Michael Coutts-Trotter, husband of federal Labor minister Tanya Plibersek, was secretary of the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet but will become head of Treasury when it is abolished.
Students are set to return to classrooms from February 1 in NSW but Premier Dominic Perrottet said parents who delay the return-to-school amid Omicron wave would not be subject to fines.
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The forced closure of nearly 400 schools due to teachers’ strikes will end with the Education Department “confident” on-site learning will return on Wednesday.