Staffer's Confederate flag shirt slammed
NORTHERN Territory senator Nova Peris says the decision of a senior bureaucrat to wear a Confederate flag shirt to a dinner was "totally inappropriate".
THE decision of a senior Northern Territory bureaucrat to wear a Confederate flag to a recent dinner was totally inappropriate, Senator Nova Peris says.
MARK Coffey, the NT manager in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, won best dressed man at the annual Central Australian Beef Breeders dinner on Saturday in a shirt emblazoned with the Confederate flag, the American Civil War emblem linked to white supremacy and racism.
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Measles case visited busy shopping centre
WA’s measles outbreak has grown to 14 cases after two more infections were confirmed over the weekend, with a busy shopping centre now an exposure site.
Man shot in Melbourne CBD
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