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Australia s first domestic violence shelter for men has opened in Queensland after a $100,000 funding boost.
Homeless refuge Sheltered By Grace, based in the south Brisbane suburb of Logan, has added a 12-bedroom wing to house male victims of family violence.
The facility already had 24 rooms for men and women who were experiencing homelessness as a result of domestic violence, drug and alcohol dependence, and mental or physical health issues.
The space for male domestic violence victims was funded by a $97,000 grant from the Gambling Community Benefit Fund.
Homeless refuge Sheltered By Grace, based is in the south Brisbane suburb of Logan, has added a 12-bedroom wing to house male victims of family violence
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Tomorrow the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release inflation data for the June quarter (and the 2020-21 financial year), and it s expected to be the biggest in years. According to Moody s, June quarter CPI will show a 3% annual rate or according to the AMP’s Shane Oliver, as high as 3.9%.
Part of that is statistical: the -1.9% figure from the pandemic June quarter last year will drop out of the annual figure tomorrow, so there ll be a big rise in the annual rate anyway. But the quarterly figure for June 2021 is also expected to show a sharp rise of 0.8%, reflecting a 7.5% surge in petrol prices, higher electricity prices in WA and some pick up in dwelling purchase prices and rents.
China’s iron ore imports are boosting Australia’s economic recovery
Prior to the pandemic, Australia’s relationship with China was at times strained, but generally uneventful. Despite Beijing giving federal cabinet the silent treatment on multiple occasions, the flow of trade between Australia and China continued relatively unimpeded.
But in the more than 18 months since the pandemic sent Wuhan into the world’s first Covid-19 induced lockdown, Australia has endured the diplomatic equivalent of being “chewed up and spit out and booed off stage” to borrow a phrase from rapper Eminem.
After Prime Minister Scott Morrison pressed for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, Australia continued to draw Beijing’s ire.