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Australia news live: PM says Bondi security guard Faraz Tahir ‘died a national hero’; figures show budget on track for surplus World news | The Guardian 26 Avr 2024 07:23 Homicide detectives begin three-day search for 30-year-old in NSW central tablelands; peak Muslim bodies deny police consulted them in lead-up to Sydney raids. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAs we reported, X has provided an update on its legal challenge against Australia’s eSafety commissioner, stating it had complied with a direction to remove content from the Wakeley church stabbing.However, underneath the post from the platform’s global government affairs team (which we quoted in our previous post), the video is available to watch in a reply to the post, as... Read more... |
Bruce Lehrmann to pay Peter FitzSimons thousands in legal costs World news | The Guardian 26 Avr 2024 07:14 Lehrmann will pay the columnist $4,616 to cover cost of producing documents during failed defamation case against Channel Ten and Lisa WilkinsonBruce Lehrmann has agreed to pay columnist and author Peter FitzSimons’ costs for complying with a subpoena during Lehrmann’s failed defamation proceedings against Network Ten and former Project presenter Lisa Wilkinson.Lehrmann lost his defamation case against Network Ten and Wilkinson earlier this month, with Justice Michael Lee finding on the balance of probabilities that Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins on a minister’s couch in Parliament House in 2019. Lehrmann has consistently denied the allegation and pleaded not guilty at the... Read more... |
Urban Rampage banned from using Centrepay to sign up mostly Indigenous customers to credit arrangements World news | The Guardian 26 Avr 2024 07:06 Asic finds arrangements posed ‘significant risk’ of financial hardship but clothing store says it will appeal ‘racist and paternalistic decision’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian Security and Investments Commission has permanently banned the clothing store Urban Rampage from using the government’s Centrepay system to sign up mostly vulnerable Indigenous customers to “inherently inappropriate” credit arrangements that place them at risk of financial harm.Coral Coast Distributors – which operates 10 Urban Rampage stores in regional and remote locations across Western Australia, the Northern Territory and... Read more... |
UK policy denying visas to children of care workers faces legal challenge World news | The Guardian 26 Avr 2024 07:00 Exclusive: Action by organisation supporting migrants argues new rules are discriminatoryAn organisation that supports migrant workers has launched a legal challenge against the government’s new policy to bar care workers from bringing children and partners to the UK, warning that it is “tearing families apart”.According to Migrants at Work, care workers have to choose between family life with their children and partners or getting a job as a health or social carer in the UK – they can no longer do both. Continue reading... Read more... |
Poverty experts tell Labor jobseeker payments should be lifted to 90% of age pension World news | The Guardian 26 Avr 2024 06:32 The Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee warns that unemployment benefits are still too low Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastJobseeker payments should be raised to 90% of the age pension and indexed to prevent people going “without life’s essentials”, the government’s poverty experts say.The Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee released its pre-budget report on Friday, warning that jobseeker and other working-age payments were still “too low” despite last year’s $40 increase in the base rate.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your... Read more... |
‘We end up with nothing’: east Midlands mayoral candidates say role could transform region World news | The Guardian 26 Avr 2024 06:00 Those vying for job say it will put region on more equal footing with areas such as West Midlands and Greater ManchesterThe Conservatives are “not taking accountability” for their part in leaving regions such as the east Midlands to suffer with poor infrastructure, growing inequalities and a skills gap, Labour’s candidate for the region’s first mayor said.Claire Ward, the former MP for Watford, said there was not enough to keep young people in the east Midlands and that people had “lost hope”. Continue reading... Read more... |
‘Real hope’ for cancer cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialled World news | The Guardian 26 Avr 2024 06:00 Excitement among patients and researchers as custom-built jabs enter phase 3 trialDoctors have begun trialling in hundreds of patients the world’s first personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma, as experts hailed its “gamechanging” potential to permanently cure cancer.Melanoma affects about 132,000 people a year globally and is the biggest skin cancer killer. Currently, surgery is the main treatment although radiotherapy, medicines and chemotherapy are also sometimes used. Continue reading... Read more... |
Home Office considered antisemitism campaigner for counter-extremism unit World news | The Guardian 26 Avr 2024 06:00 Gideon Falter was in running to be adviser but government’s antisemitism tsar warned against appointmentWho are CAA, the group headed by campaigner in Met police antisemitism row?The Home Office considered appointing campaigner against antisemitism Gideon Falter as an adviser to its counter extremism unit but was warned against the appointment by the government’s antisemitism tsar.The Guardian understands there were strong objections to Falter being offered the part-time civil service role advising the Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE) in 2022 and that John Mann told the then home secretary Suella Braverman he would quit if Falter was offered the post. Continue... Read more... |