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President announces $3.3bn in infrastructure spending to ‘right historic wrongs’ as he takes 2024 campaign to vital swing statesJoe Biden hailed the beginning of $3.3bn in infrastructure spending on US projects on Wednesday “to right historic wrongs” with efforts to reconnect city neighborhoods riven by interstate highways that plowed with particular impunity through many Black, brown, Asian American and Hispanic communities decades ago.The US...

Andy Haldane, government’s top levelling-up adviser, calls for urgent rethink to prevent deeper cuts across EnglandThe government’s top levelling-up adviser has warned ministers that failure to tackle the funding crisis for councils across England is threatening one of the Conservatives’ flagship 2019 election promises.Andy Haldane, the chair of the government’s levelling-up advisory council, said a “root and branch rethink” of local authority funding was...

Three additional mulch samples from park above Rozelle interchange tested positive for bonded asbestos, NSW government saysGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAsbestos has been found in additional samples of garden mulch taken from the Rozelle parklands in Sydney’s inner west, with the state government still unable to say where else in the city the contaminated material may...

Testing reveals ‘low-risk’ contamination in samples taken from mulch near Rozelle playground, Transport for NSW saysFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn expansive park built above Rozelle’s multibillion-dollar spaghetti junction interchange has been closed after asbestos was found in garden mulch around a children’s playground – with the contractor involved...