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Michael Pratt, owner of GirlsDoPorn, sentenced to 27 years in US federal prison
New Zealand-born Pratt was once on the FBI’s 10 most wanted fugitives list.
NZTA admits national ticketing plan ‘overly ambitious’, delays rollout
Christchurch passengers can start tapping cards on buses and ferries in November.
Teen stepmum Jessica Mulford appeals to have jail time halved for killing toddler
Jessica Mulford’s lawyer claimed the original sentence was manifestly excessive.
PM urges Jacinta Price to apologise to the Indian community
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has urged Liberal Senator Jacinta Price to apologise to the Indian community, as more of her colleagues distance themselves from her remarks about migration.
Price accused the federal government of allowing more migrants in from "particular countries over others" to skew votes and singled out the Indian community during an interview with the ABC last week.
She later walked back her statement and said: "Australia maintains a longstanding and bipartisan non-discriminatory migration policy. Suggestions otherwise are a mistake."
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But her refusal to apologise has caused internal dissent and put pressure on Opposition Leader Sussan Ley, who promised to rebuild relationships with multicultural communities and women after the party's historic defeat at the federal election in May.
The remarks came days after anti-immigration rallies, some of which targeted Indian Australians, were held across the country on August 31.
Albanese called on Price to apologise for the hurt her comments have caused and threw his support behind the community that he said has "made our nation stronger".
"The comments are not true that the senator made, and of course she should apologise for the hurt that has been caused, and her own colleagues are saying that, but even more importantly, leaders in the community are asking for that as well," he told the ABC today.
Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie has also urged Price to apologise, while Liberal MP Julian Leeser apologised on her behalf during an event at a Hindi language school in his north-west Sydney electorate of Berowra.
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"I wanted just to say something, and it pains me to say it, but I feel I have to say it," he said in a video posted to social media yesterday.
"My colleague, Jacinta Price, said something this week that I want to apologise unreservedly for.
"As my leader, Sussan Ley, said, she was wrong to say it, and she has walked back those remarks, and I am pleased that she has.
"Let me say very clearly, the contribution of Indian Australians to this country is fantastic. The Indian community is fantastic. India, like Australia, is a democracy.
"There are Indians that vote Labor, there are Indians that vote Liberal, there are Indians that vote Greens. I don't care how you vote. I care about the contribution you make to this country, and I know it is a fantastic contribution, and I want you to keep making it."
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Senior Liberal and manager of opposition business Alex Hawke has also publicly said he had advised Price to apologise.
But that account was rejected by Price, who accused Hawke of "cowardly and inappropriate conduct" by berating her staff and threatening her position within the Liberal Party.
"If people want to talk about a so-called 'woman problem' in the Liberal Party, then it's this: we don't stand up for women when they are mistreated by our own colleagues," she wrote in a fiery statement on Sunday.
Price has defied calls to apologise as recently as last night, when she instead urged Ley to make Hawke say sorry for his actions.
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"I have asked our leader if she would ask Alex Hawke to apologise to me for his conduct," she told Sky News.
"I'm a Liberal woman, and Liberal women need to be able to feel like they're being supported wholeheartedly."
Over the weekend, Ley toured Little India, also known as Harris Park in Sydney, alongside Leeser, shadow immigration minister Paul Scarr and NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman as she worked to restore the party's relationship with the community.
She said Price was wrong to say those remarks, but remained tight-lipped on whether she spoke to Price or asked her to apologise.
She has also refused to apologise on her behalf.
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Stolen cars abandoned after Botany jewellery store robbery, police enquiries ongoing
Seven offenders used weapons to smash cabinets inside the busy store.
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Almost half of the world’s diabetes cases are going unreported, study finds
Nearly half of all diabetes cases – including 30 per cent in Australia – are undiagnosed, a new study has found.
Diabetes is a condition where the body cannot control the insulin supply in the body, leading to higher blood sugar levels; it can either be auto-immune – type 1 – or caused by lifestyle factors – type 2.
Forty-four per cent of people aged 15 and over with diabetes are undiagnosed, according to modelling by international and Australian researchers from Monash University, the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute and the University of Washington.
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An estimated 1.3 million Australians have been diagnosed with diabetes, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
While high rates of diagnoses exist in North America and Western Europe, at 83 per cent and 78 per cent respectively, it is far lower in low- and middle-income countries.
