Perth man charged with lady’s homicide
A person has been charged with homicide after he allegedly assaulted a girl and set their Perth residence alight earlier than fleeing.
Firefighters had been referred to as to the Warnbro residence in Perth’s southern suburbs early on Friday, the place the 30-year-old lady’s physique was found.
Police allege the 35-year-old man had assaulted the girl someday previous to 1am on the residence the place they each lived.
He set the home alight, fleeing the property with the girl’s three-year-old youngster and leaving the sufferer inside, police allege.
Paramedics took the toddler to Rockingham Hospital for remedy of smoke inhalation.
The house sustained minimal harm within the blaze.
The person was charged with homicide and prison harm by fireplace.
He’s anticipated to seem in Perth Magistrates Courtroom on Sunday.
– AAP
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Payslip wars: Australian jobseekers endure harassment in ‘a loopy system that doesn’t work for anybody’
A former worker of one among Australia’s largest job community suppliers has spoken up concerning the excessive strategies they use to assert public cash when jobseekers discover employment.
One researcher referred to as the method – supposedly designed to assist folks enter the workforce or improve their hours – a “loopy system that doesn’t work for anybody”.
Jobseekers should enroll with a personal job supplier to obtain Centrelink advantages, which they’ll proceed to assert if they’ve work however are incomes under a sure threshold.
The suppliers can declare “end result funds” when a shopper on their books has accomplished 4, 12 and 26 weeks of employment, no matter whether or not the shopper or supplier discovered the job, utilizing payslips as proof of the shopper’s employment. In 2022-23 suppliers acquired $329m in end result funds.
However jobseekers, employers and former workers on the suppliers say the requirement to acquire payslips has led suppliers to place unreasonable stress on purchasers – who usually are not obliged handy over the knowledge – and employers.
In some circumstances suppliers making an attempt to acquire payslips have pressured jobseekers’ Centrelink funds to be suspended.
For extra on this story, learn the complete report by Guardian Australia reporter Cait Kelly:
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Victorian premier: Ladies have had sufficient of being offended, outraged, unhappy
Chatting with reporters at a press convention after the rally, Victorian premier Jacinta Allan thanks protesters who attended the marches throughout Australia:
Ladies deserve the suitable to be secure in each house and we’re seeing, repeatedly, too many ladies are shedding their lives.
There have been ladies on the march at this time, like me, we’ve been marching on this challenge for many years and many years and many years. We’ve had sufficient … we’ve had sufficient of being offended and outraged and unhappy and grieving for girls who’ve misplaced their lives, for girls who’ve been critically injured, for girls who’re too traumatised to take part within the office, to take part as members of our group.
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Extra funding wanted for household, sexual violence companies, ladies’s advocates say
The federal legal professional common, Mark Dreyfus, and the Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, have joined 1000’s in Melbourne to rally in opposition to gender-based violence.
1000’s of Victorians gathered exterior the Melbourne State Library earlier than marching to Federation Sq..
A sequence of nationwide rallies, organised by non-profit group What Have been You Sporting, is looking for boosted funding for household and sexual violence service and for Anthony Albanese to declare the violence a nationwide emergency.
This yr, 26 Australian ladies have been killed – a fee of 1 loss of life each 4 days – in keeping with information compiled by advocacy group Destroy the Joint’s venture Counting Useless Ladies.
In one of many newest circumstances, on Tuesday, emergency companies found the physique of Emma Bates, 49, in Cobram, in northern Victoria.
Requires higher regulation of pornography, tech to stem violence in opposition to ladies
A rally in opposition to home violence in Melbourne has heard requires prosecution for any breach of an intervention order, calls for for deep cultural change and questions concerning the function expertise is taking part in in facilitating abuse.
One speaker says expertise isn’t creating the issue however it’s utilized by perpetrators of violence in opposition to ladies.
We’re seeing sextortion, coercion. A few of our purchasers are speaking about how their photographs of being sexually assaulted are being shared on-line. It’s unlawful.
