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Labor offers to scale back ministerial power over internet safety laws
Deciding what “seriously harmful” material is under proposed internet safety laws could fall to Parliament and not a government minister, Communications Minister Anika Wells said, in a bid to placate the Coalition’s censorship concerns. Source: News.com.au.
Notre Dame celebrates new nursing facilities
The University of Notre Dame Australia has celebrated the blessing of the new home for nursing at its Broadway campus in Sydney.
UK rejects bill seeking to legalise assisted suicide
Lawmakers in the United Kingdom on Friday voted down legislation to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives. Source: Crux.
Mystery remains months after Mozambique bishop shot dead
The Mozambique bishops conference said it has yet to receive any details on the murder of Bishop Osório Citora Afonso of Quelimane, who was shot dead in his residence in June. Source: OSV News.
‘Pope’s garden’ goes totally organic
A vegetable garden and orchard inside the Vatican walls, which historically provided food for the Pope’s household, is now cultivated using exclusively organic farming techniques. Source: EWTN News.
Federal government warned over immigration cuts
Labor premiers and business groups have pushed back against a rise in anti-immigration sentiment, warning the Albanese Government that arbitrary cuts to visa numbers risked damaging the economy and robbing businesses of desperately needed workers. Source: The Guardian.
St Carlo’s relic brings message of hope to prison inmates
A first-class relic of St Carlo Acutis that is in the middle of a four-month tour around Australia made a special visit yesterday to a correctional facility in New South Wales’ Hunter region. Source: Maitland-Newcastle Diocese.
Synod study groups suggest changes for ad limina visits to Rome
Revisions of procedures for ad limina visits by diocesan bishops to Rome and including consecrated men and women in decision-making processes have been proposed by study groups from the Synod on Synodality. Source: Vatican News.
Government to ban providers from charging ‘unreasonable’ new fees
The Albanese Government will bar residential aged care providers from charging elderly Australians an “unreasonable” fee, as it seeks to reform the beleaguered system. Source: The Australian.