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Tue, 15 Feb 2022 21:00:37 +1100
Thousands of international students to be allowed back into WA
The latest rule change for international students will impact about 6000 people.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 21:00:00 +1100
Desert spuds take the stairs
And Eriophora transmarina takes the summer off.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 20:03:58 +1100
Talk of radios and a funeral, but no recollection of plan for risky arrest, officer says
The first response team officer to testify in Constable Zachary Rolfe’s murder trial has told the jury he cannot recall seeing a plan by superiors for the arrest of teenager Kumanjayi Walker.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 20:02:35 +1100
Talks under way to save historic Carlton pub steeped in Labor history
The John Curtin Hotel on Lygon Street announced its closure on Monday, prompting sadness from live music fans and labour movement activists

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 19:45:00 +1100
The strange but important new science of pain
The way we think about and try to treat pain may be entirely wrong, according to the latest scientific thinking.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 19:30:00 +1100
Listen up sick workers, soldiering on is so pre-pandemic
There was a time when you might show up for work despite that tickle in the throat or snotty sniffle. Not any more. There is now a fervent expectation that those who are sick should stay away.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 19:17:48 +1100
Worker awarded payout after he was fired for killing boss’ pet galah
Blake O’Keeffe took his former longtime employer to the Fair Work Commission for unfair dismissal after he sacked him over the accidental death of the beloved family pet.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:52:35 +1100
Andrew Lovett faces court charged with repeatedly assaulting woman
The former Essendon footballer has faced court charged with 88 offences including allegations he assaulted, threatened and poured beer over a woman.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:50:55 +1100
Sydney train network to resume full weekday services on February 28
The number of passengers travelling in Sydney by train rose 7 per cent last week, in a sign more people are returning to work in offices.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:42:43 +1100
Concerns raised over extension of Children’s Court president’s powers
The shadow attorney-general has labelled a bill before Parliament a ‘repugnant piece of legislative cake’, created in the wake of allegations of evidence tampering and bullying within the judicial bench.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:42:33 +1100
Woman dies after slipping off rocks near Kiama
The 21-year-old was winched out of the water by a rescue helicopter, but was unable to be revived.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:18:26 +1100
One dead, two officers seriously injured after high-speed collision
A man is dead and two police officers are seriously injured after a van and a police car collided at speed near Strathmerton on Tuesday.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:04:49 +1100
As it happened: Thousands of NSW nurses strike over pay and staffing ratios; COVID-19 cases continue to grow across the nation
Independent MP Zali Steggall has apologised for a “rookie” accounting error, thousands of NSW nurses are set to defy an eleventh-hour order to halt a major strike and the Victorian Opposition Leader says his fine for not wearing a mask will be pa...

