Low-paid workers fight for wages to keep pace with rising costs Unions seek 5% pay rises for award workers while remote allowance frozen for 25 years. Cost of living pressures hit Australia's poorest households hardest.

Low-paid workers fight for wages to keep pace with rising costs

#AusWages #CostOfLiving #RemoteAustralia #AusNews

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Remote allowance frozen 25 years as fuel costs bite remote NT Aboriginal communities in Central Australia face fuel costs double the city price, yet federal allowance hasn't increased since 2000.

Remote allowance frozen 25 years as fuel costs bite remote NT

#RemoteAustralia #CostOfLiving #NT #AusNews

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Nhulunbuy faces food crisis as Woolworths plans exit Woolworths closes Nhulunbuy's only supermarket in 2027, leaving isolated NT town and Aboriginal communities without reliable food access.

Nhulunbuy faces food crisis as Woolworths plans exit

#AusNews #NorthernTerritory #FoodSecurity #IndigenousAustralia #RemoteAustralia

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Colour and connection: Melbourne hairdressers take salon to remote NT Easter Melbourne hairdressers head to remote Indigenous NT communities this Easter to offer free professional hair colouring and styling services to residents.

Colour and connection: Melbourne hairdressers take salon to remote NT Easter

#RemoteAustralia #IndigenousCommunities #Volunteering #AusNews

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Your iPhone Can Reach a Satellite. Here's What Australians Need to Know Apple's iPhone satellite location sharing works in Australia, but preparation is essential. Here's what you need to set up before heading off-grid.

Your iPhone Can Reach a Satellite. Here's What Australians Need to Know

#iPhone #Apple #SatelliteConnectivity #RemoteAustralia #EmergencySOS #AusNews

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Telstra Halts Remote LEOsat Rollout as Outages Hit Triple Zero Calls Telstra has paused its LEO satellite backhaul rollout to remote sites after outages surged and a Queensland triple zero call was disrupted by voice dropouts.

Telstra Halts Remote LEOsat Rollout as Outages Hit Triple Zero Calls

#Telstra #RemoteAustralia #TripleZero #Satellite #Telco #AusNews

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Dawn over Beagle Bay, WA Oct 2025. Tide coming in.

Thinking of people and migratory birds in Beagle Bay, where Severe Tropical Cyclone Hayley is expected to disturb the peace today.

#ExtremeEvents
#RemoteAustralia
#Auspol

Powerless: The hidden crisis of prepaid energy and First Nations communities In Western Australia's remote north, tens of thousands of people are living in fear of sudden disconnection and being forced to ration power.

www.sbs.com.au/news/article... #indigenousaus #australia #westaustralia #remoteaustralia #prepaidenergycrisis #firstnationsaus

Peregrine falcon at Arrow Pearls, Beagal Bay Western Australia

I saw a pheasant coucal in the Broome garden where I stayed last week. Large bird that moved too quickly for a photo.

Here's another large bird that was happy to pose.

#RemoteAustralia
#WildOz

Sisters mull mum's 1968 imprisonment that sparked national outcry In 1968, a young Aboriginal woman was jailed for manslaughter when her baby died. It shone a light on the terrible living conditions of Indigenous people in this outback town.

Revealing the racism & injustices of the '60's but how much has changed in the 60 years since?

Still little
#AccessToJustice
#AccessToHealth
#AccessToHousing
#RemoteAustralia still has townships without
#AccessTo clean water
#Incarceration for minor crimes.
#VAW

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NT government’s bid to not supply safe drinking water to Indigenous communities is ‘shocking’, lawyer says Authorities accused of ‘wasting time in court’ rather than working to fix the problem in towns across the Northern Territory

If Federal and State Governments of Australia think that #RemoteAustralia is 'out of sight, out of mind' for the rest of the country, they're wrong.

#safeDrinkingwater
#safeHousing
#AccessToHealth
#AccessToJustice
#YouthJustice
#RaiseTheAge

#NT #Qld #WA #NSW

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

⬆️ This is a great argument put forward against the minimum age, and highly recommended for vulnerable folks in Australia eg #ruralaustralia #remoteaustralia #disability #NDIS #AusPol