NATIONAL: A court ruling in favour of Indigenous alcohol limits relies on the same excuse used to justify the Stolen Generations, the mayor of Palm Island says.
QUEENSLAND: In a ruling handed down in Canberra on Wednesday, the court rejected arguments that the management plans, which restrict and sale and possession of alcohol, breach both United Nations and federal racial discrimination laws.
NATIONAL: Imagine a world without coal, one where mining companies didn’t dig up fossil fuels but instead kept them in the ground where they couldn’t be burned.
RUGBY LEAGUE: South Sydney winger Nathan Merritt is to make his long-awaited State of Origin rugby league debut for NSW as replacement for the suspended Blake Ferguson.
NATIONAL: Prominent Labor figure Peter Beattie believes former prime minister Bob Hawke should be drafted to help resolve the party’s leadership crisis.
Rio native title deal irks splinter group
WESTERN AUSTRALIA: A native title group in Western Australia’s Pilbara has inked a land use deal with Rio Tinto despite objections by rival claimants.