Morning Mail: Pauper’s grave for ‘king of town hall’; Antarctic penguin numbers decline; and The Castle in real life
Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Morning everyone. Our exclusive top story reveals that a well-known Sydney rough sleeper was buried in an unmarked communal grave without the knowledge of his support workers as we continue our investigations into the scandal.
Elsewhere, the story of the couple who led the fight against a coalmine expansion in the Hunter Valley has been called a real life version of The Castle, and a British billionaire is revealed to have warned as early as the 1980s that Jeffrey Epstein was a “sexual deviant”. Pill boom | The number of pharmacies stocking an abortion pill increased by almost 50% when restrictions were relaxed, with researchers saying the findings suggest deregulation of abortion promotes safer and faster healthcare.
Exclusive | Homelessness support workers say they are shocked that they did not know that a Sydney rough sleeper known as the “king of town hall” for his constant presence on the steps of the building was one of the people “without means” who ended up being buried in unmarked graves. ‘Catastrophic loop’ | The drastic land use changes wreaked by colonisation created a “catastrophic wildfire loop” that rendered south-east Australia more susceptible to climate-fuelled bushfires, experts say .
Policy problem | What is the right level of immigration into Australia? The main political parties all have different proposals for...
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