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The NSW Legislative Council committee released its findings on March 30. The Stronger Communities Fund issued grants to councils affected by the government’s forced amalgamations in 2016. Inquiry chair and NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge said the fund was ”an alarming example of the lack of transparency and accountability” in grant programs and described it as an election “bribe”. “The fund was originally established to assist councils created from the NSW government’s failed council amalgamations,” he said, “but morphed into a brazen pork-barrel scheme. “Ultimately the Coalition designed a scheme with so few checks and balances that $252 million of public money was handed out on a purely political basis to sort out the Coalition’s political problems, to gain an advantage in the 2019 state election and to punish any council that had objected to being forcibly merged.” ....
VeHealth Minister Greg Hunt says the fact there have been over 100 million cases of COVID-19 worldwide but Australia has gone 12 days without community transmission is an "immensely powerful reminder of Australia's circumstances". ....
We ve had discussions with the Chief Health Officer during the week and are confident tomorrow there will be changes to settings, he said. Anyone who is now in an orange zone and meets the permit criteria can now apply for an orange zone permit, while exemption applications will no longer be required for Cumberland. Travel from an orange zone to Victoria requires people to self-isolate on arrival and get tested within 72 hours of arrival, isolating until they receive a negative result. Travel from a green zone requires people to watch and get tested if they have any symptoms at all. ....
VIC Premier Following continued low community transmission and exposure risk, from 6:00pm tonight the last red zone in New South Wales will now transition to an orange zone, allowing anyone from New South Wales with a permit to enter Victoria. From 6:00pm (Victorian EADT) tonight the Local Government Area (LGA) of Cumberland will transition to an orange zone and all remaining orange zones will transition to green. This means the Greater Sydney LGAs of Blacktown City, Burwood, Canada Bay City, Canterbury-Bankstown, Fairfield City, Inner West, Parramatta City and Strathfield Municipality and Liverpool will move from orange to green. Wollongong and the Blue Mountains will also move to green, leaving Cumberland as the only remaining orange zone. ....