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The essence of the ‘Great Resignation’ is that through pandemic epiphanies, there is a significant upswing of people quitting their jobs.

Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe has painted an optimistic picture of where the Australian economy is heading after a turbulent 2021.

Behind the cacophony of noise from the pharmacy sector in recent days, the reality is the pandemic has been very good for chemists.

Suppliers of rapid antigen tests say the federal government is shorting the stock of the hard-to-find tests, while they scramble to fulfil up to 90,000 back-orders.

Small business advocates have welcomed the new funding commitments as Australian small business owners enter the third year of the pandemic.

The NSW and Vic governments have extended schemes that require landlords to give rent deferrals and waivers to commercial tenants.

While policymakers didn’t necessarily foresee the sudden emergence of a more transmissible, less virulent strain of COVID-19, some experts say we could have been better prepared to face the economic havoc created by Omicron.