Australia gets a 'high quality' census despite the problems
Almost 95 per cent of households have completed a census form despite an embarrassing website outage on census night and lingering political controversy over the national headcount.The Bureau of Statistics says it already has sufficient data for a "high quality" census, ahead of the deadline for forms on Friday. More News Videos Previous slide Next slide Was the census attack Australian? Lindt siege police response in question Norman May remembered a..>> view originalVet implicated in Melbourne racing doping scandal says he's a scapegoat
A veterinarian allegedly at the centre of Australia's biggest doping scandal in a decade says a gambling addiction led him to turn over $4 million in three years.Former Flemington Equine Clinic vet Dr Adam Matthews gave evidence on Wednesday to a fiery appeal, on the eve of the Spring Racing Carnival, of bans imposed on two of the country's best-known trainers, Mark Kavanagh and Danny O'Brien, for cobalt doping. Dr Adam Matthews at VCAT where he is giving evidence in an appeal by trainers ..>> view original'Stuff up, not conspiracy': Stephen Conroy explains mysterious resignation from Parliament
Stuff-up or conspiracy? Stephen Conroy says one should always assume the former, although he has done little to quell the conspiracy theorists regarding his own mysterious resignation.The outgoing Labor senator gave his first interview since quietly tabling his resignation speech last week, appearing on Andrew Bolt's program on Sky News on Tuesday evening. More News Videos Previous slide Next slide Conroy's first interview post resignation Lindt siege police r..>> view originalVictoria floods: Farmers with soaked fields avoid further flooding
Victoria floods: Farmers with soaked fields avoid further flooding Posted September 21, 2016 15:52:54 Farmers in Victoria are happy to have avoided further flooding while their fields are still soaked from last week's falls. Key points:Heavy rains expected overnight, but falls were well short of forecasts Farmers hoping for drier weather in lead-up to harvestAgronomist says wet September has been a 'pleasant change' Up to 40 millimetres of rain was forecast to fall ..>> view originalPolice hunting for suspects in Cairns attack
'Every 2nd person': the poll on Muslim immigration that made Mariam Veiszadeh sick
Mariam Veiszadeh was on the bus when she read the poll result."I just felt sick in the gut," she said. Sorrow set in. Paranoia worsened. More News Videos Previous slide Next slide Pauline Hanson's anti-Muslim manifesto Lindt siege police response in question Norman May remembered at SCG tribute Australia's most dangerous road in Melbourne Victoria's youth crime out of control CCTV shows brutality of Prahran bashing to co..>> view originalChild sexual abuse royal commission: Father John Farrell had 'serious psychological problems'
Child sexual abuse royal commission: Father John Farrell had 'serious psychological problems' Updated September 21, 2016 17:31:39 A priest who is being examined by a royal commission into child sexual abuse was an "odd bod" with a narcissistic personality who should never have been accepted into the priesthood, a senior Catholic Church official has said.The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Sydney hearing is examining how the dioceses a..>> view originalAdelaide firies declared heroes after rescuing kittens from burning home
Firefighters in Adelaide are being called heroes after rescuing three kittens from a burning building. Fire crews were called to a Morphett Vale home engulfed by flames last night and quickly brought the blaze under control.The crew rescued two dogs and three kittens were from inside the home.Authorities believe the property was deliberately set alight. The fire is estimated to have caused more than $150,000 in damage. While three kittens were rescued and are safe, authorities said other cats p..>> view originalTiahleigh Palmer case: Foster father charged with murder, brother charged with incest
Tiahleigh 'Tia' Palmer was murdered by her foster father to protect his 19-year-old son who had sex with the 12-year-old schoolgirl days before her death and feared she was pregnant, police allege. Tiahleigh Palmer. Photo: Queensland Police Service The foster father, 56-year-old Richard Thorburn, is now in an induced coma in a Queensland hospital after collapsing while in police custody. Police have refused to formally confirm reports he swallowed pills.Meanwhile, his teenage son Tren..>> view originalReading Recovery: NSW government ditches 30-year-old, $55ma year program
The NSW government has abandoned a $55-million-a-year program that teaches students to read, 10 months after a damning review found the program that has been used in up to 960 schools for more than 30 years does not work.The move, buried within the state government's $340 million Literacy and Numeracy Strategy announced on Wednesday, will see Reading Recovery lose its mandated status while the NSW government pushes ahead with a heightened testing regime from the first day of kindergarten to ens..>> view original
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