GOOD morning and welcome to the Morning Buzz for Friday, October 21. It will be mostly sunny today with an expected high of 26 degrees, and the chance of a shower this evening.
News Buzz
SYDNEY GROWTH: Lucy Turnbull's resolve to boost economic development in Sydney's west is challenged by the state government's own figures showing the east will remain the epicentre of jobs growth over the next two decades.
ICC OPEN DAY: It has been almost three years since a wrecking ball swung through the old Convention Centre in Darling Harbour, amid the promise of a new world-class venue that would outshine every rival in the southern hemisphere.
PUBLIC SERVICE CUTS: The federal government has slashed the hours of thousands of its casual public servants and now it will not have to pay them for meal or tea breaks.
NEW MATHS SYLLABUS: NSW education leaders have savaged the Board of Studies for "sabotaging its own syllabuses" by issuing "insanely difficult to read" documents to teachers outlining changes to the state's mathematics program.
CHEAP LABOUR: Young Asian workers making cheesecakes and muffins for a supplier to Coles and Woolworths were targeted by the labour-hire company that ripped them off because they were "younger, cheaper and faster than locals who are old and slow".
Sports Buzz
AGENTS RAIDED: The offices of four prominent player managers are being raided by police from the NSW fraud squad in a dramatic development in the Parramatta Eels salary cap scandal. | Agents to feature in NRL report