In announcing her departure from politics, Ms Cusack said: 'The idea that being a flood victim in a National Party-held seat makes you more worthy than a flood victim who is in the Richmond electorate...

Others are planning to boost recruiting in racially diverse areas. But in states that have already banned affirmative action, similar efforts at selective colleges have largely failed to maintain diversity gains.

If the court rules against affirmative action, it will be important for colleges to find ways to show they see the students as more than a number on paper, said Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers´ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

He's admitted he fell out with his son, fine-art dealer and journalist Oscar Humphries, who had been left damaged by the breakdown of the Australian comedian's third marriage, to artist Diane Millstead.

Makia Green sits outside her Washington home on June 12, 2023. As a Black student who was raised by a single mother, Green believes she benefited from a program that gave preference to students of color from economically disadvantaged backgrounds when she was admitted over a decade ago to the University of Rochester. As a borrower who still owes just over $20,000 on her undergraduate student loans, she has been counting on President Joe Biden's promised debt relief to wipe nearly all that away. Now, both affirmative action and the student loan cancellation plan - policies that disproportionately help Black students - could soon be dismantled by the U.S. Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Monday's rally was just one of several outpourings of public frustration after New York Mayor Eric Adams confirmed last Wednesday that the United States' most populous city would remove mandates requiring masks for public school children aged five and over and proof of vaccination to dine out or enter entertainment venues. 

'While people in northern NSW aren't able to work, are still clearing out their homes and businesses, the extra two $1000 payments we're rolling out to eligible families and individuals will support our communities as they start to rebuild their lives,' she said.

She recalled classes where students discussed their lived experiences on topics such as police violence, colonialism and labor movements - discussions that would have fallen flat without a diverse range of student perspectives.

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Meyer, who was awarded an honorary MBE in 2011 and advised David Cameron's government, claimed she was unable to travel to court from her home in Switzerland due to having the eye condition conjunctivitis and being unjabbed.

Scott Morrison told Weekend Today the idea his cabinet has been too slow to respond to emergencies was nothing more than a 'Labor narrative' - despite criticisms being levelled by members within the Coalition.

Distressing images of families fleeing the conflict dominate our television screens, videos from the frontline play out on social media, and schools are abuzz with things children have seen and heard. 

It is understood the warrant for her arrest was issued after she failed to attend a court hearing on Valentine's Day. When Meyer was handed a suspended sentence, Mr Justice Kerr said she had shown herself 'to be a selfish and untrustworthy person'. 

For her 26th birthday, the Northampton-born actress was presented with a spectacular British-themed, five-tier cake, featuring Union flags, the London skyline, the Queen's guards and even an iced plate of bangers and mash.

Jonathan Loc, a graduate student at Harvard who helped organize teach-ins in support of affirmative action, poses with his dog Boba at his home in Rosemead, Calif., on Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Loc said that for students of color, it's impossible to speak about their lives without mentioning race, whether through hardships faced or simply their pride in their cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Bottoms, who served as mayor of Atlanta from 2018 to 2022, previously blamed the 50 percent increase in homicides in 2021 on lax gun laws, teenagers having too much free time on their hands and the state lifting its COVID-19.

They deserve exactly what every single other person above the age of five in this city and every single other person in this state is getting today. Join me in demanding that Mayor Adams unmask our toddlers,' she finished to the sound of the crowd chanting 'unmask our toddlers!' 

Earlier on Thursday, Social Services Minister Anne Ruston announced the government would provide an additional $9million to 83 emergency and food relief services supporting flood victims in northern NSW and Queensland.

'Until we deal with the systemic issues of gun violence in this country - how easily young people with mental illness can access guns in this country, I'm afraid that this will not be the last summer that we are having this conversation,'  Bottoms told  .