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Cost of stamp duty keeping Australians in homes that no longer suit their needs

With two of their adult children having flown the coop and their third likely to do so soon,…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #barriers #Brisbane #dollars #emptynesters #familyhome #GriffithUniversity #homes #housing #missingmiddle #nationalseniorsaustralia #pool #QLD #Queensland #RachelGallagher #stampduty #suburbs
https://www.europesays.com/australia/101540/

One Nation-linked company built $56,000 shed on private property of Pauline Hanson’s right-hand man | James Ashby

Pauline Hanson’s right-hand man, James Ashby, is enjoying generous benefits as a result of his role working for…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia
https://www.europesays.com/australia/101524/

If Australia wants to lower migration it needs more productivity

Everyone now understands that growing the economy only by increasing the number of people, while individuals feel worse…
#Australia #alankohler #AnthonyAlbanese #AU #Austrlia #coalition #familyvisa #housing #housingcrisis #immigration #labor #limitmigration #migrants #Migration #migrationcap #onenation #PaulineHanson #residentvisa #studentvisa #tonyburke #visa #workvisa
https://www.europesays.com/australia/101518/

Multiple bushfire alerts in Tasmania as winds make blazes difficult to control

Tasmania’s fire service has issued bushfire alerts for several areas as wind gusts make conditions difficult for fire…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #bushfire #bushfirewarning #bushfirewatchandact #colebrook #emergencyservices #Hobart #tas #tasalert #tasmania #temperatures #TFS
https://www.europesays.com/australia/101326/

April Laguros left her family in the Philippines to live in Coolamon

When April Laguros contemplated leaving behind her husband and three young kids in the Philippines to come to…
#Australia #agedcare #Agriculture #AU #Austrlia #canola #Coolamon #immigration #localcouncil #Migration #regions #residentialcare #rural #workershortage
https://www.europesays.com/australia/101322/

WA government unlikely to catch shark that killed Greg O’Neill, expert says

A behavioural biologist and shark drone expert has criticised the WA government’s response to the state’s most recent…
#Australia #accident #AU #Austrlia #catch-and-kill #fatalaccident #fatalsharkattack #GregO'Neill #jackiejarvis #perthnews #sharkattack #sharkdrone #SorrentoBeach #sorrentosharkattack #wanews
https://www.europesays.com/australia/101318/

PM urges US and China to strike deal over AI’s rapid development

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has urged the United States and China to heed the tech sector’s warnings about…
#Australia #AI #albanese #Apple #AU #Austrlia #childsafety #Cupertino #timcook #us
https://www.europesays.com/australia/101142/

Victorian Labor pledges tougher sexual violence laws if re-elected

Rapists, sex offenders and family violence perpetrators, including those who drive their partner to suicide, will face tougher…
#Australia #Attorney-GeneralSonyaKilkenny #AU #Austrlia #BenCarroll #domesticviolence #familyviolence #government #JessWilson #labor #lawreform #parliamenthouse #sexualviolence #victoria #victorianelection
https://www.europesays.com/australia/101064/

PM meets Tim Cook at Apple HQ, leaves door open to copyright law change in AI race

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has not ruled out changing copyright laws to attract AI investment from tech giants,…
#Australia #AI #albanese #Apple #AU #Austrlia #childsafety #Cupertino #timcook #us
https://www.europesays.com/australia/101042/

Police allege sheep were ‘deliberately injured’ and killed at Canberra property

Police are investigating after multiple sheep at a Canberra property were allegedly rounded up and injured, causing two…
#Australia #ACT #ACTpolicing #animalcruelty #attack #AU #Austrlia #Burglary #canberra #crime #dashcam #deliberately #holdingpen #injured #investigation #localstories #police #property #ransacked #robbery #rural #sedan #sheep #tuggeranong #witnesses
https://www.europesays.com/australia/100478/

Tasmania’s Justice Department to review AI use in parole board decisions

Tasmania’s Justice Department will undertake a review of past parole board decisions to understand the extent to which…
#Australia #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AU #Austrlia #decision #estcourt #justicedepartment #neill-fraser #parole #ParoleBoard #review #Sue #SupremeCourt #susan #tasmania
https://www.europesays.com/australia/100452/

Farmers fear Working Holiday Maker visa changes will cause worker shortages and food insecurity

Agricultural industries warn changes to working holiday visa migration policy could threaten crops and Australia’s food security. On…
#Australia #Agriculture #application #AU #Austrlia #backpackers #Berries #citrus #cropping #crops #Dairy #food #government #harvest #industry #mango #Migration #policy #process #renew #Security #shortage #summer #visa #worker #workingholiday
https://www.europesays.com/australia/100302/

