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Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:00:00 +1100On the verge of cultural significance
While radiology goes rad.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 20:00:00 +1100Dignity in life and death: Commission recommends more nurses and palliative care
About a third of age care residents will die within a year of being admitted to a facility with the commission recommending that end-of-life care be at the heart of aged care and not an optional extra.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:44:42 +1100Neo-Nazi demanded to see journalists, allegedly bashed Channel Nine guard
A security guard was allegedly attacked by a neo-Nazi group leader in the hours before the network broadcast a story on A Current Affair about his organisation’s activities.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:31:41 +1100A rating system, free dental care and no restraints: Key findings
After almost two and a half years the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has delivered an exhaustive, 2800-page report containing 148 recommendations. Here are some of the key findings.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:30:00 +1100Lawyers calls for independent inquiry into cabinet MP rape allegation
Several lawyers, including a former ICAC lawyer, have called for an independent inquiry similar to the one that examined sexual harassment allegations against a former High Court judge.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:28:00 +1100How 21 feet washing up on Canadian shores may provide clue in Caddick case
The finding comes as scepticism mounts within NSW police circles as to the time and manner of the Dover Heights woman’s death.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:28:00 +1100What kind of person defrauds family and friends like Melissa Caddick?
There are a number of different types of fraudsters.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:25:08 +1100$6 daily meal budget causing ‘staggering’ malnutrition in aged care
Witnesses told the royal commission that unplanned weight loss was “rife” because there was not enough money to buy food or staff to assist residents to eat.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:25:01 +1100Terror charge accused granted bail but staying in custody for now
A young woman accused of associating with a person who intended to fight for Islamic State has been granted bail but remains in custody pending an appeal by Commonwealth prosecutors.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:11:58 +1100Scathing icare review finds a need for cultural change
Treasurer Dominic Perrottet insists icare has undergone a formative transformation, as a scathing review into its culture and governance revealed systemic weaknesses and a failure to hold management to account.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:39:16 +1100Rising rivers of plastic polluting Port Phillip Bay
About 2.5 billion pieces of rubbish are flowing through the Yarra and Maribyrnong rivers each year and the problem is getting worse.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:34:47 +1100Call for more PSOs at train stations to boost worker, reveller confidence
The Victorian opposition wants the government to reassign protective services officers to all 212 Melbourne train stations, in line with the shift up to 75 per cent office capacity.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:28:50 +1100‘Demanding justice’: Hundreds protest in Perth against Myanmar military coup
Hundreds of Perth Myanmar Community members took to Parliament House on Monday to protest against the military coup in the southeastern Asian nation.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:18:14 +1100‘I thought there was no one else like me’: Push to build peer support into mental health overhaul
Honor Eastly hopes the royal commission into the state’s mental health system will result in more people with lived experience of mental illness playing a role.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:42:00 +1100‘Where is the money coming from?’: Official doubts cast on dam plans
Internal documents from Treasury question how WaterNSW can afford ambitious plans announced by the Berejiklian government to build and alter dams across the state.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:33:00 +1100Passionate young voices demand to be heard on climate crisis
As the climate emergency deepens, more and more young people are taking a stand against the political class who, they believe, are not doing enough to protect the future.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:30:00 +1100Thousands more teenage sexual assault stories to be published
A website will be launched on Monday night revealing thousands more allegations of teenage sexual assault across Australia, spanning former students of private, Catholic and public schools.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:11:15 +1100‘That could be now. That could be me’: Artist brings vivid colour to old Melbourne
From his home in Preston, artist Benjamin Thomas is putting colour to the people and places of Melbourne’s past.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:00:00 +1100Changing tastes and long lockdown the perfect storm for cocaine use
The habits of cashed-up Melburnians bored during lockdown helped to fuel Victoria’s increased use of cocaine in 2019-20.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:28:55 +1100‘Obsolete 19th-century rail’: Farmers fume over gaps in freight rail upgrade
Farmers in far north-west Victoria are angry about the government’s failure to standardise freight train lines as part of the Murray Basin Rail project.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:27:53 +1100Accused killer tells murder trial he dumped body on side of the road
Alex Dion is on trial accused of murdering Mario Phetmang in 2018. He denies killing him, but says he did dump his body at Sydney Olympic Park.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:57:01 +1100High-end clothes, flying lessons within ex-mining CEO’s $1.9 million alleged fraud
A 72-year-old former mining executive has been charged with 136 offences relating to $1.9 million of alleged fraud.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:37:50 +1100Tropical cyclone could reach within 100km of north Queensland coast
A tropical cyclone could reach within 100 kilometres of north Queensland’s coast, as the system is forecast to reach a Category 2 by Tuesday.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:30:00 +1100Please Explain podcast: Not even a pandemic could dampen Australia’s appetite for cocaine
Nathanael Cooper and crime reporter Fergus Hunter explore the rise in cocaine use in Australia and the impact it is having on organised crime.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:07:13 +1100Brisbane chiropractor charged with sexual assault of 18-year-old client
