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Pauline Hanson's describes the nationwide Women's March 4 Justice protests as "anti-men" in another totally unsurprising take.

Obul Tevekkul, 47, realtor in the Sefakoy district, participates in a demonstration to ask for news of their relatives and to voice opposition to the ratification of an extradition treaty between China and Turkey, near Chinas consulate in Istanbul, Feb. 22, 2021. AFP Lawmakers in Australia rejected a motion on Monday to recognize human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as genocide, disappointing hopes by Uyghurs and other XUAR natives that the ...

Department paid $13 million over recommended value for water buyback, Auditor-General calls for review Posted TueTuesday 16 The Agriculture Department is reviewing an $80 million purchase of water from the Condmaine Balonne. ( Print text only Cancel The Australian government paid almost $13 million more than was advised by an independent valuer, in an $80 million deal to secure water from two Queensland farms in 2017. Key points: Independent valuation suggests government paid almost $13 milli...

Federal Liberals and Labor lawmakers blocked a Senate motion on March 15 that called on the Australian government ...

An internal investigation is under way into why the federal government paid at least $13m over the odds for an $80m water buyback from Eastern Australia Agriculture – a company linked to federal MP Angus Taylor – in 2017. The auditor general, Grant Hehir, who reviewed the government’s water purchase program last year, contacted the valuer used by the Department of Agriculture for the sale, Colliers International, after receiving a complaint from...

It resulted in the department paying a record price of $2,745 per megalitre for the unreliable floodplain entitlements. It has now emerged this was not what the valuer intended and the department appears to have misinterpreted the valuation advice. Colliers’ discussion of a premium in the valuation was to guide the department if it chose to move beyond the recommended valuation of $1,500 per megalitre. Colliers provided a range of values between $1,050 and $2,300 per megalitre and discussed f...

Print this article Several close U.S. allies are split over China’s repression of Uyghur Muslims as President Biden reviews his predecessor’s last-minute determination to call their treatment "genocide." “A lot of our friends are probably aware that theyre gonna have to make some tough decisions on this issue,” American Enterprise Institute research fellow Zack Cooper said. “But until we sit down with them and explain now what the plan is, they’re going to be pretty hesitant out th...

Australian Uyghur Groups Call On the Government to Help Stop CCP ‘Genocide’ Australian Uyghurs have rallied in front of the federal parliament in Canberra on Monday, calling for the Australian government to recognize what Beijing is doing in the Xinjiang region as a genocide. “If they don’t listen now, a whole community, the whole Uyghur nation, is going to disappear,” Ramila Chanisheff, president of the Australian Uyghur Tangritagh Women’s Association, told AAP. “This is the 21st...

Independent senator Rex Patrick had earlier met Australian Uighurs in front of Parliament House to call out China's repression of the ethnic minority in Xinjiang.

Beware the tides of March Crikey 15/03/2021 MARCHING ORDERS Note: This story discusses sexual assault. Thousands are expected to march on state and federal parliament houses today following a slew of government assault and harassment allegations, with Guardian Australia reports that 5000 protesters, mostly women, took part in Perth’s rally yesterday. Event organiser Dr Kate Ahmad explained in Crikey last week that March4Justice is based in part on “dehumanising” responses to allega...