Prime Minister Scott Morrison s public rebuke of Liberal MP Craig Kelly for spruiking unproven COVID-19 treatments appears to have boosted the maverick MP s popularity and influence on social media. The member for Hughes in Sydney s south was hauled into the PM s office this week for a 30-minute lecture on how he was undermining the Government s message on the COVID-19 vaccine. The PM had earlier made a cease-and-desist phone call to Mr Kelly when the backbencher appeared on a podcast with anti-vaxxer chef Pete Evans, who was fined last year for trying to flog a $15,000 light machine he claimed could cure COVID.
NSW public servants will be able to live and work anywhere in the state in a COVID-driven public sector overhaul designed to increase senior employment opportunities in the bush. Tapping into a post-COVID world, where employees have proven they don t need to be tethered to a CBD desk to work, a suite of NSW public sector jobs will be advertised for employment in any location with others marked as regional location preferred . The plan is a a deal struck by Deputy Premier John Barilaro and signed of by NSW cabinet in order to boost regional economies and job opportunities in the bush.
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Premium Content  The families of missing people have been asked to volunteer their DNA at pop-up collection centres in a bid to solve hundreds of Âunidentified remains cases and suspected murders. The collection drive is believed to be a world first for law enforcement and aimed at finally identifying 330 John and Jane Does - the nameless bodies and bones found all over NSW that date back to 1964. The groundbreaking program is being rolled out in Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie in the northern region, which police likened to the Bermuda triangle due to the high number of people who vanish without a trace.