It is only the third resolution of its kind in the party’s 100-year history.Ĭanada could face compensation payments to Indigenous communities worth billions after a court found it had wilfully deprived First Nations of the immense wealth extracted from their lands. Xi Jinping’s grip on power has received a big boost after the ruling Communist party passed a rare “historical resolution” praising the president’s “decisive significance” in the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders meet in Beijing. The worldwide car shortage that has hit new and used car retailers has also jacked up rental prices by hundreds of dollars a week. The brakes have been put on summer road trips with Australians who decide to holiday at home facing rental car prices up to double pre-pandemic rates. The extra water is needed to save ecosystems in the southern basin. A final decision will come before Christmas.Ī national effort to save the Murray-Darling by returning 2,750 gigalitres of water to the system is under way but climate change could see roughly the same amount evaporate. The Australian drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, made an interim decision in October not to approve over-the-counter access to the pill. The issue of whether the contraceptive pill – the first choice of birth control among Australian women using contraception – should be made available over the counter has divided the medical community. The bill is due to be debated and potentially passed in the legislative council next week. Indigenous Australians would be most disadvantaged by proposed voter ID laws due to the “social and economic barriers” they face obtaining official documentation, advocates warn.Ĭritics of Victoria’s proposed new pandemic powers say the legislation is the “most extreme of its kind” and will give the premier and health minister too much control. Voting day in an Aboriginal community near Alice Springs. The spike in fatalities has also raised concerns that the Pacific Islanders coming to Australia under the program are not being given adequate safety training. The figures have come to light as the scheme faces widespread accusations of exploitation and “inhumane conditions”, as well as a potential class action.
Sixteen people have died while in Australia on the government’s troubled seasonal workers program since the beginning of the pandemic. An agricultural market analyst, Andrew Whitelaw, says prices had been rising since the start of the year but have skyrocketed in the last three months. Modelling from Thomas Elder Markets shows the price of fertiliser in Australia is at a record $1,320 a tonne for purchase, freight and discharge. Surging energy prices and export restrictions from traditional overseas suppliers are leading to record high fertiliser prices in Australia, with analysts predicting farmers could effectively be forced to ration its use, potentially disrupting global food supply. But this is dependant on governments keeping their climate promises, which almost none have done until now. New Cop26 pledges announced on methane, coal, transport and deforestation could nudge the world 9% closer to a pathway that keeps heating to 1.5C, according to a study by the world’s most respected climate analysis coalition, Climate Action Tracker. Scientists have told Cop26: get a move on, because every moment of delay, every extra fraction of a degree of global heating, will have dire consequences. And Australians looking forward to summer road trips face rental car prices up to double pre-pandemic rates. Scientists at Cop26 have sent a clear warning to policymakers: “We are not on course.” Surging fertiliser prices in Australia could disrupt the global food supply chain. Sleeping at Last Transcribed by J.G ood morning. Turning Page Bella's Wedding Song Instrumental Adagio