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The 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours list boasts the highest proportion of female recipients in the history of Order of Australia honours, says Governor-General David Hurley.
But women’s advocacy groups say that for women to comprise 44 per cent of the 947 honourees in the order’s general division is not good enough.
Governor-General David Hurley.
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The groups called for mandating of equal numbers honours going to males and females, but General Hurley stopped short of supporting such a move.
There are few politicians and celebrities among those honoured this year, and the community category has the most recipients (396) in the order’s general division, followed by medicine (108) and sport (93).
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NABL chief executive N Venkateswaran said the laboratory had been suspended in April for non-compliance with NABL accreditation norms . Due to confidentiality, we will not be able to say more than that the lab was found not complying with accreditation norms and hence suspended.
CRL Diagnostics managing director Ravi Tomar said the suspension stemmed from the misuse of the NABL logo and that the laboratory was appealing for it to be lifted.
Jatin Wig and his family were among the group of passengers who were stopped from boarding the plane.
Mr Wig s wife and toddler had tested positive to the virus despite showing no symptoms.
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Almost 6,700 overseas arrivals have undergone quarantine at Howard Springs since repatriation flights to the Northern Territory six months ago. Pictured are healthcare workers at the facility
The Northern Territory has not recorded a locally-acquired case since the start of the pandemic with all 161 cases detected in quarantine.
Its tally of active cases currently stands at 49.
The specialist health team chief at the Howard Springs quarantine facility insists the issue is under control with stops and checks in place, despite a recent spike in cases from repatriated flights from India. If we get to a particular point, say in excess of 10 or 12 per cent, we would slow down the flights and indeed be very cautious in terms of how many people we actually took on, the of the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre executive director Professor Len Notaras told the ABC.
The head of the specialist health team running the Howard Springs facility near Darwin says his staff won't leave until they're confident NT Health can safely manage a doubling of repatriations. But the NT Opposition and health groups are sceptical about the prospect of finding and training 400 extra staff.