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It's a good* news week!

International news

• Anthony Albanese reassures the nation that no-one cares if he wins or not.

• Nurses in NSW are striking for better pay and safer conditions.
• The Omicron wave and the withdrawal of government supports has been brutal for health workers.
• The ICU nurse in the US who quit, and encouraged others to do the same.
• Environmental activists win high court case, stopping a new coal mine in the Bylong Valley.
• Victoria has decriminalized sex work!
• We won’t need to worry about inhaling burnt koala noses for too much longer.
• This follows deliberate action from the NSW government to block legislation to project koalas.

• The religious discrimination bill has been withdrawn.
• This follow’s Rebekah Sharkie’s successful amendment to the sex discrimination act that would have prevented the transphobia intended by the original bill.
• Transphobes have taken a sudden interest in “saving women’s sport”.
• Arizona has just passed the “Save Women’s Sports Act”, intended to do exactly the same thing.
• We’ve talked about the Olympics before.