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ClubsNSW investigates after holding charges placed on non-customer credit cards
People who have never used ClubsNSW services charged up to $1 as association identifies issue with third party provider
Josh Taylor
22, Nov, 2023 @6:23 AM
Afternoon Update: Israel and Hamas agree to four-day ceasefire; ABC settles Bruce Lehrmann defamation case; and US Catholic priest marries teen
The ceasefire will include the release of 50 women and children hostages held in Gaza in return for 150 Palestinian women and children to be freed from Israeli jails
Antoun Issa
22, Nov, 2023 @5:39 AM
Queensland’s wet tropics see 25% rise in threatened species in three years as climate change bites
Ecologist Stephen Williams says tropics ‘at a real risk of losing the very things it was made a world heritage area to protect’
Ben Smee
22, Nov, 2023 @4:14 AM
Police investigating whether driver’s diabetes a factor in Daylesford pub crash that killed five
Detective tells coronial hearing that investigation still in its ‘infancy’ and no charges have been laid
Adeshola Ore
22, Nov, 2023 @3:07 AM
Labor to reconsider mandatory data retention laws for companies in light of major hacks
New cyber security strategy cites business concerns at having to store large amounts of data for excessive periods of time, increasing breach risk
Josh Taylor
22, Nov, 2023 @2:41 AM
Disability advocate hits back at ‘misleading’ claims that NDIS funding is incentivising autism diagnoses
Chief of Children and Young People with Disability Australia says families are simply seeking help for their children, with the NDIS ‘the only place to turn’
Stephanie Convery
22, Nov, 2023 @12:31 AM
Australian legal aid at risk of turning people away unless $484m extra funding provided
Exclusive: report commissioned by National Legal Aid says funds needed to prevent threat of ‘supply failure’, while means testing leaves ‘large cohort’ in need
Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter
21, Nov, 2023 @11:00 PM
Morning Mail: Labor’s secret detainee strategy, hostage release hopes in Gaza, Socceroos edge Palestine
Ministers considered freeing rapist in order to neutralise high court case; electricity providers rake in $2bn in one year
Martin Farrer
21, Nov, 2023 @8:01 PM
Labor thought it could prevent release of 92 indefinite detainees by freeing one rapist, documents suggest
Exclusive: Despite confidence it would win landmark case, government considered ministerial intervention to free man who raped 10-year-old boy in order to stop mass release
Paul Karp and Amy Remeikis
21, Nov, 2023 @2:00 PM
Pokies tax minimisation scheme must be overhauled, Victorian councils demand
Mayors warn government the scheme has allowed some venues to significantly overstate the machines’ benefit to the community
Henry Belot
21, Nov, 2023 @2:00 PM
Fears tough new hate speech powers for NSW police could have ‘chilling effect’ on public debate
Legal experts say Minns government’s proposed reform risks ‘opening the floodgates for controversial speech to be investigated’
Tamsin Rose NSW state correspondent
21, Nov, 2023 @2:00 PM
$600 a week for a room: the 10 most expensive suburbs for share housing are in Sydney, survey finds
Flatmates.com.au survey also reveals the rental crisis is pushing older Australians into share accomodation in greater numbers
Cait Kelly
21, Nov, 2023 @2:00 PM
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