\n\tFollowing the National Cabinet\u2019s meeting, a three-stage roadmap was announced for the easing of restrictions in Australia in an effort to restart the economy. The restrictions will differ between state and Territories pending the current community impact of COVID-19.<\/p>\n
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\n\tACT<\/strong>: Swift lifting of restrictions from step one to apply from midnight on Saturday May 9, but restaurants and cafes will not reopen yet<\/p>\n \n\tNSW<\/strong>: No change yet<\/p>\n \n\tQueensland<\/strong>: Step one to apply from Saturday May 16, with further relaxations for some regional areas<\/p>\n \n\tWA<\/strong>: No change yet<\/p>\n \n\tSA<\/strong>: Step one to apply from Monday May 11, also actively encouraging regional travel including caravanning and camping<\/p>\n \n\tTasmania<\/strong>: Some easing on funerals, aged care and outdoor exercise from Monday May 11, with step one to begin on May 18<\/p>\n \n\tNT<\/strong>: No change yet, but the Territory announced further easing of restrictions to take effect next weekend that will see people return to gyms, libraries, and dining in restaurants, cafes, and pubs.<\/p>\n \n\tVictoria<\/strong>: No change yet, but Premier will advise on Monday, May 11<\/p>\n \n\t <\/p>\n \n\tRestaurants and small cafes will be among the first to open while social distancing measures are to remain in place. <\/p>\n \n\tLibraries, community centres, playgrounds and boot camps will re-open and people will be able to undertake local and regional travel.<\/p>\n \n\t <\/p>\n \n\tThe road to recovery \u2013 three-stage framework<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \n\tStep 1: <\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t\u2022 Five visitors at home, 10 in businesses and public places<\/p>\n \n\t\u2022 Work from home if it works for you and your employer<\/p>\n \n\t\u2022 Restaurants, cafes and shopping open<\/p>\n \n\t\u2022 Libraries, community centres, playgrounds and boot camps open<\/p>\n \n\t\u2022 Local and regional travel<\/p>\n \n\t <\/p>\n \n\tStep 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t\u2022 Gatherings of 20 in your home, business and public places<\/p>\n \n\t\u2022 Work from home if it works for you and your employer<\/p>\n \n\t\u2022 Gyms, beauty, cinemas, galleries and amusement parks open<\/p>\n \n\t\u2022 Caravan or camping grounds<\/p>\n \n\t\u2022 Some interstate travel<\/p>\n \n\t <\/p>\n \n\tStep 3:<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t\u2022 Gathering sizes increased to 100<\/p>\n \n\t\u2022 Return to workplace<\/p>\n \n\t\u2022 Nightclubs, food courts, saunas open<\/p>\n \n\t\u2022 All interstate travel<\/p>\n \n\t\u2022 Consider Cross-Tasman, pacific island and international students travel<\/p>\n \n\t <\/p>\n \n\tAccording to Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, the first stage of easing restrictions is expected to boost the Australian economy by more than $3 billion per month and restore 325,000 jobs.<\/p>\n \n\t <\/p>\n \n\tChief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy has reminded Australians to continue testing for coronavirus, download the COVIDSafe app and to not go into work when sick to ensure the easing of social distancing restrictions does not cause a resurgence of the virus.<\/p>\n \n\t <\/p>\n \n\tWhen the time is right, when we know it is safe, when we have planned accordingly, we will return to our Hospo world. Fingers crossed Daniel Andrews sees the light before Monday so the State of Victoria can start its recovery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Government announces a three-stage roadmap to ease lockdown restrictions in Australia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/15339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinnaclepeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}