We want to keep going for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victims and survivors of domestic violence, but we can’t do it without funding Just as I was about to walk on to the stage to deliver a speech at the Sydney peace prize we heard the bad news. As …
Read More »Australia faces ‘massive’ rethink to prepare for long-term bushfires and air pollution
David Bowman says Australia must retrofit houses to construct them heat and smoke-proof Australia has a “massive adaptive program” ahead make preparations for future protracted bushfires and subsequent airborne pollutants, a professor of pyrogeography and flame science has alerted, urging legislators to “tone down the ideology and start resolve the …
Read More »Naomi Wolf pursues Angus Taylor for ‘formal’ Hansard correction in Christmas tree row
US author recorded a bellow with Australian minister’s bureau about a dispute over his girl lecture to parliament Naomi Wolf has reignited her row with Australia’s energy minister, Angus Taylor, writing a recording of a heated phone call with his office. On Thursday morning the US author said she called …
Read More »Hail, dust, storms, fire: Queensland and NSW on wild weather alert
Bureau of Meteorology says extreme conditions of all kinds can be expected from Sunday, with big hail forecast for south-eastern Queensland Queensland and New South Wales have been alerted to prepare for severe cyclones delivering dust, 90 km/ h gusts and hail, followed by three days of even worse bushfire …
Read More »Woman’s death being treated as suspicious after body found in Sydney apartment
NSW police are investigating the possibility the husband of the woman, who was found in Pymble, has fled to China with two children The death of a woman whose form was found in a division on Sydney’s upper north shore is being treated as suspicious. Police officers discovered the body …
Read More »David Dungay’s mother reads statement after coroner clears prison officers over death – video
David Dungay’s mother, Leetona Dungay, speaks the following statement outside Lidcombe coroner’s court in Sydney after a coroner obtained prison officials who restrained him shortly before he died were not motivated by malicious intent. ‘I am going to fight until I live in a country where black lives thing, ‘ …
Read More »ACT warns Angus Taylor against division and deal-making at key Coag energy meeting
United approach to vitality security and hydrogen power needed at ministerial gratify, says ACT The Morrison government should be implementing a coherent national plan to secure Australia’s energy future rather than cutting a series of deals with states it regards as friendly, according to the ACT energy minister, Shane Rattenbury. …
Read More »Two Australian universities sever ties with Prince Andrew charity after Epstein interview
The announcement by Bond University and RMIT follows the royal’s interview about his links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein Two Australian universities have severed ties with a business mentoring charity founded by Prince Andrew after the royal’s train-wreck interview about his links to the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The Pitch @Palace program- …
Read More »Accused far-right terrorist says how-to massacre document was ‘satire’
Phillip Galea is standing experiment for allegedly storying onslaughts on anarchist and socialist groups to’ eliminate the leaders of the left’ A man accused of plotting terrorist attack in Melbourne says his how-to document referring to “building destruction” and a “massacre” was intended to be a Monty Python-esque satire. Phillip …
Read More »Calls to cut pre-poll voting amid claims it is eroding ‘integrity’ of elections
NSW Nationals, Coalition MP Paul Fletcher, LNP MP Julian Simmonds and independent MP Bob Katter urge cut to number of pre-poll voting weeks The New South Wales Nationals and its communications official, Paul Fletcher, had been incorporated into developing calls for the length of pre-poll voting before federal elections to …
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