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Jesinta Burton is reporting live from Perth on the Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan’s resignation. McGowan announced his decision on the eve of his 30th year in politics to a packed press conference in Dumas House in Perth, joined by his entire cabinet. He told reporters of his love for the job, but said the…

Inscriptions of cultivation, hunting, and other activities were found on the walls of one of the tombs, as well as a large collection of artefacts, which included beautiful intact wooden and stone statues, and funerary objects. The mummification process in Ancient Egypt was a complex and time-consuming procedure that could take up to 70 days….

“We think she is the first African American woman to be found incorrupt,” the current abbess of the community, Mother Cecilia, said. It was her job to open the coffin and examine the body. A full, intact foot “I thought I saw a completely full, intact foot and I said, ‘I didn’t just see that,‘”…

NATIONAL SHAME It’s “dangerous” for the Voice to Parliament debate to degenerate into a more racialised discussion, Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan warns. He told The Age ($) it empowers racists and risks abuse and vilification of First Nations folks. The Voice “in itself is not racist and it does not racialise Australia”, he emphasised,…

Staying with James Paterson, who was questioned about the Voice to parliament and whether he agreed with the country’s race discrimination commissioner who warned against making race the focus of the debate. In an interview with this masthead, Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan said politicians in particular had a responsibility to ensure debate did…

Race 4 MAIDEN HCP (1500m) Middle distance maidens are never easy, but there’s real value with consistent and tough finishing filly 1. Madam Rock who is bursting to win fifth-up in her first full prep. Has run home into a place here in her last three, and while again she’ll be forced to go well…

Now, let’s be clear. The expected surplus is perfectly believable, and not the product of creative accounting. But it is the media displaying their economic ignorance. Loading For a start, in a budget of $630 billion a year, in an economy of $2600 billion a year, a surplus of a mere $4 billion is nothing…

But Tan’s perspective is at sharp odds with that of his colleague, Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay, who has argued the proposed change “inserts race into the Australian Constitution in a way that undermines the foundational human rights principles of equality and non-discrimination” – a view which has been rejected by five of her predecessors…

“I had heard this big noise in my room as I was laying down and I thought it was just my cat climbing on the roof but not until about an hour later I saw everyone online posting about it and just realised we had an earthquake.” – Mya “I was woken by the sound…

The State Emergency Service said it was dispatching a crew to inspect a building that is reported to have suffered cracks in suburban Ascot Vale. Loading The SES also received reports of a cracked road around Mickleham. The earthquake follows a magnitude 2.5 seismic event near Ferntree Gully, 30 kilometres south-east of Melbourne’s CBD, on…