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Fewer jobs for low-skilled workers: report

A new Anglicare report shows older, younger and disabled workers are competing against five other applicants for every low-skilled vacant job in Australia.

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Calls to ban aged care chemical restraints

Human Rights Watch is calling on the Australian government to ban the use of chemical restraints to control the behaviour of aged care residents with dementia.

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Police set to get stronger airport powers

The Morrison government has overturned a four-year sunset clause on a bill boosting police powers at airports, which was agreed to in the Senate.

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Police set to get stronger airport powers

The Morrison government has overturned a four-year sunset clause on a bill boosting police powers at airports, which was agreed to in the Senate.

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Vietnamese jailed for ‘mad’ WA pot scheme

A Vietnamese man who claimed he was driving to Victoria to buy milk powder when found with almost $380,000 in cannabis growing proceeds in WA has been jailed.

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WA sex predator groomed girls on Twitter

A Perth man who used Twitter to sexually groom girls in Australia and overseas has been sentenced to more than four years in prison.

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Fatal Lamborghini driver back behind wheel

Lamborghini driver Alexander Campbell, charged over a fatal crash which killed a teenage girl in Adelaide, is to be allowed to drive again.

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World Solar Challenge cars race into SA

Team Twente’s Red E solar car has lead the World Solar Challenge field across the South Australian border in the 3000km race from Darwin to Adelaide.

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Anti-asbestos push would be illegal: ACTU

Suffers of asbestos disease say the government’s Ensuring Integrity bill would mean union fights like that to have asbestos banned would become illegal.

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Assisted dying debate in WA upper house

Western Australia’s upper house is set to debate the voluntary assisted dying bill after it passed easily though the lower house last month.

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Pell challenges opposition to fresh appeal

Lawyers for disgraced cardinal George Pell have filed fresh court documents, pushing back against Victorian prosecutors who say an appeal should not be granted.

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Archbishop tells same-sex backers to leave

Sydney’s Anglican archbishop has told those who support same-sex marriage within the church to “please leave us” rather than push for reform.

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FAWKNER MOSQUE BOMBING COURT

Ahmed Mohamed outside the Victorian Supreme Court (file image)

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Qld police boss seeks advice on DV leaker

Queensland’s police boss will wait until an appeal deadline has lapsed before commenting on the future of an officer who leaked the details of a DV victim.

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Aim to lower neglected stillbirth epidemic

With more than 2000 stillbirths in Australia every year the government wants to reduce the rate by 20 per cent within three years.

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Last asylum seekers exiting Manus Island

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says the Manus Island immigration centre will close within weeks after the final four people there are sent to Port Moresby.

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Question Time in federal parliament

What we learned, heard and were amused by in Question Time on Tuesday.

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Cocaine yacht skipper ‘like Sgt Schultz’

Musician Craig Lembke claims he didn’t know 500 kilograms of cocaine was hidden in the hulls of the 13-metre catamaran Skarabej he sailed from Tahiti to NSW.

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