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Curtains for Sizzler in Australia as COVID causes closure
By Dominic Powell
Iconic all-you-can-eat chain Sizzler will fry its final cheese toast in November after parent company Collins Foods announced on Friday it would be pulling the plug on the well-known brand.
The company's final nine sites will shut their doors on November 15 following years of underperformance, with Collins saying COVID-19 was the final nail in the coffin for the ailing chain.
The remaining Sizzler stores will be shut with the loss of 600 jobs. Credit:John Woudstra
The Sizzler stores set to close are in Queensland at Mermaid Beach, Loganholme, Toowoomba, Maroochydore and Caboolture; in Western Australia in Innaloo, Kelmscott and Morley; and in NSW in Campbelltown.
Around 600 jobs will be affected by the axing of the brand in Australia, with Collins saying appropriate redundancy payouts would be awarded and other positions would be found for as many staff as possible across the company's Taco Bell and KFC network across Australia.
WATCH: Queensland Premier addresses the media
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is due to give a coronavirus update at 9.30am.
NSW and Queensland Premiers to address the media
Just keeping you up to date on the state leader press conferences scheduled today (many more than a usual second Friday, given national cabinet has been canned for this week to allow for federal budget preparations). Up first we have:
- Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk making a COVID-19 announcement with Deputy Premier Steven Miles and Education Minister Grace Grace at 9.30am.
- NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Health Minister Brad Hazzard announcing new details about the $780 million John Hunter Health and Innovation Precinct project in Newcastle at 9.45am
We will be bringing you updates from the Queensland press conference live, and will let you know if any interesting remarks about the pandemic are made at the NSW address.
Friday flora: send us a picture of your lockdown garden
Have you been spending more time in the garden or with your house plants during Victoria's restrictions? Are your family and friends sick of hearing about how well your tomatoes have done? Well, we aren't!
Consider this your license to bulb boast and be plant proud. Spring has sprung and we want to see the best pictures of your garden.
Some more details on those Victorian numbers
By Marissa Calligeros
Victoria's daily COVID-19 case tally is back in the single digits with seven new cases recorded on Friday, as health authorities identify more high-risk exposure sites linked to the Chadstone Shopping Centre outbreak.
Sadly, another two Victorians have died, bringing the state's death toll to 802.
Friday's figures bring the state's 14-day average, tied to the next stage of easing lockdown restrictions, to 13.2 new cases per day. For Melbourne to move to step three of the government's road map out of lockdown, the 14-day average needs to be five or less.
- Correction: This post previously said the Victorian 14-day average was 13 cases per day. It is actually 13.2 cases per day, due to some 'overseas/no fixed address' cases.
Victoria records seven new cases, two deaths
Victoria has recorded seven new coronavirus cases and two deaths during the latest 24-hour reporting period.
NSW should move to a 2sqm rule: NRL boss
Australian Rugby League chairman Peter V'Landys has called on the NSW government to move towards a two-square-metre rule for venues, saying it would provide a huge assistance to the hospitality and sports industries.
Currently, the general rule is venues must have no more than one person per four square metres in NSW. In other states, such as Western Australia, the general rule is a two-square-metre standard.
Speaking to Ben Fordham on 2GB this morning, Mr V'Landys said health officials in NSW had done "a fantastic job", but he did not think there was a reason for the four-square-metre rule to remain in place.
"[Restrictions have been made] on risk analysis, they've done it all on the data; and the data here says they can make that decision," he claimed.
The NRL has been approved to host 40,000 spectators at its grand final match at ANZ Stadium on October 25. Social distancing at the event, described by Premier Gladys Berejiklian as a "one-off" and a "test", will be managed through checkerboard seating and masks.
Queensland Premier to address the media at 9.30am
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will address the media at 9.30am today in Brisbane.
She will be joined by Deputy Premier Steven Miles and Education Minister Grace Grace.
Chadstone Shopping Centre cluster identified as 'The Butcher Club' outbreak
By Ashleigh McMillan
A COVID-19 cluster at one of Melbourne’s most popular shopping centres has been dubbed The Butcher Club outbreak by health authorities.
So far eight cases have been linked with the outbreak, which sparked a household cluster in the beachside suburb of Frankston in Melbourne's south-east.
Four of those cases have been linked to The Butcher Club, the Department of Health and Human Services said in its daily update on Thursday afternoon.
A worker at Chadstone Shopping Centre passed the virus on to multiple members of their large Frankston household.
Chadstone Shopping Centre has been listed as a high-risk exposure site and anyone who visited the shopping centre last week has been urged to be on alert for any COVID-19 symptoms.
Specific warnings have been issued for anyone who spent time at Coles, The Butcher Club or the fresh food precinct at Chadstone between Wednesday and Saturday last week.
Woolworths, Aldi and Jasper Coffee at Chadstone Shopping Centre have also been added to the state's list of high-risk COVID exposure sites, as well as Chemist Warehouse on Toorak Road in Burwood and Leo's Fine Food and Wine Supermarket.
Both a walk-up and a drive-through testing site have been set up at the shopping centre and there is another drive-through clinic at a car park on Golfers Drive in Malvern East.
WA digs in on hard border after advice it could lift for low-risk states
By Hamish Hastie
Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan continues to defend his 'hard border' stance despite the latest advice from WA’s Chief Health Officer suggesting the WA government could open borders to low-risk states if it was happy with their COVID-19 battle plans.
The hard border has been in place since April, but has been criticised by the federal government and high-profile business figures including AFL chairman Richard Goyder as being too restrictive. It is also the subject of a High Court challenge by billionaire Clive Palmer.
Health advice provided by the state's top doctor to the Premier on September 25 stated it could be safe for WA to open borders to low-risk states if Mr McGowan was satisfied with their border controls.
But Mr McGowan has repeatedly rejected the idea of 'travel bubbles' with states where community spread of the virus had been eliminated, such as the Northern Territory, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory.
"Basically the health advice from Dr Robertson is we have to be satisfied that their border arrangements need to be as strong as ours," Mr McGowan said. "We have been advised their borders are not as strong as ours."
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