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Australia needs to double its blood donation effort for the rest of the year to ensure a healthy supply, the Red Cross says. COVID-19 restrictions, including lockdowns, have hit donor rates, and the Australian Red Cross's Lifeblood division is appealing for people to come forward. Australia needs nearly 7000 donations in the next fortnight and to double appointments through until Christmas, donor services director Cath Stone said. COVID-19 lockdowns have led to many Aussies cancelling regular blood donations with the country needing to double its blood donation by the end of the year to ensur...

Premium Content Subscriber only AN alarming rate of Ipswich residents are cancelling their appointments to donate much-needed blood, with some simply not turning up on the day. Last-minute cancellations saw 44,000 donor couches left empty across Australia in April with the demand for blood at its highest level in more than a decade. Australian Red Cross Lifeblood spokeswoman Cath Stone said during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic there was a strong response to appeals for blood donors but that had since waned. She said currently only half of all appointments are being kept and a third of t...

Sydney news: Sutherland Shire Council rejects demand to hand over Jannali carpark to Transport for NSW Posted MonMonday 1 updated TueTuesday 2 Share Print text only Council won't budge on carpark Some of the residents who are fighting to save their homes from forced acquisition. ( Supplied: Tom Richards) A south Sydney council has rejected the state government's ultimatum to hand over a shopping centre carpark or see local residents' homes demolished. At a meeting on Monday, the Sutherland Shire Council voted unanimously to knock back Transport for NSW's (TfNSW) demand that a council owned c...

Road crash victims, people undergoing surgery and women experiencing complications during childbirth also rely on blood donations. The period between Boxing Day and 2 January is when platelet stocks are under the most pressure. Many blood donor centres around the nation will be open between Christmas and New Year. Meanwhile, the Red Cross says people in Wollongong, Sydney and the Central Coast of NSW can continue giving blood under certain conditions after a coronavirus outbreak in the state. But donors from Sydney's Northern Beaches - the epicentre of the outbreak - are being told to stay at...