The rally heard additionally that progressive approaches to regulating pornography ought to be thought-about, akin to age-requirements to entry it.
There was additionally criticism of the Victorian state authorities for failing to roll out a state-wide sexual assault technique, first beneficial in 2021.
We have to assist individuals who suppose what occurred to them is their fault. Make sense that it’s due to our group and our constructions that what they skilled occurred to them. So we wish the technique, we wish higher funding to our service system so we don’t have waitlists, so we might be progressive, artistic and responsive in how we reply to individuals who contact our service, not simply 9 to five. And never telling folks will get to you in six months.
Massive crowds have gathered in Melbourne to protest home violence:
Perth man charged with lady’s homicide
A person has been charged with homicide after he allegedly assaulted a girl and set their Perth residence alight earlier than fleeing.
Firefighters had been referred to as to the Warnbro residence in Perth’s southern suburbs early on Friday, the place the 30-year-old lady’s physique was found.
Police allege the 35-year-old man had assaulted the girl someday previous to 1am on the residence the place they each lived.
He set the home alight, fleeing the property with the girl’s three-year-old youngster and leaving the sufferer inside, police allege.
Paramedics took the toddler to Rockingham Hospital for remedy of smoke inhalation.
The house sustained minimal harm within the blaze.
The person was charged with homicide and prison harm by fireplace.
He’s anticipated to seem in Perth Magistrates Courtroom on Sunday.
– AAP
Western Australia drought may very well be ‘nail within the coffin’ for a lot of farmers
Document-breaking drought circumstances, hovering feed prices and plummeting confidence within the livestock export business may very well be the “nail within the coffin” for a lot of Western Australian farmers.
Giant components of the state’s fertile southwest have recorded their lowest rainfall in additional than 50 years over the previous eight months, depleting dams and floor feed at a time when grain and fodder provides had been already low.
WA Farmers livestock president Geoff Pearson says the state of affairs is “vital”.
There’s no rain on the horizon for the subsequent six to eight weeks of any substance, which goes to trigger some affordable points.
We’ve been caught out … and it’s placing quite a lot of stress on us.
Some livestock producers “have pushed the button” and are de-stocking their properties amid hovering feed prices.
However livestock costs have fallen by as much as 75% in contrast with earlier years.
The WA authorities on Friday introduced $8.6m to assist farmers, with $2m in hardship grants and $4m in interest-free loans for these affected by drought.
An extra $1.5m has been promised to bolster group water infrastructure, with $875,000 for psychological well being and group wellbeing applications, and $225,000 for rural help charities.
Main producers can apply for short-term loans as much as $25,000 per enterprise to cowl the price of inventory feed, water and transportation.
– AAP
Males should be concerned in stopping violence in opposition to ladies, Rishworth says
Amanda Rishworth says the federal government is organising its new nationwide perpetrator threat evaluation framework to encourage early intervention to “break the cycle of violence”.
She says it’s a device service suppliers or related organisations can use to establish “how dangerous a perpetrator may very well be at offending” which might then result in interventions in an effort to vary that behaviour.
Requested why Australia, “an prosperous, educated, progressive nation”, is “nonetheless seeing a lot violence inflicted on ladies at the present time”, she says:
It’s extremely irritating and extremely baffling so we do want to take a look at how we embrace males on this dialog. There are quite a lot of males marching at this time that want to see the top to violence in opposition to ladies and kids and so it’s about, how do our leaders, whether or not they be ladies or males, present management on this space? How will we give males the boldness to name out in the event that they see disrespectful behaviour? In the event that they see dangerous attitudes that condone violence, how will we give them the instruments and the boldness to name that out?
The minister directs folks to go to the Cease It At The Begin web site for extra data .
Rishworth says she is going to attend the rally in Canberra on Sunday.
This can be a actually essential second. I hope it continues the dialog however I’d say we have to preserve the eye on this in a sustained method if we need to see the top aim of ending violence in opposition to ladies and kids in a era.
