Investigation launched after Sydney Entertainment Centre roof collapses on worker and other top stories.

• Investigation launched after Sydney Entertainment Centre roof collapses on worker

  

  A worker is lucky to be alive after the roof of the Sydney Entertainment Centre collapsed on top of him. The man was underneath the structure as it came crashing down during demolition works on Saturday morning. The construction union says the worker survived thanks only to being shielded by the excavation machinery he was operating at the time. The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union’s NSW secretary, Brian Parker, claimed worker safety on the project was coming a distant second to ..

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• Arthur Sinodinos pushes for Coalition to cut business taxes

  

  The Liberal powerbroker Arthur Sinodinos has made the case for cutting business taxes over personal income tax breaks, softening the ground for a potential budget announcement next month. Last week the treasurer, Scott Morrison, strongly indicated that the government would not be able to deliver tax cuts in the upcoming budget. Related: Voters prefer health and education spending to tax cuts, poll shows “The best way to drive income tax cuts ultimately is off growth,” he said. “So our focus..

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• Is Canberra really open for business?

  

  Merlin Kong, the new executive director of the Property Council of Australia ACT. Photo: Rohan Thomson No one will contest the fact that Canberra is the centre of government. This is often taken as a given whether we like it or not.With this comes the implicit responsibility that our city must be a place with the best governance. People expect this, and there is no reason why they shouldn't.Given the sheer size and scope of government decision-making in our ..

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• Interim hoverboard ban due to death risk

  

  Interim hoverboard ban due to death risk

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