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Over one million sport betting ads have played on free to air TV over just the past 12 months and gambling reform advocates say such adverts are grooming the next generation of problem gamblers. These are just two allegations thrown at sports betting by the Chief Advocate of Gambling Reform, Tim Costello, who says a …
The Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appointed lawyer and former president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry Jillian Segal as the special envoy for Antisemitism. As a special envoy, she will advise the government on anti-Jewish sentiment in Australia. After the organisation reported a significant rise in racial discrimination against Australian Jews. However, others …
A political storm followed the ALP Senator for Western Australia, Fatima Payman. She broke party ranks and voted for Greens bill for official recognition of the state of Palestine. Crossing the floor is not new in parliament, however, the Australian Labor Party tends to take a dim view of members who vote against party policy …
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The Australian government has allocated substantial funding to critical minerals and clean energy initiatives. Over the next 10 years, $1.4 billion will be provided to support the manufacturing of clean energy technologies. The government’s Future Made in Australia agenda will drive these initiatives. A new framework, established under the Future Made in Australia Act, will …
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A UN committee has found the Australian and WA governments potentially breached racial discrimination conventions, over the handling of Aboriginal cultural heritage issues. A complaint was lodged in August 2021, under the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. About a year after Rio Tinto destroyed the 46,000-year-old Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara. The …
The third Jim Chalmers Budget has had a pretty lukewarm reception with Cost of Living measures judged to be not enough, and some concerns about whether the Budget spending would, in fact aggravate the objective of bringing down inflation. The tax changes due July 1st are designed to combat ‘bracket creep’, but this and a …
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The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has urged the Victorian Government to implement a pill testing trial. This comes in response to recent recommendations and an increase in illicit drug overdoses. Many states in Australia such as Queensland have announced mobile pill testing as well as ACT implementing pill testing across music festivals …
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The Federal government has announced a plan to increase First Nations home ownership in remote Indigenous communities. The National Rural Health Alliance has welcomed the decision, and believes this plan is a key step towards improving the overall health and wellbeing of First Nations peoples. Image: Photo by Joshua Leong on Unsplash Produced By: Joelle …
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