Cool intentions: how Sweltering Cities aims to cool urban communities
Brandon Bear profiles Sweltering Cities, an organisation working with communities in our hottest suburbs to campaign for more liveable, equitable and sustainable cities.
workplace health and safety
ACTU calls for free RATs, safe workplaces
With Australia experiencing the highest per capita Covid infection rates in the world, the ACTU is calling for free rapid antigen tests and says it will “do everything within its power to ensure the safety of workers”.
Life with Covid-19: essential worker speaks out
Despite the NSW Government’s admission that essential workplaces are key sites of Covid-19 transmission, it has done little to address workers’ concerns, reports Isaac Nellist.
Sydney Coles workers ‘force management to act on Covid-19 threat’
Workers at a Coles distribution warehouse in Sydney have alleged managers put profits above their health and safety, failing to take appropriate Covid-safe measures.