Several fatalities stemming from supposedly ‘less-lethal’ police weapons are now the subject of coronial inquests, adding to pressure for tougher constraints on their use.
The discovery of alleged malpractice by an endometriosis specialist has sharpened calls for an action plan to protect sufferers, as recommended by a landmark inquiry last year.
ANALYSIS: While a mining company’s scrapping of plans for a tailings dam in Tasmania’s Takayna rainforest is welcome, its revised site reflects how little the environment minister cares.
As the Albanese government refuses to be drawn on the legality of US–Israeli strikes on Iran, key advisers are seeking to frame the conflict in domestic terms.
As more details emerge of the government’s plan to divert autistic children from the NDIS, the agency administering the scheme is still fighting to have support cut for adult participants.
Sovereign citizen ‘workshops’ are charging fees for fraudulent legal advice that is clogging up courts and leading to higher penalties for vulnerable people.
Amid the disastrous Otways fires and flooding, exhausted communities are trying to mount campaigns against new government plans to expand gas exploration in the region.
