| News you can trust, opinions you can't ignore | | | | | | | | | Sky News has obtained a copy of the energy policy demands of the 'Monash Forum'. The group of Coalition backbenchers is pushing for a new $4 billion coal-fired plant to be built on the site of the decommissioned Hazelwood Power Station in Victoria. | | | | | | | | Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg has told Sky News that he has not seen the letter that has been circulated by the so-called 'Monash Forum'. | | | | | | | | A coronial inquest into the deaths of four people at Dreamworld in 2016 has commenced in Queensland. | | | | | | | | A tropical cyclone warning has been declared for parts of northern Queensland. Those in the Lower Burdekin, Central Coast and Whitsunday Islands are being told to take care as tropical cyclone Iris continues to intensify. | | | | | | | | Australian Cricketers Association President Greg Dyer is imploring Cricket Australia to reconsider its sanctions over the ball tampering scandal. Mr Dyer is also calling on the body to independently review its response to the cheating fiasco. | | | | | | | | A group of police officers are now under investigation after footage emerged showing them holding down, beating, pepper spraying and swearing at a disability pensioner on his front lawn. | | | | | | | | Drug-using nurses and harm reduction workers could be hired at Victoria's first supervised injecting room for their 'lived experience of substance use'. | | | | | | | | NSW hospitals are set to provide designated waiting rooms for Aboriginal patients and families. | | | | | | | | South Africa's Government says comments, made by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton about 'persecuted' white farmers, have been retracted by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. | | | | | | | | NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced new laws for child sex abuse in response to the Royal Commission. | | | | | | | | Former Greens Senator Larissa Waters will have the opportunity to reclaim her Queensland upper house spot at the next federal election. Ms Waters, who was embroiled in the dual citizenship saga, has claimed her party preselection. | | | | | | | | President of the Australian Medical Association Dr Michael Gannon has welcomed the Productivity Commission and changes to the private health insurance rebate, saying the system is 'on the verge of breaking'. | | | | | | | | Students at a Florida high school will now have to use clear backpacks following a mass shooting in February, in which 17 people died. | | | | | | | | International leaders continue to denounce Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after Israeli forces shot dead at least 18 Palestinian protesters and wounded more than 1000 others. | | | | | | | | The Reserve Bank of Australia has left the cash rate unchanged at 1.5 per cent, witht the central bank board continuing to worry about weak wages growth . | | | | |
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