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The average Australian is working 1.5 hours more unpaid overtime each week since the start of the Covid pandemic, according to a new survey.

The poll, which used a nationally representative sample, found the average employed Australian is working 6.13 hours unpaid each week in 2021, up from 5.25 hours in 2020 and 4.62 hours in 2019.

Before I went to sleep last night, family members were still quite anxious ... We've got five-year-old twins who have been infected with Covid. It is a very serious time ...

Most of them are double-vaxxed, which I was very pleased to hear ... Some had already gone to try and get a vaccination, and this is where it's been quite despairing. These vaccinations should've occurred earlier this year ...

First Nations media organisations started receiving funding in September. That's way too slow, way too late. The damage had already set in.