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Taxpayers would save $1 billion a year in health sector costs if Sydney residents had better access to shady tree canopy and nature, a new report has suggested. The Sydney think tank Committee for Sydney is calling for a series of new greenways and tree plantings across the city to fight urban heat island effects,…
Alcohol is so ingrained in Australian culture that it can be hard to drink less, even when you want to. But increasingly people are cutting back, explains Amy Pennay, associate professor and deputy director of La Trobe University’s Centre for Alcohol Policy Research. Data from the National Drug Strategy Household Survey shows people are consuming…
It would come as a silent threat in the middle of the night — a niqab and a knife — left outside a tent in the squalid, prison-like detention camp housing Islamic State-linked families in Syria. The message for the occupant was simple: wear the black veil preferred by the Islamic State (IS), or else….
A cafe in Melbourne’s north that was hit by an alleged drive-by shooting on Friday has caught fire overnight, with authorities treating the blaze as suspicious. Emergency services were called to reports of a fire on Mount Alexander Road about 1am, which caused significant damage to both the cafe and the neighbouring post office. A…
Fourteen months ago, a secular Jewish academic from the University of Wollongong (UOW) received a “threatening” six-page typed letter full of antisemitic hatred with his name handwritten on the envelope. The academic believed the letter, full of hateful conspiracy theories blaming Jewish people for all the world’s ills, was sent to him purely because his…
File photo: Vehicles lie damaged after a flash flood triggered by a cloudburst sweeps through the area, in Pahalgam (Picture credit: PTI) SRINAGAR: Cloudburst-triggered flash floods in Jammu & Kashmir’s Pahalgam inundated hotels and huts, and damaged roads, power infrastructure, and agricultural fields along Overa stream on Saturday evening, sparking panic among locals and tourists…
Labor’s promise to help shield small businesses from the cost of restructuring to avoid its proposed new tax on trusts remains dependent on whether state governments agree to waive stamp duty. Accounting and industry groups have warned businesses cannot know if they should abandon their discretionary trust until they have clarity on how much states…
JAMMU: J&K police arrested three publishers on Sunday in a case linked to two books allegedly glorifying separatists and anti-national elements that were supplied to government school libraries before being withdrawn.Inderpaul of Jammu-based Oberoi Book Service and Amardeep Singh and Girish Arora of Noida-based Dominant Publishers were taken into custody, as police widened the probe…
The Tasmanian government’s own advice was saying that native forest logging practices needed to be urgently reviewed. But what was the cost of protecting critical habitat when forestry jobs were at stake? It was late 2021 when something started to happen in the native forests of Lonnavale. Ecologists had seen it before, but logging regulators…
File photo: J&K CM Omar Abdullah and US President Donald Trump SRINAGAR/JAMMU: Jammu & Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah sharpened his attack Centre over delay in restoring statehood, asking Sunday whether he should “go to Donald Trump” after BJP politicians allegedly dismissed protests in J&K, assembly and outside Parliament as futile.“Our patience is running out. First…