Northern NSW Local Health District has taken a measured approach to elective surgery throughout the pandemic and will continue to do so. Wayne Jones, Chief Executive NNSWLHD said today NNSWLHD will work towards increasing elective surgery activity to 75 percent by the end of June 2020. “This will involve consultation with our surgical and anaesthetic directors, as well as hospital…

A new report from the Practical Justice Initiative at UNSW Sydney asks policymakers, and society more broadly, to reflect on the values that guide our insurance models in the light of climate-induced extremes like the 2019-20 megafires in Australia. Under Australia’s current bushfire insurance regime, more than 445,000 homes are predicted to be uninsurable within 30 years. This number is…

Two local businesses have set aside their own COVID-related challenges to give back to the Clarence Valley community. Clarence Kitchen Collective and Roches Family Hotel have combined efforts to put meals on the table for families doing it tough at the moment. Marijke VanderVlist and her team at the Clarence Kitchen Collective have been gathering donations from their customers to…

We have found some specialist meeting software that caters for voting which we are evaluating so that we can hold our meetings remotely in each of our home and still comply to the governance requirements of running an incorporated association and charity. We are in the process of testing and will let you all know once we are up and…