For Melbourne’s international students experiencing hardship, a free supermarket is helping them get by.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) response
The stories here highlight the innovative and agile people and businesses that have adapted to working or doing business in the new environment created by coronavirus. Their stories are inspiring, interesting and thought-provoking, helping to lead the way to a future few of us imagined at the start of 2020.
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A fresh brew: Abbotsford coffee operation gets a reset
With help from a free, online Business Victoria-supported course, Abbotsford’s Bureaux Coffee is getting through the pandemic.
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From funeral items to PPE: how a Croydon business reinvented itself
Croydon’s ‘Your Memories’ has expanded to sell Personal Protective Equipment to funeral directors, helped along by a Business Support Fund grant.
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Sowing the seeds for Northern Victorian tourism
Gargarro Regional Botanic Garden is set to be a major attraction for the Goulburn Valley and Loddon Mallee region.
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Geelong café goes al fresco with its COVIDSafe Plan
A Geelong café reveals how the COVIDSafe plan is helping business.
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Homewares store ramps up business with COVID safety on point
Surf coast retailer embraces reopening with a COVIDSafe plan.
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Mental health course a lifeline for small business
The Victorian Government has teamed up with St John Ambulance to launch a Mental Health and Wellbeing Program to help businesses doing it tough.
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Brewing up a new business plan
Take a look at how Ballarat’s Red Duck microbrewery is riding out the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Here’s cheers: Grampians wineries throw open their virtual cellar door
Revenue dipped between 40 and 95 per cent at Grampians wineries during recent restrictions, but a virtual cellar door is helping to turn that around.
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High hopes of a new career for a High Country local
Meet Annabel, one of the many young people who moved to regional Victoria to pursue a rejigged career during the pandemic.
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Cooking up a new way of doing business
A Business Support Fund grant is helping Izakaya Den swivel to a take-away model during the pandemic.
Federation University Gippsland
The road back: a helping hand for Gippsland’s bushfire-affected businesses
Many Gippsland bushfire-affected businesses are getting back on their feet via a course at Federation University that will help them upskill & reskill
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Collingwood book business has designs to expand online
Podcasts and live author talks are just two of the ways a Collingwood book business is courting an online crowd.
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Securing jobs for Victorians who are ready to get back to work
Having found a full-time job herself, see how one community leader in Victoria’s Ethiopian community is helping others find work through.
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Success is all in the numbers for new Brotherhood of St Laurence employee
Stood down from an analytics role in the airline industry, David flew into a new community role thanks to the Working for Victoria jobs program.
Adam working with Miepol
Working for Victoria delivers a new job – and new joy – for Adam
After a heartbreaking start to 2020 for Adam, things are finally turning around.
Ron Gauci, CEO of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA)
Technology, the essential worker
We speak to a tech-industry expert to understand the essential role technology has played in ushering us through coronavirus (COVID-19).
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A clean start for 500 Victorians with new jobs
Five hundred people are being employed to improve hygiene and safety across the city as part of the $500 million Working for Victoria fund.