A chiropractor has been charged after allegedly sexually assaulting an 18-year-old female patient in Brisbane.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:03:03 +1100‘She is one tough koala’: Fluffy endured extraordinary pain to save her joey
What could have been another story of two dead koalas after a dog attack is instead a story of two koalas surviving.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 14:26:07 +1100Racing NSW bids to buy TAFE site
Racing NSW hopes to be successful in its bid to buy the Scone TAFE site to provide horse industry training.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 14:20:37 +1100Search for man swept from rocks off WA coastline continues
A desperate search for an 18-year-old man who was swept from rocks off Western Australia’s rugged coasline near Albany continues for a third day, with rescue crews facing extremely dangerous conditions.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 14:02:38 +1100‘Everyday community heroes’: Cleaner, supermarket worker and doctor honoured as 2021 Moomba monarchs
Three workers who toiled throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to keep Victorians safe have been crowned this year’s Moomba monarchs.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:34:50 +1100More than 20 refugees released from Brisbane detention sites
The group have been held in the Kangaroo Point Central hotel for up to two years and were taken by bus to have temporary bridging visas processed on Monday morning.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:12:15 +1100Manhunt after stabbing leaves 25-year-old in critical condition
NSW police are searching for the person who stabbed a man multiple times in Neutral Bay on Sunday afternoon.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:05:28 +1100Bresse chickens come to Australia
Bresse chickens are set to be available to Sydney restaurants.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 11:53:39 +1100Auto repair gridlock: parts backlog ratchets up pressure on mechanics
Car owners requiring repairs are facing lengthy delays as mechanics struggle to acquire parts just as COVID-19 fears lead many to shun public transport and get behind the wheel.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 11:49:40 +110010,339 Pfizer jabs in first week, as NSW calls for information about AstraZeneca doses
Gladys Berejiklian is pleading with the federal government for information about how many AstraZeneca vaccine doses NSW will receive, saying the state is still in the dark.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 11:28:18 +1100New witnesses to Gold Coast car shooting on Australia Day are found
Police say a review of the cold-case killing of Omega Ruston, by a group with suspected ties to organised crime, uncovered new evidence last year.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 11:21:50 +1100Coronavirus fragments found in wastewater at Werribee as state records third day of no new cases
Victoria has recorded no new cases of COVID-19 as office workers flock back to the city. Meanwhile, coronavirus fragments were detected in wastewater in Melbourne’s west, with residents urged to get tested.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 11:00:00 +1100Dealing with bloody taboos in advertising
Period product advertising over the past century has done everything in its power to deny the monthly bloody reality of menstruation.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:14:00 +1100A new measure of success for WA students beyond NAPLAN and ATAR
The falling number of West Australian students choosing ATAR and the ever-expanding pathways to university has education researchers searching for more ways to measure student success.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 09:08:40 +1100Father identified in Ravenhall drive-by slaying
The man who was fatally shot outside a Ravenhall pool hall has been identified as a young father from Deer Park.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 05:42:00 +1100Once a growing office precinct, Docklands feels ‘dead’
Almost half of all shopfronts in Docklands were closed or vacant in December, making it one of the precincts worst affected by COVID-19 restrictions.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 05:30:00 +1100Australia’s agents of change not the powerful but the victims
The onus for changing toxic cultures should be on the people who lead them. Yet it took Brittany Higgins, not Scott Morrison, to force change in Canberra.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 05:00:00 +1100Gleeson pulls the star power to Canberra for swearing in
Forget Sitting Week. There’s another very important session taking place in Canberra on Monday.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 05:00:00 +1100Increase in smoking ice drives up number seeking treatment
Researchers say an increase in Australians smoking methamphetamine is driving up treatment episode rates across the country.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 05:00:00 +1100TAFE site to be sold off for ‘less than it cost’ decades ago
The state government is planning to privatise a NSW TAFE facility that is valued at less than what it cost more than 25 years ago.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:10:00 +1100Political leaders’ failure to report allows cycle to continue
Political leaders should also be held to account for their failure to report potential criminal activities within their bailiwick.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:01:00 +1100More than 2500 cancer diagnoses missed in Victoria during pandemic curbs
More than 2500 cancer diagnoses were missed, with a steep fall in the detection of prostate, melanoma and breast cancer and head and neck tumours.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +1100‘The product is dangerous’: NSW moves to ban toxic firefighting chemical
Australia remains one of the only countries in the world not to have introduced a ban at a federal level by ratifying a United Nations treaty.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +1100Aged care is one of the big feminist issues of our time
Men are quick to declare they wouldn’t put their mum “in a home”. But they are not the ones who end up caring for her.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +1100From the Archives, 1981: Archibald should have been awarded - artists
40 years ago, Sydney artists were reeling at the news that the Archibald Prize for 1980 would not be awarded, as the judges felt the entries were “below standard”.
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +1100In the Herald: March 1, 1991
Kuwait is liberated, how I won the war and Column 8.