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Natasha Fyles tells National Press Club that Northern Territory is ‘not for turning’ on the project

Penny Wong says she's raised concerns over 'alarming' democratic trends in Israel with its government as it pursues a controversial overhaul of its judicial system.

Abdellatif remains in Australian immigration detention, where he has been held for a decade thanks to security assessments tainted by evidence obtained under torture

It was looking a bit too brown

Is the key to ending our housing woes really just "Supply"? And will the Albanese government's new $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund solve that problem?

The federal government says its new fund will provide $500 million a year to build much-needed social housing.

To meet our housing targets, we need to find new ways of building more with less.

Reusing existing and obsolete buildings for new housing - adaptive reuse - is another way to provide more housing.

A final challenge to government: As we prepare to spend billions on building housing across the country, is it too outlandish to imagine we could invest a mere 1% of those vast sums in innovation programs? Innovation can deliver the increases in building productivity and capacity that Australia so badly needs.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2401968

Disney has announced it will stop releasing DVDs and Blu-ray discs in Australia.::undefined

Here's a related link about CTE: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-04/what-is-cte-chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy-concussion-sport/102557776

If anything will result in rules being changed, it will surely be The King's diagnosis. But having said that...

Lewis said he had no regrets about his NRL career in the wake of his diagnosis, but suggested he may have approached the way he played the game "a little bit differently".

"It's just something that I don't think the game should be blamed (for).

"If there were any mistakes made, it was perhaps the way that I positioned my head – and that was incorrectly when trying to affect a tackle."

I'm not sure that's the best take...

What do you think? As a migrant myself I have to confess I'm not that on board with expecting aged parents to be part of the package when migrating over, even my own aunts and uncles who are currently going through the process via their own children.

However, it is cruel of the Australian government to keep providing "hope" and taking people's application fees when they have understandably little intention of increasing the aged migrant intake. I think they should cut the crap and stop offering these visas if reducing aged migrant intake is their intention. Just keep on the long term visit visas for parents, whack on a mandatory private health insurance clause if needed.

State governments have pledged grants worth more than $2 million to Croatian clubs that openly display fascist symbols and commemorate anniversaries linked to the Nazi-backed Ustasha regime of WWII.

Exclusive: Redfern Legal Centre obtained records which show First Nations people were involved in about 45% of the incidents

Senator’s bill calls for new conditions in Climate Change Act to influence decision-making on projects that could raise greenhouse gas emissions