This is a Need to Know wrapper this Thursday, July 14th.
Here are some of today’s key events:
No military base for China: Solomon’s prime minister
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has said his country’s security link with China will not allow the superpower to host a military base there and turn its citizens into “targets for a possible military attack.”
Pacific Islands Forum
Albanese says Pacific leaders, including himself, believe the world is facing a climate emergency and that global temperatures cannot rise by more than 1.5 ° C.
“The world’s climate emergency is Australia’s job opportunity. We can be a renewable energy superpower for the world if we only seize that opportunity,” Albanese said.
Unemployment
The economy created 88,422 jobs last month, which helped boost the national unemployment rate to a 48-year low of 3.5% in an increasingly tight labor market. The unemployment rate fell from 3.9% the previous month as the number of unemployed Australians fell by 54,276, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said.
Winter care plan for the elderly COVID-19
The Minister of Care for the Elderly, Anika Wells, announced the Albanian government’s winter plan for care for the elderly. Wells said the winter plan contains five parts, vaccines, antiviral access, proactive commitment, business and worker safety, and infection control training. The plan was made in response to the latest wave of COVID-19.