Friday: The marsupial is officially listed as endangered after governments failed to halt its decline. Plus: how the electoral commission is winning friends on social media
ood morning. Foreign ministers of Australia, the US, India and Japan are meeting in Melbourne today to discuss Indo-Pacific security and China-Russia relations. Koalas have been declared an endangered species, and rapid test shortages have left some aged care residents isolated from loved ones.after a decline in its numbers due to land clearing and catastrophic bushfires shrinking its habitat.
The status will provide additional protection for the country’s iconic animals. But the government is yet to adopt a long-overdue recovery plan that will set out actions needed to prevent its extinction. “The koala has gone from no listing to now being declared endangered on the Australian east coast within a decade,” said Dermot O’Gorman, WWF-Australia’s chief executive. “That is a shockingly fast decline. The status is a grim but important decision.
Aged care provides have had to prioritise their stocks for residents and workers, rather than essential visitors who have to buy their rapid tests from retailers. Not everyone can afford them. The aged care sector has been calling on the government to set up a national coordination centre to ensure consistent supplies of PPE and rapid tests.
. He caught the virus in his Queensland nursing home and died at the age of 85. “There was no reason to believe he wouldn’t have lived longer … he was fully cognitive and smart,” says his daughter, Deborah.of tough sanctions if Russia attacks Ukraine during tense talks that Russia’s foreign minister compared to a conversation of “the mute with the deaf”
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