Election 2016: Labor plans to appoint discrimination commissioner to ensure LGBTI people 'feel safer'
Election 2016: Labor plans to appoint discrimination commissioner to ensure LGBTI people 'feel safer' Posted May 21, 2016 14:42:01 Labor has announced it will appoint an LGBTI discrimination commissioner to the Australian Human Rights Commission if it wins government in July.Senator Penny Wong announced plans in Melbourne on Saturday morning for a full-time, dedicated commissioner to champion the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex people.She sa..>> view originalWild weather: Wind gusts, heavy rain belt Perth causing power outages
Flash flooding on Riverside Drive0:42Flash flooding on Riverside Drive, Perth. Courtesy: @settlereon AROUND 60,000 households are without power after wind gusts of more than 100km/h downed power lines, and heavy rain caused mass flooding throughout Perth.The first major cold front of the year slammed into Perth and the South West at 6am on Saturday morning.Western Power said extra crews had been mobilised to safely restore fallen power lines in several parts of the metropolitan and South West a..>> view originalWA looking like less of a Liberal fortress
By Greg Roberts - AAP on May 21, 2016, 5:21 pm Like the football ground Subiaco Oval that is feared by Victorian teams, WA has been a Liberal fortress for 20 years, but you wouldn't have known it the way Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull snubbed local party figures this week.The Liberals' dominance is starting to be seen as working against the party, the state getting the worst share of Commonwealth GST funds by a long way and South Australia, with more marginal seats, winning..>> view originalTwo Qld teens missing in separate cases
A 13-year-old girl missing for almost a month has been sighted in Queensland.The Mackay girl was seen on Friday afternoon wearing blue jeans and a hooded jumper at McGills Road in Kalkie, a suburb of Bundaberg.She is believed to be travelling with an older man in a white Holden Commodore and has been missing since April 29.The man was also sighted separately in Bundaberg on Friday afternoon at a shopping centre wearing a black t-shirt with a white logo, black jeans, black sneakers and a grey hat..>> view originalVictims of EgyptAir MS804 'terror attack' named as former TV actress, and captain promoted four days earlier
The names of passengers feared killed in the EgyptAir crash emerged today. Among them was Ahmed Helal, a 40-year-old director of a Procter & Gamble production facility in Amiens, France. According to the company he was on a personal trip to Egypt to visit his sick father. Mr Helal had a wife, a teenage daughter and a young son. The only British national on the flight was geologist Richard Osman, 40, who had recently welcomed the bir second daughter into the world with his French wife. Mervat..>> view originalWoman dragged for more than 600 metres in crash on Pittwater Road, Brookvale
Video will begin in 5 seconds. Woman killed by truck A woman has been killed after she was hit by a truck while crossing the road on Sydney's northern beaches. Vision: Channel Nine PT0M21S 620 349 A woman killed by a truck on a busy northern beaches road on Friday was dragged for about 600 metres before anyone realised.Jo-Ann Thwaites, 60, was hit as she crossed Pittwater Road after grocery shopping with her son in Brookvale on Friday morning.She was allegedly hit by a 36-y..>> view originalAlice Springs surrounds rocked by magnitude 6.1 earthquake
Alice Springs surrounds rocked by magnitude 6.1 earthquake Updated May 21, 2016 10:37:55 An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1, unusually powerful for Australia, has struck outside of Alice Springs.The quake hit at 4:14am, 125 kilometres west of Uluru, at a depth of about 10 kilometres, according to Geoscience Australia.Two aftershocks measuring 3.8 and 3.4 were recorded in the hour afterwards, and senior seismologist Johnathan Bathgate said more were expected.He said t..>> view originalWe will stop the clock on aid cuts: Plibersek
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