By Hope NewsroomTuesday 19 Oct 2021NewsReading Time: 2 minutes
Today’s headlines from the Hope News team. You can listen to hourly bulletin updates at hopenews.com.au.
The NSW Government will invest almost $500 million over four years on tackling domestic violence.
The funding is expected to add another 75 refuges – almost doubling the number in the State.
Meanwhile, a $5000 one-off payment from the Federal Government will be used to help victims of domestic abuse establish a new life.
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Australians hoping to leave the country are now able to get their international proof of COVID vaccination.
The document, which can be accessed on the MyGov website, features a personal QR code.
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The Nationals maintain they will not be forced into a corner, when it comes to adopting an emissions reduction target.
The junior Coalition partner and the Liberals hold their joint party room meeting today.
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Day two of ICAC hearings into former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian will focus on why approval for a grant in the electorate of former MP and her then-boyfriend Daryl Maguire was rushed.
Office of Sport official Michael Toohey said the business case for the $5.5 million grant didn’t stack up.
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Police and the mother of a teenager killed in Sydney’s west in August is making a public appeal for new information.
Seven people have been charged over the murder of 16-year-old Jason Gallaghan in Doonside.
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Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has died from complications of COVID-19, aged 84.
General Powell had a distinguished military career before going on to lead the Pentagon and then serving under President George W Bush.
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The FBI will support the Haitian authorities efforts to locate and free a group of American Christian missionaries and their families who were abducted on Saturday.
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Aid workers and diplomats say air strikes have hit the regional capital of Tigray in northern Ethiopia, killing three people and injuring dozens of others.
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A 900-year-old sword believed to have belonged to a Crusader, has been discovered in Israel.
The metre-long sword was found by a diver off the north coast.
It was encrusted with shells, but otherwise in good condition, and will be cleaned and put on display.