June 19, 2020
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Cats back health bid Geelong has become the irst AFL club to team up with the Healthy Schools Achievement Program, Cancer Council Victoria has announced. Cats AFLW 2020 best and fairest and All-Australian midielder Olivia Purcell visited participating school Our Lady Star of the Sea on Wednesday to celebrate the partnership. The partnership will enable schools to achieve many of the program’s milestones by participating in the Cats’ community outreach initiatives. Cats community development general manager Sarah Albon said the club was always trying to make a positive difference with young people. “This unique partnership will see schools within our region embed our programs and practices and inspire kids to embrace healthy habits.” The Healthy Schools Achievement Program operates in 65 schools in greater Geelong, in a bid to help more than 30,800 students build healthy habits. The program encourages schools to achieve milestones in areas including physical activity, healthy eating, mental health and wellbeing and safe environments. Luke Voogt
OLIVIA PURCELL WITH OPAL, BOHDI AND JULIA
Avalon ready for takeoff By Luke Voogt Avalon Airport is “gearing up” for the return of domestic lights, according to chief executive oicer Justin Giddings. “We’re very conident we’ll return sooner rather than later,” he told the Independent. his week Mr Giddings announced Avalon had become one of the irst Australian airports to transition to 100 per cent computed tomography technology. he new “state-of-the-art” technology included a Rapiscan CT scanner, body scanner and checked baggage screening (CBS), he said.
“We certainly wouldn’t be doing all this work if we weren’t conident we were going to return [to domestic lights] soon and, in the longer term, at least to where we were pre-COVID.” he new body scanners are designed to automatically detect potentially dangerous items carried on the body or in clothing within moments. he CBS machine and the CT scanner create three-dimensional images of a passenger’s baggage, providing security personnel with a clearer view of the contents. “his means that going through security is a smoother exercise with less contact,” Mr
Giddings said. he new technology also saved passengers from having to take out their laptops, he explained. Avalon Airport is also set to install six new check-in kiosks that use head movements instead of touchscreens. he technology would prevent the potential spread of COVID-19 via contact with surfaces, Mr Giddings explained. He said Avalon was still awaiting an announcement on the return of domestic lights, although he acknowledged that this week’s increase of conirmed Victorian COVID-19 cases, and the Queensland border
remaining closed for now, could delay the date. “We are ready to go. It’s so important for Geelong and the Great Ocean Road.” Avalon Airport also recently submitted a COVID-19 plan to the Australian government in readiness for a proposed Australia-New Zealand travel ‘bubble’. Running lights through Avalon could help separate travel between the two countries from the limited international lights still running out of Tullamarine, Mr Giddings said. “here’s no risk of any sort of contamination. It would give passengers lying to and from New Zealand the greatest of conidence.”
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