| |  In recent weeks, there has been an incredible outpouring of emotion from ABC Radio Sydney listeners sending their “Messages from Lockdown” to fellow Sydneysiders. You might have heard them being played back across the programs throughout the day and we’ve launched a video to share the uplifting messages with the rest of the country. Check out the video here, and make sure you have your box of tissues on hand!
Thank you everyone who took the time to call in. Hang in there Sydney and NSW, all of Australia is cheering us on. |
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| Vaccination blitz in southwest Sydney |
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| Parts of Sydney most affected by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak currently have the fastest vaccination pace in the country. A fortnight ago, the southwest had the lowest first dose vaccination rate in the city, but it has now overtaken inner Sydney. Check out the vaccination rates of regions in Sydney. | | SEE VACCINATION RATES |
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 Take the Sydney Science Trail to uncover cutting-edge science at home |
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It’s National Science Week! And instead of creating a cosmological, paradoxical event where all space, time and matter ceases to exist, just go on an online adventure. The Sydney Science Trail, full of Interactive games, activities, virtual tours and fascinating science talks. Watch ABC Radio Nightlife host Suzanne Hill talk with scientists for The Great Space Debate and catch ABC Radio Sydney's Evenings’ presenter Sarah Macdonald tomorrow for Forensic Friday.
It’s free and, compared to existential annihilation, safe! Join the mission to save the planet! Follow the Sydney Science Trail. |
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| NSW Police investigate people receiving Covid-19 vaccines reserved for frontline workers |
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| About 60 people are believed to have been given COVID-19 vaccinations at a Sydney hospital that they weren't eligible for. NSW Police's cyber crime squad is working to track down dozens of people who were vaccinated at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney's inner west last Friday. | | READ MORE |
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 | Josh Szeps named Podcast Host of the Year |
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The 2021 Radio Today Podcast Awards have crowned Josh Szeps the Podcast Host or Presenter of the Year for his hit interview show Uncomfortable Conversations.
Josh is a television and radio broadcaster and is a familiar voice to ABC Sydney listeners, regularly filling in on Breakfast, Focus, Afternoons, Drive and Evenings throughout the year. |
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 | Children isolated from parents in COVID-19 ward |
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A NSW health care worker says COVID-positive children who are separated from their parents are frightened and overwhelmed. The nurse at Sydney's Westmead Children's Hospital has shared her difficult experience caring for infected paediatric patients amid the worsening Delta outbreak in Sydney. |
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 | What would it say on the back of your biography? |
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To celebrate the State Library of NSW National Biography Awards, we’re asking you to write in 50 words or less, the blurb to your own life story. Up for grabs is a complete pack of this year’s six shortlisted biographies. ABC Sydney host Cassie McCullagh will be announcing the winning entry from 10am on Thursday 26 August on Focus alongside this year’s National Biography Award winners.
To enter submit your blurb before midday on Wednesday 25 August by emailing cassie@abc.net.au. When submitting your entry please include your name, phone number and home address. Happy writing!
For more information click here. |
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| How small rituals can help to find a balance in lockdown |
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| Working from home can make it difficult to distinguish between work life and home life. Here are some small rituals that will help to switch between different parts of your life and tips to unwind at the end of a work day. | | READ MORE |
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 | Hetty McKinnon's Thai green curry noodle soup |
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This irresistible dish is part way between a curry and a noodle soup. It's the best of both worlds — a rich, aromatic soup base redolent of Thai curries, fortified with rice noodles, making this a wonderful, satisfying one-bowl meal. |
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