This is the first protest to be granted an exemption by NSW Health. Pictured: NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard,
March 5, 2021
NSW Health has granted an exemption for Pride in Protest’s Mardi Gras march tomorrow, allowing the event to have up to 1500 people and exceed the current political gatherings limit of 500.
More than 1100 people have RSVPed for tomorrow’s march, with over 3200 interested.
This is the first protest to be granted an exemption by NSW Health. As a result, NSW Police have withdrawn Supreme Court proceedings against organisers.
The approval comes after significant community pressure, including letters of support from Greens, Labor and Independent Members of Parliament, as well as 78ers a group of activists who marched in the first Mardi Gras in 1978.
Sydney LGBTQI rights protesters will march along Oxford Street while the city s Mardi Gras is held elsewhere after NSW Health granted organisers an exemption from gathering restrictions.
Pride in Protest to go ahead with march despite police opposition
Police will oppose the Mardi Gras protest in line with current NSW public health orders
March 2, 2021
Activist group Pride in Protest have vowed to go ahead with Saturday’s planned Mardi Gras protest march despite formal opposition from NSW Police.
NSW Police will oppose the Mardi Gras protest in line with current NSW public health orders. Under the present restrictions, political gatherings are limited to 500 people.
At a press conference this morning, Pride in Protest criticised the police’s decision to as unconstructive and discriminatory. The group also accused the police of double standards, alleging that much larger protests have recently been allowed to go ahead.
John Griffiths, Senedd member for Newport East, spoke with apprentices from Coleg Gwent about their experiences. Mr Griffiths spoke with Jon Hayward, head of apprentices at Coleg Gwent, Aaron Lambert, light vehicle maintenance and repair, Evan Ash, electrical installation, and Daniel Williams, plumbing and heating. The MS said: “In the last five years, the Welsh Government have achieved its ambitions of 100,000 apprenticeship starts. Daniel, Evan and Arron are part of that figure and it was very informative to hear about why they decided to go down this route and their positive experiences of it. Taking on an apprentice can have lots of benefits – both for the employer and the apprentice themselves.
No. 25 Fuquay-Varina edges No. 13 Heritage in overtime thriller, 69-68
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By Kyle Morton, HighSchoolOT producer
Fuquay-Varina, N.C. Nobody on the court for the Fuquay-Varina Bengals on Monday night was alive the last time the program qualified for the state playoffs.
But on Monday night in their temporary home at Willow Spring high, the 2021 Bengals made a major down payment on a playoff spot and proved that they have the potential to see it through.
The No. 25 Bengals toppled the No. 13 Heritage Huskies 69-68 in an overtime game packed with excitement and lead changes.
The game only got to overtime in the first place because junior wing Mayar Wol converted a heave from just inside the half-court line that clanked in off the backboard as time expired.