The global death toll from coronavirus has eclipsed one million people nine months into the pandemic, but Australia's new case numbers remain low.
The number of worldwide cases has also topped 33.2 million.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the grim milestones were numbers nobody wanted to see.
"It is a reminder that we are living in the midst of a global pandemic," he told reporters in Canberra on Tuesday.
"This is a pandemic that has been visited upon Australia from outside our shores and is one that has impacted on us greatly."
Ahead of next week's federal budget, Mr Morrison pledged $800 million for a package of measures to help individuals and businesses work online.
But days after cutting JobKeeper and JobSeeker payments, the prime minister was asked whether there would be anything in the budget for families still doing it tough.
There are fears cutting both supports by several hundred dollars per fortnight could leave people unable to pay their rent or mortgages.
Mr Morrison downplayed the prospect of a budget boost, saying both payments were "transitioning" as more people returned to work.
"People's incomes, increasingly, will be supported by their jobs, not just by the taxpayer," he said.
The prime minister said people on reduced JobKeeper subsidies could apply for the dole to top up their wages.
"JobSeeker is there to support and buttress what is otherwise happening with their income supports and so the two will work together," he said.
He said people struggling to pay bills would get further income support.
Australia's death toll has reached 882 after another seven deaths in Victoria.
The state also recorded 10 new cases of the virus, bringing Melbourne's 14-day rolling average down to 18.2.
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt seized on the low numbers to again urge the Victorian government to ease coronavirus restrictions.
"They can, we believe, take safe steps forward which will help improve mental health," Mr Hunt told Sky News.
He also fears Victoria's markers for reopening small businesses could trap owners in a permanent cycle of reopening and closing again.
Community transmissions have slowed to a trickle in Victoria and ground to a halt elsewhere.
Mr Hunt said the time was right to do away with state border restrictions.
NSW recorded two new cases from people in hotel quarantine on Tuesday, the state's fourth consecutive day without locally acquired cases.
Another eight crew members from a ship anchored off Western Australia's north coast have tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of cases to 17.
WA authorities are yet to decide what to do with the bulk carrier.
