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Train delays expected in Sydney due to worker strike

Public transport travel delays are expected in Sydney today as train workers walk off the job for planned industrial action. Train services will be ceased from 8:30am until 2pm. The network-wide pause is due to union disputes with the state government over pay and workplace safety. Via news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site https://www.news.com.au
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Netball trades: Training partners get Giant lift

The pair, training partners in 2021, both experienced court time through the season as the Giants pushed to the grand final.Sligar, an athletic defensive midcourter with great aerial skills, stepped in for the injured Kristiana Manu’a early last season, including in round two when she won a starring role when both Manu’a and Amy Parmenter were unavailable.“I’m so excited to be offered a contract for 2022 and am looking forward to the year ahead,” she said.“To play elite netball has been a dream of mine since I started playing netball and it is crazy to think that some of my idols are now going to be my teammates.“I have loved every minute of my time at the Giants so far and I am excited to continue on as a full-time contracted athlete next season.”Brought into the side as a temporary replacement player last season after Kiera Austin suffered a season-ending knee injury, Letherbarrow has earned a permanent place in the 10 after Austin’s move to the Vixens.Letherbarrow said she was over
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‘Serious conflict’: Troops on alert at border

Already tense relations between Serbia and its former breakaway region have grown worse since the ethnic Albanian-led government there on Monday dispatched the police units to an area mainly populated by minority ethnic Serbs, who reject the authority of the government in Kosovo’s capital Pristina.The deployment came as hundreds of ethnic Serbs have staged daily protests against a decision to require drivers with Serbian registration plates to put on temporary ones when entering Kosovo – a “reciprocal measure”, according to Pristina.“No one here wants a conflict and I hope there won’t be one,” said a 45-year-old protester who identified himself as Ljubo and was camped at the Jarinje border crossing.“We want Pristina to withdraw its forces and cancel the decision on licence plates.” Hundreds of Serbs in Kosovo have been protesting and blocking traffic with trucks on the roads leading to two border crossings.“After the provocations by the (special police) units … Serbian President Aleksa
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