Electric car sales in Australia's outer suburbs take off as commuters pocket 'ridiculous' savings (www.abc.net.au)
ABC News - NSW government threatens some Western Sydney libraries' funding over same-sex parenting book ban (www.abc.net.au)
Two boys have been expelled from a private Australian school over spreadsheet that used offensive terms to describe female pupils (www.abc.net.au)
The spreadsheet used terms such as “wifeys” and “cuties” to describe female students and also used the term “unrapeable”.
Hamas accepts ceasefire proposal in Gaza war, Israel says deal 'far from' its demands (www.abc.net.au)
Australian helicopter forced to take evasive action after Chinese fighter intercepts with flares (www.abc.net.au)
Australian helicopter forced to take evasive action after Chinese fighter detonates flares (www.abc.net.au)
An Australian pilot was forced to take evasive action after a Chinese military jet detonated flares close to a Navy helicopter that was operating in international waters near South Korea....
State school parents to get $400 bonus for each child, in Victorian budget (www.abc.net.au)
The article headline isn’t very good imo, I think the first paragraph does a better job at summing it up:...
Homeless family says farmer exploited them for labour after 4,000km cross-country journey (www.abc.net.au)
Koala 'on a mission' surprises athletes in Ironman Australia triathlon (www.abc.net.au)
Government moves to fund students on university placements for teaching, nursing and social work (www.abc.net.au)
Fucking finally, but it’s disappointing it isn’t more.
Why are Australia's unemployment payments so inadequate? Experts say they have been deteriorating for decades (www.abc.net.au)
HECS changes to see $3 billion in student debt 'wiped out' (www.abc.net.au)
Minister says Coca-Cola's free groundwater use 'doesn't pass the pub test' after hot, dry summer (www.abc.net.au)
Class action filed by public housing residents thrown out of Supreme Court (www.abc.net.au)
HECS indexation to be overhauled in budget with $3 billion in student debt 'wiped out' (www.abc.net.au)
Student debts will be lowered for more than three million Australians under reforms designed to stop HECS loans growing faster than wages....
Police shoot dead 16yo armed with a knife in Perth, premier suggests teen was radicalised online (www.abc.net.au)
Happened at the Bunnings in Willetton.
Flooding in Brazil kills 39 people with 68 still missing and 24,000 displaced (www.abc.net.au)
The storms also triggered landslides and the partial collapse of a dam structure at a small hydro-electric power plant. Flooding from heavy rains battering Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul has killed 39 people, according to local authorities, with the death toll expected to rise as dozens remain unaccounted-for....
Abc News: Social media is more 'chaotic' and 'fragmented' than ever, so what's the future of how we live online? (www.abc.net.au)
Man charged with blackmail over alleged data breach of club patrons (www.abc.net.au)
Cybercrime detectives have charged a 46-year-old man with blackmail over alleged threats to share the personal details of more than 1 million people that were reportedly obtained via a data breach of clubs in NSW and the ACT.
The federal government has given an online age verification pilot the green light. Here's what we know about it (www.abc.net.au)
I saw that they weren’t going to go ahead last year, but now apparently there will be a pilot.
They pooled their money to buy an 'ugly' hill. Twenty years later, they're calling it 'paradise' (www.abc.net.au)
A group of friends, dismayed about climate change, bought the most degraded piece of farmland they could find. Not to live on, or to make money from, but to transform into the bushland it once was.
Bonza staff queue at Centrelink for emergency payments as airline administrators confirm April wages will not be paid (www.abc.net.au)
Orica fined $1.2m after Newcastle workers exposed to potentially deadly cobalt dust (www.abc.net.au)
In short: Orica has been fined $1.2 million after two workers were exposed to potentially deadly cobalt dust over several years....
'I don't think it's that hard': The former cop who says he knows how to save more domestic violence victims (www.abc.net.au)
Parched south-west is 'canary in the coal mine' reflecting Australia’s climate change reality (www.abc.net.au)
So certainly for Australia, it’s south-west WA where that declining rainfall trend is going to be most acute," Australian National University climate scientist Nerilie Abram said....
