Man, 81, and 75-year-old woman pulled from home on Lily Street by firefighters but pair could not be revived
Two elderly people have died after being pulled from a “thick and intense” house fire in Sydney’s west this morning.
Fire and rescue were called to a two-level home in Lily Street, Wetherill Park, at 6.42am.
Continue reading...New report reveals 83% of respondents are concerned universities’ focus on profit is undermining education standards
Decades of declining public funding for universities and the increasing corporatisation of the sector has further eroded working conditions for staff and the quality of education for students, according to a new report.
Of the 1,002 respondents in the report by the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work, 83% said they were concerned universities’ focus on profit was undermining education standards.
Continue reading...NSW police, who were called to Rooty Hill property, say the woman is believed to be in her 50s
A woman has been killed in a suspected domestic violence attack at a western Sydney home.
Police were called to the property at Rooty Hill about 8.15pm on Tuesday with concerns for the woman’s welfare.
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Continue reading...Exclusive: The Albanese government says it is ‘disappointed’ Beijing’s review couldn’t be completed in the initial three months
China has asked for an extra month to decide whether to scrap hefty tariffs on Australian barley, dashing hopes of an imminent breakthrough in one of the biggest trade disputes between the two countries.
The Albanese government said it was disappointed by the delay, and warned that it was ready to revive its case at the global trade umpire, the World Trade Organization, if Beijing doesn’t scrap the measure by August.
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Continue reading...Anthony Albanese tries to ambush UK counterpart, but Sunak was ready with image of England team at Headingley
The Australian prime minister tried to ambush his British counterpart at the Nato summit with a picture of the controversial stumping of England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow in the Ashes cricket series.
Rishi Sunak was unexpectedly prepared, and produced from his official portfolio his own photo of England’s Mark Wood and Chris Woakes celebrating getting the winning runs at Headingley on Sunday, giving the host nation their first victory after two consecutive Australian wins.
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It will be easier for women to medically terminate pregnancies up to 63 days of gestation, now that the Therapeutic Goods Administration has approved an application from MS Health to amend restrictions on the prescribing of MS-2 Step (Mifepristone and Misoprostol).
MS-2 Step was only able to be prescribed by a doctor certified to prescribe the medicine, and then dispensed by a pharmacist who was a registered dispenser.
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Continue reading...Ex-soldier lost case against three newspapers in June with trial judge finding they had proven on the balance of probabilities that Roberts-Smith murdered unarmed civilians in Afghanistan
Ben Roberts-Smith has launched an appeal after he lost his war crimes defamation trial in the federal court.
Justice Anthony Besanko found in June that three newspapers had proven Roberts-Smith had, on the balance of probabilities, murdered unarmed civilians while serving in the Australian military in Afghanistan.
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Continue reading...Administrator appointed to Toplace a month after arrest warrant issued for Nassif
A major Sydney development firm owned by accused fraudster and fugitive Jean Nassif has gone into administration.
Records filed with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission show an administrator was appointed to his company, Toplace Pty Ltd, on Monday.
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Continue reading...Federal court orders account details be given to Nurul Khan so he can sue the person for defamation
Google has been ordered to hand over the account information and IP address of a person who a Victorian Labor candidate alleges defamed them in an email.
Nurul Khan was endorsed to run for the Labor party in last year’s state election, but an email littered with allegations against him was sent to ministers and news organisations on 9 November.
Continue reading...Exclusive: civil proceedings against the state were initially filed while aged care resident was still fighting for her life in hospital
The family of 95-year-old Clare Nowland, who died in May after being allegedly Tasered by police in an aged care home, is suing the New South Wales government.
The civil case against the state was listed to appear for the first time before a court in Bega in south-east NSW on Tuesday morning.
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Continue reading...Seventy-four-year-old’s health had deteriorated in prison and he was released on humanitarian grounds
The Australian democracy activist Chau Van Kham has been released from a Vietnamese jail and returned to his home in Sydney.
“Chau Van Kham has returned to Australia a free man,” his family said. “We share the happy news that Chau Van Kham is well and has returned to his family today.”
