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Bribery allegations lead to call for national ICAC
Liberal MP Andrew Hastie has used parliamentary privilege to allege a Chinese-Australian billionaire was involved in bribing the late UN president.
22 hours ago | Echonetdaily | 0 National News -
Archbishop guilty of covering up sex abuse
Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson, the most senior Catholic official in the world to be charged with covering up child sexual abuse, has been found guilty by a NSW court.
2 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 National News -
Govt says it won’t split tax-cut plan
Labor has left the door open to supporting the second stage of the Turnbull government's income tax plan, which is due to be debated today, but Pauline Hanson has meanwhile dropped her support for it.
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AGL won’t sell Liddell – Abbott seethes
AGL has turned down Alinta Energy's $250 million offer to buy the Liddell Power Station and reaffirmed its decision to close the NSW plant in 2022, prompting Tony Abbott to tell PM Malcolm Turnbull to compulsorily acquire it.
3 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 National News
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Bribery allegations lead to call for national ICAC
Liberal MP Andrew Hastie has used parliamentary privilege to allege a Chinese-Australian billionaire was involved in bribing the late UN president.
22 hours ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Archbishop guilty of covering up sex abuse
Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson, the most senior Catholic official in the world to be charged with covering up child sexual abuse, has been found guilty by a NSW court.
2 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Govt says it won’t split tax-cut plan
Labor has left the door open to supporting the second stage of the Turnbull government's income tax plan, which is due to be debated today, but Pauline Hanson has meanwhile dropped her support for it.
2 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
AGL won’t sell Liddell – Abbott seethes
AGL has turned down Alinta Energy's $250 million offer to buy the Liddell Power Station and reaffirmed its decision to close the NSW plant in 2022, prompting Tony Abbott to tell PM Malcolm Turnbull to compulsorily acquire it.
3 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Ditching Adani won’t hurt credit rating: expert
A new report commissioned by conservationists has found blocking the proposed Adani coal mine will not affect Australia's credit rating.
3 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Pell trial may not be able to be reported
The first of two trials on pedophilia charges of the world’s third most senior Catholic priest, Cardinal George Pell, may not be allowed to be reported until after a second trial concludes.
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Power companies ‘overcharging by $400m a year’
The federal government will ask the energy watchdog to investigate whether consumers are being ripped off by power companies covering their tax liabilities.
9 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Land-clearing policy failed to stack up but approved anyway
The EDO has successfully argued the public has a right to know that the Australian Government decided to accredit the NSW land-clearing offsets policy despite concerns it failed to meet national environmental standards.
10 days ago | Echonetdaily | 1 -
$4m fine urged for polluter Linc Energy
A failed Queensland energy company, which polluted a large part of the Darling Downs with hazardous contaminants, should be fined up to $4 million dollars, prosectors say.
13 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Trio charged over $100m ‘ice’ shipment
Two Taiwanese nationals and a Chinese man are behind bars after more than $100 million worth of the drug ice - disguised as tea - was found hidden inside metal lathes.
14 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Vic child protection staff burning out
Victoria's child protection system is so under-resourced it would take $352 million a year over four years to fix case worker shortages.
14 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
100,000 Victorian workers march for better pay
A hundred thousand workers have marched through Melbourne's CBD, demanding better pay and conditions as part of a nationwide campaign.
15 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Government defends ABC budget cuts
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has defended the cuts to ABC funding in the budget but Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said the ABC was one of the 'pet hates of the right wing of the Liberal party'.
15 days ago | The Echo | 0 -
NT govt to apologise for gay convictions
The NT government is expected to make a formal apology on Tuesday to people convicted under anti-gay sex laws, according to the Human Rights Law Centre.
16 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Exercise ‘should be prescribed for all cancer patients’
In a world first, the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia is calling on health professionals to prescribe exercise to all cancer patients, saying it is almost as vital as medication.
17 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Australia in world first cannabis trial
A world first study on the effect of medicinal cannabis has on adults suffering from chronic insomnia will be conducted by the University of Western Australia.
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Farmers and indigenous leaders confront mining giant Santos at AGM
NSW farmers and indigenous leaders are confronting mining giant Santos over its proposed Narrabri coal seam gas scheme at the company’s annual general meeting in Adelaide today (Thursday). The group is furious at Santos’s plan to drill 850 gas wells... Read More →
21 days ago | Paul Bibby | 1 -
Voters support limit to offshore detention
Half of all Australian voters support a 90-day limit on holding asylum seekers in offshore detention on Manus Island and Nauru.
21 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Cardinal George Pell facing two trials
Cardinal Georgie Pell will face separate trials after he was committed over multiple historical sexual offence charges.
22 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Festival pill testing a success: experts
Drug experts have hailed the nation's first illicit pill-testing trial a success at Canberra's Groovin the Moo festival at the weekend, leading the Greens to call for a statewide rollout of the program.
24 days ago | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Who will pay for Queensland’s ‘Linc stink’?
Poisoned land, workers told to drink milk to prevent burning their stomach linings, nearby farm pigs allegedly dying from the ‘Linc stink’ and a $23M clean-up bill.
29 days ago | The Echo | 1 -
Community gets a say in court review of Gloucester coal mine
The community group Gloucester Groundswell has been fighting for a say in the greenfield open cut coal mine at Gloucester for 12 years, now they will get their chance.
30 days ago | Aslan Shand | 0 -
‘Critical information’ missing from Santos’ Pilliga proposal
Santos has failed to reveal crucial aspects of its Narrabri coal seam gas scheme in its response to the record number of 23,000 submissions generated by its environmental impact statement for the controversial project, the Wilderness Society said.
April 23, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Westpac making me a scapegoat’: advisor
A former Westpac financial planner has rejected evidence given by one of the bank's executives to the financial services royal commission, saying he was 'under their instruction on how certain matters were to be done'.
April 23, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
More delays for Sydney’s light rail
A 12-month delay to Sydney's troubled light rail project to the eastern suburbs is 'unacceptable' and the contractor needs to 'accelerate', the NSW Transport Minister says.
April 19, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0
