Category: Australia

South Australia Parliament to Sit on Sunday for Voice Legislation

March 25, 2023
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South Australia will hold a special parliamentary sitting to pass legislation allowing for an Indigenous voice to state parliament. Sunday’s sitting in the House of Assembly will endorse the Labor government’s bill which has already passed parliament’s upper house. Once endorsed, Governor Frances Adamson, Premier Peter Malinauskas and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher will publicly…

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New South Wales Labor Prepares to Govern

March 25, 2023
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NSW Labor is preparing to form government for the first time in 12 years after the party pulled off a definitive victory and the coalition lost a historic fourth term. Labor leader Chris Minns will be the 47th premier of NSW after leading the party to victory, taking at least nine seats from the coalition,…

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Angry Australian Outback Town Feels Abandoned After Mass Fish Kill

March 24, 2023
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Menindee locals say they feel abandoned and have no idea how they will recover from a record mass fish kill on the Darling-Baaka River. Police and water authorities held a second community meeting in the outback New South Wales (NSW) town on Mar. 24 after millions of fish washed up dead. Local Graeme McCrabb went…

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Forced Adoptions Leave Countless Australians With Unanswered Questions

March 24, 2023
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Hundreds of thousands of Australians are still dealing with the fallout of a shameful period in the country’s history, when unmarried women were forced to give up their babies. The children were taken at birth from their mothers, who were mostly young women, between the 1950s and 1980s. The practice of forced adoption, now considered illegal,…

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How Will Australia Pay for Its $386 Billion Nuclear Sub Deal

March 24, 2023
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Commentary Will the AUKUS nuclear subs consume the Australian budget? It’s a good question. The expenditure is huge in Australian terms. The total deal is currently worth $386 billion (US$260 billion) and will be spread out over 30 years. So, on average, it will cost $12 billion a year. This is about one-third of the…

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Dive Expedition to World War II Sub Wreck off Australia Documented

March 24, 2023
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More than 50 metres below the Arafura Sea, north of Darwin, lies a submarine that was the first Japanese warship sunk by the Australian navy in World War II. Now, the journey by archaeologists and divers to document the war grave where 80 Japanese crew died has been covered in a documentary. In November 2022, a…

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Former Australian PM Keating Issues Fresh Attack on AUKUS Deal

March 24, 2023
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Former prime minister Paul Keating has fired a fresh torpedo at the AUKUS deal, claiming Defence Minister Richard Marles has changed his argument to justify the submarine purchases. Keating, who has been publicly critical of the $368 billion (US$245 billion) deal, said in an opinion article the government had shifted the need for the vessels…

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NSW Voters Head to Polls in Tightly Contested Election

March 24, 2023
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Voting is under way in New South Wales (NSW), with more than four million people across the state set to decide who will form government for the next four years. By Mar. 24 close to a quarter of the state’s 5.5 million voters had cast their ballots, with nearly 1.2 million people pre-polling and 92,000…

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More Than Enough Detail Provided on Voice: Albanese

March 24, 2023
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Anthony Albanese says there is more than enough detail on the Indigenous voice to parliament for the public to make up their mind on the proposal. Following the release of the question Australians will vote on at the referendum later this year, the prime minister hit back at opposition claims key advice on the voice…

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Integration, More Than Recognition, Ensures Success

March 24, 2023
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Commentary Integration into a wider society works. That is why Australia is one of the most successful countries on the planet. This nation, like no other, has managed to draw together peoples from all four corners of the globe, united by a common set of values: namely, tolerance, respect, and equality before the law. The…

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