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The pandemic isn’t the only thing that has led to this Victorian abattoir closing but its impacts mean you’ll be seeing these sorts of statements more and more – particularly after March, when the stimulus comes to an end.

Over 60 jobs go as Greenhams shut cow processing plant at Tongala abattoir. pic.twitter.com/jfNVFn1k9W

Spare a thought or eight for the people living near the Perth hills who are facing an out-of-control bushfire which has already taken three homes.

As AAP reports: