Nick McLaren
Senior News Reporter and Deputy Chief of Staff at ABC Illawarra
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Nick McLaren
Workers from an underground New South Wales coal mine are facing a lockout after taking limited industrial action over wage negotiations. About 160 permanent employees were locked out without pay from Wednesday this week to Thursday next week at the Metropolitan Mine in Helensburgh. The Mining and Energy Union said it would lodge a claim for a 15 per cent wage increase over three years, a one-off market rate increase of $1.50 per hour, plus a $4 increase to crib payments.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Nick McLaren
Scores of households have been converted to run off renewable energy in a significant step towards the goal of electrifying an entire New South Wales postcode. Tosca Lloyd is one of the lucky few to benefit from the Electrify 2515 community pilot, which has so far converted 60 homes in the Illawarra postcode. She said saving money was just as important as addressing climate change.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Nick McLaren |Brooke Chandler
Re-wiring millions of Australian homes to run off electricity and cut emissions sounds like an almost impossible task, but in the NSW postcode of 2515, dozens of houses have already been switched over. A pilot program in northern Illawarra has converted 60 with the aim of transforming the entire postcode.
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Nick McLaren
A man who has accused New South Wales MP Gareth Ward of sexually assaulting him told a parliamentary staffer years after the alleged rape that the politician had "done something" to him, a court has heard. During the third week of the trial a witness who cannot be identified for legal reasons told the NSW District Court he visited the alleged victim two years after the alleged incident. He told the court the man was "very emotional, very distraught" during their discussion.
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3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Nick McLaren |Tim Fernandez
A political staffer has told a trial he was "overcompensating" when he referred to former NSW minister Gareth Ward as "love", more than a year after he was allegedly sexually assaulted by Mr Ward. The member for the NSW South Coast seat of Kiama Gareth Ward is standing trial accused of sexually abusing two men, aged 18 and 24, during two separate incidents in 2015 and 2013.
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A parliamentary staffer has told a NSW court that a man who has accused MP Gareth Ward of sexually assaulting him was "distraught" when he spoke about the alleged incident. https://t.co/T77pG4BgYD
A woman will face court today charged over the alleged stabbing of a woman and child in a roadside confrontation in Dapto near Wollongong. https://t.co/ruUT3812Kp
The defence in the trial of NSW MP Gareth Ward has suggested an alleged sexual assault in Mr Ward's apartment in 2015 never occurred. https://t.co/fm9HhWIMas