Sri Lankan farmers want Australia’s ‘inhumane’ cattle exports to end
Farmers and animal rights group are calling for the Australian Government’s cattle ‘inhumane and poorly planned’ export deal with Sri Lanka to stop after hundreds of Australian and New Zealand cattle died or contracted disease.
Sri Lankan farmers said the exported cattle are overpriced, unhealthy and infertile, with 10 per cent of the 5,000 cattle they have already received dying.
Possible cyclone off WA’s Kimberley could hit Pilbara again, BOM warns
As the Pilbara coast recovers from severe Tropical Cyclone Veronica, which caused flooding last week, another potential cyclone brewing in the Top End is threatening to worsen the situation.
A tropical low formed about 500 kilometres north north-east of Darwin yesterday and is forecast to move into waters off Western Australia’s Kimberley.
Forecasters have said that if the cyclone hits the Pilbara coast next week, the flooding will be “significant”.
Queensland Indigenous communities frustrated as decade-old housing deal fails to be considered in budget
A decade-old public housing funding deal for people in remote Indigenous communities remains in limbo in Queensland after the Federal Government’s Budget announcements this week failed to mention it.
The National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing (NPARIH) was developed in 2008 as part of the Closing the Gap strategy that aims to reduce overcrowding and ensure houses were well-maintained in Indigenous communities, with an investment of $1 billion into the initiative.
Teachers want school communities to behave, as new workshop launched for teachers to deal with abusive parents
The teacher’s union and the Education Department have joined together to trial a new workshop helping school leaders to respond to unreasonable behaviours after a chain of recent incidents of parents and students abusing teachers at Gold Coast schools.
Gold Coast Teachers Union Organiser Jodie Walsh said teachers are frequently facing abusive and swearing parents, and called out people phoning schools over bullying incidents and making threats as being bullies themselves.
Great Barrier Reef regrowth at historic low due to rising ocean temperatures, researchers say
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons/Acropora
History made as Chicago elects first gay and first black female mayor
Chicago has elected its first gay and first black female mayor, becoming the largest US city to elect a black woman in the position.
Lori Lightfoot, who has never before held office, won the election on Tuesday and said that the people of Chicago have “created a movement for change”.
The 56-year-old former federal prosecutor and practising lawyer won by a margin of 74 to 26 per cent.
Since 1837, Chicago has voted in only one black mayor and one female mayor.
Two cabinet ministers expelled from Canadian liberal party over party disunity
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expelled two cabinet ministers he said undermined the ruling liberals.
Ms Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpot will no longer be allowed to sit in parliament as liberal legislators following demands for their removal as they were “undermining party unity”.
Mr Trudeau said that “civil wars within parties are incredibly damaging because they signal to Canadians that [politicians] care more about [themselves] than [they] do about [the people].”
Dysfunctional NSW healthcare watchdog jeopardising patients, whistleblower claims
A whistleblower has claimed that the New South Wales healthcare watchdog is failing to properly assess hundreds of patients' complaints because of "a dysfunctional workplace culture".
The Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) is an independent government body that assesses, investigates and prosecutes medical complaints throughout the state.
Western Australia MP planning to continue 12 hour filibuster on surrogacy laws DIVYA READING:
A West Australian MP has delivered a filibuster on surrogacy law reform stretching more than 12 hours to give MPs more time to consider a new surrogacy review only just published by the government.
Liberal Party MP Nick Goiran said he plans to continue the filibuster so MPs can read the report before a proposed bill comes to a vote that would allow single men and same sex couples to access altruistic surrogacy arrangements.
Brisbane man jailed in Egypt without charge finally on his way back home
A Brisbane man who was jailed in Egypt for over a year without charge has been released and is on his way back to Australia.
Hazem Hamouda, a 55-year-old Australian citizen, was detained shortly after landing at Cairo International Airport on the 25th of January 2018 in what was meant to be a short holiday with his children.