Mark Scott, the head of the University of Sydney has
apologised to Jewish students and staff, admitting he "failed them"
in his handling of a pro-Palestinian student encampment.
He told an inquiry into anti-Semitism on campus he declined
an earlier offer from New South Wales Police to use the riot squad to remove
the students.
Vice chancellors from the University of Melbourne, UNSW
Sydney, Monash University and the University of Adelaide also fronted the
inquiry.
Zachary Morris, said Sydney University was “one of the worst
places” to be a Jewish student, adding the vice chancellor had “failed his
students”.
Jewish groups and vice chancellors will be among those to
appear at the Senate inquiry today into shadow education minister Sarah
Henderson’s private Senator’s bill to establish a judicial inquiry into
antisemitism on campuses.
The NSW Police Minister, Yasmin Catley, has taken a swipe at the Australian Border Force and the federal government for allowing drugs into the country after a state police operation laid bare Sydney's massive appetite for cocaine.
Indexation of pensions and payments including the Age
Pension, Disability Support Pension and Carer Payments, Commonwealth Rent
Assistance, JobSeeker, and Parenting Payments will increase from today.
The twice-a-year indexation increase, will see the age
pension, disability support pension and carer payment increase by $28.10 a
fortnight for singles, and $42.40 a fortnight for couples.
Scientists believe they've uncovered the
true origin of the Covid pandemic.
A major international study published
today insists that the virus began life in a ‘wet market’ in Wuhan, China,
rather than in a scientific experiment.
A raccoon dog, which was sold live at
the market and is now thought to be one of the main culprits in spreading the
virus to humans.
Former Prime Minister John Howard, 85,
said the former US president's refusal to accept the results of the 2020
US election made him effectively unfit to lead the country
again.
'I think Donald Trump should
have left the field when the umpire's finger went up,' he said.
Helio Taiyang Richardson, 62, a kinesiologist, was arrested in
Thailand and has been extradited to Sydney.
He was charged with rape in 2018 and fled the country before court proceedings
began.
Kinesiology is in alternative medicine claimed to be able to
diagnose illness and choose treatment by testing muscles for strength and
weakness.
The former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed has
been accused of raping five women and sexually abusing at least 15 others when
they worked at the luxury department store, according to a BBC investigation…………
New parents who take paid time off work will receive superannuation contributions from next year.
Landmark legislation passed in the parliament today, means eligible
parents with babies born or adopted after July 1, 2025 will be paid an
additional 12 per cent of their paid parental leave as a super payment for up
to 26 weeks.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has ruled out inserting
a “climate trigger” into her Nature Positive laws, falling into line behind
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after he intervened to take the Greens-backed
policy off the table.
“My door’s still open. I’m continuing to talk with senators,
and I’d like to see this Bill passed,” she said.
The biggest cocaine gang in Sydney has been shut
down after the group sold a staggering $1.8billion of cocaine in just four
months.
Known as “The Commission”, the men are allegedly the
backbone of the drug cartel who allegedly controlled the price and distribution
of cocaine in Sydney.
The resolution was passed with 124 votes in favour and 14
against. Australia was one of 43 countries to abstain, including the UK, Canada
and Germany.
One of the most isolated councils in Australia is looking
for a new CEO to lead the town towards financial prosperity.
Administrators of the Coober Pedy council, in South Australia, have offered anyone who is
prepared to lead the town a maximum salary of $274,437.
This will be the third time the council has increased the salary for the job, which started at $197,600 a year...............
The Lebanese Ministry of
Communications identified the exploding devices as Icom V82s, a type of handheld transceiver, adding that they were not
purchased through the official distributor and were not licensed by the
ministry. Icom did not immediately return a request for comment to NBC News,
but a sales manager for Icom America told The Associated Press it appears that
explosive devices were knock-offs...........
Mojtaba Amani, the Iranian
ambassador to Lebanon, lost one eye and his other was seriously wounded when a
pager he was carrying exploded yesterday, The New York Times reports.
The federal government has been unable to bring on a vote on
its Help to Buy first home buyer scheme.
