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- A woman dies after an alleged DV assault in New South Wales;
- The Trump administration freezes funding to Harvard over a dispute on grant conditions;
- Caitlin Foord helps Arsenal to prime position in the Women's Super League.
A Sydney woman has died following an alleged domestic violence incident where she ran through a glass door to flee her attacker.
38 year old marketing manager Claire Austin had spent three days in a critical condition after sustaining a severe laceration to her arm.
The alleged attacker is a 44-year-old man police say is known to her, who has since been released without charge, with no further arrests made.
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns says Strike Force Lyndoch is still investigating.
" I want the public to be assured that there is a taskforce that has been set up by NSW police. They're taking it incredibly seriously and the focus will be justice for that woman and her family."
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An Israeli air strike has hit the northern gate of a field hospital in the Gaza Strip, killing a medic and wounding nine other people.
Spokesman Saber Mohammed says the wounded are all patients and medics at the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in the Muwasi area, where hundreds of thousands of people have sought shelter in sprawling tent camps.
The Israeli military has struck and raided hospitals on several occasions during the 18-month war, accusing Hamas militants of hiding out in them or using them for military purposes.
Hospital staff have denied the allegations.
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The Trump administration has frozen more than 2 billion dollars in grants and 60 million dollars in contracts to Harvard University.
It follows Harvard's refusal to accept new conditions on grants sent from the U-S government, which would have included reporting students considered 'hostile' to American values, and hiring an external government-approved party to audit programs and departments.
Harvard is the first major U-S university to reject these demands, citing concerns about government overreach and only a small section of the conditions addressing antisemitism on campus.
Law professor Veena Dubal from the American Association of University Professors says the move is indicative of an attempt to crack down on academic dissent.
"I don't think that there is necessarily a grand plan that Donald Trump has to destroy higher education, but I do think that it is an instinct of leaders who have authoritarian tendencies to want to get rid of dissent and critique. And so much dissent and critique historically comes out of college campuses."
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The major parties have blamed each other for Australia's housing crisis during a debate at the National Press Club in Canberra.
Opposition housing spokesperson, Michael Sukkar, says the government has failed to ease supply issues by not delivering the 1.2 million homes it had pledged over five years.
"Over the past three years we've witnessed one of the most catastrophic policy failures in a generation. Under Labor less houses have been built, with falling housing completions, approvals and first home buyers. On every single metric, housing has gone radically backwards under this government."
But Housing Minister Clare O'Neil says problems in the market have been building for decades.
She's accused the Coalition of not having done enough in the nine years they were previously in government.
"We came to office three years ago after a decade of abject neglect of housing. This is not some subterfuge withdrawal from housing. Many of you would remember that Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison actually deliberately made a decision to take the Commonwealth out of the discussion. And that’s why, for most of the almost decade that the Coalition were in power, there wasn’t even a Commonwealth housing minister."
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A man has been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly seriously injuring a kangaroo in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains region.
Police allege the 60 year old man tied the kangaroo to the back of his car and dragged it from a property to the road at Bywong, approximately 30 kilometres north of Queanbeyan.
The animal died not long after a woman found the injured kangaroo and took it to a local rescue organisation.
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Greens M-P Stephen Bates has joined the online content subscription service 'OnlyFans' in what is a first for an Australian politician.
The Greens' L-G-B-T-I-Q plus spokesperson says he wants to use his presence as part of the party's push to make the HIV prevention drugs PrEP and PEP free.
"Whoever said sex and politics doesn't mix hasn't heard what I've got for you because I've got a huge policy announcement that'll top Labor and the LNP."
PrEP or Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis is a tablet that people can take to reliably prevent HIV.
Mr Bates says that while PrEP and PEP have been on the pharmaceutical benefits scheme since 2018, the growing gap payment means users can be out of pocket hundreds of dollars a year.
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In sport...
A double from Matildas star Caitlin Foord has helped Arsenal close the gap in the Women's Super League title race, winning against Leicester City 5-1.
Foord struck twice in the opening 31 minutes to put the Gunners on top.
The victory means Arsenal has moved within 3 points of league leaders Chelsea, who have a game in hand.
