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In ordinary circumstances, year 12 student Melika Azimi would have spent this week entirely focused on her trial HSC exams. Instead, the school captain at Arthur Phillip High School in Parramatta was drafting a petition to the state government.
“I believe our opinion needs to be heard,” she says. “We have lost tremendous amounts of one-on-one learning time in school settings with our teachers, even going way back to the lockdown of 2020. [We are] pushing ourselves every day to show up with full diligence in an environment that is not able to equip us with the resources that are needed. We are already struggling.”
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Plans to build an around-the-clock concrete plant at Sydneyâs Glebe Island are being fought by nearby residents who say it is at odds with the Berejiklian governmentâs plans to redevelop White Bay into a waterfront destination.
The proposed concrete batching plant would consist of six silos, 34-metres tall, built to contain sand and cement inside a partially covered warehouse, with an enclosed conveyor belt, next to Anzac Bridge.
An artistâs impression of the White Bay makeover, featuring White Bay Power Station, apartments and waterfront parks.
The facility would operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with as many as 182 truck movements per hour.