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Paramedics across NSW will refuse to take patients' billing details over the next five days as their dispute with the government over pay and conditions escalates.Paramedics brought forward industrial action, due to begin on Monday, after the government launched a challenge in the Industrial Relations Commission, the Australia Paramedics Association NSW says.
Dominic Perrottet has urged people across NSW to stop calling ambulances for minor ailments, as paramedics say they are operating in a constant state of crisis.The premier's plea comes as Labor claims long ambulance ramping times has led to multiple regional centres going without access to an ambulance.
A family of Tamil asylum seekers who captured the hearts of Australians has been permitted to return to their home in the regional Queensland town of Biloela on bridging visas.Nadesalingam and Priya Murugappan fled Sri Lanka after the country's civil war, arriving separately on people-smuggling vessels in 2012 and 2013.
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A cruise ship passenger filmed the massive blaze.
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Two varieties of dip which were sold at supermarkets across Australia are being urgently recalled due to an undisclosed allergen.
France and Australia are ready to rebuild their bilateral relationship after Australians voted last week to oust a government that had angered officials in Paris by ditching a submarine procurement contract between the two countries.In a statement released on Thursday, the French presidential palace said French President Emmanuel Macron had called new Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to congratulate him on his election.
New Zealand will authorise a second booster shot for COVID-19, as the country's top doctor tests positive to the virus while overseas.Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield has come down with coronavirus while attending the World Health Assembly in Switzerland.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott will not attend in person the National Rifle Association's annual meeting, coming days after the Uvalde school shooting in which 19 children and two teachers were killed.The NRA's convention starts in Houston, where Republicans including US Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and former President Donald Trump are scheduled to address the gun-rights group.
Leading religious groups backing a referendum on a First Nations voice, and the appointment of Queensland's first Indigenous Supreme Court judge, have marked the start of National Reconciliation Week.The annual event marks the successful 1967 referendum when Australians voted to count Indigenous Australians as part of the population.
Some prominent infectious disease experts are pushing for faster action from global health authorities to contain a growing monkeypox outbreak that has spread to at least 20 countries.They argue that governments and the World Health Organisation should not repeat the early missteps of the COVID-19 pandemic that delayed the detection of cases, helping the virus spread.
Russia's separatist proxies in eastern Ukraine have claimed full control of the important battlefield town of Lyman, as Moscow presses its biggest advance for weeks.Lyman, site of a key railway hub, has been a major front line as Russian forces press down from the north, one of three directions from which they have been attacking Ukraine's industrial Donbas region.
A domestic violence victim who stabbed a stranger to death when claiming to be acting out of fear has been jailed for seven years and seven months.NSW Supreme Court Justice Helen Wilson said Lily Ridgeway had been "hypersensitive" to any threat after having suffered shocking domestic violence from two previous partners when she stabbed Jason Adams once in the heart.
Heavy fighting has raged in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between the army and M23 rebels, who are waging their most sustained offensive since a 2012-2013 insurrection that briefly overran the major city of Goma.The army recaptured its base in Rumangabo from the M23 but the rebels still appeared to control much of the surrounding area, said Emmanuel de Merode, director of the Virunga National Park, who is based in the town.
A further 45 people have been arrested in the latest NSW police raids targeting organised crime, with police alleging a turf war over mobile phones was behind a spate of recent shootings.Eight firearms, MDMA and other drugs were seized in the statewide operation launched after the Task Force Erebus arrests of 18 people in Sydney on Tuesday.
A first attempt by Democrats to respond to the back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, has failed in the US Senate.Republicans blocked a domestic terrorism bill that would have opened debate on hate crimes and gun safety.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is confident Labor will take Parliament House with a 76-seat majority even as the Greens pick up a fourth lower house seat.Mr Albanese dubbed the election an "outstanding result" for Labor as he welcomed MP-elect for Bennelong, Jerome Laxale, to the party fold.
Gretel Bueta has inspired the Queensland Firebirds to one of their greatest wins in a 72-68 Super Netball upset of West Coast Fever at Perth's RAC Arena.Needing a victory to restore confidence after a four-game losing streak, the three-time champions did it in style by taking down the second-ranked Fever in a shock result that launched the Queenslanders from seventh to third.
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has described the decision to go public about an asylum seeker boat on election day as the "final desperate acts of a dying government".Mr Marles referred to the ABC's report which revealed former prime minister Scott Morrison's office gave a directive to Border Force to release information that a boat from Sri Lanka had been intercepted near Christmas Island last Saturday.
