Federal politics: live coverage from Parliament House
Leader of the House, Christopher Pyne has moved a motion to adjourn the debate. A division has been called. Mr Pyne earlier in the day. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen If you have just joined us, here is what you've missed. The Turnbull government suffered an embarrassing setback just as MPs were preparing to fly home on Thursday afternoon, losing its first vote on the floor of the House of Representatives. Senior ministers including Immigration Minister Peter..>> view originalBREKKIE WRAP: Jazmine Howarth tried to go 'halfway to heaven' to say bye to best friend Dionne Corbett
Jazmine Howarth and fiance Brendan Cawley. Picture: Facebook/Brendan CawleyMathew MurphyNews Corp Australia NetworkA BEREAVED bride-to-be accidentally took her own life after believing she could go “halfway” to heaven to say a final goodbye to her dead best friend.Jazmine Howarth, 25, believed she could meet up with mother-of-one Dionne Corbett, who had committed suicide just weeks prior, before returning “to the land of the living”.The Sun reports the UK woman was found dead in a community gard..>> view originalJeremy Corbyn pledges to reach out to alienated female MPs amid equality push
Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to "reach out" to any alienated female Labour MPs and show them he is "serious" about defeating the Tories at a general election if he wins the leadership contest. Mr Corbyn made the pledge to try to win over his opponents within the Parliamentary Labour Party as he launched a variety of policies aimed at achieving equality for women. The Labour leader also took aim at companies that encourage "early evening socialisation", telling his supporters at a policy launch in ..>> view originalEurope migrant crisis: Italy, Germany signal tougher stance on asylum seekers
Europe migrant crisis: Italy, Germany signal tougher stance on asylum seekers Updated September 01, 2016 10:30:40 Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed to step up efforts to send asylum seekers with no right to asylum in Europe back to their homelands. Key points:Merkel says "not everyone can stay"Her comments come one year after she signalled an open door policyMerkel cites Turkey-EU deal as an example of cooperation stemm..>> view originalCambodia caught between China and US amid superpower showdown
With tensions rising between East and West over the South China Sea, Cambodia once again finds itself walking a knife’s edge between the world’s great powers Hun Sen shakes hands with Barack Obama at the US-Asean leaders summit in February. Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais On the deck of the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier on patrol in the South China Sea, a cluster of Cambodia’s top diplomats and military brass gathered to watch fighter jets launch from the nuclear-powered vessel into the sk..>> view originalThe Syrian Ministry of Tourism Invites You to Enjoy a Lovely Vacation in Its War Zones
A jet ski zooms across turquoise waters. Vacationers gather under umbrellas on a scenic beach. The camera pans to rows of palm trees planted on lush green grass. Mysteriously missing from the one-minute, 43-second video released by the Syrian Ministry of Tourism promoting vacation spots in the coastal town of Tartus? Damage from Islamic State suicide bombings that killed dozens in that very town this summer. And, of course, there’s no mention that just 60 miles away, in the city of Homs, S..>> view originalISIS: Former Commanders Take Increasingly Dim View of War
It’s a most peculiar war: rarely has the U.S. been killing so many while risking so few. The U.S. is beating ISIS handily, judging by Vietnam’s body-count metric. The total number of ISIS battlefield deaths claimed by U.S. officials has jumped, from 6,000 in January 2015 to 45,000 last month—a bloodbath for an enemy force estimated to number about 30,000. Three U.S. troops have died. That’s an eye-watering U.S.-to-ISIS “kill ratio” of 15,000-to-1. “We’ve got good momentum going,” General Jose..>> view originalMia's mother haunted by 'horrific visions'
AU QLD: French Citizen Charged With Murder of British Woman August 254:30A 29-year-old French man has been charged with murder, attempted murder, cruelty to animals and assaulting police after he was arrested for the stabbing of Mia Ayliffe-Chung. On the evening August 23, police arrived to find the 21-year-old British woman dead at the scene after she was stabbed multiple times with a kitchen knife. The suspect, who has not been named, was caught on police body camera saying ?Allahu Ackbar..>> view originalWilson Security pulls out of detention centres after Nauru, Manus protests
The PNG government is shutting down the Manus Island camps Kate Geraghty Wilson Security, which provides guards to detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island, will withdraw when its contracts end amid concerns over damage to its reputation."The provision of security services at regional processing centres is not in line with Wilson Security's long-term strategic priorities," the privately-owned company said on Thursday.Wilson will cease provid..>> view original
Thursday, September 8, 2016
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