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Emergency crews helping clean up after ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily hits Queensland
Emergency crews are busy helping local communities in Queensland with the clean-up following ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily and the subsequent heavy rain and flooding.
The acting commissioner of the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service, Steven Smith, told ABC RN crews would be assisting with wash outs, tarping, leaking or damaged properties, and removing debris:
Queenslanders are incredibly resilient. Every time the challenge of these events is significant for individuals, there’s loss and there’s impact and there’s a mental toll that comes with the loss associated with events of this nature.
What you see is mates helping mates, neighbours helping each other [and] communities wrapping around and providing support to try and get people back on their feet, and bring normality back to their lives and get them back on a path to recovery.
Updated at 16.54 EST18m ago16.41 EST
Adelaideans targeted in new NSW regional living push
The latest effort to persuade city-dwellers to flock to the NSW regions has been extended to Adelaide’s essential workforce, AAP reports.
The Make the Move campaign aims to boost the number of essential workers in regional NSW by spotlighting the stories of nurses, police, teachers, firefighters and midwives who quit the city for the regions.
But workers in Sydney are not the only ones in the government’s sights. The extensive ad campaign will also aim to encourage South Australian essential workers to consider moving to nearby regional NSW communities such as Broken Hill.
Broken Hill is the only NSW community to use South Australia’s time zone and also uses Adelaide as its major medical base.
The premier, Chris Minns, said his government was serious about ensuring the people of regional NSW had access to quality critical services, and “a robust regional workforce is a vital part of that”.
Updated at 16.44 EST23m ago16.36 EST
Purcell says she is ‘happy to be the sacrifice’ to start conversation on AI laws
Georgie Purcell told ABC RN she is “more than happy to be the sacrifice to start this conversation” around AI.
She also said we need to do more to make public life more welcoming to women:
I think we’ve done a lot of work and come a long way in regards to the really obvious, vulgar ways in which women were treated, we’re not seeing the Julia Gillard-esque style of sexism anymore. What happens in more subtle and perverse ways [is] just like what happened to me this week.
Purcell said…
2024-01-30 16:36:41
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