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The Federal Treasurer, Scott Morrison, says the experience in the United Kingdom shows that changes to negative gearing won't necessarily improve housing affordability. The Opposition has been urging the Treasurer to use his visit to the UK to adopt similar policies to that country's Conservative Government, which has curbed tax concessions on investment properties. Some backbenchers are also continuing to call for all options to be on the table. But Mr Morrison told reporters in London that the

People sleeping rough at Melbourne's Flinders Street Station have been told they have a week to move on to make way for the historic building's multi-million-dollar redevelopment. Numbers of rough sleepers at the station have increased dramatically over recent months, fuelling the wider debate about homelessness in the city and how to deal with it. The State Government yesterday announced further funding and initiatives to tackle the issue, but the homeless community is sceptical.

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KEYWORDS: far eastern curlew, migratory shorebird, Darwin, Singapore, satellite tracking, Larrakia Nations, threatened species
BYLINE: Felicity James
CAPTION: Australia is leading a push to protect a critically endangered shorebird, the far eastern curlew, from extinction. A new agreement to protect the curlew was negotiated by several countries along its migration path in Singapore last week. The plan will involve satellite tracking and further research into the sites the far eastern

A report into the handling of a failed computer program for Victorian Government schools has detailed widespread corruption within the senior ranks of the Education Department. The 'Ultranet' was supposed to connect students, parents and teachers. But the state's corruption watchdog has found that officials wasted up to $240 million of taxpayers' money. Victoria's 'Ultranet' was launched at a lavish event in August 2010 at a cost of $1.4 million. Three years later it was dumped. A report into th

A family with links to Australia is being questioned in Jakarta, after allegedly attempting to join ISIS in the Middle East. They were deported back to Indonesia earlier this week. But the 40-year-old father isn't your average ISIS recruit, he was awarded a Masters degree from Adelaide's Flinders University.CAPTION: A family with links to Australia is being questioned in Jakarta, after allegedly attempting to join ISIS in the Middle East. They were deported back to Indonesia earlier this week.Bu