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[Link] NSW laws criminalising secret recordings of animal cruelty ‘too great a burden on speech’, high court hears
Read: 26/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Laws criminalising the use of secretly recorded vision of animal cruelty and abuse are posing “too great a burden on speech”, animal rights activists have told the high court.
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[Link] This is what we know about William Tyrrell case
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
For seven years, the case of the missing boy dressed in a Spider-Man costume has confounded the state's top detectives. Three-year-old William Tyrrell appeared to have vanished without a trace from his foster grandmother's house at Kendall on the NSW Mid-North Coast.
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[Link] Even tent sites could soon be out of reach as the rental crisis deepens
Read: 31/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The region is bracing for an influx of visitors as intrastate travel bans lift from November 1. Rental vacancies are already at record lows and many long-term locals have been priced out of the market.
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[Link] ‘Cult’ Leader’s Widow Accused of Grooming Girls for Him to Abuse
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
The leader of what police have described as a “cult” has been accused of grooming young girls to be sexually abused by her husband. Jan Hamilton and her late husband Ken Dyers co-founded Australian personal development group Kenja Communications in 1982.
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[Link] Costco 'caught out' by COVID, regrets decision to open new store
Read: 26/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Boolaroo warehouse at Lake Macquarie was set to open tomorrow after eight months of preparation, but is now at the centre of a COVID cluster.
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[Link] NSW man who escaped SA hotel quarantine to go to pub sentenced to 14 days in prison
Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Paul McElhinney, 33, pleaded guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court to failing to comply with a COVID-19 direction. McElhinney, who lives in Sydney, was quarantining at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Adelaide's CBD after returning from his father's funeral in Scotland.
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[Link] Aunty Joyce has spent decades standing up for her regional community — her latest fight is more personal
Read: 13/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
At 94, Joyce Williams has defied the odds. Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains the images and names of Indigenous people who have died.
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[Link] Surgeon left waiting 12 days to burst through 'border bubble'
Read: 4/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Tugun doctor David Ryan is calling on the Queensland government to streamline its COVID-19 exemptions process after finding himself stuck on the wrong side of the state's border.
[Link] ‘Prices going up’: competition watchdog tells governments to limit asset sales as public loses trust
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
Competition watchdog Rod Sims has called for curbs on state and federal government privatisations, saying the public has lost trust after seeing prices rise following asset sell-offs.
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[Link] ‘Death of the river system’: Nationals make it legal to illegally take water from Upper Darling
Read: 6/5/2021 www.michaelwest.com.au
NSW parliament will tomorrow vote on a motion that may decide the very future of the devastated Murray Darling River System. Nationals MP and Water Minister Melinda Pavey last Friday introduced a scheme that allow floodplain harvesting licences to be issued across Northern NSW.
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[Link] Hunter coal miners don’t have enough funds for land rehabilitation
Read: 6/5/2021 www.smh.com.au
Coal miners in the Hunter Valley have failed to set aside enough money to fill in their massive voids or maintain the vegetation required to restore the landscape once their mines come to the end of their lives.
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