Australia news live: more ACT schools closed over health fears from coloured play sand; NSW deadlocked on workers’ comp reform
More than a dozen primary and preschools close doors after asbestos warning issued for range of colourful children’s products. Follow today’s news live
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Some ACT schools partially closed, with preschools also affected over asbestos warning for play sand
The list of schools closed in the ACT also includes partial closures affecting multiple classes and preschool closures.
What we’ve done is been very clear and said we’re going back to an approach where the market will determine the types of technologies and the pathways. And that is the traditional Liberal approach to addressing these types of issues. And that’s how business gets certainty because it enables the market to dictate.
I think people will understand that they don’t want us racing ahead of the rest of the world, costing us manufacturing jobs, costing us industry jobs and putting unrealistic and unreasonable pressure on households because of their electricity bills.
