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People urged to check their insurance early this bushfire season

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People living in bushfire or flood-prone areas are being urged to check their insurance coverage to prepare for the summer, and to contact Legal Aid NSW’s specialist disaster service if they have a disaster-related legal issue. The Disaster Response Legal Service (DRLS) has a free self-help resource on the Legal Aid NSW website ‘Your Insurance … Continued

Olympic Champion Neil Brooks Questions QPP Indictment and Legal Process

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EMBARGO UNTIL: 10.30 am AEST THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER 2023 MEDIA RELEASE: OLYMPIC CHAMPION NEIL BROOKS QUESTIONS QPP INDICTMENT AND LEGAL PROCESS Brisbane, AUS, 5th October 2023 – Neil Brooks, Olympic Gold Medalist, and media personality, and his wife, Linda Brooks, are deeply troubled by the recent indictment by the Queensland Office of the Director of … Continued

New tool measures compelling value of social housing

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Media release | Tuesday October 3, 2023 The compelling value of social and affordable housing can now be quantified, thanks to an Australian first calculator that estimates its wider social, economic and environmental benefit. According to the SIGMAH calculator (Social Infrastructure and Green Measures for Affordable Housing) the 40,000 social and affordable homes to be … Continued

Farmer, builder, muso, miner, even teacher: these are among some of the noisiest jobs. Hearing Australia urges greater action on occupational noise-induced hearing loss

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MEDIA RELEASE3 October 2023   Farmer, builder, muso, miner, even teacher: these are among some of the noisiest jobs Hearing Australia urges greater action on occupational noise-induced hearing loss   Construction workers, airport ground staff, farmers, F1 race car drivers, miners, musicians, Emergency Department staff – and even teachers – have some of the noisiest … Continued

Miner, muso, builder, even teacher: these are among some of the noisiest jobs. Hearing Australia urges greater action on occupational noise-induced hearing loss

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MEDIA RELEASE3 October 2023   Farmer, builder, muso, miner, even teacher: these are among some of the noisiest jobs Hearing Australia urges greater action on occupational noise-induced hearing loss   Construction workers, airport ground staff, farmers, F1 race car drivers, miners, musicians, Emergency Department staff – and even teachers – have some of the noisiest … Continued

Miner, muso, builder, even teacher: these are among some of the noisiest jobs. It’s Safe Work Month – and Hearing Australia urges greater action on occupational noise-induced hearing loss

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MEDIA RELEASE3 October 2023   Farmer, builder, muso, miner, even teacher: these are among some of the noisiest jobs Hearing Australia urges greater action on occupational noise-induced hearing loss   Construction workers, airport ground staff, farmers, F1 race car drivers, miners, musicians, Emergency Department staff – and even teachers – have some of the noisiest … Continued

Australia lags USA in transparency of corporate political expenditure

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Media release | Friday, September 29 2023 A detailed and extensive examination of corporate political expenditure has found that Australia’s publicly-listed companies disclose little information about their political expenditure, lagging well behind their US counterparts. The report, commissioned by the Australia Institute from corporate governance and responsible investment solutions provider ISS-ESG, assesses the corporate expenditure … Continued

OMBUDSMAN SUPPORTS ‘RIGHT-SIZED’ PRIVACY CHANGES FOR SMALL BUSINESS

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The public rightly expects any personal information collected and stored by business – whether they are large or small – will be protected, says the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, Bruce Billson.  Mr Billson supports the decision announced today by Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus to remove the privacy exemption for small business and is … Continued