In April 2020, during the coronavirus crisis, the Australian Hotels Association announced job losses of ******* due to the coronavirus and associated lockdown measures in Australia. The arts and media industry were also hit hard, with film and television production announcing that ****** jobs were lost.

By May 2020, the coronavirus pandemic had claimed at least 490,300 jobs in the Australian state of new South Wales alone. Unsurprisingly, Australia's second most populated state, Victoria, also recorded the second largest number of jobs lost.

Employment statistics on the Crisis and Care Accommodation industry in Australia

In April 2020, during the coronavirus crisis, the number of jobs lost in the hospitality sector in Australia totaled *******. The highest number of stand downs was also felt by the hospitality industry, which was clearly the hardest hit industry once lockdown measures were introduced.

In April 2020, during the coronavirus crisis, the Australian Hotels Association announced that ****** were stood down due to the coronavirus and associated lockdown measures in Australia. Alongside the hospitality industry, retail and travel companies were also forced to stand down large numbers of staff with Qantas standing down ****** employees and Myer group standing down 10,000.

Using a rich individual level dataset from six countries, we examine the association between job loss and mental wellbeing loss during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. We consider four indicators of mental health status based on their severity, viz. anxiety, insomnia, boredom, and loneliness. We draw our conclusions based on two groups of countries that differ by the timing of their peak infections count. Using a logit model and controlling for endogeneity, we find that the people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic are more likely to suffer from mental wellbeing loss, especially insomnia and loneliness. Additionally, people with financial liabilities, such as housing mortgages, are among the mentally vulnerable groups to anxiety. Women, urban residences, youth, low-income groups, and tobacco users are more prone to mental wellbeing loss. The findings from this research have significant policy implications on infectious disease control measures and mental health status due to lockdowns and social distancing.

The Jobs and Training Compact was a package of labour market initiatives introduced in 2009 in response to the Global Financial Crisis. It incorporated separate compacts with retrenched workers, young Australians and local communities, and included additional funding for existing programmes, changes to income support eligibility requirements and new programs.

The evaluation examined the overall performance of the Jobs and Training Compact in meeting its objectives and the performance of its major elements.

This report is provided by Department of Jobs and Small Business (previously Department of Employment).

During a survey on employment during the COVID-19 crisis conducted in Australia throughout 2022, less than four percent of respondents indicated that they were unable to work for a period of time in the four weeks preceding the survey due to COVID-19 in September, compared to almost nine percent in July.

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63.5 percent of respondents to a survey on employment during the COVID-19 crisis in Australia indicated that they were employed in early July 2020. By comparison the proportion of respondents who were employed in the previous month was slightly higher and more respondents were working paid hours.

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From March to June 2020, the accommodation and food services industry recorded ******* fewer jobs in Australia. The accommodation and food services industry suffered by far the greatest reduction in its workforce over this time period, with healthcare and social assistance coming in second.

During a survey conducted in Australia in September 2022 on employment during the COVID-19 crisis, less than four percent of respondents indicated that they were unable to work for a period of time in the four weeks preceding the survey due to COVID-19. Around five percent of respondents indicated they changed to working from home due to the virus.

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The Personal Welfare Services industry provides community and welfare services to disadvantaged individuals, including children, the elderly and Australians with long-term disabilities. The industry’s services include those designed to assist the frail and disabled in community settings, thereby circumventing the need for institutional care. As such it plays a key role in the wider care and support economy, one of Australia's fastest growing sectors and a key focus area of the current Labor Government. High and increasing government funding, including funding associated with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), has benefited community and welfare service providers in Australia over the past decade. However, according to the Australian Council of Social Service, many of the social service organisations that deliver youth outreach services, disability support, and community legal services are now at a breaking point. This is because of unprecedented demand for their services following a series of external shocks in recent years – including bushfires, the COVID-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis – with current funding levels proving inadequate to meet this additional demand. Inflationary cost pressures are adding to profit margin pressures and threatening the viability of several social assistance organisations. Industry revenue is expected to expand at an annualised 9.9% over the five years through 2024-25 to $43.2 billion. This rate includes anticipated growth of 6.8% in 2024-25 as a forecast rise in the unemployment rate, combined with high interest rates and the cost-of-living crisis, continues to take its toll, especially on disadvantaged Australians. However, funding shortfalls will constrain the industry’s ability to respond. Australia's ageing population will bolster demand for social assistance services in the coming years, particularly for in-home aged-care services. Simultaneously, new regulations governing the provision of aged care services and disability support services will influence the industry’s operating landscape. Changes to the industry's operating backdrop in view of the Government's care and support economy reform agenda will also shape the industry going forwards. Overall, industry revenue is forecast to climb by an annualised 5.8% over the five years through 2029-30, to $57.3 billion.

