Collingwood Football Club says racist comments made by a long-time supporter about Indian aged-care workers does not reflect the club’s views.
Joffa Corfe, known in AFL circles as one of Collingwood’s most passionate fans, sent out a tweet on Tuesday after the final report of the aged care royal commission was handed to the federal government.
Mr Corfe tweeted: “Get rid of all Indian workers in aged care might be a start.”
For years, schools have been silently dealing with a tricky and vile problem: Counselling sessions, often on Monday, with girls aged as young as 13, who are traumatised from sexual assault.
But in our own “me too’’ moment, and lifted by the courage of Brittany Higgins, school girls across Australia this week are speaking up to tell their own awful stories of being raped by peers while drunk at parties.
The US House of Representatives has cancelled a planned session after Capitol Police warned a militia group could be plotting to breach the building again.
The House had been scheduled to debate and vote on a police reform bill on Thursday (local time).
But a Democratic aide said plans changed due in part to the police warning, based on intelligence that “an identified militia group” could present a security threat.
Meghan Markle has taken a swipe at “the Firm” in a new clip from her tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey released on Thursday.
The second teaser for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s much-anticipated two-hour TV special comes as the relationship between the couple and Buckingham Palace appeared to take a turn for the worse this week.
South Australians will be the first in the nation to receive the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.
Around 300,000 doses of the jab arrived in Australia on Sunday and Prime Minister Scott Morrison says they have been “batch-tested” and approved for use.
They are being distributed to the states, with SA to be the first on Friday.
Australians hoping to get back overseas will have to wait it out a little longer, with international borders to remain closed until at least June 2021.
Health Minister Greg Hunt confirmed the three-month extension to border closures on Tuesday, in a devastating blow to the thousands of Australians who remain stranded overseas.
Mr Hunt said the decision to extend the ban on international trave was based on medical advice.
The family of a woman who alleged Attorney-General Christian Porter raped her in 1988 wants an inquiry into her death.
It comes as the South Australian coroner mulled ordering an inquest but NSW Police stood by their decision not to interview Mr Porter during their inquiries into the allegations.
Police said on Thursday it would have harmed “future investigative strategies” if they had spoken to Mr Porter before getting a formal statement from the alleged victim.
Tropical Cyclone Niran is hovering off Far North Queensland this morning, with warnings the category two storm could intensify.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said the weather system will strengthen this morning.
Residents in areas between Cape Flattery and Innisfail are being warned they could experience gale-force winds of up to 100km/h as the cyclone intensifies.
