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NSW Government: To help stop the spread of COVID-19, new rules now apply for workers needing to travel to and from a local government area (LGA) of concern and for people travelling outside of Greater Sydney. You now need to register your travel if you: authorised workers, Transport, postal and warehousing and  freight, logistics, postal, courier or delivery services including food logistics, delivery and grocery fulfilment and delivery of building supplies to support construction but not including home and office removals export supply chain operators distribution of food, groceries and sanitary products for sale by supermarkets, grocery shops or other shops that predominantly sell food or drinks warehousing road transport (passenger and freight) apart from taxi, rideshare and chauffeur services rail transport (passenger and freight) – including rail yards  water transport (passenger and freight) air transport (passenger and freight)  pipeline and other transport...

Klaus Schwab The Great Reset is the name of the 50th annual meeting of the  World Economic Forum  (WEF), held in June 2020. It brought together high-profile business and political leaders, convened by  Charles, Prince of Wales  and the WEF, with the theme of rebuilding society and the economy in a sustainable way following the  COVID-19 pandemic WEF chief executive officer  Klaus Schwab  described three core components of the Great Reset: the first involves creating conditions for a "stakeholder economy"; the second component includes building in a more "resilient, equitable, and sustainable" way—based on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics which would incorporate more green public infrastructure projects; the third component is to "harness the innovations of the  Fourth Industrial Revolution " for public good. In her keynote speech opening the dialogues,  International Monetary Fund  director  Kristalina ...

After a successful start for Australia’s first drive-through vaccination clinic in Melton, Victoria will now be home to an additional three drive-through sites – helping us reach our goal of one million doses in the next five weeks.  Premier Daniel Andrews today announced the new drive through clinics will open at the Former Ford Factory in Broadmeadows, at Sandown Racecourse in Springvale and at the Eagle Stadium in Werribee. The Melton clinic at the iconic Bunnings warehouse has seen a successful start, with   1200 doses delivered over the first seven days. The new site at the Ford Factory in Broadmeadows will be soft launched this Sunday by invitation only, and will open to the public for booked appointments from Monday 23 August. The Sandown Racecourse clinic will be adjacent to the existing Sandown Racecourse indoor vaccination hub and will run an invitation-only soft launch on Friday. It will open to the public for booked appointments from Saturday 21 August. Combined, t...

 Queensland invests in migrants, refugees workforce The Palaszczuk Government will invest $3 million to help work-ready migrants, refugees, and international students access support and guidance to help them find jobs and build up their careers. The announcement comes during Multicultural Queensland Month, a celebration of all the different communities that make up the Sunshine State. Minister for Training and Skills Development Di Farmer today visited Multicultural Australia, one of the first five successful projects from the Diverse Queensland Workforce program. “The Queensland economy continues to power through as we continue to manage the impacts of COVID-19 and we want to make sure we don’t leave anyone behind,” Minister Farmer said. “We put investing in skills at the heart of our COVID-19 Economic Recovery Plan to ensure Queenslanders have the skills needed for the jobs of the future, and that those who might usually face barriers don’t miss out on opportunities. “This $3 mil...

Sarah Hanson Young Senator Sarah HANSON-YOUNG (Senate Speech Climate Change): I move:  That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment (Senator Hume) to a question without notice asked by Senator McKim today relating to climate change. Senator McKim was asking the very important question: does the environment minister of Australia have a duty of care to our nation's children? The reason this is an important question is that right now we are confronted with some of the most damning and serious scientific facts that humanity has ever seen. We are facing catastrophic climate change, catastrophic weather events and a threat to the whole of humanity. Yet what we see from this government is a response that is glib, that is full of spin and that is more of the marketing regimes of Mad Men than it is of a responsible government. And, while this is unfolding, we have right on foot an appeal to the Federal Court of Australia of our ...

Bees Image by  PollyDot  from  Pixabay   Australia’s honey bee industry is once again safe from the threat of varroa mite after the National Management Group declared the exotic parasite eradicated from Australia. Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries and Minister for Rural Communities Mark Furner said the current eradication effort began in 2019 when varroa mites were found in the first of two detections in nests of exotic Asian honey bees at the Port of Townsville. This follows a previous successful eradication program led by Biosecurity Queensland that commenced in 2016 following a detection of varroa mites in a feral Asian honey bee nest at the Port of Townsville in June 2016.  This incident was declared eradicated by the National Management Group on 1 July 2020. “The apiary industry will be very relieved to know that we have formally eradicated the outbreak of these tiny pests in the area,” Mr Furner said. “Varroa mites have caused ma...

Senator Pauline Hanson Senator Pauline Hanson (One Nation) I rise to speak on the divisive and racist campaigns promoting the legislation of an Indigenous voice to parliament and the specific recognition of Indigenous people in the Australian Constitution. Our Constitution is a great achievement. It reflects the establishment of a great nation. The people of distant colonies gathered together in the 1890s and drafted a Constitution which has mostly served the nation very well over the past 120 years. This is remarkable because the architects of the Constitution could not foresee many of the events and developments that would shape Australia and change how it was governed. In the 1890s, travel between the colonies took days. Today it takes hours. Communication was mostly by letter, which also took days. For the majority of Australians at the time, sending a message over the telegraph was too expensive. In the 1890s, Indigenous Australians weren't recognised as citizens. They didn...