Albanese said the government should have made an announcement regarding jobkeeper and jobseeker before requesting parliament be cancelled. Had the government made its decision clear to the public before this announcement, then people would have been able to have a view as to whether the changes that will be made and announced this Thursday are up to scratch or not. Up to this point, there’s 3 million Australians who remain uncertain as to whether support will be given to their job past September. There are small businesses who remain in uncertain territory, unsure of whether they will continue to have support. AndJobSeeker - under the current legislation - runs out and reverts to the old $40 a day level come September unless legislation is changed. Anthony Albanese says Labor accepts Scott Morrison"s decision to postpone parliament The Australian Labor leader, Anthony Albanese, says the opposition accepts Scott Morrison’s decision to postpone parliament, but has attacked the lack of consultation about the decision. “Labor has always said that we need to follow the advice by the health experts,” he said, “When it comes to this sitting though, it is problematic. Because Labor has also always argued that the government needs to be held to account – particularly because of the uncertainty that remains with JobKeeper and JobSeeker. “We believe it’s absolutely critical that the parliament sit in September, and we expect to be consulted much further in advance from any decision being made than what’s occurred with these circumstances.” Just on that news of Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, requesting the cancellation of the upcoming parliamentary sitting. This is due to fears of politicians from more heavily infected states mingling and potentially spreading the disease to other states and territories. Victoria’s case numbers have now exceeded 400 per day, and NSW is struggling to control a large cluster stemming from the Crossroads Hotel. In a statement the acting chief medical officer of Australia said: The entry of a high-risk group of individuals could jeopardise the health situation in the [Australian Capital Territory] and place residents at unnecessary risk of infection. In addition, the health risk to Members and Senators and their staff from other jurisdictions is a material concern. It is my medical advice that, despite proposed mitigation measures, these risks would be significantly higher in the context of a parliamentary sitting period due to the number of persons travelling from Victoria and the inevitable mixing with ACT residents, Members, Senators, staff and visitors within Parliament House. If the speaker of the house grants this request it means the next parliament sitting fortnight will begin on 24 August rather than 4 August as planned. Australia can expect "some form of income support” after September jobkeeper cut off Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says some form of “income support” will continue when the federal government’s JobKeeper wage subsidy ends at the end of September. “There will be another phase of income support,” Mr Frydenberg told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, adding that “maintaining business and household confidence is going to be critical”. Tourism, arts and recreation, hospitality and aviation were key industries that needed support, he said. The government is expected to outline further support measures in a major economic statement on Thursday. Hello, Matilda Boseley here to guide you through the next few hours of news. Here are the main developments with the pandemic from around the world: The World Health Organization reported the greatest increase in global cases, with the total rising by 237,743 in 24 hours. The biggest increases were from the United States, Brazil, India and South Africa, according to a daily report. In Brazil, the spread of the virus is no longer thought to be exponential, though there is no guarantee it will recede without intervention, health officials have said. The news presents an opportunity to get the outbreak under control, the WHO’s emergencies programme head Mike Ryan has said. India has became the third in the world to record more than one million coronavirus cases, while the list of US states requiring face coverings in public grew as the country reported at least 70,000 new cases, a record daily jump for the seventh time this month. The next sitting of the Australian parliament has been postponed as the country faces a second wave of cases in the second-most populous state, Victoria. The country’s chief medical officer said there was too great a risk of infection being spread. Boris Johnson has outlined a plan for the UK to return to normality but it has been met with scepticism. The European Union is negotiating advance purchase deals of potential Covid-19 vaccines with drugmakers Moderna, Sanofi and Johnson & Johnson and biotech firms BioNtech and CureVac, two EU sources told Reuters. The reproduction rate of the novel coronavirus in the Brittany region has risen sharply in less than a week, the latest indication that the virus is again gaining momentum in France. Authorities urged some four million people in Spain’s Catalonia to stay home, as the region battles a growing number of new coronavirus clusters. The Japanese government is facing a blowback after excluding Tokyo residents from a multibillion dollar campaign aimed at reviving domestic tourism, even as the capital on Friday reported a record number of new Covid-19 cases. Hong Kong authorities reported 50 locally transmitted cases on Friday, stoking further concern about an escalating third wave of infections in the global financial hub. Israel imposed a new weekend shutdown on Friday and tightened a series of curbs to lower infection rates. Global share markets treaded water on Friday and government bond yields edged lower as investors waited on the European Union to iron out the details of an expected multibillion-euro recovery fund.