Picture: stock The NSW Government has agreed to a pay deal for more than 50,000 workers with the Health Services Union (HSU). The agreement covers professions like allied health roles, hospital cleaners, scientists, security officers and patient transport officers. The new deal means a one-year pay increase of 3.5 per cent (plus 0.5 per cent…
Picture: stock It’s that time of year when fashion, food and wine head to the racetrack as the four-day Melbourne Cup Carnival returns. Racing Minister Anthony Carbines is predicting a massive boost for the city. “Nobody does spring racing like Victoria,” he says. “This year’s carnival will provide a massive boost to our hotels, retailers,…
Picture: stock UKRANIAN leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reached out to South Korea amid fears over the growing presence of North Korean troops in his country. In a social media post, Zelenskyy says he talked to South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol and thanked him for aid provided and pledged. “We discussed the involvement of North…
Picture: stock AS Americans, and everyone else, gears up for the US presidential election on the first Tuesday in November this year, there is one notable feature about the electoral process. The Electoral College was established by the founding leaders of revolutionary America, according to the US National Archives (click here for original article). The…
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket launches as part of the Artemis I flight test in Florida. Photo: NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA says it has identified nine potential landing regions on the lunar South Pole as it prepares to send a manned crew back to the Moon. The US space agency says the specific regions are for…
Photographer: WHO / Acer Apis An Australian Centre for Disease Control is to be established to better guide future responses to pandemics, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says. He made the comment in response to the release of the report of an independent inquiry into the country’s COVID-19 response. Mr Albanese says the centre is a…