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The road map to get NSW students back to face-to-face classroom learning has been revealed. Here’s everything you need to know.
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Harvest time offers bumper crop of jobs
It almost sounds too good to be true for out of work city dwellers: $300 a day with no experience necessary — and food and board included. See what jobs are available.
HSC exams will go ahead — outdoors
Education authorities are looking at ‘all contingencies for the HSC to go ahead’, including making students sit the exams outdoors. Tell us what you think in our poll.
‘Australia’s worst day’: Record 825 Covid cases in NSW
There were 825 new Covid cases recorded in NSW — the highest-ever reported daily increase nationally. This comes as people still hit the outdoors after the state was plunged into its harshest ever lockdown. Follow our live updates.
Hotspot LGA mayor slammed for TV appearance
Cumberland Shire Council mayor Steve Christou — who last week compared Covid restrictions to “like living in Nazi Germany” — has been criticised for appearing on a TV quiz show during lockdown.
Elite school teacher ‘regrets’ attending Sydney protest
A Kings School teacher who was suspended for attending an anti-lockdown rally in Sydney will return to the classroom after a brief suspension.
HSC trials to be held remotely across Sydney
The HSC trials will be held remotely across Sydney and students in Covid-19 hot spots won’t be back at school on August 16 under a revised return-to-school plan.
Shocking number of Aussies still stranded overseas
Thousands of vulnerable Australians and unaccompanied children are still stranded overseas and facing a mammoth wait to get home.
Senseless ban on Covid home test that could save jobs
Businesses are demanding the federal government lift a ‘crazy’ ban on Australian-made home Covid tests that are 96 per cent accurate and give a result within 15 minutes.
Vaccine snobbery is holding Australia back
The Covid-19 vaccine rollout is a disaster but Australians have to step up to do their part if we’re going to win this war, writes Sarah Blake.
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