Acting Australian Prime Minister Richard Marles said Chau Van Kham was released on humanitarian grounds and “in the spirit of friendship” between Australia and Vietnam. This compares with a $1.3 billion increase in rental costs, the ­national spend on rent rising from $18 billion to $19.3 billion in the March quarter. Total mortgage interest payments have also soared above total national spending on rents for the first time in over a decade. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/mortgage-interest-payments-double-to-22bn/news-story/db336e30ea5b6ee6d48d13a78f4f3980MediaNew channel dedicated to covering Indigenous voiceRupert Murdoch’s pay-TV channel, Sky News Australia, will next week launch a dedicated new channel promising to “canvas all angles” of the Indigenous voice to parliament. Chris Kenny, who hosts a weeknight current affairs program on the network, is a rare supporter of the voice on the channel, The Guardian has reported.

Source: The Guardian July 12, 2023 04:51 UTC