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1 day ago · Photo: Minderoo Foundation. Former Labor minister Chris Evans is Australia’s first-ever Anti-Slavery Commissioner. He will take up the role next month for an initial five years. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus announced the appointment on Monday (11 November), noting the Federal Government had committed $8 million over four years in the 2023-24 ...
Policy rumblings begin in Australia following the US election
1 day ago · Policy rumblings begin in Australia following the US election. 12 November 2024 | Chris Johnson. Start the conversation. The return of Donald Trump is reshaping the thinking of politicians, policymakers and the bureaucracy. Photo: Gage Skidmore. The American election result has big policy implications for Australia.
ACT laws making renters' lives better, says new report
1 day ago · Photo: Ian Bushnell. The ACT’s rental laws are helping to reduce rent increases and improve the lot of tenants and their interactions with landlords, according to a new report from the renters’ lobby group. Better Renting’s Cost of Renting Report found renters in the ACT faced smaller rent increases than anywhere else in the country.
Waiting for Godot, a play for our times, now running at The Street
4 days ago · Waiting for Godot asks us to rethink the world and our place in it. Vladimir and Estragon wait on a road by a tree for a man named Godot. They don’t know who he is, why they are meeting, or what time he is coming – only that something amazing could happen when he does. It all sounds way too familiar and enormously now. Witty and tragic ...
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New report reveals the ACT's prison system is 'screaming out
Mar 28, 2023 · A new report released by the Justice Reform Initiative has highlighted the urgent need for a shift in the ACT’s criminal justice system. The ‘State of Incarceration: Insights into Imprisonment in the ACT’ report by the multi-party alliance revealed that 77 per cent of prisoners in the ACT are repeat offenders – the highest rate of prior imprisonment in the country.