Abbie Graham, a printing and graphic arts apprentice at Spatial Services in Bathurst, has won the NSW Heidelberg Apprentice of the Year, pipping youngsters from Imagination and Ligare to the post.

As Naidoc week runs across the nation, Australia Post has added a new line in its address section on its packaging, providing space for the traditional place name to be included in the address.

TRMC is pushing the Fair Work Commission to reinstate Schedule X into the industry award, which allows two weeks of unpaid leave for self isolation, and double holidays for half pay.

Sydney will remain in lockdown for another week, although print and packaging businesses appear to be free to carry on manufacturing, providing they adhere to the five main caveats. Next Friday's NSW PICAs have been postponed to August.

TRMC has garnered industry support from its largest employing members to support an industry initiative for federal government to support the vaccination roll-out across the industry.

Print21 has a new national sales manager, with highly experienced publishing sales professional Marni Groves taking up the role across all the Print21 media platforms.

The latest Power of Print webinar is set for 11am Wednesday, with Gordon Loch, managing director of The List Factory presenting.

Perth print businesses have been closed down by the police, with the city lockdown appearing to operate under different conditions to the rest of the country, where print remains open in lockdown.

Tonight’s SA/NT state PICA gala awards dinner has been postponed for six weeks, as Covid threatens an Adelaide lockdown.

The annual general meeting of the PVCA will be held in Sydney at noon on Friday 16 July as a hybrid in-person and Zoom event. The agenda will be released shortly.

Print and packaging businesses across the country are allowed to continue to keep operating, as new lockdown rules are implemented in states across the country to try and rein in the latest Covid-19 outbreak.

Printers in Sydney and NSW are on edge, as the growing Covid outbreak sends four LGAs into full lockdown, with premier Gladys Berejiklian so far avoiding closing the whole city.

New Zealand’s night of nights, the annual Pride in Print Gala Awards dinner event, is all systems go for tonight, unless you live in Wellington, or NSW.

The Victoria PICA awards gala evening has been rescheduled, with the venue delaying its renovation reopening, causing the print event to change to Friday 6 August.

There was little in the NSW budget for printers or businesses of any size, who were more concerned with the possibility of a city-wide lockdown should the Covid cases escalate significantly.

Print industry leaders were among those spending a freezing night outdoors to highlight homelessness in the Vinnies CEO Sleepout, laying their heads down on cardboard around the country.