This bulletin reports on the impact of flooding on the Bruce Highway in Queensland, leading to supply disruptions and airlifts. It also covers a major funding boost for remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory and the dismissal of Fiji's women's rugby director for homophobic remarks.
In this bulletin, remote communities in the Northern Territory to get a major funding boost to close the gap, Donald Trump's new attorney general closes down an anti-Russian taskforce. And in sport, Fiji's director of women's rugby is sacked over homophobic comments.Questions are again being raised about the vulnerability of the Bruce Highway to major weather events in north Queensland.
Ingham Mayor Ramon Jayo says he appreciates the efforts of federal and state authorities to overcome the issues with the road that Premier David Crisafulli once labelled a goat track during the 2024 election campaign. Aboriginal Peak Organisations NT convener John Paterson says the agreement goes to the heart of what they have been asking for.
Education Minister Jason Clare says the government's view is that the Laos authorities haven't actively rejected the request, they have just not taken it up yet."It's not okay, and they need to rethink this. There's clearly a problem in this country with bootleg alcohol and that does involve the government... $53 million of foreign aid is going to the country in this financial aid... We're helping them a lot and they need to help us.
Chief of Presidential Administration Andriy Yermak says the Ukrainian delegation will present the country’s position on ending the war and their views on how a long and lasting peace could be achieved alongside a new US administration.
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