PM’s Covid rescue mission for business
Canberra will step in to support Sydney businesses – a policy shift that underscores the threat to the economy.
Canberra will step in to support Sydney businesses – a policy shift that underscores the threat to the economy.
Kathie Melocco is furious. Her 88-year-old father has just tested positive for Covid-19 after being infected in a Sydney aged-care home staffed by workers who still have not been vaccinated.
The NSW government is quietly confident Sydney’s lockdown can end later this week, but warns it will come down hard on ‘wacko’ anti-vax campaigners who flout rules.
Health authorities fear the Greater Sydney lockdown may have to be extended as case numbers spiked on Friday with 31 new cases recorded in NSW.
Domestic abuse laws to criminalise coercive and controlling behaviour, identified as a ‘red flag for murder’, are set to be introduced in NSW in what will be ground-breaking legislation for Australia.
The government’s infrastructure program continues to be the backbone of the state’s remarkable recovery, with $108bn of works in the pipeline.
Among the big winners from the budget are preschoolers, public servants and punters. Seniors and home buyers lose out.
Public service workers will receive a wage increase of up to 2.5 per cent in Tuesday’s budget thanks to the state’s sharp rebound from the pandemic.
A key witness in the Four Corners story on QAnon is a serial conspiracy theorist who admits he took part in the ABC TV program to ‘damage Scott Morrison’.
Ben Roberts-Smith isn’t the only one whose reputation will live or die on the outcome of this high-stakes defamation case.
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