The PM has accused the Greens of teaming up with the Coalition to
frustrate its housing agenda.
The Coalition has argued Australians would not want the
federal government to co-own their houses.
Yesterday afternoon, Adam Bandt announced the party would
move a motion to delay the bill for two months, which passed this morning.
Maurice Hawell has been found guilty of gang raping three
teenagers during his bucks party weekend in Newcastle.
......He led her into a bedroom and asked her for a threesome with him and David, she told the court. “What? No”. Despite her pleas, Maurice raped her while Andrew knelt on her shoulders and forced his penis into her mouth........
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the sex
trafficking conviction of the former British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell,
rejecting her appeal.
In 2022, she was sentenced
to 20 years behind bars.
SpaceX nearly doubled its backlog of Starlink in-flight Wi-Fi
orders with last week’s United Airlines deal.
The satellite internet arm of Elon Musk’s space company
is pushing into the in-flight connectivity, or IFC, market. Last week, United
said it will outfit its more than 1,000 planes with Starlink and won’t charge
customers for the Wi-Fi.
Seven scammers arrested yesterday were hired by an
international syndicate to open and manage fraudulent bank accounts in
Australia "to make the scam look more legitimate". Those accounts were then used by overseas
scammers pretending to be bank officials.
Two people from Melbourne were arrested yesterday, charged
with transferring more than $14m overseas between August 2022 and February
2024, and allegedly received commissions in return.
Militant group Hezbollah promised to retaliate against Israel after detonating pagers across Lebanon yesterday (Tuesday) killing nine people and wounding 2800 others, many critical.
Hezbollah fighters have been using
pagers as a low-tech means of communication in an attempt to evade Israeli
location-tracking.
This morning Anthony Albanese urged the Coalition and Greens to pass housing and environmental bills in the Senate. He left open the possibility of a double dissolution election over the stalled legislation.
“Well,
we’ll wait and see,” he said when it was suggested Labor would fare poorly in
such an election.
In a surprise move, Beijing freed the 68-year-old David Lin on Sunday after he spent nearly 20 years in prison in a case the U.S. government and his family have always dismissed as baseless.
Lin entered China in 2006 and attempted to establish a Christian
training center in Beijing.
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Donald Trump is set to unveil a new cryptocurrency platform run
by his sons, despite previously disavowing crypto during his time in office.
“We’re embracing the future with crypto and leaving the slow
and outdated big banks behind."..........................
Elon Musk said his now-deleted X post about how “no one is
even trying to assassinate” President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris
was intended to be a joke.........
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek last week sent industry into a panic after confirming she was in talks with the Greens to pass controversial laws to establish a new Environment Protection Agency (EPA).
She refused to rule out a deal even after Labor pulled the laws from debate following a major backlash from business.
"If I have to create stories so that the American media
actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's
what I'm going to do" JD Vance said.
The Spotlight team reported discrepancies in audio analysis
of a clip aired by the ABC as part of a package on Russell, who later
successfully sued the media organisation for defamation and received $400,000................
A man armed with an AK-47 had a GoPro and was “intent on
filming” an attempted assassination of Donald Trump at his Florida golf course.
Ryan Wesley Routh has been arrested and named as the
suspected would-be assassin.
Cleo was kidnapped from a campsite 1000km north of Perth in October 2021. Police found the then-four-year-old 18 days later.
Kidnapper Terence Kelly is appealing his
13-year prison sentence.
Now seven, this photo shared by her parents yesterday, shows
Cleo, all smiles, holding a medal and ribbons she received for gymnastics.
About 25 per cent of all senior students at Chevalier
College now learn remotely on a Monday.
Chevalier College is an independent Roman Catholic
co-educational secondary day school, located in Burradoo, in the Southern
Highlands of NSW
https://www.chevalier.nsw.edu.au/
A deadly synthetic opioid is spreading across Australia,
leaving those left behind to grapple with the consequences......
Source: ABC
Clover Moore 78, has claimed an historic sixth term as Sydney
Lord Mayor despite a swing against her in a campaign she described as the
“toughest” of her career.
