Hi there, Paul Lobb with an NBN news update.
- The New South Wales Government has backflipped on the forced amalgamations of regional councils, but the forced mergers of Sydney councils will go ahead.
- New South Wales firefighters are trying to get the upper hand on a massive blaze which has destroyed homes and blackened tens of thousands of hectares of land. The Sir Ivan fire burning to the east of Dunedoo remains at ”watch and act” level. Firefighters are trying to contain the blaze, before conditions worsen.
- More pictures have emerged of a large great white shark in Lake Macquarie south of Newcastle. A fisherman in a four metre tinny snapped these shots of the shark when it snagged his fishing lines in the Swansea Channel off Marks Point.
- An emergency situation is unfolding in California, where crews are urgently working to fix a crumbling dam wall that’s forced the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people.
- Disability services workers from the Hunter have travelled to Sydney to protest at parliament house today about the privitisation of services and a looming funding gab for the NDIS.
- Twenty thousand homes were blacked out across South East Queensland overnight when electrical storms hit the region.
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