| | | 05/02/2024 Homeless deaths investigation, Lowitja O’Donoghue mourned, supermarket review to begin |
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| | | Good morning. Today Guardian Australia launches Out in the Cold, a 12-month investigation into homelessness deaths, which found these vulnerable Australians die, on average, three decades prematurely. Our examination of 600 cases begins with Roger Davies, 42, a rough sleeper and army veteran who died with fractures to nine ribs. Despite this, police concluded there was “no evidence of suspicious circumstances” and he was sent to a pauper’s grave without his family being notified for more than two years. There is “never going to be any closure”, Davies’ family says. His treatment in life and death exposes the indifference to Australia’s homeless life expectancy crisis – fuelled by critical housing shortages and failures of the justice system. We also have the latest from the Middle East, and new details of a government review of alleged supermarkets’ price gouging. |
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 | World | | Middle East | A third wave of US and UK strikes hit 36 Houthi targets in Yemen, prompting a vow from the militant group to continue attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. But the US says it was just the beginning of a sustained response. Meanwhile, Israeli air strikes killed scores more in Gaza amid fears the operation could spread to Rafah, where 1m people are sheltering. | US presidency | Joe Biden easily captured the South Carolina Democratic primary with 95% of the vote, remarking that the state was on track to “make Donald Trump a loser again” in the 2024 election. | Immigration | The British Home Office threatened a Portuguese plumber, who has lived legally in the UK for more than 20 years, with deportation after he struggled with his application to remain in the country. | Namibia | President Hage Geingob of Namibia, who was serving his second term, died of cancer in a hospital in the capital, Windhoek. He was 82. | Brexit | A British business department report trumpeting the trade perks of leaving the EU on Brexit’s fourth anniversary does not match the reality faced by companies, industry associations said. |
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| Full Story | | The fight over Māori rights New Zealand’s coalition government has announced it will repeal or review at least a dozen policies that provide for Māori, saying services should be provided on the basis of need, not race. But critics say the move is using fear to roll back decades of progress for Indigenous people. On the eve of Waitangi Day, the Guardian’s New Zealand correspondent Eva Corlett, along with Professor Margaret Mutu from the University of Auckland, explain why the government has chosen this moment for reform – and how Māori are pushing back. | |
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| Not the news | | When a Melbourne man claimed he survived the Holocaust by becoming a child mascot for the Nazis, he attracted worldwide attention – and scepticism. Now a documentary reveals new startling truths about the life of Alex Kurzem, the former TV repair man, who was retired and eking out a life on the poverty line in a Melbourne suburb when his story emerged. Kelly Burke’s review of the upcoming SBS premiere examines the new evidence – and unanswered questions. |
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| What’s happening today | Stage three | Grattan Institute analysis says the one-third of Australians who don’t pay tax – the group most struggling financially – miss out on cost-of-living relief in the federal government’s tax plan. | Wildlife | A man accused of throwing a live chicken to an alligator in front of families at a Hunter wildlife park is due in court. |
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| Brain teaser | And finally, here are the Guardian’s crosswords to keep you entertained throughout the day – with plenty more on the Guardian’s Puzzles app for iOS and Android. Until tomorrow. | |
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