In the weeks after his death, the boys’ mother was hospitalised for acute mental health care and later travelled to India to be supported by her sisters, leaving the brothers without a parent able to care for them in Australia.

A key part of the negotiation was $2 billion designed to help hospitals move more than 3,000 patients stranded in hospital waiting for discharge to a more appropriate aged-care facility.

"You can remove a physical statue, but the message of harmony it stands for is something no one can ever steal.”

Lodging an appeal allows applicants to remain in Australia while their case is under review — sometimes for years — even when their claims ultimately fail.

Investigators had worked intensively to assess whether the accused acted alone and whether there was any ongoing risk to the community.

Student numbers rose by 4 per cent to 67,915, while subject enrolments jumped 7.6 per cent and training hours increased 8.3 per cent. Program enrolments also grew by 0.6 per cent—the only increase nationwide.

“Each of these women and girls is changing lives not for recognition, but because they believe in lifting up their communities."

“This is about supporting working families – and giving them one less thing to worry about.”

Albanese said Labor’s decision to adopt affirmative action in 1994 marked a shift from aspiration to accountability, making gender equality something that could be measured and enforced.

Tasmania recorded one of its largest cigarette seizures just before Christmas, when officers searched a shipping container from Poland and uncovered over 5.4 million illicit cigarettes declared as stretch film.