100,000 kids are killed in India each year
In India, over 100,000 kids are killed each year from air pollution, a report finds.
The UN found India has 14 out of 15 of the world’s most polluted cities, and it causes 12.5 per cent of all deaths in the country annually.
Despite calls for action against pollution around the globe, Indian politicians have repeatedly failed to address environmental concerns.
United Nations calls on the Australian Government
A United Nations working group has called on the Australian government to immediately release and compensate a 35-year-old Tamil refugee with multiple disabilities, who has been in detention for more than nine years
The man is legally blind, has a number of mental health issues and an acquired brain injury which occurred in Sri Lanka.
The man's lawyer and director of Human Rights for All- Alison Battisson, said to the press this is highly embarrassing for Australia’s record as his client is a good international citizen.
AFP raids the ABC
The AFP have raided the ABC yesterday for information about a piece the ABC had written in 2017 called the Afghan files.
ABC reporter John Lyons via twitter has reported there have been approximately 50 files that the AFP have seized from the ABC.
The Australian federal police have said about the raid via a press release “This is the result of supporting documentation or material being presented to the court which provides sufficient suspicion that a criminal offence has been committed.”
Queensland is the worst Australian state per capita for suicide
Queensland is the worst Australian state per capita for suicide: statics show that 804 people committed suicide last year in Queensland, more than three times the number of people who died on the state's roads.
In an attempt to halve this number, the Queensland Government will commit $62 million in next week’s state budget to fund suicide prevention and support services.
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Hotel owner in Woolloongabba goes to court
The owner of the derelict Broadway Hotel in Woolloongabba has taken the Australian Institute of Architects to court, claiming the peak body defamed him in an email to its Queensland members.
East Brisbane general practitioner Malcolm Nyst, the Broadway’s owner, lodged a claim in the Brisbane District Court on March 29 against the national peak architects body and the executive director of its Queensland branch Melissa Greenall.
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New report reveals one in six women face physical or sexual abuse before 15
A report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reveals that one in six women in Australia experience physical or sexual abuse before the age of 15 and one woman is killed by her partner every nine days.
Rates of partner violence and sexual violence in Australia have remained relatively stable since 2005, despite a decline in the rate of overall violence.
Stadiums Queensland implement facial recognition surveillance
Stadiums Queensland has confirmed it is trialling facial recognition software on sports fans and concert goers, following New South Wales and Victoria in implementing mass surveillance technology at major stadiums.
Stadiums Queensland oversees nine of the state’s biggest venues, including Lang Park, the Gabba and the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, but would not confirm which venues were involved in the trial for security reasons.
Bodies in overcrowded cemeteries proposed to be stacked and reburied
Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate has proposed extracting bodies from overcrowded cemeteries to be reburied on top of each other in a bid to combat overcrowding currently facing Gold Coast cemeteries.
The proposal is one of several being considered by the council, including building a new cemetery and offering a burial-at-sea service inside the new dive precinct off Main Beach.