Today in Neighbourhood Watch with Nicole Wedding from Radio Adelaide we chat about a new Australian law that could see 10 year olds held without charge for up to two weeks if they are suspects of terrorism. We also discuss the potential for 50 degree days in our generation with internationally increasing climates, and 30,000 guns that were handed in during Australia's second firearm amnesty.
Kelly Enright talked to Nicole Wedding from Radio Adelaide about the latest in Australian News:
An Australian Academy of Science report has found the climate science workforce needs to grow by 77 employees over the next four years, as Australia has a critical shortage of climate scientists, leaving it at serious risk of not delivering essential climate and weather services to groups like farmers, coastal communities and international organisations.
A Landmark Survey by the Human Rights Commission has found that more than half of all Australian university students were sexually harassed on at least one occasion last year. And the report found women experienced harassment and assaults at disproportionately higher rates than men.
The latest NAPLAN results show students' performance has only improved marginally since tests that were introduced a decade ago. Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham said, "The writing results are really a worry and I'll be talking to state and territory ministers about how we can turn that around."
This week on Neighbourhood Watch bFM reporter Amanda Jane Robinson catches up with Radio Adelaide's Nicole Wedding to talk all the latest in Australian news: a federal minister resigning from cabinet to clarify whether he has dual citizenship, allegations that people are stealing water from the Murray River, and Queensland is set to build one of the world's longest electric vehicle highways.
Peter Dutton has been placed in charge of the new Home Affairs Department which is a collection of various security and itelligence agencies in Australia, two Green MP's have had to resign after discovering they are not allowed to be in parliament with dual citizenships, and an indigenous rock shelter has revealed that human life was in Australia 18000 years before previously thought.
New research has proven that exposing the endangered bettong to the wild is increasing its chances of survival and despite its extremely cute appearance, perhaps babying them is not the best way to preserve them.
Also, Australians are calling for a space program, claiming they are in the right position economically and globally to do so, and Tesla is about to build the world's biggest Lithium Ion battery in South Australia.
This week on Neighbourhood Watch Tess catches up with Jordan about the latest news in Australia. Tony Abbott has been causing trouble in his party. The Vatican's third in charge has formally had charges laid against him in Australia and finally a Liberal politician has had to apologize about comments he made regarding gay marriage. Find out here on this week’s podcast.
This week on Neighbourhood Watch Tess catches up with Nicole Wedding about the latest news in Australia. Air missions over Syria have been suspended, Pauline Hanson is under fire over controversial comments about segregating kids with disabilities from mainstream classrooms and could Australia be losing the payphone for good? Find out here on this weeks podcast.
This week on Neighbourhood Watch Tess caught up with Nicole Wedding about the latest news in Australia. The Commonwealth has agreed to pay 70 million in a class action settlement. The government Community Development Program has come under investigation and Channel 10 has media mistake.
Wire host, Tess Barnett, speaks to Radio Adelaide's Nicole Wedding about a shocking 40% increase in prison rates, a Sydney cleaning firm accused of treating their workers as slaves and Rihanna and Julia Gillard have formed a duo to help those in Malawi. To hear all these stories, check out the podcast here.
Wire host, Tess Barnett, spoke to Radio Adelaide's Nicole Wedding for all the latest in Australian news. They speak about a Malaysian airlines flight that had to turn back to Melbourne's airport after bomb threats from a passenger, Margaret Court's open letter to Qantas about their support to same-sex marriage and finally about a shark attack on a fishing boat in Australia.
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