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Eccles, entering his fifth season playing at Jets games, has been part of the live game experience at hockey games in downtown Winnipeg for well over a decade.

The figure has slumped from 50 per cent just two weeks ago and is 19 points below the 63 per cent peak recorded in May, according to an Essential poll released on Tuesday.

Normal text size Very large text size Herbert Prochnow, an American banking executive and noted toastmaster, once described a public servant as someone who hires someone to do the work that they were hired to do. Former British prime minister Tony Blair thought that bureaucracy was great at managing things but not great at changing things. Amid a new debate over public sector pay, analysis from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age has found Australia’s top bureaucrats are earning vastly mo...

Pexco Acquires Altaflo Pexco LLC, a North American specialty plastics extruder, has acquired Altaflo LLC. Based in Sparta, NJ, Altaflo produces high-performance fluoropolymer and fluoroplastic extrusions for a wide variety of industries, including aerospace, pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, electronics and filtration. Sam Patel, Pexco CEO, stated, “The acquisition of Altaflo significantly expands our high-performance polymer capabilities and technical expertise and brings a proprietary suit...

And they’re prepared to pay an eye-watering amount – up to $360,000 – for the right person.

And they’re prepared to pay an eye-watering amount – up to $360,000 – for the right person.

News by Anthony Piovesan   Daniel Andrews "endorsed" the controversial decision to hire private security guards in Victorias first hotel quarantine program, according to a new report. The Public Accounts and Estimates Committee (PAEC) report, authored by opposition MPs and was tabled in parliament on Tuesday, found the decision to use private security guards was made by the Department of Premier and Cabinet. The report also said the decision was "more lik...

Documents revealed under FOI show pressure was applied to the supposedly independent regulator, the Environment Protection Authority, to force through...

Advertisement Cathy Wilkinson’s first day as boss of the Environment Protection Authority was undoubtedly a trial by fire. At 7.30am on August 30, 2018 the EPA’s crisis response centre received an alert that an "eight alarm" emergency had been declared in West Footscray. Firefighters were battling the worst industrial blaze in two decades at an illicit chemical waste dump that was spewing a toxic smoke plume across the city and turning a nearby creek into a river of fire. The aftermath of t...

Australia: Victorian Hotel Quarantine Inquiry finds “failure of governance” The Board of Inquiry into Victoria’s disastrous Hotel Quarantine Program delivered its final report on December 21. Genomic testing has revealed that the state’s second wave of COVID-19, which resulted in 801 deaths and more than 18,000 infections, almost certainly originated in two of the hotels used to quarantine returned travellers. Predictably, the report is a whitewash. Justice Jennifer Coate’s recommenda...