Yoga instructors, dog handlers and martial artists have been placed above tradies on the nation’s draft priority skills list for migrants. The core skills list sets out which workers are eligible for the new Skills in Demand Visa, which replaces the Temporary Skills Shortage Visa in late-2024, with the programContinue Reading
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal applied the controversial Ministerial Direction 99 to overturn half of the government’s initial deportation orders for non-citizens on character ground since July last year. The statistic was revealed in a senate estimates hearing held on Friday afternoon by the AAT’s registrar Michael Hawkins as the governmentContinue Reading
Badly behaving MPs could have their pay docked by up to 5 per cent should a powerful new body be created as recommended by a landmark report more than two years ago. Finance Minister Katy Gallagher confirmed the leaked document that outlined the sanctions MPs, senators and their staff couldContinue Reading
The planned rebuild of the Gabba for the 2032 Brisbane Games has been a lightning rod talking point ever since it was first mooted by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. From pleas to spend the funds elsewhere to reimaginations again and again, the Gabba rebuild has certainly divided opinion since the cityContinue Reading
Australia’s failure to enshrine an Indigenous Voice in its founding document is an “embarrassing” moment and should push the country to deal with entrenched disadvantaged facing First Nations people, according to a leading Yes campaigner. Indigenous advocate Thomas Mayo said the overwhelmingly rejected Voice referendum on October 14 was aContinue Reading
The new Qantas chief executive will start off her tenure with a direct apology to the nearly 1700 workers her company illegally sacked during the pandemic. Transport Workers Union secretary Michael Kaine revealed the upcoming apology from new boss Vanessa Hudson in an interview with 2GB, saying he had takenContinue Reading
The investigation into the suicide crisis roiling Australia’s military community has been “stymied and stonewalled” by defence and government bureaucracy, the man leading the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide has said. In a furious speech to the National Press Club on Wednesday, commission chair Nick Kaldas called onContinue Reading
For 20 years, infamous baby killer Kathleen Folbigg maintained she did not kill her children. The mother-of-four was convicted in 2003 of the murder of three of her children and the manslaughter of a fourth child between 1989 and 1999, and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Ms Folbigg, 55,Continue Reading