Australia News: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on July 3, 2025.
MIL-Evening Report: Homes are more than walls and a roof, especially for Indigenous people. It’s time housing policy reflects that
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giles Gunesekera, PhD Researcher, University of Technology Sydney Australia is experiencing a housing crisis. But for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the challenge runs deeper than high rents and limited supply. A major problem is that housing in Australia is rarely designed with Indigenous communities […]
MIL-Evening Report: Homes are more than walls and a roof, especially for Indigenous people. It’s time housing policy reflects that
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giles Gunesekera, PhD Researcher, University of Technology Sydney Australia is experiencing a housing crisis. But for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the challenge runs deeper than high rents and limited supply. A major problem is that housing in Australia is rarely designed with Indigenous communities […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Sporting organisations
Source: New places to play in Gungahlin Your organisation will be exempt from income tax, and can self-assess its exemption, if it meets all of the following requirements: it’s a not-for-profit society, association or club it’s established for the purpose of encouragement of either of the following a game or sport animal racing it’s not […]
MIL-OSI Australia: AUSTRAC orders external audit of Western Union Financial Services
Source: Australian Department of Communications AUSTRAC has ordered the appointment of an external auditor to Western Union Financial Services Australia (Western Union) after raising concerns about the money remitter’s compliance with the AML/CTF Act.Among the concerns were core anti-money laundering issues such as poor customer due diligence, delayed or non-reporting of suspicious matters, non-compliant international […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Consumers warned about ‘ghost stores’ imitating Australian businesses
Source: Australian Ministers for Regional Development The ACCC is warning consumers about the operators of four websites allegedly misrepresenting themselves as local businesses, also known as ‘ghost stores’. It is alleged these four ghost store operators are harming consumers by making false representations that they are local Australian businesses, imminently closing down, and selling high-quality […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Man charged with prohibited behaviour
Source: New South Wales Community and Justice Man charged with prohibited behaviour Thursday, 3 July 2025 – 9:06 am. Police have arrested and charged a 34-year-old Little Swanport man with one count of Prohibited Behaviour following an incident in the Devonport CBD on Tuesday.The man will appear in the Hobart Magistrates Court at a later […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Interview – The Today Show with Karl Stefanovic and Jayne Azzopardi
Source: Murray Darling Basin Authority KARL STEFANOVIC: Well, the crisis gripping Australia’s child care sector is deepening, with a second man charged in connection to an abuse investigation that led to the arrest of a Melbourne worker. JAYNE AZZOPARDI: The Victorian Government has announced a major crackdown which will include a phone ban inside centres. […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Interview – Sunrise with Natalie Barr
Source: Murray Darling Basin Authority NATALIE BARR: Australia has been dealt a horrific wake up call this morning that the rules and the regulations we thought were protecting our children are just not good enough. It follows revelations of horrific alleged crimes against children across several childcare centres in Victoria. More than 2,000 families have […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Market sounding on toll road concessions to begin
Source: New Zealand Government Market soundings with international and local toll road investors, operators and financiers will begin next week as the next step in exploring how toll concessions could help fund, build and operate important road infrastructure, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chris Bishop says. “The Government is focused on improving high-quality road infrastructure to boost […]
MIL-OSI Australia: Rate cuts bring relief as stress levels drop
Source: Premier of Victoria NAB Consumer Stress Index eased to a two-year low Small cutbacks putting $4860 a year back in Aussies’ pockets Australians are starting to breathe a little easier, with consumer stress dropping to its lowest point in two years, thanks to easing cost-of-living pressures and growing hope around interest rates. NAB’s latest […]
MIL-Evening Report: Australia’s superannuation regulator is worried about your fund’s spending. Should you be?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Melatos, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Sydney GettyImages skynesher/Getty Australia’s superannuation regulator has written to Australian superannuation funds raising concerns their spending might not be benefiting members. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is not just concerned with the type of expenses, but with the corporate […]
MIL-Evening Report: Thumbs up: good or passive aggressive? How emojis became the most confusing kind of online language
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brittany Ferdinands, Lecturer in Digital Content Creation, Discipline of Media and Communications, University of Sydney The Conversation, CC BY Emojis, as well as memes and other forms of short-form content, have become central to how we express ourselves and connect online. Yet as meanings shift across different […]
MIL-Evening Report: Lung cancer screening hopes to save lives. But we also need to watch for possible harms
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katy Bell, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney There is much to commend about Australia’s lung cancer screening program, which started on July 1. The program is based on gold-standard trial evidence showing this type of screening is likely to reduce […]
MIL-OSI Security: 16 ‘Anti-Tren’ Members and Associates Charged with Cocaine and Firearms Trafficking
Source: US FBI HOUSTON – Several foreign nationals illegally residing in the Houston area are now in custody for drug trafficking and weapons charges following a law enforcement operation targeting Venezuelan nationals and alleged members or associates of the Anti-Tren transnational criminal organization, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei. Most are expected to make their […]
MIL-OSI: Enphase Energy Launches Next-Generation IQ EV Charger 2 In Australia and New Zealand
Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI) FREMONT, Calif., July 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENPH), a global energy technology company and the world’s leading supplier of microinverter-based solar and battery systems, today announced production shipments of its newest electric vehicle (EV) charger, the IQ® EV Charger 2, in Australia and New Zealand. The IQ […]
MIL-Evening Report: Around 250 million years ago, Earth was near-lifeless and locked in a hothouse state. Now scientists know why
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Merdith, DECRA Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared. Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the Great Dying – this was the most catastrophic of the five mass extinction events recognised in […]
MIL-OSI Submissions: Australia – Tariffs, geopolitical tensions and a turning tide on inflation: here’s what CommBank’s economists are looking out for in FY26 – CBA
Source: Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) While global risks remain elevated, Australia’s economy is showing signs of resilience. “If anyone was still in any doubt that we had entered a new global economic era, the last few months have put those doubts to rest,” according to CBA’s Chief Economist Luke Yeaman and his team, today […]
MIL-OSI Russia: Film screenings, exhibitions and concerts await Muscovites on Family, Love and Fidelity Day
Translation. Region: Russian Federal Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow – More than 50 cultural venues in Moscow have prepared a special program in honor of Family, Love, and Fidelity Day. From July 5 to 13, there will be performances, sports competitions, film screenings, creative workshops, and other activities. This was reported by Natalia […]
MIL-Evening Report: Politics with Michelle Grattan: Kerrynne Liddle on seizing more opportunities with Indigenous Australians
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra From this Sunday, Australians will be celebrating NAIDOC Week, which marks its 50th anniversary this year. The week highlights the achievements, history and culture of Australia’s First Peoples. It’s also a time to reflect on the huge effort needed to […]
MIL-Evening Report: Supervision gaps can lead to child abuse – what can be done?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marg Rogers, Senior Lecturer, Early Childhood Education; Post Doctoral Fellow, Manna Institute, University of New England Suwatchai Pluemruetai/Shutterstock The horrific allegations of child abuse by an early childhood educator in Victoria came to light at a time when the early learning sector was already under fire for […]