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- CharitiesAidWelfare, Government VIC
- 03/12/2025
- 06:09
Council to Homeless Persons urges government to decriminalise begging
Council to Homeless Persons is urging the Victorian Government to support a private member’s bill to abolish the offence of begging. Legalise Cannabis MP Rachel Payne will deliver her second reading speech on the bill to state parliament on Wednesday, proposing to remove begging from the Summary Offences Act 1996. CHP CEO Deborah Di Natale said all MPs should support the reform, which would bring the state into line with NSW, Western Australia, Queensland and Tasmania. "Homelessness and poverty should not be crimes," she said. "We don't want to live in a society that criminalises vulnerable people pushed to the…
- Community, General News
- 03/12/2025
- 06:08
More space and less red tape to boost the city’s outdoor dining revolution
The City of Sydney is proposing key changes to its successful outdoor dining program to ensure the outdoor dining revolution is here to stay.…
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- Business Company News, CharitiesAidWelfare
- 03/12/2025
- 06:00
More companies produce quality Modern Slavery Statements, with some room for improvement: report
Key points Modern Slavery Statements are compulsory for organisations operating in Australia with $100 million or more in annual consolidated revenue Since they became mandatory in 2020, more companies are complying well However, some continue to lag in their reporting Australia’s first Anti-Slavery Commissioner Chris Evans has welcomed Monash University’s fifth report on ASX100 companies’ Modern Slavery Statements and committed to engage with those that need to improve their reporting. The annual assessment byMonash Centre for Financial Studies in the Monash Business School has found most big Australian companies produced high-quality Modern Slavery Statements, five years after they became compulsory…
- Business Finance
- 03/12/2025
- 05:41
NetApp Collaborates with AWS to bring Enterprise Data to AWS AI Services
Amazon S3 Access Points for FSx for NetApp ONTAP connects ONTAP data to AWS’s wide range of AI, ML, and Analytics services SAN JOSE,…
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- Education Training
- 03/12/2025
- 05:30
NSW public schools celebrate growing success on national stage in NAPLAN
NSW public schools have scored significantly above the national average in the 2025 NAPLAN assessment for the second year in a row. NSW public schools represent more than one-third of the 183 schools across Australia who scored above the national average in NAPLAN, with NSW schools achieving good results in all areas tested and across all year groups. Department of Education Secretary, Murat Dizdar, has congratulated NSW public sector teachers and school leaders on their strong NAPLAN performance. Mr Dizdar said the test results for NSW public schools showed that a focus on explicit teaching in public schools, backed by…
- Technology Innovation
- 03/12/2025
- 05:11
SLB Announces Dates for Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2025 Results Conference Call
HOUSTON–BUSINESS WIRE– SLB (NYSE: SLB) will hold a conference call on January 23, 2026, to discuss the results for the fourth quarter and full…
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- Education Training
- 03/12/2025
- 05:00
LATEST INFORMATION ON EVERY AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL NOW AVAILABLE ON ACARA’S MY SCHOOL WEBSITE
Key Facts: PLEASE NOTE The new data on the My School website will be available from 5am on Wednesday 3 December. This update includes school-level NAPLAN data only. The national, state and territory level NAPLAN results were published on 30 July. NAPLAN data is not available at an LGA level. You can view this data by the geolocation levels of · Major Cities, · Inner Regional · Outer Regional · Remote, and · Very Remote, at: https://www.acara.edu.au/reporting/national-report-on-schooling-in-australia/naplan-national-results STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 0500 AEDT ON 3 DECEMBER 2025 MEDIA RELEASE LATEST INFORMATION ON EVERY AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL NOW AVAILABLE ON ACARA’S MY SCHOOL…
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- Information Technology
- 03/12/2025
- 04:41
AI-Media Launches ADA Title II Compliance Initiative to Support Public Entities Meeting WCAG 2.1 AA Deadlines
NEW YORK, Dec. 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AI-Media, a global leader in AI-powered captioning and audio description technology, today announced the launch of its comprehensive ADA Title II Compliance Initiative, aimed at helping state and local governments across the United States meet the newly finalized federal accessibility requirements for digital content.In April 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice finalized the ADA Title II Web and Mobile Accessibility Rule, requiring public entities to conform to WCAG 2.1 Level AA across their digital services. Compliance deadlines begin April 24, 2026, for entities serving more than 50,000 people, and April 26, 2027,…
- Immigration, National News Current Affairs
- 03/12/2025
- 04:00
Expert Alert: Unprecedented population expansion lifts Australia’s housing costs.
Property data organisation Cotality, tallies Australian property price rises averaging 7.5 per cent nationwide, and 13.1 per cent in Perth, over the year to…
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