Child welfare workers have been suspended over their handling of Kumanjayi Little Baby’s case before the five-year-old’s death, as the minister reveals she was initially told there was ‘nothing to see here’.
A multi-billion-dollar initiative involving cash handouts of up to $300 for every Australian worker is emerging as one of the key cost-of-living measures in next week’s Budget.
NT Children’s Commissioner won’t investigate what authorities knew about Kumanjayi Little Baby before her death as questions mount and the girl’s accused killer Jefferson Lewis faces court for the first time.
One of Anthony Albanese’s Labor backbenchers has hit out at WA’s share of the GST labelling it a ‘terrible’ and ‘dysfunctional’ deal which he insisted was ‘bad for my state of New South Wales’.
Popular Australian author Craig Silvey has pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child exploitation material, but two other charges have been dropped.
The man accused of murdering a five-year-old girl in Alice Springs will remain behind bars after being excused from attending his first court appearance this morning.
Testimonies of online hatred, school yard bullying, and community anxiety have opened the second day of the Royal Commission on Anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion in Sydney.