Early intervention applications received’t ship outcomes instantly, Rishworth says
Rishworth is pressed about whether or not the cash spent to this point is having an impact and what might be finished to get state governments to do extra.
She says the states and territories have signed as much as the federal authorities’s nationwide plan, which was formulated by varied groups, together with survivors.
I’ve to say in the case of prevention and early intervention, a few of the outcomes of these forms of applications will take a while to see. Only one instance, is a program … working with adolescent males which will have come into contact with violence, notably household and home violence prior to now, and to assist and work with them to ensure we’re ending the cycle. The results of that can take a while nevertheless it doesn’t imply that pressing consideration doesn’t must be targeted to ship [those results].
Violence in opposition to ladies a ‘nationwide disgrace’, says social companies minister Rishworth
The minister for social companies, Amanda Rishworth, says violence in opposition to ladies is “a nationwide disgrace” that has “been at disaster ranges for a while”.
Chatting with the ABC, Rishworth says the issue has “been pervasive all through our group and thru our society for too lengthy”.
It has to cease. We now have to all work collectively to place an finish to violence in opposition to ladies and kids. I want to see each persistent and constant consideration to this and completely sustained effort in addressing what’s a nationwide disgrace.
The minister says the federal government has spent $2.3m in its first two budgets to deal with household and home automobiles, which incorporates funding for prevention, early intervention, response and therapeutic and restoration.
A part of our response is a dedication to frontline staff. That funding is within the funds, after all; we aren’t because the Commonwealth, chargeable for frontline staff. That cash has been transferred … to states and territories to placed on these staff. The numbers improve each week. And to the frontline staff being placed on as part of that, I anticipate we are going to meet our targets.
Crowds are starting to assemble in Melbourne for a rally in opposition to gender-based violence.
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The demise of Twitter: How a ‘utopian imaginative and prescient’ for social media grew to become a ‘poisonous mess’
If something is emblematic of the demise of Twitter, it’s the rise and stall of the account of Oprah Winfrey.
Oprah joined the platform in 2009, tweeting for the primary time stay from her wildly widespread TV present: “HI TWITTERS. THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY twenty first CENTURY.”
It was “a breakthrough second” for the platform, says Axel Bruns, professor within the digital media analysis centre at Queensland College of Expertise.
That basically was the second the place numbers completely took off.
Nowadays, Oprah nonetheless has an account on the now-renamed X, with 41.7m followers. However since November 2022, a month after Elon Musk’s acquisition of the positioning was finalised, she has posted simply as soon as – in January 2023, when she advised Chelsea Clinton she was “nonetheless laughing out LoUD for actual 😂” over Clinton by chance sporting two completely different black footwear to an occasion.
Debates about X have reignited within the final week, because the Australian authorities has taken the platform to court docket in an effort to get it to take away a video of a Sydney bishop being allegedly stabbed as he officiated a church service final week.
X says it has complied with orders to take away footage of the stabbing (although satirically, the put up saying its compliance had a remark instantly beneath by which somebody had shared the complete and graphic video) and Musk has been scathing about Australia’s requests for the footage to be taken down. X has been contacted for remark.
The disinformation hurricane surrounding the Bondi stabbing marks the top of Twitter as a breaking information vacation spot
However as the controversy has raged about what accountability social media platforms have for stopping the unfold of violent or extremist content material, one other query has emerged: what even is Twitter/X any extra?
For extra on this story learn the complete report by Guardian Australia reporter Kate Lyons:
Peter Dutton ‘reached out’ to Fowler group after Wakeley church stabbing, Dai Le says
Lastly, Dai Le is requested a few dinner she not too long ago had with the federal opposition chief, Peter Dutton, in her citizens, and whether or not they spoke about what may occur if there’s a hung parliament after the subsequent federal election.
No. Look, the opposition chief reached out following the Wakeley incident and requested us to dinner, simply to examine in, to see if there are points essential to our group. I believe he’s the one one which reached out and got here out to see us.