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To be eligible, BTR complexes must have minimum 50 houses ready for rent, available for a three-year lease, and 10% of the houses should be affordable and available at 75% of the market rate.

Julian Assange's plea deal with the U.S. also included deleting any unpublished material on the country in his possession or with Wikileaks.

Sophie Cusworth, acting CEO of Women with Disability Australia, said the Senate's report failed to address some of the major concerns regarding the bill, and added the community expected the government to genuinely engage with them on all stages of the NDIS reform.

"This is not a time to be walking about expelling people for particular views. It's a time where we seek to be bringing Australians together," Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said.

"Each step I took across the Senate floor felt like a mile, [but] I know I did not walk these steps by myself, and I know I did not walk them alone," Payman told reporters.

Mobile services will be launched for initial trial at 10 music festivals before fixing a permanent venue by 2025 in Melbourne.

On pleading guilty of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defense documents, Assange is expected to be sentenced to 62 months, which he has already served in prison. If the court approves his plea, Assange will be freed facilitating his return to Australia.

Recommendations include bringing supermarkets with an annual revenue of AU$5 billion under the code and imposing a fine up to AU$10 million for violations.

Buyers will have to show their ID to the chemist, who will also advise them on the health hazards and offer alternate ways to quit smoking. Those who are under 18 years will need to show a prescription.

Kean's immediate tasks would be tracking the government's progress in achieving the 2030 emission target and advising it on the 2035 goal.

Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said the government will act urgently on the product stewardship reforms, support the waste and recycling industry and introduce incentives for safe disposal of waste batteries.

In March, Meta announced that it will not renew contracts with media organizations to pay for news at a cost of AU$70m, as the contracts signed under the government's news media bargaining code had ended.

The government-funded research to study grocery price comparisons were launched to probe allegations that the supermarket giants were indulging in price gouging with suppliers, while hiking it for consumers.

Energy researcher Dr Dylan McConnell, said: "There was no credible reason to think that adding the most expensive bulk form of electricity would make electricity prices go down."

The danger with an election fought on immigration levels, as many past Australian politicians on both sides have recognized, is that it could degenerate into Trump-style name calling and civil unrest, former immigration official Abul Rizvi warned.

Mining magnate Andrew Forrest alleged Meta profited from the fake advertisements that featured him promoting fraudulent crypto investments, leading to financial losses for victims.

Peter Dutton stressed that the seven plants would be built and owned by the government, but avoided answering cost of the plan.

Federal court dismissed appeal by Save the Children Australia on behalf of ISIS brides and their children, who were lodged in Syrian detention camps.

China tops the list of countries that imports iron ore and lithium from Australia. Iron ore was exempted from the banned commodities when China prohibited exports from Australia, three years ago

RBA board pointed out that revisions to consumption and saving rate may not mitigate the upside, adding that recent data have reinforced the need to remain vigilant to upside risks to inflation.

Under the new pay scale, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will receive an annual pay of AU$607,471 and Opposition leader Peter Dutton will earn AU$432,239.

Voters ranked the leaders on the issues of economy and defense. While 40% voters backed Dutton and the Coalition on economy management, only 24% voted for Labor. On national security, as 42% preferred Dutton and the Coalition, 23% voted for Albanese and Labor. 

On March 7, Katter's Australian MPs, Robbie Katter and Nick Dametto, confronted pro-Palestine protestors outside Queensland Parliament with a poster that read "condemn Hamas."

As winter sets in, diseases and viruses such as COVID-19, the flu and RSV are weighing on the health systems across Australia, Health ministers stated.

The annual study, conducted by Chapman University's Frontier Centre for Public Policy's Demographia, compared housing markets in 94 cities across eight countries.

The board banned the practice in 2019 after a social media video went viral showing a Melbourne chiropractor manipulating the back, hips and collarbone of a two-week-old baby.

The fall in unemployement rate was consistent with the economists' predictions and Reserve Bank of Australia's expectations. As full-time jobs have risen to 41,700 in May, part-time work has reduced by 2,100.

Trade relations between the two countries collapsed when Australia demanded a probe in Wuhan, considered to be the epicenter of the Covid breakout.

The leak was exposed in 2023, when a PwC partner hired by Australian Treasury to improve tax laws, was found to be leaking confidential tax plans to PwC. The data, including loopholes on how to avoid paying tax, was shared by PwC with multinationals, including Google.