COVID becomes a soap opera
February 1, 2021 â 9.00pm
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âI guess it had to happen,â says Jack Dikian of Mosman. âA store that specialises in soap products in Sydneyâs lower north shore is having a post COVID-19 sale. The timing seems slippery.â
âI, too, remember the coloured plastic overlay (C8) used to âcolouriseâ black and white TVs,â writes Peter Crowfoot of Normanhurst. âOne of our neighbours had one, and spoke proudly of the one time when the picture on the screen coincided briefly with the colours on the overlay, ie, the green was grass and the blue was sky. Looking further back, when TV came to Australia in 1956, we were living in Taree and the local radio repair shop set up a TV in their window with a speaker outside. A large aerial was mounted on an impressive steel tower in the hope of receiving a signal from the Sydney transmitter. For a few weeks, crowds would gather outside the
The top schools for the most popular HSC subjects revealed
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Private boysâ schools dominated drama, an upper north shore public girlsâ school blitzed Aboriginal studies, and a Wollongong high school was among the best in the state at dance and music.
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Herald analysis of 2020 HSC band 6 results also identified Barker College as an emerging centre for agriculture, while Newcastleâs selective Merewether High was among the stateâs strongest schools in biology, food technology, and textiles and design.
NSW Education Standards Authorityâs HSC data shows how many band 6 results - marks of 90 or more - were achieved by each school in different subjects.
Sydney and Melbourne house prices hit record highs despite the Covid-19 pandemic. In Sydney, the median house price hit $1,211,488 million while Melbourne reached $936,073.
Emission impossible unless political climate changes
January 29, 2021 â 12.05am
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Most thinking people could not fail to be alarmed by John Hewsonâs article about Australiaâs emissions targetsâ catastrophe. Scott Morrison is captive to both his backbench and the fossil fuel lobby he will continue to do nothing to address the issue (âEmissions verdict is catastrophicâ, January 28). To make matters worse, although the government is very vulnerable on its lack of a climate change policy, Anthony Albanese is ineffective in highlighting this failing and its consequences. Perhaps the only thing that will force our recalcitrant politicians to act is the likelihood of a carbon border tax being introduced by the EU and the inevitability that the USA will follow suit.
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While two days without any locally acquired cases is encouraging, it is likely that COVID-19 is continuing to circulate in the community among people who have mild or no symptoms. We must continue to do our utmost to detect every case of COVID-19, as this means the case can isolate appropriately, which prevents the virus being passed on to others.
To detect cases in the community effectively, we need to see higher testing numbers. This is particularly important in Sydney’s west, south-west and northern beaches, as well as Wollongong, because of recent cases who have been in these areas.