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Premium Content Subscriber only All creatures great and small were the big winners in the latest round of the Gambling Community Benefit Fund. Almost $200,000 has been spread around the Burnett region with Bundy Wildlife Rescue, the Bundaberg Bee Keepers Association and the Bundaberg and District Western Performance Horse Club sharing in the funds. Burnett MP Stephen Bennett said the funding would go a very long way for the local groups. “Animals with paws, claws, hoofs, fins, legs, wings, feathers and tails are all big winners in the latest GCBF round,” he said. “Bundy Wildlife Rescue has been in desperate need of funds for some time but with a $15,000 grant coming their way, they’ll now be able to purchase a humidicrib and more vital equipment to help our injured animals get better sooner. ....
policy, University of Sheffield Boris Johnson’s government must indeed take responsibility for its many errors in handling the Covid pandemic. A further disastrous misjudgment, which is now seldom referred to, took place even before the virus struck. In the summer of 2019, days after becoming prime minister, Boris Johnson scrapped the cabinet pandemic committee, more properly called the threats, hazards, resilience and contingency committee (THRCC). He did this on the advice of the cabinet secretary, Sir Mark Sedwill, so that civil servants and ministers could focus their energies on Brexit. A Home Office report in July 2018 had said that THRCC was at the heart of protecting the country from a pandemic. Clearly Johnson had other priorities. ....