Desperate battle to stop beloved family homes being demolished and turned into a giant CAR PARK

Three families are fighting to stop bulldozers smashing down their cherished homes as the federal government’s commuter car park rorts scandal takes a new twist.  The government has been fighting claims they unfairly allocated $660million for car park upgrades in targeted marginal seats at the last election. The scheme includes a new multi-storey car park … Read more

American news outlet trolled for ranking Olympic countries by total medals instead of golds

American news outlets have been mocked for ranking countries at the Tokyo Olympics by total medals won instead of golds. The longstanding practice keeps the US on top of the leaderboard with a two-medal lead as of Tuesday morning, even though China has seven more golds. The New York Times posted a medal count to Facebook … Read more

Telstra’s network of 15,000 payphones will now be free to use for standard national calls and SMS

Aussies will now be able to use Telstra’s 15,000 public payphones for FREE Telstra payphones will be free for standard national calls and SMS from Tuesday The network of 15,000 payphones will also be completely coinless by October 11 million calls & 230,000 critical calls were made on payphones in the past year By Australian … Read more

People should be able to declare themselves ‘Black English’ on the census says Labour MP David Lammy

People should be able to declare themselves ‘Black English’ on the census says Labour MP David Lammy Tottenham MP said absence of option showed a lack of racial equality in the UK  ONS said tests found ‘evidence didn’t support change to include Black English’ Census also had option for respondents to describe ethnicity in their … Read more

Barrister tasked with improving police relations with black community amid ‘deep-rooted’ issues

Panel to tackle racial policing: Barrister is tasked with improving relations between police and black community after inquiry finds ‘deep-rooted’ racial issues Report found stop and search more racially disproportionate than 20 years ago  Black people nine and a half times more likely to be stopped than white people A Commons committee found no evidence … Read more

Trump will fight any move the Treasury Department makes to turn his tax returns over to Congress

Trump’s lawyer says he will fight any move the Treasury Department makes to turn his tax returns over to House Democrats The Justice Department ordered Treasury to turn over former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee  ‘The Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has invoked sufficient reasons … Read more

Trump paid $680,000 to three defense lawyers for their work during his second impeachment trial

Trump paid $680,000 to three defense lawyers for their work during his second impeachment trial Trump paid nearly $700,000 to three defense lawyers for their work in his defense during February’s four-day Senate Trial The House had impeached Trump for incitement of an insurrection, after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, but he was later acquitted … Read more