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Digital news and streaming services enjoyed a boost in the last financial year but the pandemic has been a disaster for movies and outdoor advertising, a new report on the media sector in 2020 has found.
PwC’s annual Australian Entertainment and Media Outlook says the Australian entertainment and media sector has been hit hard by the pandemic and is down by an unprecedented 3.6% overall.
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Here is more from home affairs minister Karen Andrews, who was asked how Katie Hopkins was allowed into the country in the first place.
She actually came into the country with the support of a state government. This does happen from time to time and actually, it happens reasonably regularly. That state governments approach the federal government on the basis that there is an economic benefit to some people coming in over the quarantine caps, and the quarantine caps are a matter for the states to handle. So she came in here on the basis of potential benefit to the economy.
Right. But the government had to sign off on the visa, though? And how on earth was she deemed a person of good character?
Well, she’s clearly not someone that we want to keep in this country for a second longer than we have to …
There are very well established processes and procedures for people to enter this country. And many decisions are made on the basis of economic benefit.