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The regional NSW council made the submission at a state parliamentary inquiry into the management of poundsSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the communityTamworth regional council has called for cat containment and desexing to be made mandatory across New South Wales at a hearing into a state parliament inquiry into animal pounds.The director of livable communities at Tamworth Regional Council, Gina Vereker, told the inquiry on Tuesday that the council would “encourage legislation to require a mandate for cats to be desexed and contained”.Sign up to receive Guardian Australia’s fortnightly Rural Network email newsletter Continue reading…



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Author : Eliza Spencer

Publish date : 2023-11-14 03:29:16

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Victorian government may increase premiums paid by businesses if Labor’s WorkCover bill is defeated, Jacinta Allan saidThe Victorian premier has threatened to further hike premiums paid by businesses to fund the state’s worker’s compensation scheme if parliament does not pass proposed reforms she says will secure its financial future.The Coalition party room on Tuesday voted to oppose the WorkCover bill in its current form, joining the Greens and several other cross benchers in effectively denying Labor the numbers it needs to pass the legislation in the upper house. Continue reading…



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Author : Benita Kolovos

Publish date : 2023-11-14 02:43:12

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Member for Monash will remain in parliament as independent after losing Liberal pre-selection for next election Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastVeteran MP Russell Broadbent is quitting the Liberal party and will sit on the crossbench as an independent after he lost preselection to re-contest his Victorian seat of Monash.Broadbent announced the decision in the party room on Tuesday, citing the margin of his defeat in his preselection (161 to 16) to Mary Aldred, a government relations executive at Fujitsu who will contest the seat for the Liberals at the next election.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading…



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Author : Paul Karp Chief political correspondent

Publish date : 2023-11-14 01:10:18

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Butchaski, a keen angler, has been missing since Sunday after he went on a solo fishing trip at Olive River on the Cape York PeninsulaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn air and land search is continuing after former radio host and angler Roman Butchaski went missing near crocodile-infested waters at the weekend.Butchaski, better known as “Butch”, has been missing since Sunday after he went on a solo fishing trip at Olive River, a remote waterway along the Cape York Peninsula in far-north Queensland.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading…



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Author : Emily Wind

Publish date : 2023-11-14 00:11:32

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Authorities look into Jesús Ociel Baena’s cause of death as activists urge full investigation into gender identity-related threatsMexico’s first openly non-binary magistrate and prominent LGBTQ+ activist has been found dead at home in the central state of Aguascalientes.Jesús Ociel Baena, who used they/them pronouns, was celebrated across Latin America for their work to advance the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. Continue reading…



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Author : Staff and agencies in Mexico City

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As protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict continue, government services and NDIS minister says ‘community leaders in Australia [have] got to dial it down a bit’. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastShorten reiterates support for two-state solutionPatricia Karvelas then raises with Bill Shorten what was said on Q+A last night, when Nasser Mashni, the president of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, argued that hopes for a two-state solution “ended years ago”.Oh, no, our policy has been to support a two-state solution.There was a policy which we developed many, many years ago about respecting the security of Israel and the right of Palestinians to have a say in controlling their own land. I don’t think that’s a radical policy.I think it’s unexceptional what the foreign minister said. We’re in very close step to the United States and other western nations. We’ve called for humanitarian pause, but we completely recognise that Israel’s dealing with Hamas who don’t want to negotiate, so the idea that we want an enduring peace, as Penny said, of course, is what we want.We all know we’re a long way off that and Hamas should be prevailed upon by world opinion to hand back the hostages to say that they’re going to stop trying to kill Israelis and destroy Israel. Continue reading…



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Author : Amy Remeikis

Publish date : 2023-11-13 21:12:51

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Donald Trump’s son showers praise on former president as he returns to the stand at $250m real estate fraud trialTrump fraud trial – live updatesDonald Trump’s eldest son hailed the “sexiness” of his father’s properties after returning to the stand at the $250m fraud trial over the former president’s real estate empire.Lawyers for the Trump Organization summoned Donald Trump Jr at the start of the seventh week of the New York civil trial. Continue reading…



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Author : Lauren Aratani and Callum Jones in New York

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New portrait prize sponsor, the law firm Herbert Smith Freehills, has represented the oil companyClimate campaigners have accused the National Portrait Gallery of “jumping out of the reputational frying pan straight into the reputational fire” after it announced its replacement sponsor for BP is a law firm that has represented the fossil fuel company.The gallery said last year it was ending its 30-year partnership with BP after a lengthy campaign against its relationship with the oil and gas company. On Monday, it announced that the new sponsor for its portrait prize, one of the UK’s most prestigious art prizes, formerly known as the BP portrait award, would be Herbert Smith Freehills. Continue reading…