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:04:45 +1100
‘Our ICU is on life support’: Thousands of nurses strike over pay, working conditions
“We were short-staffed well before the pandemic, but then Omicron hit and it became like a war zone,” said emergency department nurse Kelly Falconer.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:58:41 +1100
Man charged with murder after body found in Gold Coast house fire
A man who was rushed to hospital with burns to his hands has been charged while he is still in hospital.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:48:26 +1100
Coroner to examine death of father shot by police during sword standoff
Duy Linh Ho, a 41-year-old father-of-four, died at his home in Brisbane’s south in 2019 after a tense standoff with police.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:05:25 +1100
Bullying, revenge or factionalism? In the case of Kaushaliya Vaghela, it may be all of the above
Through the murk, there are two distinct issues: the Premier’s character and a workplace bullying complaint.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:58:17 +1100
Premier’s picks: Final nine 2032 Olympic organisers under the microscope before first meeting
The last nine positions on Brisbane’s Olympic organising committee – four decided by Annastacia Palaszczuk – are expected to be announced in weeks.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:24:23 +1100
Bikes and buses back in business as tourism hopes to rebound
Sydney’s tourism industry has had to develop a thick skin over the last three years after the Black Summer bushfires and continuing COVID-19 pandemic.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:06:29 +1100
Jarryd Hayne walks free from jail, will potentially face retrial in October
Hayne has been bailed with strict conditions including reporting to police three times a week and paying a $20,000 surety.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:58:43 +1100
Woman dies in hospital after alleged Caulfield 7-Eleven assault
Victoria Police are awaiting the results of the woman’s autopsy to determine the cause of her death.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:30:00 +1100
Deplorables? No. These convoy protesters should not be ignored
The Convoy to Canberra protesters have invited comparisons with Trump’s eclectic base, and there are similarities. But as we’ve seen in America, politicians ignore angry voter disaffection at their peril.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:18:56 +1100
WA supermarket shelves to be fully stocked by end of March as rail line reopens
Nearly a month on from a once in 200-year flooding event, the Trans Australia rail line reopened on Tuesday, with the backlog of goods to begin arriving in WA from Wednesday.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:58:52 +1100
‘Putrid, sour and rancid’: Cheese company fined over waste spill into creek
A Broadmeadows business suspects an act of sabotage caused putrid whey and wastewater to run from its factory and into a Melbourne creek.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:29:06 +1100
Western Australia records 48 local COVID cases, 14 linked to travel
Three of the 48 new local cases have not yet been linked to other known cases.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:23:10 +1100
Victorian COVID hospitalisation numbers drop to lowest point this year
Authorities have flagged more elective surgery can resume if, as epidemiologists expect, COVID-19 hospitalisation numbers continue to fall.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:31:41 +1100
Springvale murder accused vulnerable in custody, court told
Lawyers for a 20-year-old Melbourne man charged over the death of a mother of five asked for him to be seen by a custody nurse, telling the court he’s vulnerable in custody.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:16:54 +1100
Gallery: 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
The best photos from the international wires at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games in China.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:04:26 +1100
High stakes as Ben Roberts-Smith defamation hearings continue
Today on Please Explain, senior writer Deborah Snow joins Bianca Hall to talk about the Ben Roberts-Smith case, one of the most high-profile and high-stakes defamation hearings Australia has ever seen.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:58:00 +1100
Ben Roberts-Smith’s estranged wife denies seeking ‘revenge’ in court
The estranged wife of the former special forces soldier has denied she is seeking revenge in court by giving evidence against him in his Federal Court defamation case.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:05:28 +1100
‘It’s no wonder so many are walking off the job’: Why NSW nurses have had enough
Thousands of nurses across NSW marched through Macquarie Street in Sydney’s CBD to demand the implementation of nurse-to-patient ratios across the state’s hospitals.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:58:03 +1100
‘Our numbers are coming down’: More Qld COVID deaths and cases defy trend
Queensland will reconsider mask mandates and other COVID measures at the end of the month, as the state sees case numbers jump on Tuesday but trend down overall.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:50:00 +1100
Push to remove ‘woke’ anti-racist street signs from Woollahra fails
Supporters of the “racism not welcome” signs said they were delighted by their victory, but felt the “bizarre” debate had brought Woollahra into disrepute.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:30:00 +1100
Is the Montague St bridge the problem? Or is it us?
We can put men and women into space and yet can’t devise a way to get traffic under a humble bridge.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:00:00 +1100
Regional communities fight for underground power
Those in the path of the Western Victoria Transmission Network Project say it’s only fair that it should run underground.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 10:53:44 +1100
WA offshore oil producer in corporate turmoil with finances questioned
Triangle Energy, which operates an oil platform off Dongara, has lost a chief executive, its entire board of directors and a joint venture partner in less than two weeks.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 10:52:18 +1100
Ian Lazar, Achilles Constantinidis have convictions quashed for perverting the course of justice
An appeal court found the pair not guilty, determining they were earlier convicted by evidence filled with “inherent conflicts and improbabilities”.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 10:26:32 +1100
Rio Tinto’s care for workers in COVID-19 isolation ‘inadequate’: unions
Instant noodles and tea bags are part of a tangled fight brewing between unions and Rio Tinto about care for workers in COVID-19 isolation.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 10:10:27 +1100
Valentine’s Day death: Woman ‘covered in blood’ found in resort, partner in court
Police said the pair had been at a social function over the weekend and a number of people had stayed in the unit.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 10:06:12 +1100
Radio, TV and Facebook were weapons of choice in McGowan-Palmer ‘war’
The Sydney court on Tuesday heard how a slanging match between two public figures escalated over a few high-stakes weeks in August 2020, as the pandemic surged.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +1100
Labor rattles the can as election day approaches
It’s Labor’s turn to shake down Sydney’s suits, and invitations have gone out for the biggest bash on the Opposition’s fundraising calendar.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 05:44:33 +1100
‘Grey corruption’ cuts our living standards, so it’s a shame they shelved the integrity commission
If you think it’s only in “really” corrupt countries that are the problem, think again. Australia, we have a problem.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 05:30:00 +1100
Spend billions, save trillions: it’s in rich nations’ self-interest to vaccinate the world
Australia must increase its investment in the global vaccination campaign if it wants to do all it can to prevent further problems at home.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 05:00:00 +1100
The words that brought Ben Roberts-Smith’s estranged wife to tears in the stand
Emma Roberts told the judge about the disintegration of her relationship with the war veteran, and the day the woman he was having an affair with turned up at the marital home.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 05:00:00 +1100
Fremantle’s ‘lady who lives in the port’ dies age 89
Carmel Mullally, who spent 50 years fending off attempts to buy her worker’s cottage in the Fremantle port, died on Friday.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 05:00:00 +1100
Department never sought to whitewash teen’s death, WA Supreme Court rules
The WA coroner’s ability to recommend schools improve health and safety, and prevent further student suicides, was ruled not a sufficient cause for an inquest.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 05:00:00 +1100
Most scooter riders just want to get to work, not terrorise pedestrians
Not all scooter riders are hoons or nuisances. There are many, like me, who genuinely want to share the road and dual paths.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 05:00:00 +1100
Sydney schools built just two years ago are already overcrowded
Northbourne Public School in the city’s north-west, opened last year. It was built for 1000 students; this year, there are 1190 enrolled.

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 05:00:00 +1100
Outcry over ‘backdoor’ planning bid for Ivanhoe development
Ivanhoe residents say aged-care developers of a mega site are trying to get “backdoor” planning approval by bypassing local council and the state planning tribunal and going direct to the Planning Minister. 

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:10:00 +1100
To scold ‘fierce’ Tame on etiquette is to scorn her rage
Jenny Morrison told 60 Minutes she was ‘disappointed’ in the behaviour of Grace Tame at Kirribilli House, but chiding the former Australian Of The Year on her behaviour only misjudges her real anger.



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