NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal has added his support to the campaign for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
In Australia on a speaking tour, O'Neal appeared briefly at a press conference with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney in Sydney on Saturday.
For six long years, Al Daoud family have been searching for a country that would take them in as refugees.
The conflict in Syria forced the family of four to flee to Erbil in northern Iraq, where there are several refugee camps.
Australia's "needlessly complex" skilled migration system should be revamped to ensure the nation can attract the workers it needs to sustain a strong labour market, a new report has found.
The Deloitte Access Economics report, released on Sunday, found Australia's labour market was a stand-out success during the COVID-19 pandemic, as evidenced by the jobless rate falling to a near 50-year low 3.4 per cent in July.
The backlog of skilled worker visas is a "hopeless situation" but the government is working as fast as it can to get them processed, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says.
As businesses across multiple industries indicate they're being hampered by skills shortages, it's estimated more than 100,000 visas for overseas workers are yet to be processed.
A key business group is calling for a temporary lift on caps for work and holiday visas ahead of the jobs and skills summit next week.
The Business Council of Australia is also urging the government to boost the permanent migration cap to 220,000 temporarily to make up for the shortfall in migration during the pandemic.
When Hannah Diviney called out Beyoncé last week for using an ableist lyric on her new album Renaissance, she was hoping it would be the last time.
The Australian writer and disability advocate had just a few weeks earlier helped to get Lizzo to re-release her song Grrrls, which featured the same slur.
Australian presenter and entertainer Em Rusciano has called for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to be included on the list of primary conditions supported by the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
The 43-year-old made the comments during an emotional address to the National Press Club on Wednesday where she shared her experiences of being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult.