Girl, 15, charged after 18-year-old teenager stabbed six times during Deer Park brawl in Melbourne

Warning: Graphic content A teenage girl has been charged after another girl was allegedly stomped on, punched, and…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #Courts&Justice #crime #CrimeMelbourne #Melbourne #news #VICNews #victoriapolice
https://www.europesays.com/australia/100126/

Union eyes TAFE funding fight as research shows Victoria trailing the nation

Early education teacher Elizabeth Chiarelli loves training the next generation of childcare workers in her TAFE classes. “You…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #educationvictoria #freetafe #learning #melbournetafe #skillscrisis #students #tafefunding #tafevictoria #vicpols
https://www.europesays.com/australia/99886/

Markets live updates: RBA warns inflation risks starting to materialise, ASX edges down

RBA Michele Bullock says the war in Middle East has made Australia poorer, and the RBA can’t respond…
#Australia #ASX #AU #AustralianDollar #Austrlia #bitcoin #dollar #DowJones #liveblog #liveupdate #Markets #Nasdaq #NYSE #S&P #sharemarket #stocks #WallStreet
https://www.europesays.com/australia/99590/

Queensland 18-year-old charged with promoting violent extremist content on social media

An 18-year-old Queenslander has been charged with extremist offences after allegedly running social media channels supporting violence against…
#Australia #antisemitism #AU #Austrlia #childabuse #court #crime #extremist #extremistmaterial #Islamophobia #racism #SocialMedia #terrorism
https://www.europesays.com/australia/99612/

South Australian government commits $109 million to help struggling wine industry

Tell us about your experience. The South Australian government has announced a $109 million support package for the…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #government #package #sa #Support #vineyard #wine #wineaustralia #wineexports #wineindustry
https://www.europesays.com/australia/99574/

AUKUS on track but faces big challenges at five-year mark, its architects say

AUKUS has forced the United States to confront its “profoundly lacking” capacity to build and maintain naval submarines,…
#Australia #AU #aukus #Austrlia #csis #defence #fiveyears #GregMoriarty #kurtcampbell #nuclear #pact #panel #stephenlovegrove #submarine
https://www.europesays.com/australia/99266/

7NEWS live updates: Police charge woman believed to be mother of dead newborn found in Sydney bin

The victim of an alleged group attack in Darwin remains in critical condition. Fighting allegedly ensued when a…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #breakingnews #CarAccidents #CarAccidentsSydney #Courts&Justice #crime #Melbourne #news #NSWNews #Sydney #VICNews
https://www.europesays.com/australia/99260/

Strathfield Council tapes over Indigenous acknowledgement on entry signs

Community concern is growing over a decision by an inner west Sydney council to black out sections of…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #foreignlanguagesigns #InnerWest #nswlocalgovernment #Strathfieldcouncil #strathfieldcouncilmeeting #strathfieldcouncilsigns #strathfieldcouncilsignscontroversy #strathfieldgatewaysigns #sydneyinnerwest #WesternSydney
https://www.europesays.com/australia/94107/

Husband of former childcare worker avoids jail for distributing child exploitation material

A West Australian man who described children as “toys” and shared graphic video of a child performing a…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #childabuse #childexploitation #childcareworker #evelynhoughton #hopetounchildcare #paedophile #ravensthoprechildcare #ronaldhoughton
https://www.europesays.com/australia/90167/

Fire breaks out at Hydro Tasmania’s Tungatinah Power Station

An investigation is set to begin into the cause of a fire at a power station in Tasmania’s…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #tasmaniahydro #tasmaniapolice #tasnetworks #tungatinahpowerstation #tungatinahpowerstationfire
https://www.europesays.com/australia/86371/

Jacobus ‘John’ Bakkum who went missing from High Country pub remembered as community leader

An elderly man who was missing for two days after failing to return from dinner at a High…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #Dead #embankment #Harrietville #highcountry #JacobusBakkum #John #missingman #pub
https://www.europesays.com/australia/81557/

NT politician Yiŋiya Guyula resigns, labelling CLP government ‘dehumanising, oppressing’

Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly Yiŋiya Guyula has resigned effective immediately, citing in part the Country…
#Australia #Aboriginalpolicy #Aboriginalpolitician #ArnhemLand #AU #Austrlia #clpgovernment #nt #ntclp #ntindependent #racistgovernment #YiŋiyaGuyulaMLA #Yolngu
https://www.europesays.com/australia/75810/

Victorian drivers donate thousands of dollars to help man mark potholes

Steve Panozzo’s fluorescent paintwork is renowned across north-east Victoria. With a shake of his spray can and a…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #carrepairs #departmentoftransportandplanning #potholes #spraypaint #stevepanozzo #victorianroaddamage
https://www.europesays.com/australia/67466/

