10 things you need to know this morning in Australia

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Victoria has declared Greater Brisbane a 'red zone' and WA shut its border to Queensland after COVID-19 outbreak

Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia, and Tasmania have announced new border restrictions in response to a new COVID-19 cluster in Greater Brisbane.

The Ever Given has been freed and is moving again after 6 days blocking the Suez Canal

Video from the Suez Canal on Monday showed the Ever Given slowly moving, some 152 hours after it got stuck on Tuesday.

Amazon Australia will nearly triple in size this year alone, posing a serious threat to local retailers like JB Hi-Fi, analysts predict

Amazon Australia is tipped to have an enormous year as it aggressively expands its local footprint to over 360,000 square metres. As a result, Morningstar analysts forecast Amazon will process almost $9 billion in sales by 2025, and make one in four online sales by 2030.

The $90 billion JobKeeper scheme has ended. The government hails it as a 'success story', but advocates warn of distressing consequences

The $90 billion JobKeeper scheme ended on Sunday, cutting wage subsidies for some 1.1 million Australians who claimed the payments in early 2021. It was appropriate for the scheme to end and for Australia's economy to stand on its own, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said Monday.

Tabcorp has knocked back $3 billion offers for its wagering arm, saying they 'do not adequately value' the business

Australian gambling giant Tabcorp will conduct a strategic review of its holdings after rebuffing $3 billion offers for its wagering and media arm.

Afterpay has launched a new digital card for customers as it dives into healthcare

Afterpay has unveiled its new digital card designed to help it capture new merchants and expand into new industries.

Globally, telehealth is big business. Here's why money is now flowing into digitising mental health in Australia.

In Australia, government and peak mental healthcare bodies have invested $100 million toward accelerating investment in telehealth and digitised healthcare services.

More than 38 million reviews were left on Trustpilot in 2020. Here's how the reviews platform weeds out trolls, paid reviews and bots.

Online review platform Trustpilot removed nearly 6% of all reviews posted to the platform in 2020, in its quest to rid the service of fraudulent and fake reviews.

Why 99% of CFOs say real-time data could be the key to weathering a COVID-influenced recession

Despite over a year's worth of economic uncertainty, a recent study found that 7% of organisations have nearly doubled the efficiency and tripled their profit margins, as opposed to 93% of businesses that have remained comparitively stagnant.

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