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Sophie ElsworthEurope Correspondent

Sophie is Europe correspondent for News Corporation Australia and began reporting from Europe in November 2024. Her role includes covering all the big issues in Europe reporting for titles including The Daily and Sunday Telegraphs, daily and Sunday Herald Sun, The Courier-Mail and Brisbane’s Sunday Mail and Adelaide’s The Advertiser and Sunday Mail as well as regional and community brands. She has worked at numerous News Corp publications throughout her career and was media writer at The Australian, based in Melbourne, for four years before moving to the UK. She has also worked as a reporter at the Herald Sun in Melbourne, The Advertiser in Adelaide and The Courier-Mail in Brisbane and on the Sunshine Coast. Sophie regularly appears on TV and is a Sky News Australia contributor appearing on primetime programs including Credlin and The Kenny Report, a role she continues while in Europe. She graduated from university with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees and grew up on a sheep farm in central Victoria.

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Four business owners out the front of their shops in Armadale for story on Corona Affects on Small Business.Lyndon Kubis (Toorak Cellars), Darah Collins ( neighbourhood pizza), Carl Kim (Sonny Chiba), Saurav Adhikari (Neighborhood pizza)Picture by Wayne Taylor 20th March 2020

Local faces of virus business downturn

It’s time to support local businesses – from butchers to local shops – as the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread.

A pedestrian is reflected in the window of the Australian Securites Exchange in Sydney on March 13, 2020, as Australian stocks were down 7.3 percent in early trading. - Global stock markets suffered historic falls as panic spread on March 13 over the spiralling coronavirus crisis that has killed nearly 5,000 and infected sport, schools and society across the planet. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP)

The super move that could cost you dearly

Australians have seen their super balances plummet with the coronavirus crisis, but experts warn one wrong move now could prove financially disastrous.

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How to access your superannuation now

Australians can now access up to $10,000 of their retirement savings this financial year to cope during the coronavirus crisis. Here’s what you need to do.

Home loan repayments on hold

Borrowers and small businesses customers have been given financial relief including the pausing of their home loan repayments and interest charges.

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‘We really need it’: Businesses welcome survival package

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A man wears a face mask as a preventative measure against corona virus at a checkout in a Woolworths supermarket in Coburg, Melbourne, Thursday, March 19, 2020. For a second day, Woolworths has allowed the elderly access to early morning shopping ahead of the general public due to panic buying as Covid-19 fears mount. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVING

Woolies’ new measures to stop the spread of coronavirus

If you want to shop at Woolies this weekend don’t forget to leave the cash at home and stand a safe distance from other shoppers. These are some of the supermarket giant’s new rules to stop the spread of coronavirus.

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General view of NAB signage at the company's head office in Melbourne, Tuesday March 17, 2020. NAB employees have been evacuated from the head office following a staff member being confirmed as positive to coronavirus today. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVING

ANZ and NAB drop rates as banks offer $8b lifeline

Banks have slashed interest rates and will freeze small business loan repayments for up to six months amid the coronavirus pandemic, in a move worth millions of dollars to operators.

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Pensioners Jim Kennelly, 91, and his wife Doreen, 90, from Middle Park in Melbourne are digusted with the way shoppers have been behaving amid the Coronavirus outbreak. They have been struggling to get all their relevant supplies. Picture: Supplied.

Coronavirus panic buying ‘makes zero sense’

The empty shelves at stores around the country are not only hurting older Australians, writes Sophie Elsworth. This is no time to be spending hundreds of dollars needlessly stockpiling.

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‘We haven’t seen the worst of it yet’

A whopping $100 billion will pour into Australia’s economy in a second coronavirus- inspired stimulus but experts question if Gold Coast small business will benefit.

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Coles Truganina Distribution Centre. Linfox forklift driver Joseph Camillericonfirms that there is enough toilet paper for everyone. Picture: Tony Gough TEST

Photos that prove you don’t need to panic buy toilet paper

Coles is urging Australians to stop stocking up on toilet paper, assuring customers there is plenty to go around. And there are photos to prove it.

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