Gladys issues plea to save Sydney - NEWS.com.au

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she is keen for workers to head back to the office as soon as possible in a desperate bid to save the city businesses that have sat dormant for up to eight months.

Speaking to 2GB on Wednesday, Ms Berejiklian said it was important for people to support businesses in the major city centres across the state – referencing not only the Sydney CBD but also Parramatta, Liverpool and Wollongong.

“We want people to start going back to the CBD, no doubt about it, but we want to make sure it’s done safely, so we’re giving people good instruction on public transport, options to drive and park, active transport, having different hours of starting and finishing,” she said.

“We want people to support those economies and those businesses that have essentially been inactive for seven to eight months.”

Her comments come after Peter Woolcott, head of the Australian Public Service Commission, asked employees to begin returning to the office if there had been “limited or no community transmission of COVID-19”.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison made a similar plea to public service workers on Tuesday, asking employees to return to the office to help save struggling businesses.

“It is important whether it’s here in the ACT or in Sydney or in Brisbane or Perth or anywhere else where the health advice enables it – obviously Victoria is still in a different position right now – for public servants to be back in their offices, buying their lunch at the local cafe and doing all of those things which support particularly those CBD economies,” he said.

He said private businesses should follow suit and create nuanced plans to deal with COVID-19 from state to state.

“If your head office is in Melbourne, that doesn’t mean that your office in Perth should be operating on the same COVIDSafe plan to the one in Melbourne,” he said.

“We also have large multinational companies running their COVIDSafe arrangements based on what’s happening in Paris or New York or in London.

“Those rules are probably very appropriate in all of those places. But they don’t make much sense in Adelaide.”

Let's block ads! (Why?)

https://news.google.com/__i/rss/rd/articles/CBMiemh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm5ld3MuY29tLmF1L2ZpbmFuY2Uvd29yay9hdC13b3JrL2dsYWR5cy1pc3N1ZXMtcGxlYS10by1zYXZlLXN5ZG5leS9uZXdzLXN0b3J5L2I4NjIxZTZiOGEyNzk1MmNiMWVjNTYyYTVmZjZkNTcz0gF6aHR0cHM6Ly9hbXAubmV3cy5jb20uYXUvZmluYW5jZS93b3JrL2F0LXdvcmsvZ2xhZHlzLWlzc3Vlcy1wbGVhLXRvLXNhdmUtc3lkbmV5L25ld3Mtc3RvcnkvYjg2MjFlNmI4YTI3OTUyY2IxZWM1NjJhNWZmNmQ1NzM?oc=5

2020-09-29 23:03:03Z
CBMiemh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm5ld3MuY29tLmF1L2ZpbmFuY2Uvd29yay9hdC13b3JrL2dsYWR5cy1pc3N1ZXMtcGxlYS10by1zYXZlLXN5ZG5leS9uZXdzLXN0b3J5L2I4NjIxZTZiOGEyNzk1MmNiMWVjNTYyYTVmZjZkNTcz0gF6aHR0cHM6Ly9hbXAubmV3cy5jb20uYXUvZmluYW5jZS93b3JrL2F0LXdvcmsvZ2xhZHlzLWlzc3Vlcy1wbGVhLXRvLXNhdmUtc3lkbmV5L25ld3Mtc3RvcnkvYjg2MjFlNmI4YTI3OTUyY2IxZWM1NjJhNWZmNmQ1NzM

Bagikan Berita Ini