Families on incomes of less than 80 thousand dollars, now unable to afford to live in the area. A regional roundtable today confronted our affordable rental crisis.

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Wollongong

Wollongong's rental market's hit another disappointing low

Key stakeholders stated face-to-face today, meeting to discuss the dying need for more full-time. Work housing options in the illawarra. These are some of the decisions that need to be held accountable for taking direct and immediate action to fix this problem. And to put a number of changes in place rental affordability, index, revealing new areas such as Wollongong. And now on a foldable to households earning up to $80,000 per annum somebody on Ice in 2000 dollars a year. He's a really good salary. And so those people should now be in the housing crisis is absurd and completely unacceptable. The lorries population expected to grow by over 60,000 in the next, 20 years with an anticipated strong on infrastructure, investment pipeline of projects, may not be able to be delivered. If we don't actually have enough housing to support those workers, It's a it's an issue that we need to come to terms with very quickly are the next 12 months in pain solutions. As far as the major projects in the investment, that we need to have happen. That will be a combination of local workers, which is, which will be temporarily housed, a new region and also those that will decide to leave. He building in Olympic Village pool work is needed in the community one potential solution. Discussed, I'll leave you plugged in when use

Novak Djokovic's father Srdjan said on Friday he would not attend his son's Australian Open semi-final and would instead "watch from home", after a video emerged showing him posing at Melbourne Park with fans holding Russian flags.

Melbourne

Russian Sanctions

Djokovic's dad to skip Australian Open finals

The Paris Mayor says she would not 'stand in the way' of Russian and Belarusian athletes competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics, prompting threats of a boycott by Ukraine. The warning came after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it would 'explore a pathway' for athletes from the two countries to participate as neutrals.

Saint-Denis

Ukraine Invasion

Ukraine threatens to boycott Olympics

The announcement comes one day after the United States and Germany both announced they are sending battle tanks to Ukraine, the first stage of a coordinated effort by the West to provide dozens of the heavy weapons to help Kyiv as Russia's invasion enters its 12th month.

Paris

Canada, France pledge more tanks to Ukraine

Rockets were fired by Gaza militants overnight as tensions soared following an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank that killed nine Palestinians, including at least seven militants and a 61-year-old woman.

Jerusalem

Rockets fired at Israel after deadly West Bank raid

Peru's President Dina Bolurate is facing growing pressure over her handling of anti-government protests. Trouble began in December when her predecessor was forced from office and imprisoned after trying to dissolve Congress. Protesters want Boluarte to step down.

Lima

As deadly protests continue, Peru’s government faces crisis

A World Health Organization committee is meeting on Friday to decide if the COVID-19 pandemic is still a global emergency. Several leading scientists say it may be too early for WHO to declare the end of the pandemic emergency phase. The United Kingdom started easing restrictions in 2021 but is still working to live with the virus. 

Geneva

COVID Latest

WHO considers if COVID still an emergency

U.S. President Joe Biden hit out at what he called “MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives” on Thursday for threatening to destroy the economic progress his administration had made and refusing to lift the country’s debt ceiling. Biden called the GOP threat ‘mind-boggling’, during a speech in Virginia.

Richmond

Biden hits out at 'dangerous' Republicans

Five recently-fired Memphis police officers have been charged with murder in the death of Tyre Nichols, who died in hospital three days after a confrontation with officers at a traffic stop. Video of the alleged beating that ensued is due to be released later this week. The five officers have been charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault and kidnapping.

Memphis

Memphis Police officers charged with murder

Nine Palestinians have been killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin. The Israeli military says its troops went in to arrest Islamic Jihad militants planning major attacks.

Violence breaks out on West Bank

Countries across the northern hemisphere are battling extreme weather with authorities in Europe trying to cope with an extended period of freezing conditions.

Lisbon

Deep freeze sweeps across Europe

Spanish authorities said they were investigating what they called a possible "terrorist" incident after a machete-wielding man attacked several people at two churches in the southern port city of Algeciras, killing at least one person. The attacks on two churches by a single assailant on Wednesday night have shaken the city near the southern tip of Spain across from a bay from Gibraltar.

Algeciras

Spain: Police investigating church 'terror' attack

Novak Djokovic has reportedly received a warning from Australian Open officials about the actions of his father. Ukraine's ambassador to Australia has called for Srdjan Djokovic to be banned from the Australian Open, after he posed with a group holding the Russian flag.

Djokovic warned over Russia links

Satellite images have revealed the growing death toll of Russian contract soldiers in Ukraine.  A plot in southern Russia, where Wagner soldiers - recruited from prisons - are buried has grown rapidly over the past six months, a sign of the mercenary group's mounting losses on the battlefield.

