Palaszczuk ducks call to unions to 'put Hanson last' and other top stories.

• Palaszczuk ducks call to unions to 'put Hanson last'

  >> view original



• “I never thought that I'd feel like a second-class citizen”: Hiwot Birhane Source: Facebook

  

  “I never thought that I’d feel like a second-class citizen”: Hiwot Birhane Source: FacebookHEALTH and beauty chain Priceline has apologised after a young Ethiopian woman accused staff at one of its Melbournes store of ‘humiliating racial profiling’ which saw her and her friends searched by security as three non-black women left the store unscrutinised.The chain will educate, not terminate, employees accused of racial profiling at a Melbourne store.In an open letter to Priceline on Facebook, Hiwo..

  >> view original



• National suicide helpline Lifeline bracing for calls about marriage equality plebiscite, introduces new crisis category

  

  The national suicide prevention helpline has introduced a new crisis category as it prepares to take more calls relating to the same-sex marriage plebiscite.Volunteers at crisis support helpline Lifeline are asked to enter the "main reason" for a call when dealing with people seeking help, and one of the options now reads "2016 Marriage Equality Plebiscite". More News Videos Previous slide Next slide Same-sex marriage: the facts RSL reform push grows ..

  >> view original



• NSW weather: Damaging winds cause power cuts to thousands of homes, businesses

  

  NSW weather: Damaging winds cause power cuts to thousands of homes, businesses Updated October 05, 2016 01:37:13 Thousands of homes have been left without power across New South Wales due to gale-force winds.More than 11,000 homes and businesses were hit by strong winds across the state, after the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) issued a warning earlier today.Endeavour Energy said over 4,000 properties were without power on NSW's south coast.There were also multiple reports..

  >> view original



• Three-year-old boy dies after being found unresponsive at inflatable park

  

  Inflatable World Toowoomba. (Facebook/File image) A young boy has died after he was found unresponsive at an inflatable playground centre in Toowoomba. The three-year-old wasfound at the bottom of a slide with injuries to the back of his head at Inflatable World Toowoomba at around 1pm on Sunday.He was taken to the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, where he died yesterday. The boy, from Coomera, is believed to have been at the centre with a family member. Do you know more? Email contact@9news.c..

  >> view original



• Mal Brough blasts AFP for 'killing my career'

  

  >> view original



• 96000 public servants in new data breach

  

  The federal government is caught up in a second data privacy scare, this time involving a massive data-set on more then 96,000 of its public servants amid fears their confidential information might not be secure.In the second potentially serious Commonwealth data breach to become public in less than a week, the public service's workplace authority has confirmed that it has withdrawn the data gathered in its massive annual employee census from public view. 96,000 public servants may have be..

  >> view original

Samsung, Woolworths partner to deliver grocery ordering from a 'smart fridge' .	Queensland 'asteroid' sparks concerns over near earth asteroid monitoring .
The worlds carbon stores are going up in smoke with vanishing wilderness .	Astronomers Solve Mystery Of Enormous Space Blob .