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COVID live updates: Business Victoria site receives 10,000 hits a minute after grant applications go live – ABC News
A Victorian government support program for businesses is attracting 10,000 hits a minute to the Business Victoria website after grant applications opened at 4:30pm….

A consultancy firm was paid $660,000 to assist with Australia’s vaccine strategy. But what did the consultants actually do?
AP: Frank Augstein/Pool
A global consulting firm was paid $660,000 by the Health Department as part of the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine strategy, but a departmental official has revealed that it did not provide “specific advice”.
The only document the department could produce from the four-week consulting contract was an eight-page summary of publicly available vaccine…
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