As Victoria reopens to more than 100 international travellers today,
The Agereports that some hotel quarantine staff employed by Healthcare Australia are still working at more than one site across Melbourne, contravening a key recommendation from the state’s hotel quarantine inquiry.
Emails obtained by
The Age dated April 1 show Healthcare Australia told select staff their second jobs were a breach of their employment conditions “and subsequently a breach of the contract between HCA and [COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria]”.
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Scott Morrison and Greg Hunt announced they would pressure the European Commission over 3.1 million undelivered AstraZeneca doses, although as
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The tower to resolve a 2-mile-wide dead zone on the township s northern border has been the subject of off-and-on talks for the past 16 years. Most recently, consultant Declan O Scanlon of FSD Enterprises has estimated a temporary tower will be up at the firehouse by May under the auspices of AT&T and Verizon.
However, the Sun suit contends the companies need their permission to use Rozanski Lane, an easement that runs along their rear property line, to bring in materials, run power lines or service the finished tower. The township is waiting for the installation of temporary power lines by Rockland Electric after discovering the firehouse lines are inadequate for the new structure.
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General Motors says it is setting a science-based target of carbon neutrality by 2040.
The automaker says the vast majority of its cars, SUVs and pickups will be zero emission vehicles by 2035, and its global manufacturing sites will rely 100% on renewable energy by that year as well. GM expects to have its U.S. manufacturing sites using only renewable energy even sooner, by 2030.
The automaker is following in the footsteps of VW and Ford, says Sam Abuelsamid, Principal Analyst for Guidehouse Insights, but going further than those companies targets of carbon neutrality by 2050. What s unique about what GM is doing is they ve advanced that timeline by ten years, says Abuelsamid. So they re targeting a 2040 timeline to hit carbon neutrality.