Written by Jamie Oliver says he is “devastated” by the offence he has caused to First Nations people and has issued an apology, after calls by Australia’s peak body for Indigenous education for the British celebrity chef to withdraw his children’s book from sale. Oliver is in Australia promoting his latest cookbook, Simply Jamie, but it is […]
Peter Dutton’s office asked Gina Rinehart’s company for lift on private jet Josh Butler Peter Dutton has admitted his office asked mining billionaire Gina Rinehart for a lift on her private jet to a Bali bombing memorial, after claiming the government wouldn’t help him get a flight on a government plane. Just days ago, Dutton […]
The newly elected Northern Territory government wants to grant itself sweeping new powers to exempt major projects from environmental assessments in a move described by conservationists and Indigenous groups as authoritarian and anti-democratic. A leaked consultation document, seen by Guardian Australia, outlines how a new Territory Coordinator (TC) would have powers to “step in” and […]
First Aboriginal woman in parliament ‘deeply disappointed’ by Lidia Thorpe’s ‘outburst’ Nova Peris, a former senator and the first Aboriginal woman in the parliament, says she is “deeply disappointed” by Lidia Thorpe’s actions during King Charles’ parliamentary reception yesterday. In a post to X, Peris said that the “outburst” was “both embarrassing and disrespectful to […]