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Australian Council of Trade Unions Proposes 4-Day Work Week
The Epoch Times
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August 13, 2025
Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) President Michele O'Neil and workers from various sectors at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia on July 30, 2025. AAP Image/Mick Tsikas A major union is proposing a radical...
Parliamentary Panel Urges Boost for Traditional Leather Products after Kolhapuri Chappal Row
Knowledge & News Network
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August 13, 2025
New Delhi, Aug 13 (KNN) A team of experts from Italian luxury brand Prada visited Maharashtra’s Kolhapur on Wednesday to meet local artisans and review the manufacturing process of the region’s iconic flat sandals, just days after facing...
Australia pays premium price for Pacific partnership
The Interpreter
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August 13, 2025
How can you put a price on shared values? If you guessed “around $500 million”, you’d be spot on. That’s how much the new “Nakamal Agreement” between Australia and Vanuatu is reportedly costed at. A high-level Australian delegation has flown into...
Australia deepens mining, trade and development ties with Tanzania
The Citizen
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Australia is the largest foreign investor in Tanzania and East Africa’s mining sector. What have been the key drivers behind this interest and what more can be done to ensure these investments are sustainable, successful, and mutually beneficial...
‘A psychological prison’: Australia-first inquiry to investigate cults in Victoria
Upper Yarra Star Mail
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August 15, 2025
By Oliver Winn Hearings for an Australia-first parliamentary inquiry into cults wrapped up on 31 July after submissions from Victorians all over the state, including one influential case from the Yarra Ranges. The inquiry will investigate the...
We should hang our heads in shame over how Australia treated our diggers today. The few WWII survivors who remain deserved far better
Daily Mail
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August 15, 2025
Today, Friday, August 15, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Pacific and the end of the Second World War. It should be a day that commands the nation's full attention. Instead, the Labor government is phoning it in. A speech from...
Only the rare few are remembered for their legacy
Queanbeyan CityNews
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August 18, 2025
Anthony Albanese… perhaps at a zenith very few leaders have reached this century. Photo: Mick Tsikas/AAP “The speech the PM gave on recognition of a Palestinian state is one of the best I’ve heard this decade in federal parliament… Will there be...
First robodebt, now robodole. Both failed Australia’s most vulnerable
The Mandarin
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August 14, 2025
First there was robodebt, and now there’s — err — let’s just call it “robodole”. Both messes are attributable to egregious Australian Public Service failures in using automation to administer the Social Security Act for the benefit of society’s...
Australia’s naivete and ignorance and its betrayal of Israel
The Australian Jewish News
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August 13, 2025
It is with amazement and disbelief that one reads the joint statement issued on August 11 by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong, announcing Australia’s intention to recognise a non-existent Palestinian...
Australian Prime Minister Radio interview – ABC Brisbane
The National Tribune
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August 13, 2025
Prime Minister And look what came in with the cows. The Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese. ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Thank you very much. Great to be here, Steve, although I’m not sure about the introduction. STEVE AUSTIN: Have...
‘Weary’ Dunlop awardees visit parliament
Shepparton News
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After being honoured with the Sir ‘Weary’ Dunlop award, the group of 12 students took a trip down to Melbourne with state Member for Euroa Annabelle Cleeland. Organised through Ms Cleeland’s office, the award is an annual recognition of students...
Australia’s central bank cuts rates marginally, warning again of world “uncertainty”
World Socialist Web Site
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August 13, 2025
Following in the footsteps of other central banks, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board yesterday tentatively and fractionally lowered its official interest rate for the third time this year. The board decided, reportedly unanimously, to...
Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday marked in an Australian state parliament house
Tibetan Review
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August 14, 2025
(TibetanReview.net, Aug14’25) – The 90th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama was marked in the parliament house of the Australian state of Victoria on Aug 13, hosted by the Victorian Parliamentary Friends of Tibet in collaboration with The...
Young generations at risk of being worse-off than previous generations
Realnews Magazine
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August 18, 2025
Youth THE head of the Australian government’s top advisory body on economic and social issues warned in a speech on Monday that young generations may live worse lives than their parents. Addressing the National Press Club in Canberra, Productivity...
Australian Prime Minister Radio Interview – ABC AM 13 August
The National Tribune
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August 13, 2025
Prime Minister : Good morning and welcome to AM. I’m Sabra Lane coming to you from Nipaluna, Hobart. The Economic Roundtable at Parliament House in Canberra next week has no shortage of ideas. Suggestions include a cut in the company tax rate,...
The Senate is looking into disinformation and how it affects debates in Australia
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 14, 2025
Peter Whish-Wilson The UN's identified climate disinformation as the biggest blocker to global climate action. So we know there are interests out there putting into, especially on social media, lies and deception deliberately, to poison the world...
Australia calls on Israel to allow aid into Gaza
Sky News Australia
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August 12, 2025
Australia has joined nations from around the world calling on Israel to allow aid into Gaza. Foreign Minister Penny Wong and leaders from 23 other countries, including Britain, Canada, France and Japan, have signed the joint statement. The...
Victorian Parliament marks Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday with special celebration
Phayul
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August 14, 2025
Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 14: The Victorian Parliamentary Friends of Tibet, in partnership with The Tibetan Community in Victoria and the Australia Voluntary Tibet Advocacy Group (V-TAG), hosted a special celebration at the Victorian...
New Post And Boast Laws Pass Parliament
The National Tribune
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August 14, 2025
VIC Premier Criminals who share their disturbing crimes on social media will face extra jail time under new laws passed by the Allan Labor Government. The Crimes Amendment (Performance Crime) Act 2025 outlaws the cowardly behaviour of ‘posting and...
Cherry blossoms and eucalypts: this Japanese war cemetery remembers fallen Australians
The Conversation
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August 14, 2025
After the Great War, Australians made pilgrimages to distant battlefields of Gallipoli and northern France. They paid their respects to the fallen soldiers who shaped our national identity. After the second world war, new places emerged such as...