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, team. Hope you had good weekends. [Enable Images to View]( [Fair Work recovered $123 million in unpaid wages for workers in the last financial year alone]( The Fair Work Ombudsman released its latest annual report, recovering $123 million for more than 25,000 workers during the last financial year. Included in the recovery was $90 million in underpayments that employers self-reported. [Enable Images to View]( [This is how Australia's political parties are using Facebook advertising during the 2020 state elections - and how much they're spending]( Facebook advertising has emerged as one of the key parts of modern political campaigning, including for Australian state elections. New disclosures from Facebook reveals how advertising strategies vary from state-to-state and even party-to-party. [Enable Images to View]( [2020 was the year zero-commission share trading took off in Australia. These are the 6 platforms letting you invest brokerage-free.]( While local share trading platform Stake has been letting Australians invest commission-free for years, there's suddenly a whole lot of competition. [Enable Images to View]( [The Liberal Party's favourite pollster has been given access to 27 million unlisted Australian phone numbers for 'electoral matter research']( A group associated with conservative politics, C|T Group, has been given access to a database containing millions of Australian unlisted phone numbers. [Enable Images to View]( [Enable Images to View]( [Sweden is moving away from its no-lockdown strategy and preparing strict new rules amid rising coronavirus cases]( Sweden's health officials are set to unveil strict new coronavirus rules for local regions to impose. The country opted against lockdown measures in response to the first wave of the pandemic. [Enable Images to View]( [An additional 75,000 Americans may have died in the spring and summer because of COVID-19, a new study found]( Approximately 75,000 more Americans died from issues related to COVID-19 from the beginning of March to the beginning of August, according to a peer-reviewed study published by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University. [Enable Images to View]( [Dropbox will let all employees work from home permanently as it turns its offices into WeWork-like 'collaborative spaces']( Dropbox just announced it would allow all employees to work from home permanently. The company initially ordered staff to work from home in March, during the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in the US. [Enable Images to View]( [This $17,000 German-made kit gives the Tesla Model 3 a muscular makeover. Take a look at how it upgrades the most popular EV in America.]( Startech, a German car-customisation firm, dropped an array of upgrades for the Tesla Model 3. The modifications available include aggressive bumpers, new wheels, a spoiler, carbon-fibre accents, and revamped interior finishes. [Enable Images to View]( [How this New Zealand university minimised COVID-19 risk and effectively returned students to campus]( If you've been keeping tabs on the seemingly infinite news stories of late, you'd know that New Zealand has been lauded for its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. [Enable Images to View]( Business Insider Australia © 2020 [Pedestrian Group]( [Unsubscribe]( • [Email to a Friend]( • [Privacy Policy](