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[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe family law system should be examined as part of a royal commission into domestic violence, crossbench MPs have urged, as experts warn that survivors face crushing legal bills and perpetrators are weaponising proceedings.Teal independents Zali Steggall and Monique Ryan want Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to set up a national inquiry into the family violence crisis amid calls for an urgent injection of funds for legal assistance services.Teal MPs including Zali Steggall have called for a royal commission into domestic and family violence.Matt…

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[ad_1] JC Whittington, Gershon Peaks and Blake BrittainJune 13, 2026 — 8:52pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWashington: Workers stripped President Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Centre early on Saturday, less than six months after it went up, complying with a judge’s ruling that the performing arts landmark cannot be renamed without an act of Congress.The work began in the early hours after the Department of Justice said the government would miss a court-ordered deadline of 11.59pm on Friday to take Trump’s name off the Washington venue, created a…

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[ad_1] Too many lives have been lost through failures in our mental health system (“Fight for answers over son’s death”, June 7). Problems that existed long before public hospital psychiatrists went on strike remain unresolved. The shortage of mental health workers has put doctors and nurses at risk and left patients with less than ideal care. As a retired doctor, I’ve been an advocate for a patient in a mental health facility for the past two years. During that time my friend has had four different psychiatrists and four different psychiatry registrars. Most of these doctors moved on without even…

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[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAFor years, the Sandy Point Holiday Park has offered beach lovers their own modest version of the Australian holiday house dream.Set just behind the dunes of the pristine South Gippsland coastline, the caravan owners could fall asleep and wake to the sound of rolling waves surging from the Southern Ocean.For an annual fee, each caravan owner had their own place within the small caravan park.Sandy Point is loved by residents and holidaymakers. Joe Armao In addition to the caravan owners, the holiday park…

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[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAMoments after a woman was pulled onto the sand of Coogee Beach with severe wounds to her left leg and arms, a three-metre shark was swimming languidly in the clear water metres from shore.Stephen Denneny was sitting on Coogee Beach’s rainbow steps when a woman screamed: “Shark!”His partner, sitting beside him, prayed aloud as the shark alarm blared and traumatised bystanders watched lifeguards and a critical care doctor work to stabilise the woman.Denneny ran to his home nearby to collect his drone.“I wanted…

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