A landmark Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide has proposed a new way to transition former defence personnel into civilian life and sounded the alarm on the high rates of military sexual violence.
Julie-Ann Finney, one of the leading figures who pushed for a royal commission into veteran suicides, has vowed to haunt the government at the next election if it fails to take swift action.
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has been deployed by the Liberals as an electoral weapon in the fight against a Climate-200 backed candidate in Wannon as new research shows the seat is ‘too close to call’.
Labor faces a tighter contest against the Greens in the Victorian seat of Wills following an electoral redistribution, but the Liberals have been hit with setbacks in the seats of Deakin and Menzies
RBA governor Michele Bullock has kept rate hikes on the agenda, despite Jim Chalmers’ claim that they were ’smashing the economy’, saying a failure to get on top of inflation would plunge the nation into recession.
Voluntary AI safeguards will be immediately introduced as the government embarks on four weeks of consultation on mandatory protections aimed at boosting trust in the technology
ASIO boss Mike Burgess says remarks endorsing terrorism, the destruction of Israel or the October 7 massacre would result in negative security assessments after arguing rhetorical support for Hamas was ‘not a problem’.
The US Acting Under-Secretary of the Navy says the US is ‘here to stay’ and that Australia will retain full sovereignty over future Virginia-class submarines.
A concession by Anthony Albanese to weaken his proposed environmental watchdog by removing its decision-making powers has failed to win the endorsement of the Coalition and attracted the fury of the Greens.
At least 749 Palestinians have applied for protection visas since arriving in Australia following the outbreak of the Middle East conflict on October 7, with more than 300 applications in June and July.
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