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A number of Aboriginal claimants have launched an action in the Australian Human Rights Commission over the racist game "Survival Island 3". Indigenous Australians were appalled to find that the game gives points for hunting and killing aboriginal people, as a progression reward to get to another level. They are seeking redress from multi-nationals Google, Apple and Facebook who have made the game available on their platforms.
University students could be asked to pay back debt a little sooner than they thought. In a report issued by the Grattan Institute, the group have proposed a reduction to the FEE-HELP threshold from $54,126 to $42,000. Many students are concerned by the proposal and unsure of how it will affect their future.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced a hospital funding compromise will be presented to the Council of Australian Government’s in Canberra on Friday. It’s reported a deal of five-billion-dollars over four-years has been proposed to relieve hospitals facing funding cuts. In 2014, the Abbott government announced budget cuts which would remove $57 billion from long-term hospital funding promised by the former Labor government. The South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill, who’s been a vocal critic of the cuts, says any offer will be welcomed but that five-billion-dollars is not enough.
The creation of a medicinal cannabis industry in Australia could be worth $100 million a year. A new white paper by the University of Sydney business school confirms the strong need to establish a medicinal cannabis market through examining potential logistical and medicinal benefits. The emerging medicinal cannabis industry will help those suffering a broad range of conditions, but it will also create new employment and business opportunities.
If you are a Farsi-speaker or from eastern Afghanistan, it is Persian New Year, the biggest cultural event of the year. And if you are on Nauru, you won't be allowed out to celebrate it. Tomorrow Foreign Minister Julie Bishop will be chair of the 6th Ministerial Conference of the Bali Process, where the regional countries will endeavour to find a solution to people smuggling, trafficking and transnational crime. Perhaps they could find nice a New Years present for those on Nauru.
Never before has the planet been this hot. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has released a 2016 State of the Climate confirming thIS. The WMO predicts the record high temperatures mean climate related natural disasters will increase over the next few decades. As climate change continues to worsen, is there any chance of saving the planet’s bleak future?
Access to affordable water is a human right, but for many, this access is severely restricted. Millions of people from impoverished, marginalised communities around the world have no choice but to collect unsafe, dirty water. This water often comes from open ponds and rivers. If this isn’t an option, many of those people have to spend a significant amount of their income buying water from vendors. A new report released from international NGO WaterAid aims to shed light on just how many people around the world are struggling to afford water.
Indigenous communities and Environment advocates are urging the federal government to reject new recommendations for the federal governments Murray-Darling basin plan. The contentious plan aims to manage the river systems across all states to share water among farmers while leaving enough for the river and the environment it supports. One of those environments is the Ramsar-listed Coorong wetland at the mouth of the Murray River in South Australia. A Senate Select committee, chaired by Liberal-Democrat David Leyonhjelm, has suggested reclassifying the internationally protected wetland as an estuarine salt water system, not a freshwater one. This could mean removing infrastructure that keeps sea water out of the wetlands, and that freshwater allocations provided to the area being sent elsewhere. But critics say this will have devastating effects all along the river system.
Protesting is a democratic right - that’s the message activist groups and members of the public took to the steps of parliament house in NSW today. The Baird government’s proposed anti-protest laws echo similar laws in Tasmania which are being challenged in the high court by former Australian Greens leader Bob Brown. If passed, the laws would allow mining protesters to be criminalised and activists to face seven years jail if caught interfering with mining equipment or coal seam gas sites. The laws also includes new search and seizure powers for police of any materials they think might be used to “lock on”, and would allow police to forcibly break up any protest they deem a “serious risk to safety” or to be “obstructing traffic”.
Last week the suicide of a ten year old Aboriginal girl devastated a Kimberley community. It was later revealed the girl had witnessed her then-14 year old cousin's suicide just three years earlier. It seems this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Indigenous youth suicide and self-harm, and some authorities have labelled it an epidemic. So what's causing the suicides of so many Indigenous children?
There’s been a new political push to tackle the problem of Tuberculosis in the Asia-Pacific region. Today the Australian TB Caucus was launched in Canberra. It’s a group of politicians across political parties pledging to make combating TB a priority. Tuberculosis or TB is a bacterial disease that mist commonly affects the lungs. ITs symptoms include coughing, sometimes with blood, fever, chest pain, weakness and weight loss. TB rivals HIV/AIDS as the world’s most deadly infectious disease killing about one-point-five million people a year, with 60-percent of those cases are in our region. But it doesn’t get the attention that HIV does. The TB Caucus aims to change that.
On the eve of International Women's Day Minister for Women, Michaelia Cash, said she doesn't call herself a feminist because she doesn't like labels. So what's in a label? With the gender pay gap at 17.3 per cent and one woman killed every week as a result of intimate partner violence in Australia, gender equality has a way to go. We talk with author and feminist Jane Caro about her struggle for the sisterhood, the significance of a label and the challenges women still face in Australia.
The UN Women theme for International Women's Day this year is "Change her future, together we can stop violence against women and girls". A fitting focus when one in three women around the world will experience some form of sexual violence. In places like Papua New Guinea, as many as one hundred per cent of women report experiencing sexual or physical violence. What can we do to care for and protect these women in Australia and internationally?
How much of your sex education did you gain from high school? The Young Women’s Advisory Group (YWAG) surveyed 16-21 year-old girls about what type of sex-education they received in high school. As part of International Women’s Day special Jessica Smalley went to find out more about what young women need from sex education.
Women make up most of the world’s poor. But when women have control of the purse strings, their families and their communities are more likely to benefit. And if women have control over food production, the benefits are higher again. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research or ACIAR found that in Lao Cai, one of Vietnam's poorest regions, women played an important role in the farming. These women are working with the ACIAR to grow better produce to be sold for higher profits.
New South Wales cyclists and drivers will now face tougher penalties for not following road rules. Drivers will also cop demerit points if they fail to leave at least one metre between them and a cyclist. As of March 1, 2017, cyclists will also have to carry photo ID in order to make it easier for police to enforce the fines. But will this latest cycle of road safety rules end the war between car and bike?
The second day at the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse saw some explosive testimony from Cardinal George Pell. When discussing the abuse committed by Catholic Priest Gerald Ridsdale, Pell said it was a sad story but that it was of no interest to him at the time. This comment stunned and angered child sexual abuse survivors watching in both Sydney and Ballarat. Cardinal Pell was at times grilled by Counsel assisting Gail Furness, who put it to him that it was “implausible” that he did not know about the abuse committed by Ridsdale, given how wide spread that knowledge was among senior church figures.