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By:  Gareth Browne The car park of a monastery on the slopes of Mount Lebanon has been turned into a temporary reservoir. Every few minutes, a helicopter swoops in, filling a tank dangling below it from a large pool fed by firefighters’ hosepipes.The aircraft’s updraft soaks a dozen onlooking soldiers, and in an instant, it is sauntering off into the ...

By: Tiffanie Turnbull and Maureen Dettre The NSW premier has put off a call on extending the state’s emergency pandemic powers until next year, as protesters in Victoria rally over similar laws being considered by its parliament. The NSW government this week considered a proposal for some emergency powers to be extended until the next election in March 2023, according ...

    By: David Wu and Crystal Wu   Western Australia Police confirmed they have found four-year-old girl Cleo Smith inside a locked home in the early hours of Wednesday morning after going missing for 17 days.A team of officers broke into a Carnarvon home on Tonkin Crescent around 1am where they found Cleo in one of the rooms.Cleo was ...

  By: Sarah Gerathy   The NSW government has changed its COVID-19 roadmap again, bringing forward several freedoms for people who are fully vaccinated. A number of restrictions that were due to be eased on December 1 will instead be scrapped next Monday.However, people who are not vaccinated will face an even longer wait before they can enjoy more privileges. Here’s everything ...

  By: Michelle Grattan   Scott Morrison weighed whether to go to the G20 and COP26. The political hard heads will be thinking maybe it would have been wiser to have stayed at home.Important as it is internationally, the Glasgow conference is billed as a harm-minimisation assignment for the Prime Minister. And the G20 wasn’t expected to yield much that ...

The City of Canterbury Bankstown has been recognised as one of Australia and New Zealand’s most innovative companies for its work in waste management services. The prestigious annual list, published by The Australian Financial Review and Boss Magazine, is based on a rigorous assessment process. Canterbury-Bankstown Mayor Khal Asfour said Council was honoured to have been ranked first in the ...

By: James Madden and Sophie Elsworth It wasn’t meant to be like this. Former Today host Lisa Wilkinson, who has positioned herself as the poster girl for pay parity, now faces a tough battle to control her tightly scripted public narrative amid claims that she commanded double the salary of her on-air breakfast show co-host Karl Stefanovic from at least ...

By: Sarah McPhee and Mary Ward All adults in NSW will receive a $50 “Stay and Rediscover” voucher next year to use towards accommodation to boost the state’s tourism sector. NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet announced more than $500 million in investment this morning to “drive tourism opportunities right across the state”, half of which is allocated to the voucher redemption ...

By: Crystal Wu Former New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has been granted approval for a taxpayer-funded legal team worth at least $10,000 a day for her Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) battle. The ICAC is holding its third day of public hearings into whether the former Premier breached public trust while in a secret relationship with former Liberal MP ...

By: Elizabeth Daoud The New South Wales government has announced more financial support measures to help businesses reopen with confidence after lockdown. Premier Dominic Perrottet announced a Summer Holiday Stock Guarantee on Tuesday that would allow eligible businesses with an annual turnover between $75,000 and $50 million to apply for a grant of up to $20,000 to compensate for the ...