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Foxes cost Australian farmers $28 million in lost livestock, prompting cull

And everyone knows how well – not – Australians do at managing wildlife, and introducing their own natural disasters – rabbits and camels come to mind.

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A sanctioned fox cull in WA’s south west barely makes a dent in the $28 million problem they cause, say farmers.

Homeless charity helped target rough sleepers to deport

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St Mungo’s cooperated with Home Office patrols looking for migrant rough sleepers deemed to be in UK illegally

A leading homelessness charity has worked with Home Office patrols as they go out on the streets in search of rough sleepers deemed to be in the UK illegally to arrest and deport, the Guardian has learned.

St Mungo’s is one of the largest providers of homelessness outreach services in the UK, with 17 outreach teams across the south and south-west. Its website says it is “here for every step of the journey away from homelessness” and its outreach teams work to “gradually build up trusting relationships” with people who are sleeping rough.

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Czech protesters inflamed by police role for Communist MP

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Protests in Prague and other cities sparked by choice of ex-riot squad officer to head watchdog

Thousands of demonstrators brought the centre of Prague to a standstill on Monday night in a display of anger over the appointment of a communist-era riot squad officer to head the Czech parliament’s police watchdog.

Chanting “communists are murderers” and “we have had enough”, protesters held sheets of paper rolled up to resemble police batons in an expression of indignation over the installation of Zdeněk Ondráček, a Czech Communist party MP, as chair of the parliament’s general inspection of security forces commission.

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Australia has lost its compass for the world, we should look to Jacinda Ardern for inspiration | Thom Woodroofe

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Australian values are neither clear nor consistent. If we want to make a difference in the world, we should follow New Zealand’s lead

Of all the Generation X world leaders elected in the last few years – think Justin Trudeau in Canada, Emmanuel Macron in France, and even the 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz in Austria – it is New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern who has the firmest sense of what kind of country she wants to lead on the world stage.

Just four months since taking office after a decade of conservative rule, and while trying to carefully balance the views of three parties in government, New Zealand is already showing signs of regaining its trademark standing as a small but confident, principled and creative presence internationally. And Australia should take notice.

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