Guardian Australia3 hours agoExploited in a crisis: why are Sri Lankans getting on boats bound for Australia?verified_publisher Australia News - Devana Senanayake in Colombo, Aliyar Mohammed Geeth in Trincomalee, and Ben Doherty in Sydney“I thought if I travelled to Australia, I could earn more money and lead a better life,” Jayan* says from his modest home, in a coastal village in the north of Sri Lanka. A fisherman by trade and a member of Sri Lanka’s Tamil ethnic minority, Jayan is familiar with boats and was asked to fix the …
Guardian Australia3 hours agoCrime scene clean-up: a victim’s family wants Queenslanders to be spared the traumaverified_publisher Australia News - Eden GillespieShelley Allison will never forget the look on her dad’s face after he walked out of the house where her daughter Haley was murdered. “Before the crime scene clean-up, my father had to do a walk-through of the house and I never understood why,” Allison says. “This big man, he went white … It was …
Guardian Australia3 hours agoThe palm cockatoo should be Brisbane Olympics mascot – imagine a stadium full of big crested hats and drumming on seatsverified_publisher Australia News - Andrew StaffordThey have shaggy crests and bright scarlet cheeks. They bow, sway, stamp their feet and spread their wings in a Jesus Christ pose, justifying their status. They whistle and whoop. Males even use their enormous beaks to fashion tree branches into drumsticks, which they use to beat on tree hollows …
Guardian Australia3 hours agoAustralian Taxation Office crackdown on family trust rorts causes alarm among tax advisersverified_publisher Australia News - Ben ButlerA crackdown by the Australian Taxation Office on rorts involving family trusts has drawn alarm from some advisers as some of the practices under the microscope have become common practice. Tax advisers are also concerned at the prospect the ATO will be examining the past behaviour of family trusts, …
Guardian Australia3 hours ago‘Barely keeping my head above water’: how the cost of living crisis is making life on jobseeker harderverified_publisher Australia News - Luke Henriques-Gomes Social affairs and inequality editorNaomi Thompson, 31, says she does it almost instinctively now. It started when she was a student living below the poverty line. “Initially when things started getting tight, I would drink a lot of tea,” she says. “The milk would make me feel quite full. I could drink a thousand and one cups of water …
Guardian Australia3 hours agoThe changing face of homelessness in regional NSW: ‘I’m working, but everything is unaffordable’verified_publisher Australia News - Jordyn BeazleyIn the Moruya North Head campground where around 50 people live, there’s no power and the water in the one private shower is cold. “Sometimes you can’t handle that, so you’ve got to boil up some water and try work it that way,” says Geoff Pike as the sun dips and the winter chill sets in. Lately, …
