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- Medical Health Aged Care
- 10/04/2025
- 08:00
Healthcare leaders call for affordable, accessible abortion for Australian women
Today, 40 health and medical organisations have called on all candidates and political parties running in the 2025 federal election to publicly affirm their support for access to abortion as part of an ongoing commitment to essential healthcare. Despite healthcare being a major focus in this election campaign, abortion has largely been absent from the national conversation. Voters deserve to know where their candidates stand on improving access to abortion. The imminent federal election presents an unmissable opportunity for candidates seeking the votes of Australians to clearly and publicly commit to the health and wellbeing of Australian women. The Commonwealth…
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- Political
- 10/04/2025
- 08:00
Strum ruling must be the end of the road for child gender clinics says Family First
Family First has renewed its calls for a ban on puberty blockers, hormone treatment and surgical mutilation of gender-confused children in the wake of…
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- Business Company News
- 10/04/2025
- 07:55
Mid-Sized SMEs Set to Leapfrog Larger Competitors in AI-Driven Growth Revolution
SYDNEY, 10 April 2025 – Australian mid-sized businesses are not just adopting AI faster than their larger counterparts – they're laying the groundwork for exponential growth that could soon see them outpace larger competitors, according to new research released today by consulting firm specialising in the future of work, Humanova. The national study of 1,001 knowledge workers reveals that mid-sized SMEs (50-99 employees) have the highest proportion of AI "power users" – employees who use generative AI daily and drive organisational transformation – creating a competitive advantage that threatens to become insurmountable as AI capabilities compound. "Power users signal an…
- Building Construction, Property Real Estate
- 10/04/2025
- 07:52
Sydney’s Housing Crisis: New Report Finds Over-Regulation and Excessive Taxes are Crippling Housing Delivery
Good morning Please see attached and below a media release from the Urban Taskforce Australia re its new Urban Ideas Research Paper, What Makes Housing So Expensive? A copy of the full report can be accessed here -Urban Ideas - What Makes Housing so Expensive The paper examines the drivers of housing costs in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, including fees, taxes and “contributions”, and why the costs are hgher in Sydney compared to other capitals. It also breaks down building and planning regulations,which ismuch more onerous and time-consuming in NSW than other states. Only Sydney requires design contests and review,…
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- General News, Travel Tourism
- 10/04/2025
- 07:52
Australian Border Force? Seized Gemstones Sent to Auction
Over 100 sapphires and gemstones that were seized by the Australian border force are going under the hammer atLloyds this Friday. The gemstones were…
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- Medical Health Aged Care
- 10/04/2025
- 07:45
Parkinson’s disease researchers develop cellular ‘invisibility cloak’ to protect neural grafts
Cloaked human neural grafts evade immune detection Florey researchers have engineered a way to fool the immune system into accepting neural grafts as part…
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- Government NSW, Industrial Relations
- 10/04/2025
- 07:31
ASMOF MEDIA ALERT **UPDATED START TIMES** – Final day of strike – NSW doctors unite across regions to demand urgent reform
Good morning, Please note the start times for the Liverpool and Wollongong rallies and media conference are now 10am, (previously 10:30am) Liverpool Hospital (10:00am) Wollongong Hospital (10:00am) Thanks so much, Darren. MEDIA RELEASE Final day of strike: NSW doctors unite across regions to demand urgent reform Media statement: Thursday, 10 April 2025 Thousands of frustrated public hospital doctors across NSW are staging a third day of industrial action, intensifying their demands for urgent government intervention to address critical understaffing and unsafe working conditions. On the final day of a historic three-day strike, thousands of public hospital doctors across NSW, including…
- Disability, Education Training
- 10/04/2025
- 07:30
Three in four disabled students are bullied or excluded at school – and it’s getting worse, new survey reveals
Exclusion and bullying of students with disability is on the rise in Australia, with three in four impacted in 2024, according to a new survey. Children and Young People with Disability Australia(CYDA) can reveal today that 75% of disabled students were bullied last year, while 72% were excluded from school activities or events. This marks a dramatic increase from 2022 whena similar CYDA surveyfound 70% of disabled students were bullied and 65% experienced exclusion. The damning findings have fuelled widespread calls from the disability sector for all political candidatesto commit to urgent action on inclusive educationthis Federal election. “These statistics…
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- Government NSW, Industrial Relations
- 10/04/2025
- 07:12
**UPDATE ** – NEW 10AM START TIME – MEDIA ALERT – Doctor’s Strike and Rally at Wollongong Hospital – 10:00am – TODAY
MEDIA ALERT – WOLLONGONG WHAT ASMOF member doctors will hold a rally outside Wollongong Hospital to protest against understaffing, unsafe working hours and doctor…
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