Bakinskaya

Cemetery reveals Wagner's 'army of convicts'

Large crowds gathered at an 'Invasion Day' rally in the central business district, where some people carried Aboriginal flags and an Indigenous smoking ceremony took place. This year's holiday comes as Albanese's center-left Labor Party government plans a referendum on recognizing Indigenous people in the constitution.

Flinders Street

Protestors rally for Aboriginal rights on Australia Day

Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians, including an elderly woman, and wounded a dozen more during clashes with gunmen in Jenin, witnesses and medics said. It marks the highest death toll for years in the flashpoint town, which is in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian officials said seven of the dead were gunmen and the other two civilians.

West Bank's Jenin sees deadliest clash in years

Amazon workers in the UK, hold their first ever, demanding wages that match the spiralling cost of living.

Coventry

Hundreds of UK Amazon workers walk out in protest

The United States will supply Ukraine with Abrams tanks, President Joe Biden has announced, as Washington and its European allies step up their military aid for Kyiv.
Biden said on Wednesday that the Abrams tanks, which he described as the “most capable” in the world, will help Ukraine defend its territorial integrity against what he called Russia’s “brutal” aggression against its neighbour.

Washington

U.S sends world's 'most capable' tanks into Ukraine

Facebook parent Meta says it’s reinstating the accounts of U.S President Donald Trump on the platform as well as Instagram in the coming weeks. He was kicked off the platforms for two years, after what the company called “praise for people engaged in violence” at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.

Menlo Park

Trump's Facebook, Instagram accounts restored

In Moscow, people have been coming to leave flowers at the statue of a Ukrainian poet as a makeshift memorial and anti-war protest to honour the victims of a Russian missile strike in Dnipro, Ukraine. It's a risky move, Police stand guard and there are concerns visitors to the shrine are being recorded. But it's a sign anti-war sentiment in the capital is growing.

Moscow

Russians lay flowers as anti-war protest

Pope Francis criticised laws that criminalise homosexuality as “unjust”, and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church.

Città del Vaticano

Homosexuality 'not a crime': Pope Francis

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg issued its latest judgment on Wednesday afternoon.

Strasbourg

MH17 case against Russia can go ahead, court rules

Germany and the United States announced Wednesday that they will send battle tanks to Ukraine, the first stage of a coordinated effort by the West to provide dozens of the heavy weapons. After weeks of mounting pressure both at home and abroad, Chancellor Olaf Scholz confirmed on Wednesday that Berlin will provide Ukraine with Leopard 2 battle tanks.

Kyiv

Ukraine welcomes decision to send German, U.S tanks

Influencer Andrew Tate said the case against him was 'empty as he was taken for questioning at Romania's organised crime unit on Wednesday. He is currently detained alongside his brother Tristan over allegations of rape and human trafficking. The controversial online personality has millions of followers online - despite being banned from sites including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook.

Bucharest

Andrew Tate claims 'no justice' amid jailing

California's politicians remain deeply divided on gun control as the state sees its third mass shooting in little over a week. Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom accused California congressman and leader of the house Kevin McCarthy of remaining largely silent on the issue.

Half Moon Bay

'Only in America': Newsom hits out at gun culture

Several people have died as a result of severe winter weather in Japan. The cold snap cancelled flights and disrupted traffic - after causing havoc in other East Asian countries earlier this week. 

Pyongyang

Severe cold snap sweeps across Asia

Lebanon’s top prosecutor on Wednesday filed charges against the judge investigating the Beirut port blast, a judicial source said, and ordered the release of all those detained in connection with the port explosion. Ghassan Oweidat’s decision signals escalating opposition by Lebanon's ruling class to efforts by Judge Tarek Bitar to resume investigations into the 2020 blast after a 13-month break.

Beirut

Beirut blast judge now facing corruption charges

U.S. President Joe Biden joined Western nations' efforts to significantly beef up Ukraine's military defences by announcing the U.S. will send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine.

U.S sending Abrams tanks to Ukraine

Frigid winter weather gripped East Asia for the second straight day on Wednesday, causing several deaths and multiple injuries in Japan and a scramble for flights out of South Korea's resort island of Jeju following delays by snowstorms.

Mohe City

Chinese city hits coldest temperatures on record

A Ukrainian army spokesman has confirmed its forces ceded the eastern town to Russian troops, without specifying when it happened.

Soledar

After bloody battle, Ukrainians admit loss of Soledar

Around 300 documents with classified markings have been discovered in former US Vice-President Mike Pence's Indiana home, but his lawyer says Mr Pence was unaware of the fact