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We’ll be on election watch today. Late on Friday, the high court cleared the decks foragainst the prime minister’s contentious captain’s picks in key New South Wales seats.
However there have also been reports of Liberal MPs booking flights and accommodation in Canberra for the upcoming sitting week of the lower house, suggesting Morrison might not pull the trigger this weekend and that the parliamentary calendar will resume as scheduled. Anything is possible.on the first day of school holidays, with forecasts warning it will take time for water to drain from saturated catchments.
Heavy falls eased across much of NSW on Friday, however flooding is likely to continue in parts of greater Sydney throughout the weekend. River rises were still being observed in the Hawkesbury-Nepean on Friday and 13 evacuation orders remained in place across 11 low-lying suburbs. Some 1,200 people remain under evacuation order, and a further 1,500 had been given warnings they may still need to leave.granted provisional approval for the Pfizer vaccine to be administered as a booster to 12 to 15-year-olds yesterday.
Don’t fret – we’ll bring you even the faintest sniff of election news, and all other news, right here on the blog today.
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