ALP’s $143m to fight rare cancers
Health Minister Mark Butler says the investment will be a ‘game-changer in cancer care’, targeting pioneering research in genetic testing of tumour samples for rare cancers.
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Taxpayers’ $125,000 to fund Indigenous group’s tree-felling
NSW taxpayers have been asked to fork out for an Indigenous group to cut down and ‘make items’ from a tree that needed to be removed from the proposed site of a controversial $9m performing arts centre.
From Blayney goldmine to Mt Panorama: Coalition vows to fix heritage laws car crash
New analysis shows the Indigenous group who scuppered the mine development are among the most litigious heritage applicants, prompting a Coalition commitment to law reform.
Government threatens insurer regulation over hospital funding
Mark Butler has made a rare federal intervention in the increasingly bitter feud between private hospitals and health insurers, calling for increased income from premium rises to be passed on to service providers.
Indigenous group seeks sacred status for Mount Panorama site after Blayney mine success
The fringe Indigenous body that brought down major goldmine project has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented legal bid to declare the peak of Mount Panorama a sacred site.
Qantas flight makes emergency landing after cockpit fills with smoke
A Sydney to Perth flight spent only minutes in the air before declaring an emergency on-board, circling back to land as its cockpit filled with smoke.
‘This case was never about me’: Lattouf defiant after ABC court case
Antoinette Lattouf said her unlawful termination suit against the ABC had been ‘the most difficult period of my life’ after the case wrapped up in the federal court | WATCH
Bronwyn family applauds investigation
Investigative journalist Hedley Thomas has met with the full family of Bronwyn Winfield as he discusses the mystery of the Lennox Head mother’s disappearance.
Lattouf treated differently to ABC’s Tingle, Karvelas: lawyer
Antoinette Lattouf’s lawyers argue her ‘unprecedented’ dismissal was based on a ‘stereotyped assumption’ not applied to other ABC presenters like Laura Tingle and Patricia Karvelas.
‘Hate crimes? Look to Hezbollah’
Former Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Oren believes Australia’s anti-Semitic attacks echo Iranian tactics.
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