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)
Class action filed by public housing residents thrown out of Supreme Court (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)
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.
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....
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.
Bonza staff queue at Centrelink for emergency payments as airline administrators confirm April wages will not be paid (www.abc.net.au)
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.
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....
[Opinion Piece] Expert Warns of AI's Unintended Psychological Consequences (www.abc.net.au)
As artificial intelligence (AI) improves, it’s not only changing our daily lives but also affecting our minds, relationships, and concept of reality. Cognitive neuroscientist Joel Pearson warns that AI’s psychological effects, such as the ability to create deep fakes and romantic chatbots, can have devastating consequences...
Two people dead, one critical after three-vehicle crash in Brisbane tunnel (www.abc.net.au)
Two people have died and a woman is in a critical condition after a three-vehicle crash in the Legacy Way tunnel in Brisbane’s inner-west on Wednesday afternoon....
Electric garbage truck trialled in regional Australia drives 'like a limousine' (www.abc.net.au)
Sustainable town scrapped as one of Australia's biggest green energy projects reconsiders environmental impact (www.abc.net.au)
In short: A new North West town for 8,000 people will no longer be built as part of a massive renewable energy project when it re-seeks environment approvals. The federal environment law has been criticised for rejecting more renewable projects than fossil fuel ones. What’s next? The proponent behind the North West energy...
Qantas investigating reports customers have access to other passengers' information on app (www.abc.net.au)
Qantas is investigating reports of customers having access to other passengers’ information on their app....
India's Modi government operated 'nest of spies' in Australia before being disrupted by ASIO (www.abc.net.au)
The government ordered an investigation into last year's Optus outage. Now its findings are in (www.abc.net.au)
The report found a key cause of the outage was a problem with Optus’s 3G network....
Broome man accused of restraining children with cable ties pleads not guilty (www.abc.net.au)
Innovative punishment: Cable tie him to the toilet in his cell?
Why is a small beach town against a renewable technology that could help the planet? (www.abc.net.au)
All Australians will foot the bill after climate disasters leave insurance industry on the brink (www.abc.net.au)
The combination of climate-fuelled natural disasters coupled with increasing populations often living in risky areas is threatening the global insurance industry....
