1. In the past 24 hours, there have been 1,273 new cases and eight deaths. 88% of people over the age of 12 were vaccinated. Mantra Tullamarine, Four Points, Holiday Inn Airport, Novotel South Wharf and Intercontinental hotels will cease operations next Tuesday to accept COVID-19 quarantine.
2. Recently, a restaurant in Melbourne became an "Internet celebrity restaurant", becoming a new clock-in place. A Melbourne restaurant is using a robot to do the work for itself because of a staff shortage.
Anz expects house prices to fall by 2023. Felicity Emmett and Adelaide Timbrell, of the bank's economics team, forecast that price increases of more than 20 per cent this year will slow to 6 per cent next year before prices start to fall in 2023.
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In the past 24 hours, there have been 1,273 new cases and eight deaths. 88% of people over the age of 12 were vaccinated.
Seven Melbourne hotels will stop operating as quarantine facilities by the end of the year as Victoria enters a new era in which most COVID-19 vaccination restrictions are lifted.
The move is expected to save the Andrews government more than A $100 million this financial year and will allow laid-off international airline workers working in hotels to return to the airline industry.
Mantra Tullamarine, Four Points, Holiday Inn Airport, Novotel South Wharf and Intercontinental hotels will cease operations next Tuesday to accept COVID-19 quarantine. Collins and the Novotel At Stanford Square will follow suit on Dec. 27.
Emma Cassar, Victoria's COVID-19 quarantine commissioner, said the early closure was due to a drop in demand due to changes in international border arrangements.
The Victorian government will again consult crossbenchers in the Upper house before attempting to pass new pandemic laws that have sparked continuing protests outside state parliament despite significant amendments.
Yesterday's vote in the Legislative Council was delayed after it became clear that the state government did not have the numbers to pass the legislation in its current form. Designed to replace existing emergency laws in Victoria, the bill would give the then Premier and Health Minister the power to declare a pandemic and issue health orders (as was the case in New South Wales).
Melbourne restaurant introduces robot staff
Recently, a restaurant in Melbourne retweeted "Internet celebrity restaurant", becoming the latest place to clock in. A Melbourne restaurant is using a robot to do the work for itself because of a staff shortage.
At Dodee Paidang, a Thai restaurant in Melbourne's CBD, robot waiters are called Bellabots.
These machines deliver food directly from the kitchen to the diner.
Restaurant owner Boon Low said using robots is as simple as "pressing a button to tell them which tray and which table number".
Each robot costs A $24,000 to buy, but as part of the rental agreement, Mr Low rents them for A $48 a day per robot - about the same as paying someone for two hours of work.
Mr Low said he had trouble finding enough waiters after the COVID-19 lockdown ended, and he decided to bring the robot into his business.
However, robots have also helped him keep costs down after difficult times.
"With everything that has happened, we have decided to keep prices as low as possible," he said.
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They also allowed him to keep up with demand when the restaurant went through unexpectedly busy periods.
"If we're not predicting a busy lunch shift, we can actually use robots to help," he said.
Paul Guerra of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry says shortages are likely to continue ahead of the opening of Australia's international borders next month.
"Unfortunately, staff shortages are now a fact of life for us," he said.
"It's not just the central business district, it's the state."
Hotel job ads surged 204% last month, and fewer people than ever were browsing them, according to October figures from Seek.
The issue was raised in the Victorian parliament today.
Employment Minister Jaala Pulford said: "Unemployment is lower than it was this time last year because we are coming out of the lockdown of last winter."
"The biggest problem facing Businesses in Victoria is Labour and skills shortages."
Opposition Minister David Davis said 113,000 fewer Victorians were working or actively looking for work than six months ago.
Mr Guerra told Victorians that it was time to enter the Labour market. A lot of jobs are open to the public.
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