Alerts issued for flights,more NSW venues as Victoria bans travel from Sydney ‘red zones’

Alerts issued for flights,more NSW venues as Victoria bans travel from Sydney ‘red zones’

The growing eastern suburbs cluster has prompted New Zealand to pause quarantine-free travel with NSW and for Victoria to declare seven Sydney local government areas “red zones”.

  • byMary Ward,Lucy Carroll,Laura Chung andDaniella White

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‘We cannot drop our guard’:Big drop in coronavirus check-ins in NSW venues

‘We cannot drop our guard’:Big drop in coronavirus check-ins in NSW venues

Health and government authorities have warned NSW will need to be vigilant with testing and checking in at venues after it became the only state to not implement a border closure with Victoria.

  • byMary Ward andLucy Carroll
Service NSW employee spoke in made up language to disguise corrupt conduct:ICAC

Service NSW employee spoke in made up language to disguise corrupt conduct:ICAC

Diana Benyamin used her job within the agency to engage in serious corrupt conduct over several incidents in 2019,including when she agreed to alter a friend car’s registration in exchange for $500,a commission heard.

  • byLaura Chung
‘This must not be permanent’:Privacy experts sound alarm over QR codes

‘This must not be permanent’:Privacy experts sound alarm over QR codes

Customer Service Minister Victor Dominello says personal data collected by the COVID-19 check-in tool will not be shared with the police,but privacy experts remain concerned.

  • byAndrew Taylor
After 10 years governing NSW,a tick for the Coalition as economic managers

After 10 years governing NSW,a tick for the Coalition as economic managers

There have been lapses,but the state economy is in good shape and the government has presided over a mostly worthy infrastructure program.

  • byPercy Allan
Pandemic recovery vouchers launched in The Rocks,Broken Hill

Pandemic recovery vouchers launched in The Rocks,Broken Hill

NSW residents will soon be able to access their promised vouchers for dining out and other recreational activities,as the trial of the Dine&Discover program kicks off.

  • byMary Ward
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Phone app could be passport when vaccine starts in mid-February

Phone app could be passport when vaccine starts in mid-February

Premier Gladys Berejiklian believes,rather than punishing people for not being vaccinated,there would be"positive ways"the government could encourage uptake.

  • byMary Ward andChip Le Grand
No new COVID-19 cases in NSW as residents who stayed at Brisbane hotel located

No new COVID-19 cases in NSW as residents who stayed at Brisbane hotel located

Ten people who were quarantined at a Brisbane hotel before returning home to NSW are in isolation,as the state records no new local coronavirus cases.

  • byNatassia Chrysanthos andMary Ward
Mandatory Service NSW check-in app suffers outage

Mandatory Service NSW check-in app suffers outage

Thousands of people were unable to check in at venues across NSW on Thursday after a statewide outage on the NSW government's signature Service NSW app.

  • byLucy Cormack
Service NSW data breach affected 80,000 fewer people than first thought
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Service NSW data breach affected 80,000 fewer people than first thought

Service NSW revealed in September that 186,000 people were affected by a data breach. The true figure is 80,000 less - and about 25,000 people were wrongfully warned their data had been compromised.

  • byLucy Cormack
How paper created a vulnerability for cyber criminals to steal 186,000 people's data

How paper created a vulnerability for cyber criminals to steal 186,000 people's data

Passports,banking and Medicare details were potentially exposed in photocopied and scanned paper documents stored inside the email accounts of 47 Service NSW employees.

  • byLucy Cormack