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ALP: Porter still faces serious allegation

ALP: Porter still faces serious allegation

Scott Morrison is under renewed pressure to launch an independent inquiry into a decades-old rape allegation against Christian Porter, which the minister denies. Labor wants an independent investigation while the Greens want a commission of inquiry into the claims. Both parties also want an inquiry into whether Mr Porter is a fit and proper person...

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Crown in last-minute overhaul as inquiry targets gambling addiction ‘failures’

Crown in last-minute overhaul as inquiry targets gambling addiction ‘failures’

Crown Resorts has pledged to overhaul its responsible gambling program in what Victoria’s royal commission into the casino has heard is an 11th-hour admission it has failed to limit the harm gambling addicts experience on its gaming floors. Counsel assisting the inquiry Adrian Finanzio said on Tuesday morning that there was evidence of serious failings...

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Peru more than doubles Covid death toll after review

Peru more than doubles Covid death toll after review

Peru has more than doubled its Covid death toll following a review, making it the country with the world’s highest death rate per capita, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The official death toll is now more than 180,000, up from 69,342, in a country of about 33 million people. Prime Minister Violeta Bermudez said...

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Canadians demand action from officials as country mourns discovery of a mass grave of children’s remains

Canadians demand action from officials as country mourns discovery of a mass grave of children’s remains

Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors in Canada are calling on officials to do a thorough investigation of every former residential school in the country after the remains of more than 200 children were found on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Leaders from the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc community in the southern...

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Russian hackers launch major cyberattack through U.S. aid agency’s email system, Microsoft says

Russian hackers launch major cyberattack through U.S. aid agency’s email system, Microsoft says

The Russian hackers thought to be behind the catastrophic SolarWinds attack last year have launched another major cyberattack, Microsoft warned three weeks before President Joe Biden is to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Microsoft said in a blog post Thursday that the hacking group, known as Nobelium, had targeted over 150 organizations worldwide in...

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ASX rallies by 1.19pc for record close

ASX rallies by 1.19pc for record close

Investors are making a mockery of the saying ‘sell in May and go away’, after the ASX200 notched a record closing high and the All Ordinaries claimed a record high. A broad rally of more than one per cent helped the ASX beat both records, which had stood since May 10. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index...