Weekly wrap: Jobs, rates, DA approvals and health messages

The news never stops, and I like it that way.

I am on the second week of my holidays so I enjoyed reading the Leader this week as you would, rather than as its editor.

The Leader team covered subjects as varied as jobs, rates, DA approvals and health messages.

Here are my highlights from the Leader team this week.

Jim Gainsford told us the great rates debate has returned to Bayside Council. Oh to be a fly on the wall at the coffee break at last week's meeting.

Murray Trembath tells us Sydney airport workers from Qantas, Virgin and Dnata will fight to save their jobs from a campaign based in the same building in which Prime Minister Scott Morrison's electoral office is located at Cronulla. Workers uniting is never a bad thing; let's hope the extra pressure from the workers gets them a good result.

Jim tells us the news that Qantas may relocate its headquarters from Mascot in Sydney was met with some choice words from local mayors.

Murray reports that big changes are ahead for the popular beachfront Cook at Kurnell cafe, which has operated for the last four years from a converted vintage Airstream caravan. The cafe was one of the first places I went to with my wife and our pooch when we first got to Sydney. We loved it. We hope the new plans don't spoil its rustic charm.

Merryn Porter tells us a team from South Eastern Sydney Local Health District's Public Health Unit has visited more than 360 businesses over the past two months to advise them about safe operating practices during the coronavirus pandemic. It is a different kind of front-line health work, and one we at the Leader hope continues.

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Thanks for reading the Leader, enjoy your Sunday read and I'll catch up with you next week.