Victoria’s economy has lost over $700 million (US$508 million) per week since the start of the lockdown, with business and consumer confidence levels bottoming out. This comes as Melbourne claims the world record for the longest locked down city in the world, overtaking Argentinian capital Buenos Aires for the number of days under government-mandated lockdown. “We are going to get past this,” Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews told reporters on Oct. 3. “We are going to end this lockdown and open up, and all that we will enjoy then will be a result of all that we have given.” But the premier’s sentiments were not shared by the CEO of Australian Industry Group, Innes Willox, who said Victorians feared the sixth lockdown would not end after the three weeks promised by the premier. “Melbourne is pretty much a broken place, and 246 days of lockdown would do that to you—that’s eight months of …