Continue reading...More people are making it to 100, but there’s little change in the proportion of ‘supercentenarians’, a report has found
Despite average life expectancy increasing, the proportion of Australians making it to age 110 has barely shifted since the 1960s, with a new report asking whether there is a limit to how far lifespan can be pushed.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) on Tuesday published its How long can Australians live? report, containing the latest life expectancy and longevity data. Over the past five decades, life expectancy in Australia has increased by 13.7 years for males (to 81.3) and by 11.2 years for females (to 85.4).
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Continue reading...Anthony Albanese says an E-7A Wedgetail plane will be dispatched as part of an effort to monitor logistics hubs
The Australian government will send a surveillance aircraft to Germany to help monitor the flow of military and humanitarian supplies into Ukraine.
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, announced the deployment after talks with the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, in Berlin on Monday, a day before attending a Nato summit in Lithuania where the war in Ukraine will dominate discussions.
Continue reading...Victoria Police says Christophe Glasl was not in Tasmania at the time of Port Arthur massacre, despite his claim to have been involved in its resolution
A publisher has pulled a former police officer’s memoir after the force questioned his claim he attended the Port Arthur massacre.
Hachette confirmed parts of the book Special Operations Group by former Victorian police officer Christophe Glasl were inaccurate, and that it had been removed from shelves.
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Continue reading...Consulting firm’s self-imposed ban follows scandal over misuse of confidential government tax information
PwC has announced it will no longer make donations to political parties, but a Labor senator central to investigating the consultancy firm’s misuse of confidential government tax information says the company needs to further boost its own accountability procedures.
In a note to the company’s partners on Monday, PwC’s acting CEO Kristin Stubbins said the firm’s self-imposed ban on making political donations was an “important step” in rebuilding its reputation.
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Continue reading...From next Monday, listeners can relive songs from the past three decades including Denis Leary’s Asshole, the first winner
The ABC’s youth broadcaster Triple J has found a home for its archive of 30 years’ worth of its beloved annual music countdown – a whole new radio station.
The station, Triple j Hottest, will play on repeat the songs Australians voted into the hottest 100 since it began counting down the most popular songs of the previous 12 months in 1993.
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Continue reading...Failed UAP candidate tells federal court he had left corflute lettering to ‘professional experience’ of designers
“I’m reasonably good with different fonts,” the failed United Australia Party candidate, Craig Kelly, told the federal court on Monday.
“But that had a special name I can’t recall,” he said, when asked to name the typeface used on the unmissable black and yellow advertisements his party used at the 2022 election.
Continue reading...Pressure builds on former prime minister to leave politics as Liberal MP says Morrison’s presence is ‘difficult’ for party to move forward. Follow the day’s news live
Young sailor rescued from rough seas in Great Australian Bight
Xavier Doerr is a 22yo sailor who was rescued in the Great Australian Bight over the weekend by an Indonesian cargo ship, after his sail boat was hit by rough weather and capsized.
I appreciated the trouble I was in after the collision.
I started taking on water. My boat is built so it cannot sink.
I don’t really want to comment on my colleagues.
What I will say is that the royal commission report was very sobering for the government, which I was a member of, and for the entire political class and the bureaucracy and we do have to very carefully study the report and its recommendations, particularly so it doesn’t happen again.
Neither me or any of my other colleagues are in a position to direct Scott Morrison on how he responds to this report.
He’s entitled to take whatever position he wants on the royal commission.
Continue reading...Berlin to buy 100 Boxer heavy weapon carriers made in Brisbane by German manufacturer Rheinmetall
The prime minister has touched down in Europe, confirming a deal worth more than $1bn to sell Australian-made armoured vehicles to Germany before talks at a Nato summit.
Anthony Albanese landed in Berlin on Sunday night, German time, before a scheduled meeting with Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday.
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Continue reading...Plastics consumed nationally in 2019-20 created 16m tonnes of greenhouse gases, report says
The plastics consumed yearly by Australians have a greenhouse emissions impact equivalent to 5.7m cars – more than a third of the cars on Australia’s roads, new analysis suggests.
A report commissioned by the Australian Marine Conservation Society and WWF Australia has found that the plastics consumed nationally in the 2019-20 financial year created 16m tonnes of greenhouse gases.
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