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The CEO of the Australian Restaurant and Café Association, ARCA, says Australia’s Fair Work Act is not working and is in danger of creating the hundred dollar an hour barrister that coffee shops can’t afford and will negatively impact tourism and shopping malls. Wes Lambert says Australia’s Fair Work System, which began fifteen years ago …
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Is Australia’s prison system really working? According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, figures from a year ago show more than 800 young offenders aged between 14 and 17 have spent a night in lockup. At such a critical time in a young person’s development and self-discovery, how effective is juvenile detention and …
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A veteran anti-whaling environmental campaigner is under arrest in Greenland which falls under Denmark’s jurisdiction. Seventy three year-old, Canadian-American citizen, Paul Watson, is the former head of the Sea Shepard Conservation Society and could face up to 15 years in a Japanese jail if he is extradited to Japan. Image: Pexels chelsea-bradley Produced By: Mia …
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Australia has signed up to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals which include Goal 4:”to ensure ‘inclusive and equitable quality education’ and promote ‘lifelong learning for all’. Yet, that right for Australian children living with disability will not be there for now, after the Federal Government and seven of the eight state and territories opted …
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Female footballer and Matilda’s star, Sam Kerr, has been much talked about because of her absence from the Olympic Games. The reason, a knee injury, concerning her Anterior Cruciate Ligament or ACL. Australia has some of the highest incidence of ACL operations, but a findings published in the Australian Medical Journal suggests that if all …
Indigenous advocates are calling for a child protection system compatible with cultural practice to address the continued removal of First Nations children from their families. This follows the Productivity Commission’s fourth annual Closing the Gap Data Compilation Report which reveals the number of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care in Victoria had increased from 102.2 children per 1,000 …
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Independent Senator Jacqui Lambie says ex-service men and women are being forced to wait far too long to see specialist doctors, leading to higher rates of mental ill health. Data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows between 2013 and 2020, more than four-thousand former Defence Force members presented to an emergency department …
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As the country grapples with housing insecurity and homelessness, a new report reveals that youth are impacted disproportionately by the crisis. Today, Mission Australia released ‘The Unfair Divide’ youth homelessness survey showing 1 in ten people in both South Australia and across the nation, between the age of 15 to 19 years has experienced homelessness …
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