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- A $3300 carrot at the centre of a plan to lift GST;
- Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro appealing a house arrest court order;
- A Wurundjeri elder to return to the NRL tonight despite Welcome to Country heartbreak.
The lawyer for New South Wales M-P Gareth Ward has argued that four sex offence convictions aren't enough to expel him from parliament under its unworthy behaviour provisions.
The barrister is making the argument at an urgent Court of Appeal hearing, where a Supreme Court injunction against the MP's expulsion is being challenged.
The injunction prevents State Parliament's lower house leader Ron Hoenig and speaker Greg Piper from moving a motion to remove the disgraced M-P.
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There's been a bold proposal to give Australians an extra $3300 per year in exchange for a rise in the goods and services tax.
Independent MP Kate Chaney is calling for a progressive GST model to be implemented ahead of the government's economic roundtable next fortnight, which would lift the tax rate from 10 to 15 per cent and apply to currently exempt items like food, education and health.
Under the plan devised by economist Richard Holden, all Australians over 18 would be given a $3300 annual rebate, meaning they would effectively pay no GST on the first $22,000 of their yearly expenses.
He says changing the tax system would improve equality.
"Australia has a very unusual tax system relative to other advanced economies, other OECD economies. We get about twice as much of our revenue from income taxes and about half as much of our income from the GST compared to other advanced economies, and that that has real implications; that hurts intergenerational mobility. Sorry, it hurts social mobility and and it damages into intergenerational equity, because we're relying on income taxes very heavily from people of working age, and so that's the impetus for reform to our tax system."
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A new survey of frontline service workers in Victoria has concluded that police discriminate against Indigenous and migrant communities when responding to domestic violence cases.
The Harm in the Name of Safety report published by advocacy group Flat Out has found that police frequently misidentify victim-survivors as perpetrators of domestic violence.
Loz Caulfield from Flat Out has told N-I-T-V Indigenous and migrant communities are particularly vulnerable.
"There are very particular people who are being disbelieved by police and rather than receiving support and assistance they're being identified as perpetrators. They're being targeted and they're being criminalised in the course of police responses to family violence."
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Young men and teens using artificial intelligence to create sexually explicit deepfakes of women and girls in New South Wales could face time behind bars under new legislation proposed by the state government.
Attorney-General Michael Daley has introduced a bill today that would expand existing offences for the production and distribution of intimate images without consent, meaning those dabbling in deepfakes could face up to three years in jail.
Karen Bevan is the C-E-O of family violence service Full Stop.
She says the legislation is necessary as part of the effort to change ingrained misogynistic attitudes about women and girls.
"What we know is these kinds of images, this kind of distribution of these images is humiliating, it's degrading and it's often used with a really specific focus on creating those feelings of embarrassment, control and giving messages about what girls and women are worthy of."
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Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is appealing a court order placing him under house arrest.
The order was issued by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Monday, who ruled that the former leader had failed to comply with restraining orders imposed for allegedly courting US President Donald Trump's interference in his legal proceedings.
Bolsonaro is currently on trial for allegedly masterminding a coup plot to remain in office despite his defeat in the 2022 election.
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A new study has found that choosing chips over boiled, baked or mashed potatoes increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
An international team of researchers came to that conclusion after looking at medical data for more than 200,000 health workers in the United States.
The study concluded that those who consumed at least three servings of french fries per week had a 20 per cent increased risk of developing the chronic condition.
The workers answered surveys about their diets over almost four decades, with some 22,000 cases of type 2 diabetes documented.
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An Aboriginal elder whose Welcome to Country was cancelled by the Melbourne Storm on Anzac Day will make a return to the NRL despite ongoing conflict with the club's board.
Wurundjeri woman Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin has confirmed she will attend tonight's Indigenous round to show support for the players, staff, and communities.
Aunty Joy has previously condemned the club's association with a board member who has links to conservative lobby group Advance Australia.
The group campaigned for the no vote in the 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum.
