{"id":20389,"date":"2021-07-16T16:21:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T16:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=20389"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:31:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:31:38","slug":"australia-victoria-enters-new-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australia-victoria-enters-new-lockdown","title":{"rendered":"Australia: Victoria enters new lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state of Victoria has declared a five-day lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia.- The state of Victoria has announced it will go under\u00a0<strong>a snap five-day Covid-19 lockdown<\/strong>. All non-essential businesses,\u00a0<strong>including casinos, bars and pubs<\/strong>, must remain closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Crown Melbourne<\/strong>\u00a0has reported that its casino, restaurants and bars will close until further notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few days ago,\u00a0<strong>the New South Wales Government\u00a0<\/strong>announced that it would extend\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australia-sydney-to-extend-restrictions-until-at-least-july-30\">Covid-19 restrictions<\/a>\u00a0<strong>until at least July 30\u00a0<\/strong>after 99 new Covid-19 cases were reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<strong>Star Entertainment Group<\/strong>\u00a0confirmed that The Star Sydney will remain closed but that it will continue paying staff through the extended lockdown period. A similar decision was taken by Crown Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Pubs in Melbourne sign petition against insurers<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australia-pubs-in-melbourne-demand-payout-due-to-covid-19-impact\">A group of nine pubs<\/a>\u00a0has petitioned for insurers to pay out due to closures and the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The group of pubs is\u00a0<strong>claiming a sum of $26m<\/strong>\u00a0due to the impact of Covid countermeasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to The Australian, the pubs argue that between June 30, 2019, and June 30, 2020, a policy to cover events like the Covid-19 within 40 kilometres of the premises was provided by the insurance companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>David Locke<\/strong>, the Australian Financial Complaints Authority chief, said he has 120 Covid-19 business interruption insurance disputes on record, 21 of which have been closed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Locke said: \u201cDiscussions have commenced with the ICA and the&nbsp;<strong>National Insurance Brokers Association<\/strong>&nbsp;to streamline claims once the courts\u2019 final decisions have been delivered.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Victoria has declared a five-day lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The state of Victoria has declared a five-day lockdown, mandating the closure of non-essential businesses, including Crown Melbourne's casino operations, while New South Wales extends existing restrictions impacting The Star Sydney. Concurrently, a group of Melbourne pubs is pursuing a significant $26 million business interruption insurance claim, highlighting broader industry challenges with pandemic-related policy coverage and legal disputes.","focusai_entities":"Crown Melbourne, Crown Sydney, The Star Entertainment Group, The Star Sydney, New South Wales Government, Victorian Government, Australian Financial Complaints Authority, David Locke, ICA, National Insurance Brokers Association","focusai_location":"Victoria, Melbourne, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Insurance Claim Impact","query":"What is the projected financial impact on Crown and Star Entertainment Group's Q3\/Q4 earnings, considering both operational closures and potential liabilities or recoveries from business interruption insurance claims?"},{"label":"Regulatory Precedent","query":"How might the Australian Financial Complaints Authority's handling of these business interruption disputes, and subsequent court decisions, establish a precedent for future force majeure or pandemic-related insurance claims within the gaming and hospitality sectors?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20404,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20389\/revisions\/20404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}