There were 10 candidates on the mayoral ballot.
It’s been 12 months since Chris Minns introduced the ban on mobile phones across all NSW public schools. And it’s been a resounding success. There has been an increase in -
* attendance,
* reduced bullying and suspensions
* and the revival of physical activity.
So why did it take so long?
Clover Moore 78, has claimed an historic sixth term as Sydney
Lord Mayor despite a swing against her in a campaign she described as the
“toughest” of her career.
There were 10 candidates on the mayoral ballot.
Defence Minister Richard Marles accused Mr Shoebridge of
“licensing” the violent behaviour shown by protesters on Wednesday.
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Aaron Mendis, a Sydney youth minister has been found not
guilty of child sex charges after a judge found he was probably suffering
"sexsomnia".
Judge Phillip Mahony acquitted Mendis of all charges on the
basis that "it was a reasonable possibility at the time of each alleged
offence that the accused was asleep, and suffering from sexsomnia".
Two people recently died of heroin overdoses after using
what they thought was cocaine at a house party at Glebe while another two
people were hospitalised.
The Health Departmemt today (Friday) warned people to carry naloxone – the life-saving medication used to treat
opioid overdoses.
Source: Guardian Australia
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann's lawyers have filed
an updated appeal in the Federal Court, challenging the entire judgment which
found on the balance of probabilities Mr Lehrmann had raped Brittany Higgins.
The court concluded the most likely version of events was
that Ms Higgins was too drunk to consent to sex with Mr Lehrmann, and that he
was reckless.
His appeal will return to the Federal Court in October....................
Defence Minister Richard Marles and his predecessor Peter
Dutton have tussled in a war of words over the Government’s decision to strip
medals from up to nine officers who served in Afghanistan but not hold the most
senior leaders to account.
Mr Marles hit back later accusing Mr Dutton of being the
one who failed to hold senior officers to account.
“When he was the defence minister, he actively suspended
making a decision in relation to command accountability,” Mr Marles said……
Ilya Fomin had secured a two-bedroom apartment close to a
train station and shops in south-west Sydney.
But while transferring $280,000 from National Australia Bank to
the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, it disappeared to scammers.
"There are at least two banks, a law firm, me and the
legislation which allowed this to happen” Mr Fomin said…………………….
Self-funded retirees and many part pensioners will pay more for their aged care under the government’s reform package, endorsed by the opposition and announced yesterday (Thursday.)
The package, which the government says is the biggest reform in 30
years, will shift the system further towards home care, so people can stay at
home as long as possible..........
The federal government has unveiled its much-anticipated
overhaul of the aged care system, which if passed could see providers fined
more than $1.5 million for the most serious breaches.
Advocates and peak bodies say they're waiting for more detail about how the increased protections for older Australians will work....................
Trish Smith, the mother who stabbed her two sons to death in the Blue Mountains was sacked by her employer in January 2020 for mental health issues. She fought the decision and represented herself but lost the case.
Commissioner Muir dismissed her application to be reinstated
in November 2023 but in March this year she applied for leave to appeal, which
was refused.
The widow of paedophile TV star Rolf Harris has
died aged 93 - fifteen months after her husband.
Alwen Hughes stood by Harris after he was sentenced to five
years and nine months in jail in 2014 for 12 indecent assaults on four underage
girls between 1968 and 1986.
The family and best friend of Carol Clay, who was murdered
in Victoria’s High Country in March 2020, have confronted her killer Greg Lynn,
via victim impact statements.
Prosecutors are pushing for a life sentence in Victoria’s
Supreme Court…………….
Today (Thursday), a crew of four aboard a SpaceX capsule embarked on the world's first private spacewalk.
Billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis
both completed manoeuvres in space, live streamed on the company's website............
After months of complex negotiations, developer ALAND has
agreed to complete the three towers on Old Castle Hill Road, which have stood
as partially built shells for months since the collapse of Nassif's Toplace
Group.
Jean Nassif’s real estate
empire Toplace was valued at around $1.5bn before it collapsed into
administration last year and he fled to Lebanon owning millions to creditors..........