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Greater Sydney’s lockdown has been extended until at least the 28 of August, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has confirmed.
It comes as the state recorded 177 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, with 46 of those infectious in the community.
The aviation industry has been one of the hardest-hit sectors worldwide during the coronavirus pandemic. But in Australia this has been no truer, our closed-border, “COVID-zero” strategy has been dubbed “Fortress Australia”.
Qantas, which is preparing to see an annual loss of over AUD2 billion (about USD1.47 billion) in the 2021 financial year, is once again plagued by uncertainty as several Australian states have closed their borders and their domestic airways due to recent outbreaks caused by the highly infectious Delta variant.
2021-07-25 01:40:15 GMT2021-07-25 09:40:15(Beijing Time)
SYDNEY, July 25 (Xinhua) The aviation industry has been one of the hardest-hit sectors worldwide during the coronavirus pandemic. This has been no truer than in Australia, a country that due to its closed-border, COVID-zero strategy has been dubbed Fortress Australia.
Australia s flag carrier airline Qantas, which is preparing to see an annual loss of more than 2 billion Australian dollars (about 1.47 billion U.S. dollars) in the 2021 financial year, is once again plagued by uncertainty as several Australian states have closed their borders and their domestic airways due to recent outbreaks caused by the highly infectious Delta variant.
There were a record number of flight cancellations in June as Melbourne s fourth lockdown and Sydney s burgeoning Delta variant outbreak hit interstate travel.
Figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics showed 24.5 per cent of all domestic flights in June were cancelled, the highest number since reporting began in November 2003.
This compared with just 2.5 per cent of flights cancelled in June 2020, albeit with a much lower number of scheduled flights. The long-term average for flights cancelled is just 1.8 per cent.
Jetstar had the highest number of cancellations, with almost 40 per cent of flights cancelled, followed by Virgin Australia (31 per cent), Qantas (29.1 per cent), QantasLink (13.5 per cent), Regional Express (11.1 per cent) and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines (1.3 per cent).
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$34.4 million for black spots across the Hunter
July 21, 2021
Almost 100 dangerous crash spots across NSW are going to be fixed including some of the worst in the Hunter.
Under the Australian Government’s Black Spot Program 97 crash sites across NSW will be fixed across the next two years with a share in $34.4 million.
Lyne MP and Chair of the NSW Black Spot Consultative Committee Professor David Gillespie said the state would receive the money under the Black Spot Program’s 2021–22 funding round, with councils and the New South Wales Government contributing a further $2.5 million to the 97 successful projects.
“The Black Spot Program funds safety measures at locations where a number of serious crashes are known to have occurred, improving our roads to keeping our communities safe.”