They kept their doors open during the worst weeks of the pandemic. Now early childhood educators say they feel betrayed by the government’s decision to cut emergency fee support.
Keeping distance could hang around long after restrictions ease, while the stigma of handshakes and hugs may be hard to shake.
Times Past
Reports of deaths associated with a hormone program were making news on this day in 1985. The Health Department had stopped a hormone treatment program, and encouraged all patients who had received treatment to be contacted urgently after reports of four deaths overseas. A spokesman for the Health Department said the Australian Growth Hormone Program had been stopped purely as a precautionary measure. The program was to promote growth in stunted children with the hormone hGH, and also treated some types of infertility in women with the hormone hPG. READ MORE