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'Scorched earth': public housing demo plan picked apart

Legal minds, engineers and residents have renewed their fight to tear down plans to demolish and rebuild a city's entire stock of public housing towers.

AAP · Oct 23, 2025

Catastrophe warning as former judge urges housing right

A rights-based approach to housing is needed that enshrines a duty on the state to provide decent homes for everyone, a former judge argues.

AAP · Aug 2, 2024

From accidental doctor to Indigenous health trailblazer

An outback doctor who linked poor drinking water to higher rates of disease in remote Indigenous communities is among those honoured on the King's Birthday.

AAP · Jun 9, 2024

Popular Dublin pub owner dies unexpectedly at Manchester United game

Well-known Charlie Chapman, who founded the famous Charlie's Bar in Lanzarote and also played in the Miami Showband, died last month

Dublin Live · Feb 28, 2023

Clooney Foundation speaks up for Thai protesters

Thailand should dismiss the case against 22 protest leaders charged with insulting the monarchy, sedition and a range of public order offences, says TrialWatch, an initiative of the Clooney Foundation for Justice.

Bangkok Post · Jan 17, 2023

Days after an Indigenous man was found unresponsive in a Kowanyama police cell, his family calls for answers

Protesters have gathered outside the police station and the Kowanyama Mayor says residents want answers.

ABC News · Nov 11, 2022

EPA knocks Colorado’s system for issuing air quality permits to minor polluters like drilling sites, gold mines

DENVER — The Environmental Protection Agency found “important concerns” with the way Colorado regulators review and issue permits to minor polluters such as mines, asphalt plants and oil and gas drilling rigs, and those problems risked further damage to the state’s already poor air quality, according to a 309-page report…

The Denver Post · Jul 17, 2022