Barn owl baby boom welcomed in rural WA following mouse plague

Farmers and wildlife groups have reported an increase in barn owl sightings in Western Australia’s Midwest and Wheatbelt…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #barnowlpopulation #barnowls #DBCA #grainsilos #JustRaptors #morewa #mouseplague #rodenticide #wanews #wheatbelt #wildlifecarers
https://www.europesays.com/australia/66498/

Kath Pettingill, the matriarch of the Walsh Street police killers, dies

The mother of one of Melbourne’s most notorious crime families responsible for the Walsh Street police killings has…
#Australia #AnimalKingdom #AU #Austrlia #crimematriarch #DennisAllen #KathPettingill #TrevorPettingill #underworld #VictorPeirce #WalshStreetkillings
https://www.europesays.com/australia/64869/

In pictures: Garma 2026, a festival for ‘everyone’

The Garma Festival takes place across four days in Gulkula on Gumatj country in a stringybark forest at…
#Australia #ArnhemLand #AU #Austrlia #garmafestival #gulkula #gumatj #yolŋumatha
https://www.europesays.com/australia/64649/

Arnhem Land clan leader, land rights advocate remembered as ‘champion for his people’

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article includes the name and image of an…
#Australia #aboriginallandrights #ArnhemLand #AU #Austrlia #BakamumuMarika #landrights #Rirratjingu #RirratjinguAboriginalCorporation #Rirratjinguclan
https://www.europesays.com/australia/64063/

Katanning hostel rapist Dennis McKenna set to be released from jail under strict conditions

One of Western Australia’s worst serial paedophiles appears set to be released from prison under strict supervision, as…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #dennismckenna #dennismckennarelease #highriskseriousoffender #katanning #paedodennismckenna #paedophile #perthcourts #perthnews #standrew'sboardinghostel #wacourts #wanews
https://www.europesays.com/australia/60989/

Two men jailed for life over Alice Springs teenager’s ‘callous and cruel’ murder

Two men have been jailed for life for the murder of Alice Springs teenager Yiel Deng Gatluak after…
#Australia #alicespringsmurder #AU #Austrlia #filming #guandong #humiliatingvideo #koangwuordol #lifesentence #sudanesecommunity #teenager #YielDengGatluak
https://www.europesays.com/australia/59335/

East Arnhem council calls for action in wake of alleged DV murder of 17yo girl in Galiwin’ku

Galiwin’ku residents say a teenage girl who was killed in an alleged domestic violence murder in the remote…
#Australia #17yearolddeath #ArnhemLand #AU #Austrlia #death #domesticviolence #DV #dvdeath #galiwinkudeath #NorthernTerritory #tribute
https://www.europesays.com/australia/58387/

Hobart’s Mona announces plans to set up new art gallery in Bangkok, Thailand

Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) has announced plans to establish a new art museum in…
#Australia #assetworldcorporation #AU #Austrlia #chaophrayariver #darkmofo #darklab #davidwalsh #museumofoldandnewart
https://www.europesays.com/australia/48470/

Kaniva finally connects to drinkable mains water, but not all residents want it on tap

A west Victorian town is no longer without mains drinking water, but not everyone will be making the…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #canIdrinkthewaterinkaniva? #Community #gwm #kanivadrinkingwater #regionalvictoria #waterbill #watersupply
https://www.europesays.com/australia/45436/

Nhulunbuy housing provider urged to get back to basics amid post-mining planning crunch

A senior Northern Territory government official has criticised a government-funded remote housing provider for “not doing enough” to…
#Australia #ArnhemLand #AU #Austrlia #Economy #housing #housingcrisis #miningtown #remotecommunity #RioTinto #SmallBusiness #traditionalowners
https://www.europesays.com/australia/44415/

Mining giant Rio Tinto accused of abandoning NT town of Nhulunbuy to an uncertain future

With manicured lawns, flashy four-wheel drives and decked-out fishing boats in every other driveway, the town of Nhulunbuy…
#Australia #ArnhemLand #AU #Austrlia #gove #govesmallbusiness #Mining #nhulunbuy #nhulunbuyfuture #nhulunbuysmallbusiness #nhulunbuytransitionplanning #ntmininggiant #RioTinto #SmallBusiness
https://www.europesays.com/australia/44147/

Nude swimmers take chilly plunge in Dark Mofo solstice swim

Hobart’s coldest morning so far this year has not deterred swimmers from stripping off to their birthday suits…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #darkmofo #darkmofonudeswim #mona #nudeswim #swim #tas #tasmania #wintersolstice
https://www.europesays.com/australia/35691/