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Australian Parliament takes step toward holding a referendum on Indigenous Voice this year

Australia’s House of Representatives has voted overwhelming in favor of holding a referendum this year on creating a so-called Indigenous Voice to Parliament

The Independent UK

Australia's Indigenous recognition bill passes first hurdle

Legislation to hold a referendum to recognise Australia's Indigenous people in the constitution cleared its first parliamentary hurdle on Wednesday as it was passed in the House of Representatives.

Reuters

Founder of Albany's Karen population reflects on finding a home far from Myanmar and conflict

The very first Myanmar refugee to establish a life in the Western Australian town recounts the long journey there after escaping conflict at home, then spending a decade in a Thailand camp where he and his wife raised four children.

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State of Origin Game 1 live stream: how to watch NSW vs Queensland from anywhere

State of Origin is back for 2023, and the series opener starts tonight in Adelaide – here’s where to watch from wherever you are.

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Extreme weather cost insurers almost $1bn in 2022, now small businesses face premium hikes

The Insurance Council of Australia says extreme weather events are helping to push up premiums. They are also pushing many small business owners in Queensland to the brink.

ABC News

NSW community sports club Knights of Albion ready to take on Australia's best medieval fighters

If you see the Knights of Albion training at a local park, you might assume they are part of an elaborate medieval re-enactment. But there's nothing fake about these battles.

ABC News

Australia's modern slavery law is woefully inadequate – this is how we can hold companies accountable

A highly anticipated independent review of Australia’s Modern Slavery Act has found it has not brought “meaningful change” to the lives of people living in conditions of modern slavery since its passage more than four years ago.

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Racism linked to Indigenous women’s homicides

Systemic racism within Australia's justice system has been linked to the deaths of 151 Indigenous women in a recent study of intimate partner homicides.

The New Daily

Voice legislation off to Senate, after passing in lower house

Australians are a step closer to having their say on an Indigenous Voice to parliament, with the legislation passing the lower house.

The New Daily

Newly described enormous marsupial wandered great distances across Australia 3.5 million years ago

Today, 80% of Australia is arid, but it was not always that way. In the early Pliocene, 5.4 to 3.6 million years ago, Australia had a greenhouse climate, widespread forests and diverse marsupial animals.

The Conversation

Meet Australia’s first long-distance walker: a 250kg marsupial with ‘heeled hands’

Creatures dubbed the ambulator roamed across the continent’s arid interior 3.5 million years ago, scientists say

The Guardian - AU

UK’s first post-Brexit trade deals with Australia and New Zealand now in place

The agreements are the first trade deals negotiated post-Brexit to come into force.

The Independent UK

PwC tax leak scandal: Greens senator accuses police of conducting ‘inadequate desktop assessment’

Barbara Pocock’s remarks in Senate estimates come as Australian Taxation Office and AFP blame each other for inaction in 2019

The Guardian - AU

How to watch State of Origin Game 1: live stream QLD vs NSW for free, team news

Brad Fittler's Blues look to wrestle the shield off Billy Slater's Maroons – here's how to watch a State of Origin Game 1 2023 live stream from anywhere.

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Voice to Parliament draws mixed opinions in Indigenous community of Woorabinda

Like many in his community, Douglas Graham wants to see the Queensland town of Woorabinda — and the lives of the people in it — improve, but he is unsure if or how the Indigenous Voice to Parliament would help.

The New Daily

Ancient ‘wanderer’ megafauna named for unusual talent

Scientists have identified a brand new species of megafauna with the unusual ability to travel vast distances across ancient Australia in search of food

ABC News

'Daunting shortage' of skilled workers looms over giant, renewable energy projects

Outback Queensland is home to the largest potential wind zone in the country, but a lack of infrastructure and a shortage of skilled workers are major roadblocks in reaching national renewable energy targets.

The Conversation

A new trade deal delivers cheaper Australian beef and British sweets – but does little to avert dangerous global warming

A free trade agreement between Australia and the United Kingdom begins on Wednesday. When it was announced in 2021, then-prime ministers Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison cheerily exchanged packets of chocolate biscuits. Meanwhile, one British newspaper celebrated the prospect of cheaper steaks.

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Australian women's access to abortion is a postcode lottery. Here's what needs to change

When the American legal precedent protecting women’s right to an abortion in the United States, Roe versus Wade, was overturned last year, women around the world felt anxious.

The Conversation

From whiteboard work to random groups, these simple fixes could get students thinking more in maths lessons

Australian students’ performance and engagement in mathematics is an ongoing issue.

The Conversation

Why isn't Australian music charting on the ARIA charts?

The excitement generated by the 2023 Eurovision contest was palpable. Members of my family, like thousands of Australians, were awake at 5am on a Sunday to cheer on Australia’s Eurovision contenders, Perth band Voyager. Their song Promise was the eighth Australian entry since we first competed in 2015. Seven of…

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Photos from the field: spying on Antarctic moss using drones, MossCam, smart sensors and AI

The Antarctic continent conjures visions of white ice and blue sky. But not far from Australia’s Casey Station, 3,880km due south of Perth, moss beds emerge verdant and green.

ABC News

Why Australian households are divided when it comes to financial pressure, and economists are divided on the outlook

Economists are divided on how well households will weather the storm of rent rises, soaring home loan rates and rising prices, just as Australians are divided in how much financial pressure they're under.

ABC News

Australia's average temperatures plummet in May as Sydney experiences coldest nights in 66 years

More than 100 Australian weather stations have just registered their coldest May minimum temperatures on record. And the cold snap had Sydney experiencing some of its iciest May nights in 66 years.

ABC News

Their fight made history, but Franklin blockade activists say their tactics wouldn't work today

Activists involved in the protest that saved the Franklin River say the environmental win would not have been possible under today's anti-protest laws.

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