A 34-year-old Queensland woman has been arrested and charged after allegedly poisoning a one-year-old girl and posting videos of her in what police describe as “immense distress and pain” in order to solicit donations and build an online following. Police laid charges, including torture, against the Sunshine Coast woman on Thursday, on the back of…
The unemployment rate increased in December, while job creation also rose strongly, in a sign of a resilient labour market that creates uncertainty over an expected interest rate cut next month. Australia’s jobless rate lifted to 4% in December, the Australian Bureau of Statistics data revealed on Thursday. At the same time, there were 56,300…
Despite being late for work, having navigated torrential rain and long train delays, Kate* made time to send a message to Sydney rail workers: “Come on guys, take the deal. It’s getting ridiculous, the impact is too great.” She said everyone was suffering in the cost of living crisis and “we all want good wages”….
The Liberal Democrats are to call for the government to seek a formal customs union with the EU to boost growth and insulate the UK from the impacts of a Trump presidency, a move that will place new pressure on Keir Starmer over Europe. The changed Lib Dem stance – the party’s election manifesto argued…
Police are investigating an alleged spiking in a bar on the Westminster parliamentary estate. A woman, believed to be a parliamentary researcher, told police and staff at parliament’s Strangers’ Bar that her drink had been spiked, according to Politico. The incident is understood to have taken place at the Palace of Westminster on 7 January…
People who were severely harmed by Covid vaccines faced an “inadequate and inefficient” process for obtaining a government payout, with many rejected and others waiting years for a decision, the Covid inquiry has heard. The vaccine damage payment scheme offers a one-off sum of £120,000 to people who have such serious adverse reactions to the…
Frank Auerbach is to be the subject of what has been billed as a homecoming show in Berlin, at which some of his final paintings will be displayed in the city he fled as a child. Auerbach, who died in November last year, never had a show in the city of his birth, which he…
California’s efforts to limit pollution from diesel-powered trains and big rigs were stalled in anticipation of pushback from the incoming Trump administration. The California Air Resources Board said on Tuesday it withdrew its requests for federal approval to implement stricter emissions rules for locomotives and semi-trucks because the US Environmental Protection Agency had yet to…
Doctors are preparing to speak out against changes to the proposed assisted dying law that could ban physicians from raising the procedures with patients. The British Medical Association, which will give evidence to a committee of MPs scrutinising Kim Leadbeater’s private member’s bill, has said doctors must be allowed to raise assisted dying sensitively with…
More than 6 million people in southern California remained in danger of life-threatening wildfire on Wednesday as weather officials in Los Angeles issued fresh warnings about more extreme winds set to blast the parched region and four blazes still burned fiercely. The deadly Palisades fire in the western suburbs of Los Angeles – the largest…
