Westpac bets big on economic recovery
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Westpac Banking Corporation has delivered a massive vote of confidence in the national recovery by promising to pay shareholders $2 billion in dividends, invest up to $4 billion over three years and release funds set aside to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The bank has also upgraded its key economic forecasts for growth, unemployment and residential property prices used to model the fallout from bad debts, allowing it to release $372 million of its buffer, lifting its profit and supporting the reinstatement of the interim dividend.
Westpac CEO Peter King: âThere are more people employed now than pre-COVID.âÂ
Royseven
Royseven were a six-piece alternative rock band from Dublin, Ireland. They are known for songs such as Dance and We Should Be Lovers , and have released two albums to date:
The Art of Insincerity (2006) and
You Say, We Say (2011).
Royseven didn’t meet in school or college like many other bands; they met through mutual friends- and an advert in a Dublin music magazine. Singer, Paul Walsh and guitarist Eamonn Barrett, advertised in Hot Press magazine for a drummer, they interviewed several but quickly decided on Darragh Oglesby. It was he who suggested keyboard player Paul O’Hara and when their first bass player Andrew (Drew) Kennedy (blancatransfer) left, Oglesby identified a replacement duo to bolster the line-up even more. So, bass player Bernard O’Neill and guitarist Sam Garland soon after completed the Royseven family and although they’d all been in bands before, this was the first time it felt right from the very first rehearsal
Appeals court considers remote access to New Hampshire House
HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Federal appellate judges on Monday questioned whether the New Hampshire House has undermined the Americans With Disabilities Act by insisting on in-person sessions during the coronavirus pandemic, while also suggesting that vaccinations have made the issue moot.
Seven Democratic lawmakers sued Republican House Speaker Sherm Packard in February arguing that holding in-person sessions without a remote option for medically vulnerable lawmakers violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and has forced them to either risk their lives or abandon their duties as elected officials.
Findings will be shared in video clips and blog posts alongside tips about how everyone can help improve their outdoor space for wildlife.
The Trust will also be encouraging people to share their own garden wildlife updates with them via the NWT website and social media.
Sam was appointed to his role in 2019 and, with part-time assistant Glenn Trower and a small army of volunteers, tends the garden which is run organically and includes a herb garden, long herbaceous borders, a ‘jungle’ walk, a large wildflower labyrinth and a fruit orchard.
A view of Norwich from the Bishop s Garden. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY