Australia News: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on June 23, 2025.
MIL-OSI Australia: ACT Budget 25-26: 30,000 new homes to provide more housing for Canberrans
Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services As part of ACT Government’s ‘One Government, One Voice’ program, we are transitioning this website across to our . You can access everything you need through this website while it’s happening. Released 23/06/2025 – Joint media release The Government is supporting the delivery of more homes for Canberrans […]
MIL-OSI Australia: ACT Budget 2025-26: Investing in Tourism, Events and Iconic Destinations
Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services As part of ACT Government’s ‘One Government, One Voice’ program, we are transitioning this website across to our . You can access everything you need through this website while it’s happening. Released 22/06/2025 – Joint media release The ACT Government is investing more than $15 million through the […]
MIL-Evening Report: Trump’s decision to bomb Iran exposes fissures in US politics
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lester Munson, Non-Resident Fellow, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney US President Donald Trump’s strike on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, which he foreshadowed on and off for the past few days, has revealed a surprisingly broad middle ground in US politics, even as it has provoked […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Australia Post’s stamp price increase not opposed
Source: Australian Ministers for Regional Development The ACCC has not objected to Australia Post’s proposed 13.3 per cent price increase, to take effect in July 2025, for its reserved ordinary letter service delivered to the regular timetable. Unless the Minister For Communications disapproves the proposed increase, the price for ordinary small letters – known as […]
MIL-OSI Australia: ACT Budget 2025-26: Delivering for Molonglo, Weston Creek and Woden
Source: Australian National Party As part of ACT Government’s ‘One Government, One Voice’ program, we are transitioning this website across to our . You can access everything you need through this website while it’s happening. Released 21/06/2025 – Joint media release The 2025-26 ACT Budget continues the Government’s significant investment in infrastructure and services to […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Regulatory reform in digital platform markets is needed to improve competition and consumer outcomes
Source: Australian Ministers for Regional Development Without sufficient laws in place, Australian consumers and businesses continue to encounter a significant number of harmful practices across a range of digital platform services, the ACCC’s tenth and final report of the ACCC’s Digital Platform Services Inquiry has found. “Digital platform services are critically important to Australian consumers […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Fatal crash – Deep Well
Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services The Northern Territory Police Force is currently investigating a fatal crash that occurred in Deep Well yesterday. Around 10:40am, the Joint Emergency Services Communication Centre received reports of a motorcycle crash that occurred along Maryvale Road. The 52-year-old old male rider was riding with a group of motorcyclists […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Stress hormone in the womb alters early heart development, increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease
Source: 23 June 2025 [embedded content] Exposure to high levels of the body’s primary stress hormone – cortisol – in preterm fetuses can disrupt normal heart development, potentially increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease in later life. That’s the finding from a new study led by the University of South Australia (UniSA), showing that elevated […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Research – NZ’s Elite Athlete Breaking Point Research to be Shared with Five Eyes Nations
Source: Impact PR for Vantaset A world-first performance transformation framework developed in New Zealand from research into the psychological breaking point of elite athletes has caught the attention of police forces in North America and the United Kingdom, with a number of trials in discussion. The move follows the inking of long-term contracts with global […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Serious assault at Devon Park
Source: New South Wales – News Police are investigating an assault at Devon Park this morning. About 4.30am this morning (Monday 23 June) emergency services were called to Belford Avenue after reports a man had been assaulted. When police arrived, they located a 28-year-old man who had been stabbed. He was taken to hospital in […]
MIL-Evening Report: Global warming is changing cloud patterns. That means more global warming
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Jakob, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, Monash University Caleb Weiner / Unsplash At any given time, about two-thirds of Earth’s surface is covered by clouds. Overall, they make the planet much cooler than it would be without them. But […]
MIL-Evening Report: How pregnant women are tested for gestational diabetes is changing. Here’s what this means for you
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexis Shub, Obstetrician & Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist, The University of Melbourne How Australian pregnant women are tested for gestational diabetes is set to change, with new national guidelines released today. Changes are expected to lead to fewer diagnoses in women at lower risk, reducing the burden […]
MIL-Evening Report: Freak wind gusts made worse by climate change threaten airline passenger safety
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milton Speer, Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Unexpected severe turbulence injured crew and passengers on a Qantas Boeing 737 during descent at Brisbane on May 4 2024. The subsequent Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigation suggested the severity of the turbulence […]
MIL-OSI USA: Kamlager-Dove Statement on U.S. Strikes in Iran
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager California (37th District) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia, released the following statement on the U.S. strikes in Iran: “The ‘President of peace’ just bombed Iran without Congressional authorization, without […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Budget invests in tourism and events
Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services The ACT Government will support the revitalisation of Telstra Tower. In brief: The 2025–26 ACT Budget is investing in Canberra’s tourism, hospitality and events sectors. This will help city is grow as a destination for both tourism and business. This story outlines the targeted investment included in the Budget. […]
MIL-OSI Russia: /China in Focus/ The Labubu Hype or China’s Rise as a Global Intellectual Property Power
Translation. Region: Russian Federal Source: People’s Republic of China in Russian – People’s Republic of China in Russian – Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News HANGZHOU, June 22 (Xinhua) — A pajama factory in east China’s Jiangsu Province was idle for a while but was brought back to life by one plush […]
MIL-OSI Global: The US has entered the Israel-Iran war. Here are 3 scenarios for what might happen next
Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Middle East Studies, Australian National University After prevaricating about whether the United States would enter Israel’s war on Iran, President Donald Trump finally made a decision. Early Sunday, US warplanes and submarines struck three of Iran’s nuclear sites at Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow, […]
MIL-Evening Report: NZ group slams Israeli ‘hoodwinking’ of US over nuclear strikes – Peters calls for talks
Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has called on New Zealanders to condemn the US bombing of Iran. PSNA co-chair Maher Nazzal said in a statement that he hoped the New Zealand government would be critical of the US for its war escalation. “Israel has once again hoodwinked the United States into fighting […]
MIL-Evening Report: The US has entered the Israel-Iran war. Here are 3 scenarios for what might happen next
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Middle East Studies, Australian National University After prevaricating about whether the United States would enter Israel’s war on Iran, President Donald Trump finally made a decision. Early Sunday, US warplanes struck three of Iran’s nuclear sites at Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow, where the […]
MIL-OSI United Nations: Statement by IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi on the Occasion of the International Conference on Nuclear Security 2024
Source: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) When we met the last time, at ICONS 2020, many of us could not have imagined the momentous change we would experience between then and today, change that would affect billions of people, international peace and security, and nuclear security. A global pandemic was in the making and a […]