Upper Hunter school to generate their own electricity
July 27, 2021
An Upper Hunter school will soon be generating its own electricity.
Vacy Public School will be part of an innovative pilot program exploring the potential for schools to use solar PV panels and batteries to generate electricity for themselves and even help the state’s energy grid.
Upper Hunter MP Dave Layzell said he’s thrilled a local school is one of 25 in NSW with the opportunity to take part.
“This is a great initiative for our local public schools in NSW, and I am delighted to know that our electorate will have one of the 25 NSW schools involved in this exciting initiative,” Dave Layzell said.
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Steve Balbi is living the dream. A creative chameleon, Balbi continues to reinvent his wheel. From bass guitarist in Noiseworks to one half of the psychedelic pop duo Electric Hippies to Mi-Sex in 2011, Balbi is a passionate collaborator, but also a prolific solo artist. Congratulations are in order for the Byron Bay Public School and their upgrade – but, while the Minister for Education Sarah Mitchell was happy to have a photo of herself and Ben Franklin MLC plastered all over social media, a meeting held a few kilometres up the road on the same day was a ‘cloak and dagger’ closed-door event.
NSW sexual consent laws to be reformed
By Lauren Croft|26 May 2021
In a massive step forward for NSW, Attorney-General Mark Speakman has just announced the reform of sexual consent laws.
The announcement comes after the NSW Law Reform Commission (LRC) published a report last November analysing the NSW consent laws. The current laws will be strengthened and simplified in response to increasing calls across the community to protect victims and survivors of sexual assault.
The new stipulations mean that affirmative consent is now law: unless someone does or says something to communicate consent, they have not consented to sexual activity. Similarly, the accused person’s belief in consent will not be recognised by law unless they did or said something to establish consent. This also protects victims further by recognising the “freeze” response, whereby someone freezes and cannot communicate a lack of consent.