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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 the fire at the West Footscray factory.
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As EPA air and water pollution experts scrambled to get to the scene, the governing board made the decision that it also needed to immediately replace the chief executive.
Sydney s July v December outbreaks compared
By Ben Grubb
Covid19data.com.au has compared Sydney s July Crossroads Hotel and December Avalon/patient transport worker outbreaks, which makes for an interesting comparison.
The charts (embedded below) track the first coronavirus cases in July associated with and following the Crossroads cluster and the first December Avalon case (and subsequent outbreaks, such as the Croydon and BWS Berala clusters) against each other. In July, there were 155 cases on day 18 of that outbreak compared to 188 on day 18 now. When Sydney last had 155 active cases, it took more than three months (greater than 100 days) to get back to consecutive days of zero local cases being reported.
Victoria-NSW border shuts, with any remaining travellers to be turned away or required to quarantine
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There were long queues of cars on Thursday night as Victorians abandoned New South Wales holiday plans to return home.
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Victorians in New South Wales raced to get back into the state before the hard border closure came into effect overnight, as the coronavirus cluster linked to a Melbourne restaurant rises to 10 cases.
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Victoria closed its border to New South Wales from 11:59pm on Friday
Contact tracers believe it is likely Victoria s cluster is linked to the New South Wales outbreak
Victorians asked to persevere despite testing centre delays in bid to quell Melbourne coronavirus outbreak
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Hundreds of people queued to be tested at the Chadstone drive-through site on Saturday morning before it hit capacity.
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Victorians are being encouraged to bring plenty of water and materials to keep themselves occupied when they attend testing sites that have been swamped by returned travellers from New South Wales.
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