The Australian
Green activists gave Labor MPs a playbook on how to overturn approvals for
Adani's coalmine in closed-door meetings late last year, days before the
Queensland government ordered a controversial review into the black-throated
finch.
University of NSW students are being required to do a course which teaches them
that the proposition that a person's sex is assumed from their gender is false.
NSW Opposition Leader Michael Daley chaired a Randwick council planning
committee meeting that approved a controversial apartment block, built by a
large Labor donor, which former NSW Labor general secretaries Mark Arbib and
Eric Roozendaal later invested in.
Former ABC chairman Donald McDonald said yesterday Ita Buttrose would be a
"splendid appointment" to lead the ABC, while Greens and unionists questioned
the selection process.
The Sydney Morning Herald
NSW Labor leader Michael Daley will hit the "wealthiest in society" with a new
tax on luxury cars to pay for his signature health pledge to fund more nurses
and midwives.
Derryn Hinch has been forced to deny sexually harassing Labor MP Emma Husar
after online publisher BuzzFeed alleged in court documents that she told a
female staffer that the Victorian senator "touched her all over her body" before
she allegedly replicated the manoeuvre on her staffer.
Former NSW Labor minister Ian Macdonald says that he's "absolutely" innocent and
has called for an "immediate inquiry" into the state corruption watchdog's
investigation of him as he walked out of prison after having his conviction over
the granting of a multimillion-dollar coal exploration licence set aside.
The HSC will undergo a wide-ranging review, including potentially adding to it
elements of the International Baccalaureate, whoever wins next month's state
election.
The Daily Telegraph
St George Illawarra will be offered $600,000 in salary cap relief if star player
Jack de Belin is stood down by the NRL this week while he fights sexual assault
charges.
A team of Australian scientists have successfully conducted human trials with a
once-a-month peanut allergy injection that could potentially save lives.
Patients who took part in the breakthrough 18-month program did not suffer any
dangerous side-effects, paving the way for a future treatment for allergy
sufferers.
NSW Labor leader Michael Daley chaired the Randwick City Council committee that
signed off on a development application for the Obeid family's business
partners, making the developer up to $15 million on townhouses built on land
formerly zoned open space.
Drought-hit farmers have been promised a massive extension to the state's wild
dog fence to protect their livestock and shore up the Coalition's election
chances in the bush.
The Age
Victoria's energy consumer watchdog has lashed power companies for cutting off a
record number of households in the face of steeply rising prices.
The $2 billion cash injection the Morrison government has promised for its
flagship emission fund has been criticised by both environmental agencies and
big business as insufficient to tackle the challenge ahead.
The Morrison government will invest up to $1.38 billion in a massive expansion
of the Snowy Hydro scheme, cementing the legacy project of former prime minister
Malcolm Turnbull.
The Herald Sun
Detectives have zeroed in on a suspect in the cold-blooded slaying of gangland
figure Willie Thompson 15 years ago during Melbourne's bloody underworld war.
The Herald Sun can reveal a police image of a man suspected of being one of two
assassins who shot Thompson from either side as he sat, trapped, in his
convertible at Chadstone on July 21, 2003.
The head of the investigation into the Silk-Miller murders, Victoria Police
Detective Superintendent Paul Sheridan, has described evidence of officers under
his command as "totally wrong".
