By Hope NewsroomMonday 14 Dec 2020NewsReading Time: 2 minutes
Today’s headlines from the Hope News team
Extra crews are on standby as heavy downpours and large surf lash the NSW’s north coast and south-east Queensland.
More than 1000 calls for help have been made to the SES in both states.
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More office workers are returning to their desks for the first time in months.
The NSW Government has lifted a public health order requiring employers to allow employees to work from home.
Commuters are being urged to wear masks while travelling on public transport.
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Germany has announced a hard lockdown over the Christmas period as the number of deaths and infections from COVID-19 reach record levels.
South Korea has reported its worst weekend for coronavirus infections.
While in the United States, the first shipments of a coronavirus vaccine are on their way to medical centres across the country.
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Unions are warning migrant workers in Sydney are being systematically underpaid.
Unions New South Wales says an analysis of foreign language job ads has revealed wages as low as $8 an hour.
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An internal investigation has found basic rules were broken in a NSW Government deal to buy contaminated land near Parramatta.
The land at Camellia was purchased for up to three times the Valuer-General’s estimate of its worth.
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The Federal Government says there’s no point punishing China with higher tariffs on Australian resources.
Beijing has imposed punishing levies on various agricultural, seafood an timber products.
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New research has found young university graduates have virtually no social skills, which is severely impacting their employment chances.
A lack of communication skills is making it harder for young people to get through job interviews, and even if they did get jobs, they struggle in the workplace.