Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Friday that the quarantine facility near Darwin will expand to 2000 returned Australians a fortnight, up from 850, by late April.
Friday, March 5, 2021
More Australians to get home with expansion of Howard Springs
Italy and France threaten more vaccine bans following Australia blockade
London: Italy has vowed to reject more vaccine exports and France has threatened to join the blockade, as European officials scramble to justify the decision to ban a shipment of 250,000 doses to Australia.
Trade Minister Dan Tehan discussed the standoff with his Brussels counterpart Valdis Dombrovskis on Friday night but the European Commission has no plans to step back from its dispute with the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.
Police urge schoolgirls to report assaults, even if they decide against charges
Police want schools to encourage student sexual assault victims to come forward, even if they decide against pursuing criminal charges, saying details about their experience could provide valuable intelligence.
The information will not be held against people unless they were convicted, but could identify trends or repeat offenders, police told independent school principals at a private meeting on how to respond to sexual assaults, multiple sources told the Herald.
It started on Instagram. Now Chanel’s petition is leading a sex education revolution
Chanel Contos was in the back room of the converted London warehouse she lives in, her phone buzzing every few seconds with new social media notifications, when she decided to go public with her story of teenage sexual assault.
Her petition for earlier sex education in schools, which began as an Instagram poll, was just beginning to reveal hundreds of testimonies from former Sydney schoolgirls about sexual assaults they had experienced at the hands of their male peers. And it was showing no signs of slowing.
Sydney Mardi Gras 2021: Everything you need to know
Sydney's annual Mardi Gras celebration will look very different to previous years, but even in a global pandemic the city's most colourful show must go on.
Held in February, the 2020 festival was the last major event before Sydney went into lockdown.
This year the parade will not be free to attend, the first time in its 40 year history.
'Every Queensland household' entitled to unclaimed millions
An estimated 1.5 million Queenslanders could be entitled to money left sitting in the hands of the Public Trustee's office.
The untouched money is a mix from deceased estates, credits from utility companies and retailers, and overpaid fees from real estate agents and government bodies.
The Public Trustee is currently holding lost fortunes in excess of $169 million and are calling on Queenslanders to come forward to see if any of it belongs to them.
Why educators are rethinking the importance of handwriting
How good is your handwriting? And did you ever learn cursive writing?
Times have certainly changed in our classrooms, the part-replacement of pens and pencils with keyboards has seen our educators have a rethink on the importance of handwriting.
Australian schools now even have the option to type the writing response in the Naplan test.
Ocean search for missing woman Melissa Caddick called off
Police have called off the ocean search for missing businesswoman Melissa Caddick.
Divers today searched 6000 square metres of ocean floor at Dover Heights in Sydney, just a few hundred metres from Caddick's home.
Nothing of interest was found.
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