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Author : Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

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Johnson’s proposal unveiled at weekend would stretch funding until 19 January but doesn’t include cuts Republican colleagues are asking for“Tim Scott is a good man of faith and an inspiration to so many. The Republican primary was made better by his participation in it,” Haley said on X. “South Carolina is blessed to continue to have him as our senator. Scott announced conceded on Sunday, just six months after launching his campaign.”Scott conceded on Sunday, just six months after launching his campaign. Continue reading…



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Experiment produced fake images, patient and doctor testimonials and video in just over an hourGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastResearchers have used artificial intelligence to generate more than 100 blog posts of health disinformation in multiple languages, an “alarming” experiment that has prompted them to call for stronger industry accountability.Artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT contain safeguards that stop it from responding to prompts about illegal or harmful activities, such as how to buy illicit drugs.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading…



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Author : Melissa Davey Medical editor

Publish date : 2023-11-13 16:00:04

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Defense expected to ask Don Jr about his family’s relationships with banks Good morning, I’m in the courtroom of Donald Trump’s New York fraud trial. We’re in the seventh week of the trial, and Trump’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr is expected to take the witness stand for a second time, kicking off witnesses called by Trump’s defense team.The last time he was on the stand, multiple documents were presented to Trump Jr where he signed off on the fairness and accuracy of the financial statements at the center of the case. But when asked to recall ever working or discussing them with other executives at the company, Trump Jr said the statements were largely left to the company’s accounting and legal departments. Continue reading…



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Author : Lauren Aratani

Publish date : 2023-11-13 14:50:08

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Beijing says labour transfers are poverty alleviation tool, but research raises concerns schemes are not voluntaryCarbon credits at risk of link to Uyghur forced labour bought by BP and SpotifyXinjiang, a region of north-west China that is about three times the size of France, is an area that has become associated around the world with detention camps. The facilities are referred to by Beijing as vocational education and training centres. But critics say they are used to indoctrinate Uyghurs and other minority ethnic groups with the goal of transforming them into devotees of the Chinese Communist party.After unrest in the region and a series of riots and violent attacks by Uyghur separatists between 2014 to 2017, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, launched his Strike Hard Campaign Against Violent Terrorism, leading to the establishment of the camps. The UN has estimated that since then about 1 million people have been detained in these extrajudicial centres. Continue reading…



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Author : Amy Hawkins

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Former UN ambassador’s planned investment comes as she battles to emerge as the clear alternative to Donald TrumpNikki Haley’s presidential campaign will reserve $10m in television, radio and digital advertising across Iowa and New Hampshire beginning in the first week of December, a massive investment designed to give the former United Nations ambassador an advantage over the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, at a critical moment in the GOP nomination fight.Details of the advertising plans, which represent the Haley campaign’s first official advertising reservation, were obtained by The Associated Press ahead of a public announcement expected on Monday. Haley’s planned investment, as of now, is more than five times larger than DeSantis’s current advertising reserves for the same time period, according to the media tracking firm AdImpact. Continue reading…



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Marvel Cinematic Universe’s latest superhero movie took $47m over its first three days in US and Canadian cinemasNew superhero movie The Marvels has recorded the lowest ever north American opening weekend box office for any Marvel Cinematic Universe film.Data site the Numbers reports that The Marvels, which stars Brie Larson as Captain Marvel alongside Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau and Iman Vellani as Ms Marvel, took an estimated $47m (£38.4m) over its first three days in US and Canadian cinemas, meaning that it has displaced The Incredible Hulk as the MCU’s worst recorded opening; the latter managed $55.4m on its release in June 2008. Continue reading…



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‘Act of revenge’ carried out against occupiers, says exiled mayor of Melitopol; Germany doubles Ukraine military aid to €8bn; Zelenskiy aide in WashingtonSee all our Ukraine war coverageA European Union plan to spend up to 20 billion euros ($21.4 billion) on military aid for Ukraine is meeting resistance from EU countries and may not survive in its current form, diplomats say.Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, proposed in July that the bloc create a fund with up to 5 billion euros a year over four years as part of broader Western security commitments to bolster Ukraine as it fights Russia’s invasion. Continue reading…



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Author : Geneva Abdul

Publish date : 2023-11-13 09:35:51

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