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Bushfires, pandemic, floods and inflation, crises after crisis has seen a record number of people turn to lifeline for help. Lifeline now takes four thousand calls and chats a day, sometimes pushing the service beyond its limits. The helpline has now opened a brand new local call centre at Victoria University, in West Melbourne. Image: …
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On the wake of World Environment Day, new research released warns that as global temperatures rise deadly coral diseases are spreading and could become a common problem for reefs worldwide by the next century. The study analysed coral health and disease, linking them to ocean temperature records. Coral disease has tripled in the past 25 …
The early childhood education sector is calling on the Federal Government to increase wages to help stem the exodus of childcare educators from the sector and to help meet the rising demand from families for positions in childcare centres. Image: Early childhood educators are leaving the sector: Shutterstock Produced By: Wendy Frew Featured In Story: …
Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has died at 86. He had had leukemia complicated by a lung condition and a dose of long COVID. After a career in property development, construction a media TV empire and buying his favourite football team AC Milan, he turned to politics in 1994. He formed the Centre Right Forza …
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The Federal government have been working to put forward a $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund, or HAFF. Just earlier today in parliament, a key concession to the policy proposal was made, with Federal Housing Minister, Julie Collins, offering to guarantee yearly spending in return for Senate crossbench support. $500 million was guaranteed as a …
The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso turns eighty-nine next month. For sixty four years, he has led a non-violent opposition to the illegal annexation of Tibet by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in 1959. Since then, he and a faction of other Tibetans who have fled have spiritually led Tibet in exile from Dharamsala in …
Ten years ago, photographer and human rights activist Muzafar Ali met Australian film maker Jolyon Hoff and together they helped start the first refugee-led school in Indonesia. In 2015 Muzafar was resettled in Australia and recently they have completed another feature documentary, Watandar My Countryman. Former Afghan Refugee and photographer, Muzafar Ali, discovers that Afghans …
A new report from the Grattan Institute reveals recent migrants within the past five years are twice as likely to be underpaid than long-term residents with similar skills in the same jobs. The report also mentions in 2022, between 5% to 16% of employed recent migrants were paid less than the national minimum wage. From …
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