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More than 300 employees of budget carrier Bonza have been stood down as the government leaves the financially floundering airline without a life raft. Thousands of passengers were stranded around Australia when Bonza flights were cancelled on Tuesday morning with little notice. Many of those stranded had been allowed to buy tickets after the company was warned it would be forced to ground its planes.

The cross bench senators are pushing the Labor government to implement changes to negative gearing and to reduce investment property tax concessions. Ms Lambie and Mr Pocock said their proposed changes could net up to $60bn over a decade that can be spent on social and affordable housing. Speaking to ABC News on Tuesday, Ms Lambie and Mr Pocock said they requested the Parliamentary Budget Office to examine five possible changes to capital tax concessions and negative gearing. 'We need to start making sensible changes,' Mr Pocock said.

Wayne Wilmot, who was involved in the 1988 gang rape and murder of bank teller Janine Balding and is now aged in his early 50s, is set to be released from custody after spending almost his entire adult life in prison. This is despite a forensic psychologist finding he poses a 'significant risk' of reoffending because he remains 'supportive of sexual violence towards women'. The Australian reported Wilmot had received an NDIS support package, including up to 24 hours help each week with reintegrating into society due to his severe personality disorder and psychopathic tendencies. But now Bill Shorten, Minister for NDIS, has revealed his office is working to block Wilmot's funding and said the responsibility for community safety lay with NSW Corrections. 'We do not believe it is appropriate for this person to receive NDIS funded community supports in this case, and we are working to ensure this is the outcome within the law,' Mr Shorten told Daily Mail Australia.

Wayne Wilmot, who is now aged in his early 50s and who was involved in the 1988 gang rape and murder of bank teller Janine Balding, is set to be released from custody after spending almost his entire adult life in prison. This is despite a forensic psychologist finding he poses a 'significant risk' of reoffending because he remains 'supportive of sexual violence towards women'. Wilmot has obtained NDIS support, including up to 24 hours help each week with reintegrating into society, The Australian reported. He has a below average IQ and has been diagnosed with a severe personality disorder and psychopathic tendencies. It is unclear what measures will be put in place to ensure the safety of NDIS staff.

On Wednesday, Bachelor in Paradise, Alisha Aitken-Radburn, and Glenn Smith revealed that they are expecting their first child. Alisha, 31, and Glenn, 36, posted a precious snapshot of them posing up a storm on their bed while photographing an ultrasound. They captioned the photo with the following lines: 'Been keeping a lil mystery.' Baby Smith is set to arrive in September.'

Les Twentyman, a well-known Melbourne youth service professional, has died at the age of 76. In a statement released by the Les Twentyman Foundation on Saturday, his death was announced. In 1994, Mr Twentyman was awarded an Order of Australia medal for his work with youth as an outreach worker.

In promotional material, Australian families are said to be able to be on the NDIS for months. When radio broadcaster Ben Fordham (left) told NDIS investigators that they should investigate the vendor, he first made the allegations on his 2GB show last December. Fordham reported that not only is the company still operating, but also offers nightclubbing, a pub crawl, and a weekend away in Nimbin, northern NSW, for the forthcoming Mardi Grass festival (right). According to a tumultuous Fordham, who demanded answers from the minister on Wednesday, the NDIS appears to have funded the programmes.

Max Chandler-Mather (right) and NSW Labor Housing and Homelessness Minister Rose Jackson (left) all deny that high immigration is fueling the housing crisis. The pair's remarks were made during an appearance on ABC's Q&A program on Monday night, but their views differ against that of many respected economic commentators.

Joel Fitzgibbon, a former Labor MP, has been named as the son of the Australian Defence Force solider wounded in a horrific parachuting crash. When Lance Corporal Jack Fitzgibbon was conducting a drill at an RAAF base in Richmond, Sydney's northwest, it is understood his parachute failed to open. He suffered critical head injury and was rushed to Westmead Hospital, where he is battling for life in the intensive care unit.

Following the federal government's intervention, the 149 refugees, which included convicted murderers and rapists, began receiving Status Resolution Support Services within 14 days of being released from detention. As they wait for a decision on their immigration status, asylum seekers are given provisional assistance. Services Australia can't disclose the dollar amount of each detainee receives every fortnight because it is dependent on the level of care they qualify for. However, it did confirm that the Department of Home Affairs, led by Minister Claire O'Neil, had intervened to ensure a smooth transition for detainees affected by the 'NZYQ' High Court decision.

