around the traps
- John Barilaro received plum New York trade job after senior public servant had already been offered it | New South Wales politics | The Guardian:
The New South Wales government offered a plum trade commissioner job to a senior public servant with a stellar résumé, only to rescind the offer and later appoint the former deputy premier John Barilaro after readvertising the $500,000-a-year role.
...and eventually: John Barilaro withdraws from $500,000 New York trade job - ABC News:Mr Barilaro has told Investment NSW his position has become untenable and a distraction for the government.
- Family of Hungry Panda delivery rider killed at work awarded $834,000 in landmark decision | Gig economy | The Guardian:
The family of a Happy Panda delivery rider killed in Sydney in 2020 will receive more than $800,000 under the NSW workers' compensation scheme, in what the union says is the first case where a gig economy worker has been considered an employee.
- January 6 testimony puts Donald Trump in even greater legal peril | January 6 hearings | The Guardian:
The response from the former president is significant for two main reasons: it makes clear that he had been informed that his supporters were carrying weapons, and that he knew those armed people intended to make a non-permitted march to the Capitol.
& Angry, violent, reckless: testimony paints shocking portrait of Trump | January 6 hearings | The Guardian:How bad his critics think it was, there is always another revelation around the corner that shows it was even worse.
- 'Forgotten' renters hope recent federal election will turn the tide for housing policies - ABC News:
According to figures from the just released 2021 Census, there are 2.8 million rental households, accounting for more than 30 per cent of the population.
- What It's Like to Be Allergic to Corn - The Atlantic
- SXSW 2023: Sydney to host South by Southwest culture festival | SXSW | The Guardian:
South by Southwest is heading to Sydney in 2023, the first time the pop culture and “futurist” festival has branched outside the US since its launch in 1987.
- 'Better than we dared imagine': Sydney Opera House unveils its 'miracle' new concert hall | Sydney Opera House | The Guardian:
After two years of renovations, a room once blighted by poor acoustics and outdated machinery can now accommodate musicians previously turned away, with a push of a button
- March of the penguin: the forces behind the secessionist Victorian Independence Movement | Victorian politics | The Guardian:
With a straight face, it proposes “breaking free of the failed Australian federation”. It diagnoses “Sydney brane” – a so-called affliction among the political and media class that makes them believe nothing happens in the country until it happens in the New South Wales state capital – and pokes fun at the “treasurer for NSW”, a phrase coined by the now member for Kooyong, Monique Ryan, to describe Josh Frydenberg.
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...and here it is breaking the Goodwood hill climb speed record:
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