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Climate agencies to ask AI to predict future disasters

Artificial intelligence could play a major role in predicting natural disasters around Australia but authorities warn they do not understand it well enough.

AAP · May 19

‘Pleading and begging’: prison guards switched off water to cell of mentally ill, dying inmate held at Silverwater jail

Exclusive: Simon Cartwright’s family is taking legal action against NSW government after coroner finds his death was preventable

The Guardian - AU · Dec 18, 2024

After 12 years in opposition, grassroots politics restores Labor to power in New South Wales

Sometimes defeat can come with small victories. In his NSW election concession speech, defeated Liberal-National Coalition Premier Dominic Perrottet remarked the campaign had been a “race to the top”. Voters seemed to agree. Perrottet’s opponent, Labor’s Chris Minns, brought the conciliatory tone he maintained as opposition leader into the campaign.

The Conversation · Mar 26, 2023

Inadequate ‘Victorian era’ NSW prisons below state’s own standards

United Nations inspectors have suspended plans to look at Australian prisons after NSW and Queensland blocked access.

The New Daily · Oct 24, 2022

NSW minister concerned United Nations prison inspectors would 'pick on' state government

NSW Corrections Minister Geoff Lee says a UN delegation denied access to inspect jails in the state had come to "pick on" the government and were targeting "spurious issues".

ABC News · Oct 24, 2022

Blame game after UN drops NSW jail visits

The NSW government says some of the state's prisons are sub-standard but blocked UN inspectors should visit countries not signed up to international protocols.

AAP · Oct 23, 2022

NSW passes 'no body, no parole' law

Convicted murderers in NSW are facing a new hurdle to early release after the state parliament passed "no body, no parole" laws.

AAP · Oct 13, 2022

MPs to mull 'no body, no parole' laws

Proposed laws in NSW to deny bail to killers who have not revealed the location of their victim's remains have been introduced to state parliament.

AAP · Sep 21, 2022

NSW to introduce 'no body no parole' law

Convicted murderers in NSW will be denied parole unless they reveal the location of their victim's body, under new legislation to be introduced to parliament.

AAP · Sep 19, 2022

NSW government set to introduce 'no body, no parole' laws after Chris Dawson sentence

NSW is set to introduce a "no body, no parole" laws for inmates, as the issue attracts public scrutiny after last month's conviction of former Sydney teacher Chris Dawson for his wife Lynette's murder.

ABC News · Sep 19, 2022