#theguardian.com. Bird flu spreads to third property as farmers warn Australia’s egg shortage could be prolonged. Agriculture Victoria says H7N8 strain of avian influenza has been detected at a poultry farm at Euroa
#Feb.21.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Commercial flights diverted as Chinese warships undertake apparent live-fire drill in sea between Australia and New Zealand. Three Chinese vessels currently in international waters notified Australia’s defence department before the drill
#Feb.21.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. National Gallery of Australia says it covered Palestinian flags on tapestry after security assessment. Critics say NGA decision ‘is nothing less than a disgraceful act of censorship’ that is ‘rooted in political cowardice’
#Feb.21.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Peter Dutton says Labor is fast-tracking citizenship so that migrants can vote. Here’s what we know. The opposition leader picked up on News Corp claims that Tony Burke was conducting ‘industrial-scale’ ceremonies. Labor denies it has anything to do with the election
#Feb.21.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Guzman y Gomez struggling to break into US market despite offering bigger burritos. ‘US sales aren’t growing as fast as we’d like … it takes time,’ founder says, while analyst notes target market ‘not exactly short of Mexican food options’
#Feb.21.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Melbourne activist can’t rely on evidence from climate experts to defend protest charges, court finds. Brad Homewood is charged with four offences after a 2021 Extinction Rebellion protest at the Exxon/Mobil depot in Spotswood
#Feb.21.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Move over Myki, Victoria will soon get ticketless public transport fares. Train passengers will be able to tap-and-go with a bank card, phone or smart watch early next year, with trams and buses to follow
#Feb.21.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Neighbours cancelled for second time as Amazon backs out. Long-running Australian soap will be ‘resting’ from December, after streaming giant withdraws from production
#Feb.21.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Antisemitism summit: John Howard says ‘God bless Sky News’ as Mark Dreyfus warns against partisanship | Weekly Beast. Sharri Markson defends News Corp after attorney general says antisemitism ‘must not be weaponised’. Plus: a sprinkling of Australian culture for the NYT
#Feb.21.2025 ×
#bbc.com. Children routinely using social media, Australian regulator says. It found they were easily able to bypass age checks on apps, which face being banned for under-16s.
#Feb.20.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Australian public school voluntary fees surge almost 40% in two years. Greens vow to abolish public school fees and accuse major parties of shifting costs on to families struggling with cost of living
#Feb.20.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. ‘Misleading’: Gina Rinehart’s mining firm breached environmental code with ‘clean gas’ job ad, panel rules. Ad Standards Community Panel upholds complaint over Hancock Prospecting’s promotion in the Weekend Australian
#Feb.20.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. ‘Wilful acts of bastardry’: former Treasury secretary says young Australian workers ‘robbed’ by tax system. Ken Henry made comments at a tax summit in Melbourne, arguing fiscal drag is seeing taxes go up while real incomes fall
#Feb.20.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. LNP release of Queensland corruption watchdog report ‘terrifying and petty’, Jackie Trad says. Former deputy premier criticises government’s use of parliamentary privilege to make public previously suppressed CCC report on her conduct
#Feb.20.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Creative Australia says it won’t reinstate artist Khaled Sabsabi for Venice Biennale at tense all-staff meeting. Exclusive: The western Sydney artist was dropped from representing Australia just days after being selected
#Feb.20.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Sydney parents accuse Northern Beaches hospital of failures after their two-year-old waited three hours and later died. Massa family calls for independent review after toddler Joe waited in emergency for hours with symptoms including loss of consciousness
#Feb.20.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Peter Dutton says Trump ‘got it wrong’ when he called Zelenskyy a ‘dictator without elections’. Anthony Albanese doesn’t explicitly rebuke US president but stresses Australia stands with Ukraine
#Feb.20.2025 ×
#aljazeera.com. Australia, New Zealand monitor ‘unusual’ movement of three Chinese warships. Three Chinese navy ships have charted a course along Australia’s eastern coast in a move described as ‘unusual’.
#Feb.20.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Dreyfus heckled at Sky News antisemitism conference as Sukkar doubles down on parliamentary gag. Attorney general says he received ‘extraordinary’ number of private Coalition apologies after parliament standoff
#Feb.20.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Meta and Google opt out of Sydney Mardi Gras amid move away from DEI in US. Former sponsors walk away from 2025 event – while organisers say they do not meet partnership requirements
#Feb.20.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Victoria to axe thousands of public service jobs as treasurer warns of ‘difficult decisions’. Independent review asked to recommend cuts to public service to reduce workforce by 5%-6%
#Feb.20.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Troubled Whyalla steelworks gets $2.4bn government bailout as hunt for new owner begins. GFG chair Sanjeev Gupta says SA government is on the ‘wrong course’ after it forced the operation into administration
#Feb.20.2025 ×
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