Introduction
Goals for this week
- Who is our client? Western Sydney University x
- Gather background data on COVID-19
- Australia Response to COVID-19 + Commentary
- Figure out the impacts of COVID-19 on Economy, Individuals and Target Group.
- Identify differences in these impacts between our target group and others
- The recovery from the pandemic information?
- Why do we think this is important to our client?
Useful Resources
- ABS – https://www.abs.gov.au
- Federal and State Governments – https://www.health.nsw.gov.au
- WHO – https://www.who.int
Introduction
COVID-19 Information
Nathan
What is COVID-19? Covid-19 also known as the Coronavirus is a respiratory disease which shows various symptoms from the common cold to more serious health issues such as pneumonia which could lead to death. The Covid-19 has a mortality rate of about 15% insert health.gov.au.
Australian Response- egs, jobkeeper, jobseeker
Zijie
Impacts of COVID-19- lifestyle, economy, individual & Target Group (20-24 yo)
Economy
The COVID-19 Pandemic had a large impact on the Australian Economy over the past year and this is greatly reflected when looking at our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). There was a large negative impact to our GDP (-7.3%) in the 2020 2nd quarter as this was the height of the pandemic and there was a slow recovery each quarter till present with an average increase of 3.975% (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021).
Individual
The pandemic did not only affect our economy but had an impact on the population. COVID-19 led to a large loss of income for the average individual, through mass redundancies/ unemployment, and increased cost of living due to lockdowns and restrictions. As shown in Appendix 2, there was large spike in unemployment from March to August 2020 which slowly declined over time till present which is also reflected in the job vacancies
Target Group (20-24 yo)
The Recovery – what has the government done to help aid recovery
Hong (Kris) Le
Importance of this proposal/ project (Western Sydney University)→ how does reading this report help understand the issue
Zhaoyang Lin
Reference List
- https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/national-accounts/australian-national-accounts-national-income-expenditure-and-product/mar-2021
- https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/employment-and-unemployment/labour-force-australia/jun-2021
Appendix
Appendix 1 – March Key Statistics 2019-2021, percentage changes (ABS, 2021)
Appendix 2 – Table based on Unemployment Data from Australian Bureau of Statistics