The diagnosis rate of people over the age of 15 is just 16 per cent in central Sub-Saharan Africa, while people between the ages of 15 and 39 are also much less likely to be diagnosed.
The researchers were concerned by the finding due to the complications this could cause to affected individuals.
"This group faces a higher risk of lifetime complications compared to those diagnosed later in life, partly because they live with diabetes for longer," the authors wrote.
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Treatment levels for people with the condition also vary, with 97 per cent receiving treatment in the high-income Asia-Pacific region, and just 69 per cent in central Sub-Saharan Africa.
The researchers also found less than half of all people receiving diabetes treatment have optimal blood sugar levels.
Positive strides have been made, the authors noted, but they said gaps still exist in the detection and treatment of the condition.
"Diabetes remains widely underdiagnosed and poorly managed, especially in low- and middle-income countries and for younger adults", the authors wrote.
"There is an urgent need to strengthen health systems to improve detection, treatment, and ongoing care."
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Staff at university ‘utterly furious’ as chancellor defends job cuts process
The University of Wollongong (UOW) is under fire for its process of supporting staff during proposed wide-scale cuts as the chancellor defends its conduct at a Senate inquiry.
Up to 95 jobs at the university on the NSW South Coast, which has more than 36,000 students, are set to be axed as the university looks to fill a $35 million gap in its finances.
However, staff have accused the university of a lack of transparency that has seen key concerns go unanswered and raised fears of a shortfall that could be seen across the organisation if the cuts are implemented.
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Dr Jonathon Mackay, an academic in the School of Business and Branch Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), claimed the university openly refuses to answer difficult questions.
"I have been to countless meetings with staff who are fobbed off by managers and told to raise specific questions with more senior managers, who in turn are unable to answer questions," he told 9news.com.au.
"Staff are utterly furious that they get invited to consultations to raise concerns, but then the concerns that the university doesn't agree with just get ignored.
"This was confirmed by a member of the senior executive who told staff at a forum that they won't respond to feedback that they disagree with."
It comes as Chancellor Michael Still appeared in front of a Senate inquiry looking into the quality of governance at Australian higher education providers, where he admitted he wasn't sure how staff were feeling despite claiming to be conducting a thorough and transparent process.
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"I don't know what they're feeling," he said.
"We are driving the most open, transparent, engaged and careful process one can imagine in any institution.
"This is by far the most careful [process] on behalf of staff that I have ever seen."
Mackay disagreed, claiming the university had failed to adequately justify the measures being made, and forcing staff to explain their value to the organisation.
He said women in lower-paid positions would be particularly impacted.
"The university consistently says how much consultation they think they've had, but it's about quality, not quantity," he said.
"Most of the workshops were run by senior managers who were essentially asking staff to justify why they should not be made redundant, and there has been zero transparency around the actual decision-making process of these changes outside of vague, repeated answers."
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He also believes the cuts will leave the university shortchanged, which could actually have more of a financial burden than a benefit.
"We'll pay out millions in redundancy packages to save millions in recurrent costs but then incur millions in hiring the same people we gave redundancies to," he said.
That the proposed cuts have come despite the high salary on offer to executives has caused some angst among staff.
Still claimed high salaries had to be offered to executives to entice them to join the university and that high executive salaries and job losses were not linked.
"We need the best people we can get to be the executives of the organisation; that is a competitive environment, and if we don't offer a competitive salary, they'll go somewhere else and we won't have the quality of people to drive the institution," he said.
"That there are job losses is indeed a great sadness for many of those – a great happiness for others – but the two are not the same issue at all."
UOW has been approached for further comment.
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Pause lifted after SafeWork intervention
The vice chancellor of the University of Technology Sydney, Andrew Parfitt, also appeared at the hearing yesterday as it goes through its own process of cuts.
Last week, SafeWork NSW ruled in favour of a motion brought by the NTEU to pause proposed cuts to jobs and course offerings at the university, but Parfitt told the committee that this had now been lifted.
"We're balancing two stressful circumstances: the stress of people who want to know what the proposal is so that they can engage in a conversation around it, and the stress of those who are potentially uncertain about the process," he said.
"So we engaged with the SafeWork inspector on Friday to adjust the timing and the nature of the communication.
"We had thought that we had adequate provisions in place, but the SafeWork inspector thought otherwise."
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