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 ...
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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 »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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With the elections in Lebanon scheduled to take place in early 2022, you have until November 20 to register your intention to vote in AustraliaThis webinar will provide surety that change is possible and that we can seek confidence in the actions of the Lebanese diaspora in sighting a democratic electoral process. In 2020, Lebanon endured multiple crises, including a ...
Read More »Aukus pact: France to send ambassador back to US after Macron-Biden call
By: Patrick Wintour France has agreed to return its ambassador to the US and Joe Biden has vowed not to cut Paris out of key future defence decisions in the Indo-Pacific after a phone call designed to calm French fury after he struck a submarine deal with Australia and the UK behind Emmanuel Macron’s back. In a joint statement, issued ...
Read More »Riot police end standoff at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance on third day of protests
By: Josh Taylor and Caitlin Cassidy Police have shut down an almost three-hour standoff with protesters at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance, moving in and making a number of arrests as hundreds dispersed towards the city center. Officers had surrounded protesters at the war memorial, south of the city’s CBD, since about 3 pm on Wednesday on the third day of ...
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