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“It is extra galling to our members that while they are attempting to negotiate a new enterprise agreement and dealing with the stress of redundancies in an Australian winter, managing director Mike Sneesby is enjoying sunny France as he takes part in the Olympic torch relay.”
Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) Director of Media Michelle Rae in a statement on journalists at Channel Nine striking due to a breakdown in pay negotiations.

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The amount former coal mine worker Craig Keogh was awarded by the NSW Dust Diseases Tribunal, which found he developed pneumoconiosis (black lung) due to unsafe working conditions. Keogh is the first person to successfully sue for damages over a work-related dust-inhalation illness.

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The Arc De Triomphe was inaugurated following a 30-year construction period.

A proposed uranium mine in the Northern Territory will become part of Australia’s World Heritage-listed national park, Kakadu.

Over the weekend, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the first steps towards incorporating the site, called Jabiluka, into the national park.

A uranium mine at Jabiluka was proposed in the 1970s but never went ahead. The site’s corporate owner had applied to extend their lease for another 10 years, but the NT Government rejected their request this week.

Jabiluka is located in the Northern Territory, next to the World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park. It’s on the land of the Mirarr people.

The 73 kilometre-square area was approved for mining of uranium – a mineral used in nuclear energy production – in the 1970s.

In 1998, conservation groups and Mirarr Traditional Owners set up an eight-month blockade to stop its corporate owner, Energy Resources of Australia (ERA), from beginning to mine the site.

In 2001, ERA’s owner, Rio Tinto, guaranteed there would be no mining without consent from the Mirarr people.

The area was still owned by ERA, however, meaning the possibility of uranium mining was still open.

Earlier this year, ERA applied to extend its lease of Jabiluka for 10 years.

On Friday, the NT Government rejected its request.

Since January 2023, senior Government ministers and Albanese have been in talks with Mirarr Traditional Owners about the site’s future.

Following those talks, Albanese said the Mirarr people wanted “a guarantee that there would never be uranium mining on their land”.

The site is home to some of the oldest rock art, shelters, and paintings in the world.

Reporting by Harry Sekulich.

The United Nations (UN) has warned the Middle East “cannot afford another open conflict” as tensions between Israel and Hezbollah continue to grow.

It comes after the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Saturday that at least 12 people, mostly children, had been killed in an attack on a soccer field in Majdal Shams. It claimed Hezbollah was responsible for the attack.

Hezbollah denied any responsibility.

Hezbollah is derived from the Arabic term ‘Hizb Allah’, which translates to ‘Party of God’. Australia lists it as a terrorist organisation.

The group was established after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Israel officially withdrew from Lebanon in 2000. Two major conflicts between Hezbollah and Israel have both ended in ceasefires.

Iran supports the group in the form of training, funding, and arms. Hezbollah’s manifesto calls for the destruction of Israel and the creation of an Iran-like Islamic state in Lebanon.

Shortly after Hamas’ 7 October attack on Israel, Hezbollah declared: “Our souls are with you. Our history and guns and our rockets are with you.” It’s since fired around 2,000 drones and missiles into Israel.

In the last two months, the IDF has killed two senior Hezbollah commanders in Lebanon. It’s also fired rockets into Lebanon, killing at least 90 civilians, since October.

In response, Hezbollah vowed to “increase the intensity, strength, quantity and quality of our attacks”.

On Saturday, the IDF announced that at least 12 people, mostly children, had been killed in Majdal Shams.

Madjal Shams is located within the Golan Heights, an area in the north of Israel with a large Arab population that has been under Israeli control since 1967 and was officially annexed from Syria in 1981.

The IDF claimed Hezbollah was responsible for the attack. In a statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “Israel will not let this pass in silence. We will not overlook this.”

Hezbollah has denied it was responsible.

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, condemned the attack, saying: “Children continue to bear the burden of the horrific violence plaguing the region”.

A statement from the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon added: “We urge the parties to exercise maximum restraint and to put a stop to the ongoing intensified exchanges of fire. It could ignite a wider conflagration that would engulf the entire region in a catastrophe beyond belief.”

The attack comes days after the leaders of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada issued a call for a de-escalation on Israel’s border with Lebanon.

In a joint statement, the three countries urged an end to “escalation of hostilities and rhetoric between the terror group Hizballah and Israel”.

The leaders raised concerns about thousands of displaced people on either side of the Israel-Lebanon border, saying further conflict puts “tens of thousands of civilians in Lebanon and Israel at risk”.

The leaders of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada also called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, where according to data cited by the UN, more than 39,000 Palestinians have now been killed since 7 October.

On Saturday, the Gaza Ministry of Health reported that the IDF had launched an attack on a school in central Gaza, killing at least 30 people.

The IDF said in a statement it had “targeted a Hamas command and control centre inside the Khadija school compound in central Gaza”.

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Saudi Arabia will be the first country to hold the competition, which the committee says is targeted towards engaging younger audiences with the Olympics. While it’s not yet known what kind of games will be included in the competition, there are already global competitions for games including League of Legends, Call of Duty, and Fortnite.

IOC President Thomas Bach described the Esports Games as “a new era” and a way of “keeping up with the pace of the digital revolution.”

Reporting by Nandini Dhir.

Have you ever ordered some juicy boneless chicken wings, only to find a bone in there?

Well, according to the Supreme Court in the U.S. state of Ohio, if chicken wings are advertised as boneless, customers shouldn’t expect them to actually be boneless.

An Ohio man ate what he thought were boneless chicken wings, only to accidentally swallow a piece of chicken bone.

He ended up in the emergency room days later, where doctors found a piece of bone that had caused a tear in his oesophagus leading to infection.

When he took the restaurant to court, the verdict was that he should have checked for bones in the wings, regardless of how they were advertised.

Not all the judges on the Court agreed, though, with one saying: “When [customers] read the word ‘boneless,’ they think that it means ‘without bones,’ as do all sensible people.”

Reporting by Nandini Dhir.

With Australians flocking to Europe for the summer, the topic of overtourism has once again become a hot discussion point. We know that tourism can boost local economies. However, we also know it can harm cultures and disrupt locals’ lives. So, what are the effects of overtourism, and how can it be tackled?