CANBERRA, Australia — The disability support scheme must be culturally appropriate otherwise Indigenous Australians will miss out, a parliamentary inquiry has been warned. The cautionary note comes…
Month: April 2021
PORT ARTHUR, Australia — A small commemoration service will be held at Australia’s southern Tasmania’s Port Arthur to mark 25 years since the 1996 massacre. At the time, the incident…
SYDNEY, Australia — An expected rise in the inflation rate for the first three months of the year won’t stir the Reserve Bank of Australia from…
SYDNEY, Australia — A prominent tech watchdog said Australian teenagers on Facebook can be profiled and targeted by advertisers promoting alcohol, smoking, gambling, adult dating sites,…
DARWIN, Australia — Five refugees detained in a Darwin hotel in Northern Territory, Australia, for more than a year are taking the federal government to court…
TOOWOOMBA, Australia — When it comes to exotic new locations, few places are hotter right now than TOI-1431b. TOI-1431b is an ultra-rare planet discovered by researchers at the…
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s top health officials expect Covid-19 transmission to occur within hotel quarantine and believe the system is fit for purpose. The hotel quarantine system is under…
BRISBANE, Australia — A new rapid and low-cost Covid test has been developed by an Australian company situated in the state of Queensland, with the breakthrough…
MELBOURNE, Australia — A lockdown-plagued year has reinforced Australian citizen’s trust in the medical community and distrust in the politicians of the country, a new poll shows.…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s vaccine rollout remains ahead of its slow schedule, despite failing to meet its weekly goal by around 10 percent. The health…