Anthony Albanese will put “practical policies” such as expanding paid work experience in healthcare professions at the heart of Labor’s offering when he makes his keynote speech to Labor’s national conference today.
Students in 10 fields including physiotherapy, speech pathology and clinical psychology will receive financial assistance to complete mandatory placements under a major expansion of the federal government’s paid work experience program. The announcement will come at Labor’s national conference today as part of the government’s plans to set out “practical policies”.
Emergency services learn analog skills
Australia’s emergency services and military personnel are being trained to read paper maps, navigate without GPS support and sail by the stars in case something knocks out the nation’s space capabilities.
Virtually every phone in the country will sound an emergency siren at 2pm AEST on Monday as part of the first Australia-wide test of a new national warning system called AusAlert.
Epstein scout found dead
A modelling scout who recruited women for Jeffrey Epstein, and who was under investigation for human trafficking in France, has been found dead at his home near Paris.
France recorded more than 5,700 excess deaths during its June heatwave, authorities have said, as swathes of southern Europe continue to endure another record-breaking period of extreme temperatures.
The price of oil has breached $95 a barrel for the first time in six weeks as the escalating Middle East conflict threatens further disruption to global supplies.
China warning and Reef mapping
Penny Wong will warn China today that Australia and other neighbouring nations will not be bullied by its “provocative” actions, after its involvement in another “destabilising and dangerous” incident this week.
More than a decade after the human microbiome was comprehensively mapped, scientists have now identified the vast communities of microbes that make up the Great Barrier Reef.
