In news that has been welcomed by South Australian businesses experiencing staff shortages, the state’s close contact rules will ease later this week.

The additional move toward national consistency comes as we launch a new campaign to entice working holiday makers in the United Kingdom and Ireland to ‘work and play’ in SA, helping plug employment gaps and skills shortages in tourism, hospitality and primary industries.

With 200 return flights for just £10, the SATC campaign spruiks the benefits of a working holiday to the backpacker market – worth $47 million to our state prior to the pandemic. 

The changes to close contact rules in SA will come into effect this weekend. Premier Peter Malinauskas made the announcement late last week, following a meeting of the Emergency Management Council.

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The Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program supports community organisations to look after Australian cultural heritage collections. Since 1994, this program has provided more than eight million dollars in funding to over 1550 projects across Australia.

The Community Heritage Grants 2022 Round opened on Tuesday 8 March 2022. This year, the program has two closing dates:

• Applications for new applicants will close on Monday 9 May 2022
• Applications for those who have recently completed a Community Heritage Grant project and are applying for the next stage will close on Thursday 2 June 2022
• Applications for training projects will close on Thursday 2 June 2022