What we learned today – Monday 18 September
And that’s where we’ll wrap up today. Thanks so much for your company.
Here’s a little of what we learned:
Two 20-year-old women have been taken to hospital, with one in a critical condition, after a stabbing at the Australian National University in Canberra this afternoon. The alleged attacker is in custody.
Motorists are forking out well over $2 a litre for fuel in parts of the country due to spiking oil prices and a weakening Australian dollar.
The NSW premier, Chris Minns, has warned of a “tough summer” ahead and urged people to put emergency plans in place.
A petition calling for urgent action to address complaints about the treatment of First Nations staff and students at the University of Melbourne has garnered more than 1,000 signatures as pressure mounts following the exit of leading academic Dr Eddie Cubillo from one of his roles.
Family violence will be considered as an important factor in property disputes under proposed family law reforms.
The Greens say the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, is “defending the indefensible” as the federal court hears a challenge to the government’s approval of two coalmines in NSW.
The family of the 47-year-old woman who died shortly after being Tasered by NSW police last week have released a statement criticising police actions as “a disturbing and heartbreaking response … to a vulnerable person”.
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Jacinta Price says she does not regret comments on the impact of colonisation
The no camp is launching its campaign against the voice in Adelaide this evening where shadow Indigenous Australians minister Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was asked whether she regrets her comments last week about the ongoing impacts of colonisation.
To recap, Price on Thursday said there were no ongoing negative impacts of colonisation on Indigenous Australians.
She said:
I’ll be honest with you, I do not think [there are ongoing negative impacts]. A positive impact? Absolutely. I mean, now we have running water, readily available food.
Asked this evening whether she regretted the comments that stirred a lot of discussion, Price said she did not:
I don’t regret making any comments. What I was outlining was the fact that Indigenous Australians right now are experiencing the best that life can offer. If you ask a single person who has had an education, a person who’s a CEO of an Aboriginal organisation, ask them if they would wish to go back to pre-colonial life and I’d … suggest that they probably wouldn’t want to do that. I would suggest that they’re doing all right for themselves, because we’re in a country now that absolutely wants what’s best for every single Australian and provides the opportunities to do so.
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