Tourism will suffer if the government allows hunters access to national parks, the opposition says.
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Tourism will suffer if the government allows hunters access to national parks, the opposition says.
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A woman walks past a supermarket with a sign advertising discounts on meat in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. The sign advertises 1 kg of pork for 47 pesos, and 2 kg of ground beef for 50 pesos. The nation's currency's official rate is 4.96 pesos per 1 US dollar, and the black market rate is about 7.50 pesos per 1 US dollar. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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Pepe Gonzalez works at a restaurant offering barbecue for two people for 70 pesos in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. The nation's currency's official rate is 4.96 pesos per US dollar, and the black market rate is about 7.50 pesos per US dollar. Close government allies have given up defending the official statistics service, known as INDEC, which announced Monday that Argentina’s annual inflation was just 10.8 percent in 2012. Private economists have estimated that Argentina’s inflation was actually 26 percent or more, making it the worst in all of Latin America. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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Freddy Lopez, who works selling coffee from his cart in the street, serves a 5 peso cup of coffee with milk in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. According to the government, it only takes six pesos a day to eat in Argentina. But on the streets of the capital, 6 pesos doesn't stretch beyond a pack of chewing gum, or a cup of yogurt, or a single "alfajor": the country's traditional caramel-and-chocolate cookies. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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A kiosk displays alfajores for sale, Argentina's traditional caramel-and-chocolate cookies, for 7.50 pesos each in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. According to the government, it only takes six pesos a day to eat in Argentina. But on the streets of the capital, 6 pesos doesn't stretch beyond a pack of chewing gum, or a cup of yogurt, or a single alfajor. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, file photo, people wait in line with containers to purchase gasoline at filling station in Metuchen, N.J. The price of oil is slightly higher Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, as investors remain cautious ahead of the U.S. presidential election. They're also assessing how much demand for oil has dropped in the storm-stricken Northeast. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
NSW children forced from leaky demountable
Students at a public school in Sydney's inner west are being taught in the library after they were forced from a leaking demountable classroom, the NSW opposition says.
Opposition education spokeswoman Carmel Tebbutt said students at Balmain's Nicholson Street Public School will have to return to the "leaky, smelly" classroom as the government will no longer fund a program to replace demountables with permanent classrooms.
"Tens of thousands of students will be stuck in demountable classrooms indefinitely thanks to the O'Farrell government's decision to dump the demountable replacement program," she said in a statement on Tuesday.
"Despite a tarpaulin being placed on the roof and humidifier used to help dry out the wet carpet, children will have to return to the demountable at some point."
Ms Tebbutt said the fact that children were left without a classroom only weeks into the new school year spoke volumes about the government.
The Department of Education and Communities later said Ms Tebbutt's claims that children would have to return to the leaking demountable, which was irreparably damaged during heavy rains in February, were incorrect.
"A newly refurbished building - with air conditioning and a practical activities area - will be installed within three weeks, weather permitting," the DEC said in statement.
The department would replace more than 100 demountables with permanent classrooms this year, it said.
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