This is not like an ordinary recession where jobs dwindle as conditions deteriorate. This is the swift execution of viable businesses with little warning.
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Such is the fear in the community, and the hunger for information, Prime Ministerial press conferences have assumed a whole new gravity.
Free-to-air networks and pay-tv news channels suspended programming on Tuesday night when Scott Morrison took to the podium to provide an update following the just-finished meeting of the national cabinet.
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