Bob Saget's Full House co-stars are mourning the loss of their friend. Lori Loughlin released a statement on Monday, one day after the comedian was found dead in his Orlando, Florida hotel room.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says China should not use foot and mouth disease as an excuse to stop importing Australian beef.Australia is free of the contagious animal virus, but remains on high alert given outbreaks in Indonesia and its spread into Bali, a popular tourist destination for Australians.
BlueScope Steel has delivered a sharp warning to fix Australia's "broken" energy market or risk losing key national industrial assets.Managing director and CEO Mark Vassella says the company is "very concerned" about the state of energy markets in Australia, and particularly the impact on Port Kembla steelworks, south of Sydney.
NSW ministers will be barred from taking public sector jobs related to their portfolios for 18 months after leaving office, as part of a raft of changes to be implemented to restore confidence in government processes.Premier Dominic Perrottet announced the crackdown after getting an independent review into the recruitment of former deputy premier John Barilaro to a lucrative US trade envoy job.
ShutterstockThe NSW government’s industrial dispute with rail unions over the new intercity trains is tipped to add hundreds of millions of dollars to costs on Australia’s largest infrastructure project that has already blown out by billions. But even without overruns pushing the cost of the driverless-train project to more than A$55 billion, the economics of the “Sydney Metro” project are questionable – in particular the decision to cannibalise parts of the existing Sydney train network to crea
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Mohandas Gandhi, who led India's fight for independence, talks to a crowd in Ahmedabad, India in 1931. APOn this day 75 years ago, after a long battle for self-government, Great Britain finally withdrew from the subcontinent – allowing independence for India and Pakistan. Once described as the “jewel in the crown”, the British withdrawal from the Indian empire was a reflection of the strength of the freedom movement, led by Mohandas Gandhi and others, as well as Great Britain’s plummeted standin
Easing the administrative burden on NSW teachers would be the best way to ease the brain drain on educators, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.An upper house committee is investigating how to combat the shrinking supply of school teachers, a problem being felt across the country that has now drawn the federal government's focus.
Former US president Donald Trump has accused the Federal Bureau of Investigation of stealing his passports during last week's search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three passports (one expired), along with everything else," Trump wrote on Monday on the Truth Social network he co-founded.
The federal government will consider allocating more resources to prevent fraud in the National Disability Insurance Scheme.False invoices, organised crime syndicates and overcharging for services are behind exploitation of the scheme, NDIS Minister Bill Shorten says.
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US Department of EnergyEven a relatively small nuclear war would create a worldwide food crisis lasting at least a decade in which hundreds of millions would starve, according to our new modelling published in Nature Food. In a nuclear war, bombs dropped on cities and industrial areas would start firestorms, injecting large amounts of soot into the upper atmosphere. This soot would spread globally and rapidly cool the planet. Although the war might only last days or weeks, the impacts on Earth’s
Heavy rainfall has led to rising rivers and a major flood warning in Victoria's Gippsland region.Up to 70mm of rain has been recorded in the Latrobe River catchment in the 24 hours to 10am on Monday, with another 5mm to 10mm forecast across the area for the rest of the day.
Decades-long secrecy orders have been made over files related to former senior Morrison government minister Christian Porter's now-settled defamation case against the ABC.Mr Porter launched defamation proceedings against the ABC over a November 2020 Four Corners program entitled "Inside the Canberra Bubble" containing the historical rape allegations, despite not being named within the broadcast.
Two men have been charged after police found a clandestine drug lab and seized more than $6 million worth of heroin, methylamphetamine, cocaine and other drugs in Sydney's southwest.Detectives found the set-up while raiding a property in Belmore last Wednesday.
Buying her in-laws a new car, shouting someone's father a 70th birthday bash at a winery, picking up a $30,000 fuel tab - Helen Mary Rosamond's generosity appeared boundless.But federal prosecutors allege the Sydney executive hid a secret - her extravagant presents totalling millions of dollars were paid for by NAB.
Renegade MP Gaurav Sharma has been suspended from the New Zealand Labour caucus after what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called "repeated breaches of colleagues' trust".After a damaging week for party unity, Ms Ardern attempted to draw a line under the episode on Tuesday, sanctioning Dr Sharma for going public with unqualified claims of bullying and wrongdoing.
An electrical fire swept through an Egyptian Coptic Christian church during Mass, causing a stampede and killing at least 41 people.The blaze started during a Sunday morning service in the Abu Sifin church in the city of Giza where about up to 1,000 people had gathered.
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A monthly consumer price index may prove more volatile than the existing quarterly measure due to the way price data is collected, the nation's chief number cruncher has warned.But these "deficiencies" could be overcome by using annual or quarterly comparisons to each month's number, to give a better sense of the trend in household inflation.
The cashless debit card scheme is government-sanctioned financial abuse, a single mother placed on the income management program against her will says.Social exclusion, stigma and a lack of financial flexibility associated with the card had devastating mental health impacts for Kerryn Griffis and her daughters.
