The Minister for Women has become emotional while facing questioning over the rate of women killed by violence in Australia. The number of women killed in Australia this year climbed to 25 with the death of 28-year-old mum Molly Ticehurst, according to data from Counting Dead Women. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article … Read more
Australians were slugged a combined $304.8bn in Commonwealth income tax payments in the year to June 2023, its highest level ever, with revenue gushing into Treasury coffers due to near-record low unemployment, elevated wages growth and bracket creep. The average Australian 15 years and over paid $13,980 in Commonwealth income taxes over the 2023 financial … Read more
NSW residents are being urged to protect themselves against serious illness as cases of influenza spike. The latest respiratory surveillance report has revealed more than 4700 people across the state have been diagnosed with the flu over the past four weeks, a 16 per cent increase compared with this time last year. FOLLOW US ON … Read more
President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to two French men for their heroic efforts during the Bondi stabbing massacre. Six people – including five women and a security guard – were killed during Joel Cauchi’s rampage at Bondi Junction Westfield on Saturday afternoon. Cauchi, 40, was shot dead by police Inspector Amy Scott. French national … Read more
Just before the beginning of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, Eman and Ahmed Shat were overjoyed to announce they would soon be welcoming their fourth child. Now in her third trimester of pregnancy and living in an overcrowded refugee camp in Rafah without basic essentials such as food and water, Eman, 29, is severely depressed … Read more
Beijing has taken aim at the Albanese government’s inaugural national defence strategy, urging Canberra to drop its “Cold War mentality” as it denied China posed any risk to regional stability. Defence Minister Richard Marles unveiled the strategy on Wednesday, announcing Australia would bolster its navy over the next decade to compete with an increasingly aggressive … Read more
Beijing has warned Australia to “be careful” against acting on its “unwarranted anxieties toward China”, questioning how relations can improve while Canberra accuses it of coercion. In an opinion piece by Chinese government mouthpiece the Global Times, Beijing lamented that despite a significant thawing in the bilateral relationship, Australia’s newly published defence strategy undermined the … Read more
Student debts are on track to have increased at least $12.3bn during Labor’s first three years of government, new analysis reveals, prompting an urgent call for action in next month’s budget. New Parliamentary Library projections prepared for the Greens show the indexation rate set to hit student debts on June 1 will come in between … Read more
Australian officials are finding it increasingly harder to figure out when a terrorist attack may occur, in what the Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil has described as a “trend”. After a 16-year-old boy allegedly stabbed a prominent Assyrian Christian bishop and priest at a southwest Sydney church on Monday night, officials were quick to declared … Read more
Coles and Woolworths will face a grilling on Tuesday when the appear before a Senate inquiry set to probe the supermarket giants’ executives over high grocery prices. Both supermarkets have faced criticism in recent years for raking in multi-billion dollar profits during the cost-0f-living crisis, and their market dominance has been called into question as … Read more
