 40 minutes Tasmania's travel voucher scheme was so popular it sold out in 40 minutes. The vouchers allow residents to claim back what they spent on accommodation and travel experiences in the state.

Australia's top TikTok users are trying to safeguard their huge followings by encouraging them to experiment with other platforms, as Trump's sale deadline looms In August, U.S. President Trump signed an order that is pressuring TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, to sell the platform to a new owner. TikTok users responded by flooding the platform with memes about the ban and asking their followers to join them on other social media platforms.

These are the 10 Australian universities with the highest full-time employment rates for graduates A new report looks at the employment outcomes of graduates from Australian universities. It found that the full time employment rate for undergraduates three years after completing university is 90.1%.

Tech titan Salesforce has been tapped help overhaul Victoria's COVID-19 contact tracing system Victoria will bring in US marketing technology company Salesforce to streamline its contact tracing system. " is about trying to consolidate and align many different platforms into one platform — that is happening now and that just means that there is less pen and paper, there is less manual data entry," Premier Daniel Andrews said on Tuesday.

A Facebook engineer just quit in protest, accusing the company of 'profiting off hate' A Facebook software engineer quit the company Tuesday, and criticised Facebook's approach to handling misinformation, accusing the platform of "profiting off hate in the US and globally."

A surfer died in the first fatal shark attack on Australia's Gold Coast in more than 60 years, after losing his leg 'from the groin to his knee' Nick Slater, a 46-year-old surfer, was killed by a shark on Australia's Gold Coast on Tuesday. Fellow surfer Jade Parker told reporters that by the time he and other beachgoers pulled Slater out of the water, "from the groin to his knee - there was nothing there."

19% of all new COVID-19 cases in the US from the past month can be traced back to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, new research says Hundreds of thousands of unmasked bikers flocked to Sturgis, South Dakota, for its annual rally last month. Researchers studying the spread of COVID-19 have found that more than 250,000 new cases since August 2 - or 19% - can be traced to the rowdy two-week event.

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