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WA Abortion Care Clinical Guidelines Now Available
The National Tribune
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August 27, 2025
The WA Abortion Care Clinical Guidelines (PDF 2.11KB) are now available to assist healthcare professionals in providing care to people requesting an abortion. On 27 March 2024, the Abortion Legislation Reform Act 2023 (WA) came into effect in...
Australia put on notice by Donald Trump's latest tech tariff threat
9News
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August 26, 2025
United States President Donald Trump has threatened to impose new tariffs and other penalties on countries that legislate against US tech giants, putting the Australian government on notice ahead of the incoming social media ban for children. The...
Australian Senator Calls For Snoop Dogg to Be Removed From AFL Final
Billboard
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August 26, 2025
Snoop Dogg should be sent to the doghouse, and nowhere near the 2025 AFL Grand Final. That’s the substance of a message from Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who used a Senate address to call for Snoop’s removal from Australian rules football’s...
Australia police shooting latest: Two officers feared dead in ‘active incident’ in rural town of Porepunkah
The Independent
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August 26, 2025
Porepunkah airfield closed amid emergency response The Porepunkah airfield has been temporarily closed as authorities respond to the ongoing incident in the alpine area. Situated two nautical miles south of Porepunkah in the Buckland Valley, the...
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BYD among Chinese EV makers failing to meet repair law obligations
Kalkine Media
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August 26, 2025
Several Chinese electric vehicle brands, including BYD, Zeekr, XPeng, Smart and Leapmotor, are not complying with Australia’s Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Information Scheme (MVIS), which requires carmakers to provide independent mechanics...
Law roundup: Man and woman steal forbidden fruit
Daily Inter Lake - Montana
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August 26, 2025
A couple allegedly climbed into a man’s apple tree and began picking the fruit. Despite telling the man and woman it was private property and not to steal his apples, they reportedly continued to pick three bags worth of the forbidden fruit,...
Armed manhunt in Australia after gunman kills two police officers
Malay Mail
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August 27, 2025
SYDNEY, Aug 27 — A heavily armed 56-year-old Australian man is on the run today, a day after he shot and killed two police officers while wounding a third, police said. Police hunted through the night for the man, who they identified as Dezi...
Australian Retailers Committed To Safer Workplaces
The National Tribune
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August 26, 2025
The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) and National Retail Association (NRA) confirmed today that retailers across Australia are making major investments in creating safer workplaces in the face of significant industry challenges, especially...
This Australian Wedding Venue Is Hosting a Long Lunch for Engaged Couples
Variety Australia
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August 27, 2025
In the midst of wedding planning, venues can be a stress point, but Wildwood in Kangaroo Valley takes the stress out of the whole endeavour. Set on 100 acres of subtropical rainforest, with views of Morton National Park, beautiful on-site...
Australia expels Iranian ambassador after ASIO says it directed antisemitic attacks
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 26, 2025
Iran was behind at least two antisemitic attacks on Australian soil, ASIO believes, prompting the Australian government to sever diplomatic ties with the country. Appearing in the prime minister's courtyard on Tuesday, the spy agency's...
Australia Joins India, Others In Suspending Postal Deliveries To US
MENAFN
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August 25, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Sydney, Aug 26 (IANS) Postal services in Australia and Switzerland have become the latest to announce a suspension of deliveries to the United States, joining a growing list of countries halting shipments in response to the Trump...
Age-gating laws threaten free speech
Brandon Sun
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August 27, 2025
Opinion The United Kingdom recently launched a broad system of age verification that requires any platforms that host pornography or other “harmful” content to ensure their users are 18 or older. Around the world, large swathes of the open web are...
Australia expels Iranian ambassador over ‘credible intelligence’ Tehran directed antisemitic attacks in Melbourne and Sydney
The Guardian
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August 26, 2025
Iran directed at least two attacks against Australia’s Jewish community, the domestic spy agency has determined, prompting the Albanese government to expel Tehran’s ambassador to Canberra from Australia. The prime minister announced on Tuesday...
Australian police identify suspect in fatal shooting of officers as manhunt enters second day
Yahoo News
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australian police on Wednesday identified a suspect who shot and killed two police officers and seriously wounded a third as the search for the shooter entered day two in a vast, remote rural area in the country's...
Who is Dezi Freeman, the 'sovereign citizen' wanted for killing Australian police?
BBC
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August 27, 2025
Tiffany WertheimerBBC News ShareSave Dezi Freeman has described himself as a "sovereign citizen" who rejects government and law A major hunt is continuing in the Australian state of Victoria for a man accused of shooting dead two police officers...
Federal Labor rejects the right for Australians to work from home
The National Tribune
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August 27, 2025
Australian Greens The Australian Greens today put forward amendments to protect and expand Australians’ right to work from home, which Labor rejected. The Greens’ amendments would have expanded eligibility for requests for flexible working...
'A step toward justice': Commissioner Katie Kiss backs new racial hatred laws
SBS
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Kaanju and Birri/Widi woman Katie Kiss has welcomed NSW’s new racial hatred laws, describing them as a vital step toward justice for First Nations people and an important...
Nursing the Coast’s soggy lawns back to health
Coast Community News
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August 26, 2025
Following weeks of heavy rain, many Central Coast householders are concerned about the state of their lawns. Wamberal mum of three, Emily Fagan, is just one resident who is worried entire sections of her lawn won’t recover from the constant...
Australia, Switzerland join India in suspending postal deliveries to US over new tariffs
Telengana Today
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August 26, 2025
Postal services in Australia, Switzerland, India, and several European countries have temporarily halted shipments to the United States following new customs and tariff rules, including the removal of the $800 de minimis exemption for low-value...
Ontario court rejects off-reserve Indigenous child welfare class action as non‑justiciable
Law360 Canada
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Law360 Canada (August 28, 2025, 4:59 PM EDT) -- The Ontario Superior Court has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Ontario and Canada systematically underfunded social services and operated a child welfare regime that separated off-reserve...