Double demerits this week in NSW
NSW Police will enforce double demerits from this Wednesday (September 21) ahead of the national day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II.
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The federal-state harmony in response to floods is encouraging, but a swallow does not a summer make, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Catholic school teachers will walk off the job today (May 27) in Canberra and across NSW calling for a pay increase of up to 15 per cent.
A man in his 70s from the Queanbeyan-Palerang region has died with COVID-19, bringing southern NSW’s covid death toll to 21.
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Southern NSW records two covid deaths as cases dwindle
The Southern NSW Local Health District has today (February 28) reported the death of a Queanbeyan-Palerang man in his 70s and a Eurobodalla woman in her 80s with COVID-19.
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Covid hospital numbers falling in southern NSW
The Southern NSW Local Health District has reported 15 people in hospital with COVID-19 (February 18), down from the 19 yesterday.
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Density limits gone, dancing back in Canberra from tonight
Covid restrictions in Canberra will ease from 6pm tonight (February 18), the ACT government has confirmed.
As of today (February 17) there are no COVID-19 patients in intensive care throughout southern NSW.
Queanbeyan-Palerang recorded 106 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours as daily covid cases across the Southern NSW Local Health District also rose.
NSW Health has today (February 11) reported the death of a man in Queanbeyan due to COVID-19.
KOALAS will be listed as endangered, instead of vulnerable, in the ACT in an effort to protect declining populations of the marsupial.
The southern NSW Local Health District has recorded its fourth consecutive day of an increase in new covid cases.
The PM's message that recalcitrant NSW Liberal Party members should "leave things to the professionals" is an insight into his penchant for control, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
There are currently 3452 active cases of COVID-19 throughout southern NSW, up from yesterday’s (February 1) 3258.
There are 19 people in southern NSW currently hospitalised with COVID-19, down from the 22 reported yesterday (January 31).
THE Southern NSW Local Health District (SNSWLHD) has reported 3218 active cases of COVID-19 throughout the district today (January 25), down from the 3532 reported yesterday.
ANIMAL protection activist Frankie Seymour has been selected as the Animal Justice Party's candidate to contest the Monaro by-election next month.
VOTERS heading to the polls in the Monaro by-elections next month will have the option to cast their ballot via post, as the state continues to wrestle with its COVID-19 outbreak.
A man in his 80s from the Queanbeyan-Palerang region and a man in his 60s from the Bega Valley have both died from COVID-19, the Southern NSW Local Health District (SNSWLHD) has reported today (January 21).
![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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