The films in this collection were digitised and published in association with the 2016 50^th Anniversary of the School of Film and Television, and the launch of the VCA Film and Television Digital Archive Project, which makes original student films available to everyone to view online for the first time.

Confronted with the challenge of curating only 50 films from a collection of over 1,700 titles, we selected films based on providing an overall representation of the breadth of materials produced by students during those 50 years. Given the social and cultural upheavals of those decades, films that represented stories of that change were chosen, as well as those that revealed the changing face of Melbourne both physically and demographically. The collection also highlights a sample of films, performers and filmmakers who have since gathered significant reputations, showcasing Melbourne’s special place in the Australian film industry.

This 50^th Anniversary collection is part of the larger VCA Film and Television Digital archive, which contains more than 1,700 short films dating back to 1967, when the school was housed at the Swinburne Institute of Technology.

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Still from Antamosi (1991) directed by Ana Kokkinos.

As governments around the world implemented social isolation measures to slow the spread of COVID-19, Australia had just weathered its worst bushfire season in living memory. Many businesses had already suffered losses due to the fires, however the tourism and accommodation industries in New South Wales and Victoria were among the hardest hit. Yet the coronavirus would prove even more devastating to tourism as well as the arts, entertainment and retail industries.

Impact on the economy

The 2019/2020 summer bushfire season left a gap in the balance sheets of many Australian businesses. However, this was nothing compared to the impact social isolation and mass closures of public facilities, restaurants, and venues would have on the Australian economy. Over 65 percent of businesses reported a reduction in cash flow in March 2020 and almost 30 percent had their supply chains disrupted. On the other end of the spectrum some businesses recorded an increase in demand for their services, particularly in the area of online sales, homewares and food delivery.

Employment

In an effort to maintain jobs, the Australian government introduced the JobKeeper wage subsidy, which was paid to businesses who maintained their workforce during the COVID-19 crisis. Surprisingly, it was not the arts, retail or hospitality industries that dominated applications for the subsidy scheme, but rather the construction industry. Despite government help hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost or stood down during the coronavirus crisis.

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In July, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic, 28 percent of accommodation and food services in Australia indicted that they had to reduce staff work hours. A high proportion of businesses in the education and training and manufacturing industries also implemented reduced staff hours.

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In May 2020, during the COVID-19 crisis, ** percent of survey respondents in Australia indicated that social isolation was one of the most significant challenges of working from home due to the novel coronavirus. Around a quarter felt that they were less productive and a third found that their work and home life boundaries were blurred by working from home.

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The statistic depicts Australia's gross domestic product (GDP) from 1987 to 2024, with projections up until 2030. In 2024, GDP in Australia amounted to about 1.8 trillion US dollars. See global GDP for a global comparison. Australia’s economy and population Australia’s gross domestic product has been growing steadily, and all in all, Australia and its economic key factors show a well-set country. Australia is among the countries with the largest gross domestic product / GDP worldwide, and thus one of the largest economies. It was one of the few countries not severely stricken by the 2008 financial crisis; its unemployment rate, inflation rate and trade balance, for example, were hardly affected at all. In fact, the trade balance of Australia – a country’s exports minus its imports – has been higher than ever since 2010, with a slight dip in 2012. Australia mainly exports wine and agricultural products to countries like China, Japan or South Korea. One of Australia’s largest industries is tourism, which contributes a significant share to its gross domestic product. Almost half of approximately 23 million Australian residents are employed nowadays, life expectancy is increasing, and the fertility rate (the number of children born per woman) has been quite stable. A look at the distribution of the world population by continent shows that Australia is ranked last in terms of population and population density. Most of Australia's population lives at the coast in metropolitan areas, since parts of the continent are uninhabitable. Unsurprisingly, Australia is known as a country with very high living standards, four of its biggest cities – Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney and Perth – are among the most livable cities worldwide.

The number of unemployed youth worldwide decreased gradually from 2010 to 2019, but then increased in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As of 2024, there were an estimated 64.5 million unemployed youths between 15 and 24 years worldwide. Highest youth unemployment globally The countries with the highest rates of youth not in education, employment, or training (NEET) include Niger, Kiribati, Guyana, Somalia, and Afghanistan. While there is geographic diversity in this group, each of these countries are either low-income or low-middle income. Moreover, each has their own set of challenges contributing to high NEET rates. For example, in Afghanistan this can be attributed to conflict and the 2021 Taliban takeover. In Kiribati and other Pacific Island nations, they face high levels of brain drain to larger economies such as Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Lowest youth unemployment globally On the contrary, countries with the lowest youth NEET rates include Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Iceland, and Malta. Factors such as well-structed vocational training programs and affordable university education contribute to low NEET rates. However, these countries still face their own challenges. For example, one contributing factor to such low NEET rates in Japan is the overall shrinkage of the Japanese population, which is simultaneously aging. While unemployment remains low in the country, it faces the potential crisis of not having enough people to support the labor market.