10 things you need to know this morning in Australia

[View this email via your browser]( [Business Insider Australia]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( [Enable Images to View]( [Enable Images to View]( [10 things you need to know this morning in Australia]( Good morning and goodbye to the week that was. [Enable Images to View]( [Labor promises cheaper childcare and a $20 billion jobs plan in its Budget reply]( Labor has doubled down on childcare rebates and pledged to rebuild Australia's electricity network. [Enable Images to View]( [High levels of crime can't even drive Australian property prices down. In fact, 'risky' suburbs might actually outperform the market.]( Crime is no deterrent to home buyers desperate to get onto the property ladder. [Enable Images to View]( [Maccas, Woolworths, and Coles are the biggest Budget winners — their workers not so much]( The government's new hiring credit scheme could pay for two thirds of workers' wages. [Enable Images to View]( [Comparison site iSelect has been fined $8.5 million for recommending bad energy deals to hundreds of thousands of customers]( "About 38% of people who compared electricity plans with iSelect at that time may have found a cheaper plan if they had shopped around." [Enable Images to View]( [Enable Images to View]( [There's going to be a new senate inquiry into vaping to sort out its legal status in Australia once and for all]( It will investigate "tobacco reduction strategies" by looking at how vaping has been treated overseas and the impact of vaping products on youth. [Enable Images to View]( [These are the 20 occupations most in-demand in Australia right now, according to SEEK]( The jobsite has reported seeing bouncing demand for workers in recent months. [Enable Images to View]( ['The staffing is not going to make a difference': This petition is calling on the NSW government to loosen COVID restrictions for 24-hour gyms]( Under the state's coronavirus restrictions, gym owners must have a gym marshal at all times. [Enable Images to View]( [Suspicious French Open blowout game prompts officials to launch investigation into potential match-fixing at Roland-Garros]( Authorities are investigating earlier rounds where it suspects gang activity spanning multiple countries. [Enable Images to View]( [Elon Musk's Tesla and its 'Starman' driver just flew past Mars for the first time, 2 years after SpaceX launched the car into the void]( In February 2018, SpaceX launched a Tesla Roadster owned by the company's founder, Elon Musk, into deep space. [Enable Images to View]( [Square buys 4,709 bitcoins for $50 million on the potential it will be a 'ubiquitous currency']( The digital payments company said the investment represents approximately 1% of Square's total assets at the end of the second quarter of 2020. [Enable Images to View]( [Drone footage shows the tense moment a shark swam within inches of a professional surfer in Australia]( Australian world championship surfer Matt Wilkinson was paddling in from a surf at Sharpes Beach off the coast of Ballina, just north of Sydney. [Enable Images to View]( Business Insider Australia © 2020 [Pedestrian Group]( [Unsubscribe]( • [Email to a Friend]( • [Privacy Policy](