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NatWest faces AGM showdown over ‘climate backtracking’
Apr 26, 2026 - World 
Shareholders including the Church of England back call for protest votes against bank’s chairNatWest is at risk of an embarrassing showdown at its shareholder meeting this week as investors and scientists call for an urgent reversal of what they describe as “climate backtracking”.Campaigners including ShareAction are calling for protest votes against the bank’s chair, Rick Haythornthwaite, at its annual meeting in Edinburgh on Tuesday. Continue reading...
Patient allegedly attacks several nurses, police and member of the public at Sydney hospital
Apr 26, 2026 - World
Calls for more security measures after man, 51, arrested over alleged assaults at Prince of Wales hospital Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA hospital attack that left a nurse seriously injured has fuelled calls for improved safety and security after several violent incidents in emergency departments.Police restrained a 51-year-old patient after he allegedly assaulted several nurses, police and a member of the public in a Saturday night melee at Sydney’s Prince of Wales hospital. Continue reading...
Australia news live: Canavan says ‘too much talk of diversity’ in address to Canberra anti-immigration rally – as it happened
Apr 26, 2026 - World
This blog is now closedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe health and NDIS minister, Mark Butler, says Queensland will be “answerable to their community” if they don’t sign on to NDIS reforms, with billions of dollars of hospital funding on the line.Every state and territory except for the sunshine state has signed a bilateral agreement with the government for the Thriving Kids program, which is designed to take children under nine with developmental delays or low to moderate autism off the NDIS.Now every state and territory has signed a bilateral agreement with us that details the broad details of the Thriving Kids program … The only state that hasn’t signed yet is Queensland.I tried to make clear again last week that is part of the deal that sees them get additional hospital funding and, frankly, they are answerable to their community if they don’t put the additional supports. Continue reading...
Taylor says higher risk of ‘bad people coming from bad countries’ and that welcome to country ceremonies ‘overused’
Apr 26, 2026 - World
Opposition leader doubles down on immigration policy and defends preferencing One Nation over independent in Farrer in ABC interviewFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe opposition leader, Angus Taylor, has said “there is a higher risk that some bad people come from those bad countries”, doubling down on his immigration policy and refusing to call out Pauline Hanson’s hardline stance.Speaking to the ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday, Taylor said Indigenous welcome to country ceremonies were overused, after booing incidents at some of Saturday’s Anzac Day dawn services. He also defended preferencing One Nation above the independent community candidate, Michelle Milthorpe, in the upcoming Farrer byelection, arguing the teals “vote with the Greens”. Continue reading...
Police in Northern Ireland declare security alert after reports of a car bomb explosion
Apr 26, 2026 - World 
Police in Northern Ireland have declared a security alert in the town of Dunmurry, on the outskirts of Belfast, after reports that a car bomb exploded near a police station
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