Anti-Semitic graffiti has been sprayed on a wall and a car set on fire, sparking a police investigation. The perpetrators are believed to be two people of slim build, aged between 15 and 20 years, wearing face coverings and dark clothing. The car was burned on Magney Street, Woollahra in Sydney’s east, a suburb known … Read more
Close to a million people attending hospital emergency departments each year agree they could have been treated elsewhere, a new report suggests. The survey of NSW emergency department visitors found two-in-seven thought their condition “definitely” or “to some extent” could have been treated by a GP or other health professional. However, most also said their … Read more
Cars have been set alight near anti-Semitic vandalism in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Emergency services responded to reports of a car fire on Magney Street in Woollahra about 1am on Wednesday. Fire & Rescue NSW managed to extinguish the fire, however the car was vandalised along with two buildings, the footpath along Magney Street, and another … Read more
Women in immigration detention who have experienced sexual violence are being held metres from male sex offenders, exposing them to harassment and trauma. In a damning report released on Wednesday, the Australian Human Rights Commission documented women being cat-called and threatened. Some female detainees were allegedly paid by men in a neighbouring compound to physically … Read more
Christabel Moschetti wouldn’t wish endometriosis on her worst enemy. The 22-year-old was diagnosed with the condition four years ago, after an adolescence marked by agonising pain, severe bloating and nausea throughout her menstrual cycle. “People brush it off as just a bad period, no one understands how much it can affect you and how depressing … Read more
The mother of an Indigenous teen who fatally self-harmed in youth detention is expected to address an inquest into his death ahead of the coroner releasing his provisional recommendations. Cleveland Dodd was found unresponsive inside a cell in Unit 18, a youth wing of the high-security adult facility Casuarina Prison, in the early hours of … Read more
The inflation fight is not over but the Reserve Bank of Australia is growing increasingly confident the battle is shifting in its favour. After leaving interest rates on hold in December, as universally expected, economists observed a notable shift in the central bank’s language that could open the door to a February cut. For 13 … Read more
Every child will be able to attend childcare for at least three days a week as the federal government pushes Australia towards universal early childhood education. Australian families earning less than $530,000 a year will be guaranteed access to the government’s child care subsidy for three days a week, if Labor wins re-election. The Three … Read more
In a landmark case activists are taking a US-based gas company to the Federal Court under Labor’s water trigger laws. Lock the Gate Alliance has filed a legal challenge against Tamboran B2 Pty Ltd over its plans to frack 15 gas wells in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin, near the town of Daly Waters. It … Read more
New statistics have laid bare the general practitioner crisis in NSW as one in four emergency department patients say they wouldn’t be there if they had access to a GP. The Bureau of Health Information (BHI) has revealed 28 per cent of ED patients surveyed would have opted to see a GP but simply had … Read more