More than one million NSW workers will, within weeks, lose the federal disaster payments that have been sustaining them through the three months of lockdown and for many, it will be a trying time.Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has revealed this week that the disaster payments of up to $750 a week for individuals will wind down once vaccination rates pass 70 percent of the ...
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NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet flags changes to roadmap out of lockdown
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says he could make “small changes” to the state’s roadmap out of lockdown during a crisis cabinet meeting being held tonight. Restrictions will ease on Monday, including the reopening of retail, restaurants and bars, after the Premier confirmed on social media that the state had reached the target of 70 per cent of over 16s being ...
Read More »Dominic Perrottet takes the reins as NSW Premier
By: Kim Chappell There will be no cabinet reshuffle until NSW has worked its way through its re-opening says Premier Dominic Perrottet. “I know how big the challenge ahead is for our state, but I love New South Wales, and that is the passion that will fuel me and fuel my team,” he said. “A stable, united government is vital ...
Read More »CBCITY IMPROVES SAFETY AT EIGHT SCHOOL CROSSINGS
The City of Canterbury Bankstown has improved the safety of thousands of children travelling to and from school. Council recently completed upgrades of eight pedestrian crossing at local schools. Mayor Khal Asfour said safety is one of my priorities and these projects will ensure children are not put at greater risk. “More than 58,000 children go to school across our ...
Read More »RECOGNISING CANTERBURY- BANKSTOWN’S EXTRAORDINARY YOUNG PEOPLE
The City of Canterbury Bankstown’s annual Children and Youth Awards are accepting nominations to recognise the valuable contributions that young people make to our City. The awards are open to school children in Years 3-6 and all young people aged 12-18 years old who live, work or study in Canterbury-Bankstown. Children and young people can be nominated or nominate themselves ...
Read More »NSW Deputy Premier announces resignation days after Gladys Berejiklian’s exit
New South Wales Deputy Premier John Barilaro says his tenure as Nationals leader has been a “tough run” after he announced this morning he would stand down on Wednesday, just days after the resignation of Premier Gladys Berejiklian. Mr Barilaro said in a statement he would call for a party meeting on Wednesday where he would officially resign. It comes ...
Read More »Australia reveals it raised case of Julian Assange with US, amid ‘kidnap plot’ claim
By: Daniel Hurst Australia’s foreign minister, Marise Payne, raised the case of the WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange with the US secretary of state during her visit to Washington DC this month, the government has revealed. But Australian parliamentarians who support Assange say the government should demand his immediate release, after a US news report this week claimed CIA officials during ...
Read More »Deja Vu? Lebanese draw similarities between UK and Lebanon fuel shortages
Hours of queues at gas stations in Britain have left Lebanese in the country reeling from an unpleasant deja vu as the UK found itself suffering similar problems to the crisis-riddled Middle Eastern nation. Gas station pumps ran dry in major British cities on Monday and vendors rationed sales as a shortage of truckers strained supply chains to breaking point ...
Read More »NSW Covid update: Gladys Berejiklian opts for gradual reopening instead of ‘freedom day’
By: Mostafa Rachwani The New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian, says the state won’t have a “freedom day” but will instead work “step by step” towards reopening. As the premier announced that the state has crossed the 84% mark in first Covid vaccine doses and 56% in second doses, she asked residents to be patient with the government’s reopening plan. ...
Read More »Charges laid over hotel quarantine
The Department of Health, formerly the Department of Health and Human Services, has been charged with 17 breaches of Section 21(1) of the OHS Act, in that it failed to provide and maintain, as far as reasonably practicable, a working environment that was safe and without risks to health for its employees. The department has been charged with a further ...
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