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New South Wales public sector workers such as teachers and nurses will have their pay frozen for a year.
Beijing leaps to defend Daniel Andrews over Victoria's controversial Belt and Road deal with China 
China's Melbourne consulate has hit back at 'negative remarks' over President Xi Jinping's signature policy and has jumped to the defence of the Victorian government
The communist superpower has imposed a tax on barley and banned some Aussie beef after the Morrison government called for an inquiry into coronavirus.
The Premiers in New South Wales and Queensland have a frosty relationship, which may be contributing to tensions about border closures during the coronavirus crisis, insiders say. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and New South Wales' Gladys Berejiklian 'just don't like each other', a former political insider said. Ms Palaszczuk reportedly pulled Ms Berejiklian into line during a Council of Australian Government meeting after the latter took over from Mike Baird in 2017.
A shadowy group within the Chinese Communist Party, known as the United Front, cleverly influences public opinion by setting up a series of community groups. Then there are pro-China politicians.
Chinese state media has urged Scott Morrison to 'muzzle' a group of anti-China MPs known as the Wolverines to avoid 'irreversible damage'.
Earlier this year Mr Hastie and Kimberley Kitching went for dinner with the US ambassador Arthur B Culvahouse in Canberra. The Global Times accused them of making him an 'honorary' member of the Wolverines
Ms Berejiklian (pictured) defended her government's plan, saying it was necessary to help the economy and protect more jobs
Today host Allison Langdon has accused the NSW government of ignoring the sacrifices made by brave frontline workers during the coronavirus pandemic as it tries to freeze their pay.
The controversial decision to award huge pay rises to bureaucrats while denying increases to ordinary public sector workers prompted the fierce TV debate on Wednesday.
New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian tried to defend the government's plans, with Ms Langdon calling it a 'bad look'.
The state government is hoping to save millions in a series of budget cuts, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to batter the economy.
This includes a pay freeze for all public sector workers, including firefighters who tackled the fatal bushfires, as well as nurses and doctors battling COVID-19.
But pen-pushers in the state government will still get their planned pay rises, as they were agreed to in August 2019, before the pandemic struck.
NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller will bag a pay rise of nearly $90,000, a 12.5 per increase that takes his salary to a whopping $649,500.
However, the attempt to block pay rises for public servants was blocked in the NSW Upper House, forcing the government into a showdown with unions before the Industrial Relations Commission.
Speaking about the controversial scheme on Today on Wednesday, Ms Langdon accused Ms Berejiklian of treating hard-working staff unfairly.
'It's not a very good morning. You did lose in the Upper House,' she told the premier.
'You can't be surprised, though?'
Putin's Response to Russia's COVID-19 Crisis Angers Medical Workers Anger is growing among medical professionals in Russia at insufficient COVID-19 protections and promised bonus payments that have not materialized,Adding to the mounting discontent with President Vladimir Putin's handling of the coronavirus crisis. At the start of April, Putin announced that nurses, paramedics and ambulance drivers would get monthly payouts of between 25,000 and 50,000 roubles (AU$ 530 and 1060) with doctors at the frontline being told to expect payments of around 80,000 roubles.
However a month later, most are yet to see the money and many have shared images on social media of payslips that display bonuses up to 100 timesSmaller than promised. Those who have formally complained have received visits from law enforcement, according to multiple reports. The head of the Moscow-based League for the Protection of Doctors, Simon Galperin, has said he fears that Russia will have the Highest number of doctors sickened by the virus in the world and that the federal and regional governments are not taking their Concerns seriously.
"The problem is that our officials don't want to agree with the situation. In a lot of cases when we found that a doctor became ill,
Officials have said that this is not because he was working in hospital, this is not connected with his job. It was from outside of his working
Place," Galperin told Newsweek.
"It is a huge problem but it is difficult to prove," he added.
In early May, medical staff protested outside of a hospital in Armavir in the southern Krasnodar region. One Moscow doctor claimed that the
Bonuses for April which varied between $2 to $120, were calculated by the hour.
The staff of prime minister Mikhail Mishustin, who was himself diagnosed with COVID-19, have been in the firing line for the unpaid bonuses and
He has complained that there was not enough clarity in the Putin's decree for the increased payments, giving regional officials loopholes not to pay out.
Galperin said that medical staff are not getting the money "because of the regional government and regional ministers of health care who are
Trying to avoid the payment."
Anna Arutunyan, author of The Putin Mystique and senior Russian analyst at the International Crisis Group, said it has been problematic that the president delegated the COVID-19 response to the regions without giving them sufficient financial and administrative resources.
"Unfortunately the people who bear the brunt of this are going to be the doctors, because they have been traditionally treated like service workers," she told Newsweek.
The dispute about pay and PPE deficiencies has added to rancor against Putin and the authorities, which differs from pro-democracy campaigners' protests about his rule.