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Victoria is reporting a spike in Covid related deaths, after 28 people lost their lives overnight:

Rally outside NSW parliament to protest government's wages policy

We are losing skilled teachers, nurses, cleaners - and we're going to have more pressure in NSW for services to be provided that we can't retain.

It's not much to ask and the government needs to act.