OECD s warning on workers rising tax burden afr.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from afr.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
PM Apology for Slow Vaccine Rollout a Childish ‘Gotcha’ Game: Expert
A senior economist has said the media should not have needled Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison into saying sorry for the slow vaccination rollout.
Robert Carling, an expert in Australian government affairs and senior fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, said the media were playing a childish “gotcha” game with the prime minister.
“Needling a politician to get them to use a particular word they would rather not use in this case, ‘sorry,’” Carling told The Epoch Times.
Carling said it was far more important that Morrison accepted that his government made mistakes and was accountable.
LIVERMORE â According to a June 25 report published by the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, the cityâs proposed cleanup for contamination at the site set for Eden Housing in downtown Livermore is âneither appropriately justified nor acceptable.â
Jean King, spokesperson for Save Livermore Downtown (SLD), submitted a press release stating that staff experts from the Water Quality Control Board âhave raised new concerns about the cityâs plan to remediate volatile organic compounds in the soil and mitigate vapor intrusion risks to future residents at the site of the proposed Eden Housing plan.â
The site of the future Eden Housing project approved by the council May 25 once housed a train depot and dry-cleaning businesses. The city has been tasked with remediating the volatile organic compounds and other chemicals of concern present at the site due to its previous uses.
Scott Morrison Says No to the Return of JobKeeper theepochtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theepochtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Just before the state s 112-day winter lockdown in July last year, Victorian politicians were handed an 11.8 per cent pay increase by an independent tribunal.