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May 2, 2024 - World

Hamas says it's sending a delegation to Egypt as soon as possible to continue talks in the latest sign of progress in the fragile cease-fire process

May 2, 2024 - World

The head of Greece’s extreme far-right Golden Dawn party has been granted conditional early release from prison

May 2, 2024 - World

Experts find ‘significant gaps between statement and practice’ of social media firms’ enforcement of standardsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian government’s laws to force tech companies to act on misinformation should not be based on the current voluntary industry code as planned, because those standards are not being met, a technology thinktank has said.“We were testing the efficacy of these systems,” the executive director of Reset Australia, Alice Dawkins, said. “And where there had been a commitment or a statement made in the code we tested the results against what platforms said that they did. Continue reading...

May 2, 2024 - World

Report predicts numerous factors, including migration, mean housing affordability and inequality will continue to deteriorateGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s housing affordability “crisis” will continue to worsen with a “significant shortfall in supply”, according to the government’s own expert council.In its first-ever state of the housing system report, the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council described Labor’s target of building 1.2m new homes over five years as “suitably ambitious” because it projects only 943,000 will be built in that time.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...

May 2, 2024 - World

Exclusive: Survey finds schools have reallocated as much as $1bn from other areas to support children with disabilities in past yearGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPrincipals and teachers say funding to support students with disabilities is “woefully inadequate”, with schools diverting resources from other areas of their budgets to meet their needs.A new national survey of 15,000 principals and teachers reports that just 11% of principals feel they have sufficient resources to support the educational needs of students with disabilities.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...