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Alligator spotted with jaws taped shut and struggling in wild before being rescued

Georgie the alligator was spotted struggling along in a pond near Brandon, Florida, US, unable to eat because someone had tapped her jaws shut. She was like this for two months before being rescued

Daily Mirror · Feb 20, 2023

Union sues amid garbage collector strikes

Waste management firm Cleanaway could face $125,000 in penalties for allegedly blocking union members from engaging in legal industrial action.

AAP · Feb 15, 2023

Brisbane council to review prime pub leases after penalty rates controversy

Mantle Group says it will seek to overturn Fair Work Commission findings over payments to casuals

The Guardian - AU · Feb 2, 2023

Florida says it’s helping feds deal with migrant surge but not directly intervening

MIAMI — Florida’s emergency response to the influx of migrants from Cuba and Haiti arriving by boat will be one of surveillance and not interdiction as 150 to 200 troops and officers work with federal Homeland Security officials “to increase coastal vigilance and provide improved situational awareness on migrant activities,’’…

Miami Herald · Jan 11, 2023

Why was an endangered Key deer killed? Reason could mark the fate of shooting suspect.

A 77-year-old Florida Keys woman is accused of the shooting death of an endangered Key deer and could face a year in federal prison if she’s convicted.

Miami Herald · Dec 28, 2022

Former ref's stoush with NRL escalates

An ex-referee whose British accent was criticised by the NRL and then dismissed has taken his legal spat with the sports body to the Federal Court.

AAP · Dec 15, 2022

A python is stalking your South Florida neighborhood? So, what do you do now?

A massive snake — believed to be a Burmese python — was spotted slithering through Doral last week.

Miami Herald · Dec 14, 2022

Shark-diving tourists thought they were saving fish. Instead, they helped steal commercial fishing gear

A group of tourists aboard a boat to dive with sharks were conned by their captain and mate into helping them steal an authorized commercial fishing set up in the waters off of Jupiter, thinking they were helping free tangled sharks from illegal lines.

Tribune News Service · Dec 7, 2022

Man’s body found in Florida Keys where Haitian migrants came ashore this week, FWC says

The body of a man was found Thursday near where a group of Haitian migrants landed in the Florida Keys Monday, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman said.

Miami Herald · Nov 25, 2022

What is the sticking point in Labor’s industrial relations bill and how would it work?

Independent senator David Pocock has told Labor to pull the ‘single-interest stream’ element out of its workplace bill to get the rest through

The Guardian - AU · Nov 23, 2022