nsw government
(SMH) A government rapid response team has been sent to investigate the best available options to save the jobs of hundreds of meat workers on the Darling Downs, west of Brisbane. [..] The Leitch Pastoral Group on Monday stood down 230 staff at an abattoir at Killarney, near Warwick, and a food processing plant at Pittsworth, near Toowoomba. [..] Queensland Premier..said on Tuesday the state government would be working with the company and its workers to try to keep the company afloat. [..] "We have a rapid response team that will be out there talking to those workers and providing them and the company with options about how they can keep the organisation afloat." read more
Wow, a "rapid response team" for Queensland meat workers, and only "human wreckage" for 300 NSW meat workers. Do we all live in the same country? Considering the federal government is letting foreign cattle possibly with dieses into Australia, there seems to be an odd pattern of local Australian abattoirs having problems.
(SMH) Housing in Sydney will not get any cheaper until the NSW government begins releasing land in the city's outer suburbs, the opposition says. [...] According to the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, land release in Sydney has been reduced from a historic average of 10,000 lots per year to less than 2,000 in 2007. Activist Dr Tony Recsei, in his introduction to the survey, said the government needed to move away from high-density housing and begin releasing land in outer Sydney or risk a "Dickensian gloom" read more
Dr Tony Recsei has our vote if ever running for office. The bloke, knowingly or not, is spitting on the UN Agenda 21 plan to herd humans world wide into compact cities and reduce population numbers down. Click here for Dr Tony Recsei's Save Our Suburbs web site.
(SMH) PUBLIC hospitals in NSW are the worst performing in the country when it comes to causing death and serious injuries to patients. Even accounting for NSW having the largest population and the largest number of hospital admissions, the figures still show the state performing worse than the rest of the country, with 40 per cent of sentinel events but only 30 per cent of public hospital admissions. read more
"There are fears that the use of private auditors to check food safety standards at nursing homes and hospitals may lead to a rise in cases of food poisoning in New South Wales. The State Government changed the law to allow private operators to carry out inspections instead of the Food Authority. But the Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association says the change could compromise the health and safety of older people. The Association's Antoine Mangion is concerned it will lead to a drop in food safety standards. "Providers of food services like hospitals and nursing homes will look to find auditors who go soft in the private sector," he said. [...] The Primary Industries Minister Steve Whan says it gives organisations more flexibility as well as providing a greater number of auditors to carry out inspections." read more
More "flexibility" for what? Either food is safe, or it isn't. Gee, they could hire Monsanto to check all the Canola frankin food with GMO's in it.
People working with children could have to pay for their own criminal checks under changes to child protection laws being considered by the NSW Government. [...] It is understood the Government is attracted to the Queensland system, where people working with children must hold what is called a blue card. [...] Applicants for a blue card must pay $61 and undergo a detailed national criminal history check including: any charge or conviction for an offence, whether or not a conviction was recorded; whether someone is a respondent to or subject to an application for a child protection prohibition order or disqualification order; and whether someone is subject to reporting obligations under the Child Protection Act 2004." read more
Australia, the weak kneeling nation where all citizens are guilty until they pay "$61" to prove their innocents.