Barnaby Joyce's father-in-law has provided us with a unique insight into what was the cause of the bizarre occurrence. Mr Joyce had received devastating reports of a family member being acutely ill before being caught lying roadside in Canberra's suburb of Braddon while swearing into his phone late Wednesday, according to Peter Campion, the father of Mr Joyce's wife Vikki Campion.

Peta Credlin has disclosed the tragic personal toll incurred by her tenure as the head of staff to former Prime Minister Tony Abbott (left). Credlin said "everything" was used against her to depose Mr Abbott, the former prime minister from 2013 to 2015, and the attacks became so underhanded that even those from both political parties came out to protest her disgust. 'I honestly don't know how I survived, and I mean literally; a big part of what kept my head together was never wanting the haters to succeed,' she wrote in her weekly column in The Australian on Thursday.

Cameron Milner, the Labor insider who was once Bill Shorten's chief-of-staff, was 100% incorrect, according to Finance Minister Leo Varadkar's findings, who was once Bill Shorten's chief of-staff, who was never Bill Shorten's chief of staff. Mr Milner said the PM and his most senior Cabinet minister's relationship had been tense before, but apparently they aren't talking anymore.' In an interview with Karl Stefanovic on the Today show on Thursday morning, Ms Gallagher said this is "absolutely not" the situation.

In a column for The Australian newspaper, lobbyist Cameron Milner, who was once Bill Shorten's chief of staff, said the PM and his most senior Cabinet minister's friendship 'was tense before, but apparently they aren't talking any more.' Dr Chalmers is widely believed to have been a long-serving internal critic of Albanese's original decision to maintain the Morrison government's Stage Three tax relief scheme. The scheme was expected to benefit high-income earners until the government scrapped it this week in favour of bigger tax cuts for lower and middle income earners. When Mr Albanese announced the government's new tax policy at the National Press Club last week, he was in the crowd.

This year, a small change is coming to Medicare cards as Australia's universal health system celebrates a major milestone.

Penny Wong, Australia's top politician, has been named as Australia's top politician. The views of Australians regarding the country's Federal politicians were canvassed in a recent Resolved Political Monitor survey. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is unfavorably perceived, but no politician is disliked more than his predecessor, Scott Morrison. Mr Morrison, who was once lauded as the 'Messiah from the Shire' in 2019, ranked worse than two of the country's most divisive figures, Pauline Hanson and Lidia Thorpe.

After a long fight with cancer, the sport-loving politician, who represented Dunkley's Victorian seat, died on December 4 on Monday.

As the way we pay changes forever, Sunrise host Nat Barr sounds the alarm about Australia's burgeoning into a cashless society, exposing a critical issue.

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The seven High Court judges, who recently released a child-rapist refugee known only as NZYQ from immigration detention, each earned more than $4 million. The judges, whose decision resulted in the release of a new 140 prisoners, received a significant pay increase this year, with Chief Justice Stephen Gageler (pictured left) now receiving $649,880.

A third freed asylum seeker who was released by the High Court has been jailed - this time, a registered sex criminal who is the ringleader of a child exploitation family. Emran Dad, 33, was arrested in Dandenong, south-east of Melbourne, for reportedly being in touch with minors and violating his reporting obligations.

Following news that one of the freed prisoners had been charged with a serious sexual assault within weeks of his appointment, two ministers in the Albanese Labor cabinet have been resigned. The time has come for the prime minister to do the right thing and call for these ministers to resign, and if not, he should dismiss them,' spokesman Dan Tehan told Sunrise: "The time has come for the prime minister to do the right thing and ask for them to resign; if they don't sack them." However, Disability Services Minister Bill Shorten said the argument's logic was incorrect.

The prolonged industrial dispute plaguing the Australian netball has finally come to a close, with the announcement of a new Collective Player Agreement set to extend until September 2026

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese owns apartments in Marrickville (left and right) and Dulwich Hill in Sydney's inner west. Median house prices have risen by double-digit figures in the last year to levels that were much higher than $2 million.