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Independent MP Helen Haines is now in a 'stable' condition, after suffering critical injuries in an alleged attack last month.
Ms Haines was struck by a vehicle outside her electorate office in Wangaratta in October.
Ms Haines was initially in a critical condition in the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, then a serious but stable condition, after the amputation of both of her legs.
The MP for the electorate of Indi remains in hospital.
A 90-year old woman shot during the Bondi Beach terror attack has died in hospital.
Eva Geller was seriously injured during the shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in December last year.
Rabbi Aron Moss says Ms Geller had been in and out of hospital for treatment for significant injuries and died last night.
Rabbi Moss says Ms Geller was a Holocaust survivor, who migrated to Australia from Hungary as a child with her mother and grandmother.
The Greens continue their calls for a moratorium on new artificial intelligence data centres in Australia, blaming increased cost of living on over-investment in data centre expansion.
Speaking after the decision to raise interest rates earlier this week, Reserve Bank Governor Michelle Bullock said stronger than expected investment, including in data centres, had added to inflationary pressures.
Deloitte Access Economics says Australia's total investment pipeline has grown to a record $1.39 trillion, including $141 billion in data centre projects.
Greens Leader David Shoebridge says the push for more data centres is occurring with little community consultation, and at huge cost to Australians.
"Well, we see government, state and federal, that are literally inviting in these US vampire tech bros, they're billionaires, to come and take our water, take our power, take our data, and take our jobs. Well, the Greens are the party saying across this country no to the rollout of these AI data centres and a moratorium, an urgent moratorium."
Alleged murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon has returned to the witness box for a second day, during his double murder trial.
The 31-year-old has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in a Sydney terrace house in February 2024, arguing both were accidentally shot during separate struggles.
He told a New South Wales Supreme Court jury he went to Mr Baird's house on the morning of February 19 in an attempt to retrieve belongings he had left there.
During cross-examination, Mr Lamarre-Condon told the court he was "responsible for his death but it wasn't intentional," and that he never “had the thought process of wanting to cause him physical harm”.
Thousands of people are gathering in Adelaide for the National Reconciliation Action Plan Conference, a two-day event [[4-6 Nov]] focusing on truth-telling, workplace racism and reconciliation.
The conference marks 20 years since Reconciliation Action Plans were first established, and since then the number of organisations to implement such plans has grown to more than 3,300.
Conference organisers say the gathering is also about encouraging more organisations to participate, and supporting workplaces to provide better reconciliation training, and adopt stronger anti-racism measures.
South Australia's Commissioner for Aboriginal Children Dale Aguis tells NITV the young people he works with want reconciliation to be a high priority at every workplace.
"Every conversation I have with young people, they are so passionate about seeing a united Australia. They want to see themselves belong in the national identity of Australia. What they want is they want their selves, their families, their peers to have access to opportunities like health, truth-telling, education, support and stronger families at home, able to participate in sport, able to go to the shop and be safe and purchase goods and services, what they need and require."
Members of the Portugese-Australian community say there's mixed emotions about Cristiano Ronaldo's retirement from international football.
Ronaldo's announcement brings an end to a glittering international career beginning more than two decades ago, spanning six World Cups, a European title and the men's all-time international scoring record.
Former rugby league player Josh Mansour, who is half Portugese, says he feels a special connection with Ronaldo.
Speaking with reporter John Baldock for SBS World News, he says his mother's family is from the same Island as the football great.
"For me, yeah, this connection definitely runs deep. Whenever Portugal played, the thing we did, us and my cousins and my uncles and aunties, we always meet up, have a barbecue. If that's a espetada, which is a beef rump on a skewer, or if it's, you know, a nice old-fashioned barbecue with a bit of wine on the side, it just was, yeah, it was always, it was... They're core memories for me, core memories.”
Ronaldo will keep playing at club level, in pursuit of his 1000th career goal.
