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• Australia politics live: NSW supreme court overturns Minns government attempt to prevent Rising Tide climate protest
  by Nino Bucci (now) and Emily Wind (earlier) on November 21, 2024 at 6:20 am

  Follow today’s news liveChaotic Sydney train shutdown averted after eleventh hour crisis talks with unionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastNew South Wales MPs condemned for ‘part-time’ parliamentary yearScores of NSW MPs will earn the equivalent of more than $10,000 per sitting week in 2025 after a bid to increase the year’s 16-week calendar was rejected, AAP reports.To do this, government MPs have to turn up to parliament and discuss matters. Voters won’t be happy that government MPs would prefer to hide in their electorate offices rather than turning up to parliament, where they face scrutiny. Continue reading...

• Sydney train strike: chaotic shutdown averted after 11th hour crisis talks with union
  by Elias Visontay and Luca Ittimani on November 21, 2024 at 6:12 am

  NSW government caves to rail union demands to prevent workers strikingFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA chaotic two-day shutdown of Sydney’s train network has been averted at the eleventh hour after the state government caved to rail union demands to run 24-hour services to prevent workers striking.Sydney train services had been set to stop running early on Friday morning, as part of a Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) work ban which was set to lift on Sunday morning. Continue reading...

• Majority back British Museum exhibit on transatlantic slave trade
  by Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent on November 21, 2024 at 6:00 am

  New poll finds 53% of Britons support permanent exhibition on Britain’s role in slave trade at British MuseumThe majority of people in the UK think the British Museum should have a permanent exhibition dedicated to the transatlantic slave trade, according to research.New polling data by YouGov found that 53% of respondents think a permanent display about Britain’s role in the trade of enslaved African people would be appropriate, while two-thirds believe the British Museum has a role in educating the public about the UK’s history in the slave trade. Continue reading...

• Mazyouna, whose face was ‘ripped off’ by Israeli missile, allowed to leave Gaza
  by Thaslima Begum and Annie Kelly on November 21, 2024 at 6:00 am

  Israeli move follows Guardian report that 12-year-old girl’s evacuation for treatment had been repeatedly blocked The Israeli authorities have permitted Mazyouna Damoo, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl whose face was “ripped off” when an Israeli missile struck her home in June, to leave Gaza for medical treatment, five days after the Guardian reported that repeated requests for her urgent medical evacuation had been denied.Last Friday, the Guardian highlighted the Damoo family’s desperate battle to get Mazyouna evacuated from Gaza to the United States to receive emergency surgery on devastating injuries to her face sustained in a missile attack by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which tore off half of her cheek and exposed her jawbone. Continue reading...

• Call for east of England coast trail to address access-to-nature gap
  by Helena Horton Environment reporter on November 21, 2024 at 6:00 am

  Exclusive: Trail would help region with few areas where people can walk in countryside, report saysA new trail along the east coast of England should be created, a Tory thinktank has said, because farmland is preventing those who live there from having access to nature.A report from Onward has found that in most rural areas, people enjoy extensive rights-of-way networks. But across the east of England, there are many areas where people have barely anywhere they are allowed to walk in the countryside. This, the report says, is because of large areas of high-grade farmland in that area, but also because Lincolnshire has the largest backlog for recognition of historical but unrecorded rights of way, with more than 450 outstanding applications. Continue reading...

• PM must prioritise Birmingham pub bombings inquiry, say victims’ families
  by Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent on November 21, 2024 at 6:00 am

  Relatives of those killed in 1974 attack urge government on its 50th anniversary to set up statutory inquiryRelatives of the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings have said “England’s biggest unsolved mass murder of the 20th century” should be at the top of the government’s list as they renewed their calls for a public inquiry on the 50th anniversary of the atrocity.On 21 November 1974, 21 people were killed and 220 injured when bombs exploded in two Birmingham pubs, in an attack widely believed to have been orchestrated by the Provisional IRA. Continue reading...

• Google must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, justice department argues in court filing
  by Reuters on November 21, 2024 at 5:51 am

  Justice department urges court to force Google to share data with rivals as part of wide-ranging changes to end online giant’s monopoly on web searchingAlphabet’s Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with competitors and take a range of other measures to end its monopoly on searching the internet, US prosecutors have argued to a judge.Such changes would essentially result in Google being highly regulated for 10 years, subjecting it to oversight by the same Washington federal court that ruled the company maintained an illegal monopoly in online search and related advertising. Continue reading...

• Melbourne teen Bianca Jones dies in hospital after suspected methanol poisoning in Laos
  by Adeshola Ore and Rafqa Touma on November 21, 2024 at 5:16 am

  US state department also confirms American’s death in Vang Vieng, where Jones and friend Holly Bowles fell critically illFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMelbourne teen Bianca Jones has died in a Thai hospital, a week after a suspected methanol poisoning incident in neighbouring Laos that affected her and her best friend.Anthony Albanese confirmed the 19-year-old’s death on Thursday, after her parents travelled to Thailand to be with her. Continue reading...

• Labour’s new public bodies are likely to come at a high cost, thinktank finds
  by Rowena Mason Whitehall editor on November 21, 2024 at 5:00 am

  At least 17 state agencies to be created or overhauled, a challenge the IfG says will require major investmentLabour is creating or overhauling at least 17 public bodies, a move which is likely to come with high costs, an Institute for Government report has found.Launching a new “tracker” of public bodies, the thinktank warned of some of the pitfalls when setting up government agencies from scratch, saying: “Successfully creating a new public body is difficult and entails high fixed costs in terms of time, budget and leadership focus.” Continue reading...

• Labor to confiscate phones from non-citizens in immigration detention in new bill
  by Paul Karp Chief political correspondent on November 21, 2024 at 4:54 am

  Greens and legal advocates say bill will make it harder to hold authorities accountable for conditions in detention facilitiesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor has introduced a bill that would allow drugs and mobile phones to be confiscated from non-citizens in immigration detention, despite opposing a phone ban when attempted by Peter Dutton in 2020.The Albanese government is proposing greater safeguards than the Coalition’s attempts to ban phones, but the move has already outraged the Greens and legal advocates who warn it will make it harder to hold authorities accountable for conditions in detention.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...