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10 things you need to know this morning in Australia Good morning and a very happy Friday to you and yours.

Virgin Australia CEO Paul Scurrah has resigned just weeks after receiving the backing of its new owner. Now more executives are expected to follow him out He will be replaced by former Jetstar boss Jayne Hrdlicka.

A Chinese state-owned company is reportedly giving free shots of its unproven COVID-19 vaccine to students going abroad Experts have warned that giving vaccines to people outside clinical trials is incredibly dangerous.

Australia now has 2.5 million TikTok users, adding nearly a million in the first half of 2020 Despite a backlash against the platform over its links to China, TikTok has only become more popular.

Inside Montu, the Aussie medicinal cannabis company that broke a crowdfunding record by raising $1 million in 36 hours The funding will be used to ramp up the company's expansion in Australia and New Zealand.

Vivid Sydney, which raked in $172 million for NSW in 2019, will return next year The popular lights, music, and ideas festival was cancelled this year due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Australian unemployment has jumped to 6.9% and will only get worse by Chrismas, economists warn There were nearly 30,000 people who lost jobs in the month, according to ABS data.

Amazon Prime Video is creating a show about Sydney's luxury real estate market The series will follow three top real estate agents as they work on multi-million dollar deals in Sydney's prestigious property market.

Trump threatened Facebook and Twitter again after they throttled the spread of a dubious New York Post story about Hunter Biden Trump tweeted it was "so terrible" that the platforms "took down the story," which they did not do.

Elon Musk's SpaceX is launching a satellite that can measure rising sea levels to the millimetre from 830 miles above Earth The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite will take off November 10, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.

Captions only used to appear on free-to-air TV. Here's how one company saw a gap in the market and reached out to more Australians with a hearing impairment While captions have been on TV for decades, it's been a slower process introducing them to other platforms.

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