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Why A Sinking Tiny South Pacific Nation Wants An Australian Climate Change Visa
News18
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July 11, 2025
Last Updated:July 11, 2025, 22:00 IST Under the Falepili Union Treaty, 280 Tuvaluans will be chosen every year through a secret ballot to move to Australia. Tuvalu, one of the world’s smallest countries, consists of nine tiny coral islands...
Australian childcare operator to install CCTV after abuse claims
BBC
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One of Australia's largest private childcare operators will speed up the rollout of CCTV across more than 400 centres, days after child sex abuse allegations against an employee emerged. G8 Education will also let parents and carers choose who can...
Australia's Telstra to axe 550 roles in enterprise business overhaul
Yahoo Finance
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(Reuters) -Telstra Group, Australia's top telecom operator, said on Wednesday that it plans to lay off 550 employees as part of an ongoing overhaul of its enterprise business and structural changes across other parts of the organisation. The 550...
Navigating my way in a male-dominated 1980s SABC newsroom
SABC News
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July 16, 2025
” You’ll never get anywhere in the SABC – you’re a woman, English-speaking and a feminist!” – one of female colleagues told me in the early 1980s. It certainly fired my determination to prove her wrong. A Passion for Radio and a curiosity about...
Unraveling Cobalt Sites in Acidic Water Oxidation
Bioengineer.org
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July 16, 2025
In the quest to unlock clean and sustainable energy sources, water electrolysis has emerged as a cornerstone technology for hydrogen production. Central to this are robust electrocatalysts capable of accelerating water oxidation in acidic media, a...
Tourism in the spotlight during Prime Minister’s visit to China
Hotel Management
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July 16, 2025
Promoting Australia as a premier tourist destination for Chinese travellers has been an important focus for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during his visit to China this week. China is Australia’s largest tourism market by expenditure, with a...
Australian scientists pioneer green method for lithium extraction
Xinhua News Agency
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CANBERRA, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientists have developed an eco-friendly technique to extract valuable materials, such as lithium for batteries, from brine deposits. Unlike conventional methods that use electricity and expensive...
Australia Building Permits Climb 3.2% On Month In May
RTTNews
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July 9, 2025
The total number of building permits issued in Australia was up a seasonally adjusted 3.2 percent on month in May, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday - coming in at 15,212. That was in line with expectations following the 4.1...
Australian central bank declines to cut interest rates, citing global uncertainty
World Socialist Web Site
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July 9, 2025
In a split decision, by a vote of six to three, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) yesterday decided to keep its interest cash rate unchanged at the high level of 3.85 percent, thus denting the claims of the Albanese Labor government to have...
Liontown opens Kathleen Valley lithium operation in Australia
Mining Technology
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July 11, 2025
Australia-based battery minerals provider Liontown Resources has officially opened its Kathleen Valley lithium project, the country’s first underground lithium mine. Liontown aims to achieve full underground mining operations at the project by...
Award-winning cotton grower jailed over $8.7 million water fraud
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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July 16, 2025
Former Australian cotton grower of the year John Norman has been sentenced to a maximum of nine and a half years in prison over his role in one of Australia's most significant water frauds. After a complex police investigation, seven years of...
World News | German Tourist Found Alive 12 Days After She Was Lost in Australian Outback
Latestly
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July 11, 2025
Melbourne, Jul 11 (AP) German tourist Carolina Wilga was found alive in Australia's remote Outback on Friday, 12 days after she went missing and a day after her abandoned van was discovered, police said. The last known sighting of the 26-year-old...
Bec Judd reveals she had butt acne and almost got fired from modelling in Asia
PerthNow
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July 16, 2025
Bec Judd has revealed she was seeing a dermatologist for bum acne caused by wearing activewear all day, and why she wasn’t allowed to tan when modelling in Asia. The 43-year-old Perth-born Melbourne-based influencer said she has struggled with...
Opinion | Women Are Reclaiming Their Place in Baseball
Mississippi Free Press
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July 16, 2025
For most baseball fans, hope springs eternal on Opening Day. Many of those fans—more than you might think—are women. A 2024 survey found that women made up 39% of those who attended or watched Major League Baseball games, and franchises have taken...
Australian 'criminal royalty' Bertie Kidd dies at 91 after 60-year career of crime
Daily Mail
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July 9, 2025
One of the most prolific and dangerous criminals Australia ever produced has died aged 91 - and his only regret may have been that he 'should have killed more people'. Lifelong criminal Bertie Kidd died in a Melbourne hospice on Tuesday night,...
Australian retail faces a perfect storm of economic and political pressures
Inside Retail Asia
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July 9, 2025
year in which the headwinds are getting stronger even as retailing has yet to really recover from the sluggish sales in the years before Covid-19 or the pandemic itself. The headwinds include the potentially adverse impacts of US President Donald...
SBW vs. Gallen: Full results and highlights
Sporting News
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July 16, 2025
Paul Gallen has overcome being rocked early to claim a famous split decision win over Sonny Bill Williams in the main event of this highly-anticipated grudge match. Earlier in the card, both Alex Leapai Jnr and Rahim Mundine made huge statements...
Mary Earps On Stepping Back, Showing Up And Making Goalkeeping Cool
Forbes
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Mary Earps, the ex-England goalkeeper, has had a massive impact on women's football in the UK. ... More (Photo by Justin Setterfield - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)FIFA via Getty Images For over a decade, Mary Earps has followed a routine: training,...
The most active crypto ATM users were scam victims, Australia police warns
Cryptopolitan
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July 11, 2025
Tasmania Police contacted 15 of the top crypto ATM users in the area to discover that they all fell victim to scams. The investigation found no legitimate activity among the highest-volume users statewide. Combined losses reached $2.5 million,...
Former Hull FC man and NRL assistant interested in Castleford Tigers job
Love Rugby League
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July 11, 2025
Former Hull FC and Salford Red Devils star Daniel Holdsworth is among the candidates from Australia who is interested in becoming Castleford Tigers’ next head coach. Holdsworth is currently working in the NRL as part of the coaching staff at...