State Briefs Section
CANBERRA, Australia — The Scott Morrison government has promised changes to make Australian workplaces safer, but critics say the plan does not go far enough to combat sexual harassment. The government has released its response to […]
DARWIN, Australia — Kakadu National Park management has asked the Northern Territory government to drop court action over an allegedly illegally disturbed Aboriginal sacred site. Parks Australia — which is part of the federal government’s environment department […]
MELBOURNE, Australia — A Tamil woman from India allegedly kept as a slave for eight years by a couple from Melbourne, the coastal capital of the Australian state of Victoria, was a “tried and tested” good […]
DARWIN, Australia — More than a dozen alleged online predators have been charged for child exploitation and abuse offenses in the Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia. Police raided 11 Australian homes in Darwin, Tennant Creek, Alice […]
WAGGA WAGGA, Australia — An Aboriginal teenage girl (name yet to be disclosed) has lost an appeal after she requested her criminal trial be heard by a female magistrate for cultural reasons, claiming she wouldn’t defend […]
KOLKATA, India — Bangladesh’s 50th Independence Day celebrations turned bloody after clashes erupted between security personnel and protesters who were outraged by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit. Modi’s visit to Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, […]
Sales of fake COVID vaccination cards have prompted 46 state attorneys general to urge Twitter, eBay and Shopify to prevent people from marketing and selling them on their platforms. “We are deeply concerned about this […]
CANBERRA, Australia — Even before recent scandals rocked the state and federal parliaments, Australians overwhelmingly felt politicians were failing to meet their public interest expectations. The latest Next 25 Navigator study, a poll of 2,825 people from […]
CANBERRA, Australia — Facebook has conceded that the internet needs new road rules but wants to keep its billions of users in the driver’s seat. Whether governments choose to tighten online debate or private companies do […]
CHARLESTOWN, Australia — An Australian man who threatened a New South Wales Parliament member by writing, “you will be hung until you are dead,” is now the subject of a second terrorist-related interim supervision order. Two […]