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Sydney's taxi drivers are threatening to boycott the nation's busiest airport over a planned new AU$2-per-trip toll to be collected using electronic tags only just made mandatory across the city's taxi fleet.
A changeover error transferring beep tag customer accounts to E-way systems has caused some people, who thought they had closed their toll accounts, to be falsely charged AU$100.
Technology spending within the NSW Government appears to have largely escaped the razor in today's mini-budget, despite a slew of other spending cuts announced by Treasurer Eric Roozendaal.
The chairman of the Motorcycle Council of NSW has expressed his outrage at the Road Traffic Authority's (RTA) "neglect" of motorcycle riders in its planned cashless tollways, saying the RTA has "not considered motorcycle riders in their plans".
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The six-month rise in information technology and telecommunication jobs plateaued in October, with demand for IT workers slipping one percent compared to September, according to an index which measures online job advertisements.
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