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Sri Lanka's new prime minister says the crisis-hit country is down to its last day of petrol as the power minister told citizens not to join the lengthy fuel queues that have galvanised weeks of anti-government protests.Ranil Wickremesinghe, appointed prime minister on Thursday, said in a televised address that the country urgently needed $US75 million ($A108 million) in foreign exchange to pay for essential imports.
The Prime Minister was confronted with what he admitted was a 'long list' of his failures. But Scott Morrison says he saved the country.
The super ‘flower’ moon of May rose behind the ancient temple of Poseidon in Greece. This full moon is a supermoon, according to the almanac, and coincides with a total lunar eclipse, highly visible in the western hemisphere, which will turn the moon a reddish-brown.
Scott Morrison was grilled by Tracy Grimshaw on A Current Affair, after comments made by the PM over the weekend. Source: A Current Affair
Labor's housing policy is "total chaos" and shows they haven't learned during their time in opposition, the deputy prime minister says.Campaigning in Darwin on Monday, where the Nationals hope to snag Lingiari from retired long-term Labor MP Warren Snowdon, Barnaby Joyce likened Labor's election bid to a children's game.
Members of Australia's Filipino community have protested outside a Melbourne apartment building where the Philippines' presumptive next president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, was reportedly visiting his son.Marcos Jr was making a private family visit, spokesman Victor Rodriguez told reporters in Manila.
Next year's New Zealand election looms as a brawl over climate policy after the opposition National party signaled stark disagreement with the government's emissions reduction plan.On Monday, Jacinda Ardern's government released a plan four years in the making, from its introduction of the Zero Carbon Act in 2018.
The Australian share market has closed modestly higher, putting together a two-day winning streak for the first time this month.The benchmark S&P;/ASX200 index closed on Monday up 17.
More than 250 Ukrainian fighters have surrendered to Russian forces at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol and Kyiv has ordered its entire garrison to evacuate, heralding the end of Europe's bloodiest battle in decades.Reuters witnessed buses leave the steelworks and five of them arrive in the Russian-held town of Novoazovsk on Tuesday, where Moscow said they would be treated for wounds.
Asian shares led a global rally on Tuesday on optimism about an easing of China's crackdowns on tech and COVID-19, but concerns about rising prices worldwide set a nervy tone in markets as investors wait for more signals from policymakers.European shares followed the positive start in Asia, with the STOXX index of Europe's 600 biggest stocks up 0.
Getty ImagesAhead of the 2022 budget, apprenticeships have been given a $230 million funding boost while negotiations between care workers and the government have fallen apart. It’s hard not to see this as a gender equity issue. Apprenticeships, and the industries they benefit, are held almost exclusively by men, while New Zealand’s 65,000 care, support, mental health and addiction workers are predominantly women. Multiple court cases identified gender discrimination in the way previous governme
The Northern Territory's new chief minister Natasha Fyles has hit the ground running in her first week in office with a promise to tackle social issues and their causes.Alcohol abuse, domestic and sexual violence and property crime have all soared in recent years.
A Lyft driver kicked out two passengers from his car after a woman made racist comments, leading the other passenger to go on a racist tirade. Source: Facebook/James W. Bode
Telephone voting for the federal election will be available for voters who test positive for COVID-19 from 6.New rules have been introduced allowing people in isolation to cast their vote over the phone.
Scott Morrison has dismissed suggestions the Australian economy faces the risk of a recession at a time when figures this week could see the unemployment rate fall below four per cent.Recent volatility in global financial markets has been sparked by fears the US Federal Reserve will overshoot on lifting interest rates to combat heated inflation pressures in the US.
Two Melbourne gamers have been charged with match fixing at an Esports tournament after a year-long Victoria Police investigation.A betting agency alerted police to suspicious activity linked to matches in the League of Legends Pro League tournament in June 2021.
A government proposal to allow first homebuyers dip into retirement savings for a house deposit is drawing a mixed response from affected industries, with superannuation funds criticising the initiative and builders welcoming it.In an election campaign fought prominently on combating the rising cost of living, Prime Minister Scott Morrison unveiled the Super Home Buyer scheme over the weekend ahead of the May 21 vote.
Glen Worrell underwent more than two decades of conversion practices aimed at changing his sexual orientation which, he says, left him in a cycle of guilt and shame.The 54-year-old is among those calling for Tasmania to join Victoria, Queensland and the ACT in banning the "therapy".
Two top US defence intelligence officials are due to testify on Capitol Hill about what the government knows of unidentified flying objects, in the first public congressional hearing concerning UFOs in more than 50 years.Tuesday's hearing before a US House Intelligence subcommittee comes 11 months after a report documenting more than 140 cases of what the government officially calls "unidentified aerial phenomena," or UAPs, that US military pilots have reported observing since 2004.
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