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Insight Enterprises Withdraws FY20 Outlook Amid COVID-19 - Quick Facts

While reporting financial results for the first quarter on Thursday, technology company Insight Enterprises, Inc. (NSIT) said it is withdrawing its 2020 financial guidance for net sales and adjusted earnings per share due to the high level of economic uncertainty and disruption caused by COVID-19.




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Atlas Air Worldwide Withdraws FY20 Outlook Amid COVID-19 - Quick Facts

While reporting financial results for the first quarter on Thursday, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (AAWW) is providing an outlook for the second quarter of 2020, but its full-year 2020 guidance provided on February 20 of this year no longer applies, and we will provide updates as the year progresses.




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Baseball Star Andre Dawson On Running A Funeral Home During The Pandemic

NPR's Scott Simon talks to baseball legend Andre Dawson, a Hall-of-Fame member and National League MVP for the Chicago Cubs, about his second career as a Miami funeral director.




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LUTOSLAWSKI, W.: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 (Finnish Radio Symphony, Lintu) (ODE1332-5)


Review by Freya Parr
BBC Music Magazine, May 2020




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PSW draws attention to 'burnt out' staff as COVID-19 compounds long-term care crisis

A personal support worker (PSW), who has worked for a decade in long-term care homes, told White Coat, Black Art the COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis on top of an already existing crisis for PSWs.




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Arkansas Racing Commission sticks with competition for Pope County casino; Mississippi operators promise lawsuit if they don’t win

The Racing Commission had a long and open discussion but again cleared the Cherokee Nation's belated application for a casino permit in Pope County. A Mississippi casino operator says it will sue if the Cherokees win the permit.

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Shooters MP Rick Mazza fails in last-ditch bid to delay WA voluntary euthanasia laws

Opponents of Western Australia's voluntary assisted dying bill are defeated in their attempt to put a final vote in State Parliament on hold until well into next year.



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Craig Peacock soapland rort probe not over as Police Commissioner Chris Dawson says officers will visit Japan

A team of WA Police officers will be deployed to Japan as part of a revived investigation into former trade commissioner Craig Peacock, accused of misusing his position to pocket $540,000 in taxpayer funds.





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Clubs claim plans to overhaul the State's alcohol laws will create more red tape

Clubs WA has hit out at the recommendations in a review of Western Australia's liquor laws released yesterday, claiming its interests have been ignored. The review of the Liquor Control Act released by the State Government makes 141 recommendations, including the introduction of secondary supply laws which make it an offence to supply liquor to a juvenile on an unlicensed premise without parental consent.




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Brad Hazzard says the incoming NZ players must abide by quarantine laws

The New Zealand Warriors will fly into Tamworth tomorrow, in an exemption from current travel rules.




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Side Effects - Jonathan Dawson Film Review

Side Effects is many things, and finally becomes a full throttle thriller moving ahead at great pace and no little intricacy.




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Struggle Street's Ashmont draws 'dangerous' moniker in latest series, but refuge operator says label unfair

Rampant vandalism, stress on social housing, and a dairy farming family at the end of their resources SBS's Struggle Street spotlights the Riverina in its latest look at poverty.



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Crown Casino whistleblower alleges gambling giant skirting money-laundering laws

Foreign high-rollers can take bags full of cash to the gambling floor at Crown Casino. But a whistleblower says it could be a sign of much bigger problems at the gambling giant.




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Government draws up plans to open economy by July

National Cabinet will meet on Friday to start lifting restrictions in a three stage process to lock in what the Prime Minister is calling "a sustainable COVID safe economy".




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Morrison Government flags changes to environmental laws to cut green tape

With the focus now firmly on rebooting Australia's economy, the Morrison Government intends to cut green tape and speed up nation building projects such as major roads, dams and mines.





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Ben Roberts-Smith defamation lawsuit delayed after secrecy laws invoked by the Government

A defamation lawsuit launched by one of Australia's most decorated soldiers could be delayed until next year because of coronavirus and a decision by the Attorney-General to invoke special secrecy laws to protect sensitive military information.




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Canberra's noise laws to face 'protest jam' as musicians band together to 'save' nightlife

Amid plans for a five-star hotel for Canberra's centre, some of the city's biggest music success stories plot to save its nightlife, claiming currently unenforced noise limits could kick into effect and threaten venues when the hotel starts hosting guests.





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State Government to 'clean up' laws governing the supervision of former prisoners

A crime spree allegedly committed by a high-risk fugitive has prompted the SA Government to "clean up" the laws that govern the supervision of former prisoners.




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The Victorian Government expects about a dozen people to use the laws in the first year

Premier Daniel Andrews says more than 100 doctors have already undertaken intensive specialist training ahead of Victoria's voluntary assisted dying laws taking effect on June 19.




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Premier Daniel Andrews says the new laws will boost equality in Victoria

The Victorian Parliament will debate a bill which would allow people to change their gender on their birth certificate without needing to undergo surgery.




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'He showed him how': Slaughter of 406 eagles sparks review of wildlife laws

When a farmworker was convicted of poisoning hundreds of wedge-tailed eagles in Victoria, he told the court he was ordered to do it. But due to legal limitations, no further charges were laid against his boss.




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Victoria Police facing lawsuit over 'false imprisonment' of Faruk Orman

Faruk Orman, who spent 12 years in prison for murder before being acquitted because of the Lawyer X scandal, is suing Victoria Police for unspecified damages.



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Gayle's Law loophole, allowing nurses to see patients alone, draws concern from union

The nurses' union says a law requiring remote health workers to be accompanied when going on unscheduled or after-hours callouts is being undermined by the State Government.



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Snake with jaws around tawny frogmouth



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Ironman Bennett Powell races with support of veteran Greg Laws, vegemite sandwiches and boiled potatoes

When Bennett Powell was a child, doctors thought he might never walk but now he's running, cycling and swimming as part of his third Ironman Australia race.




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Native bee honey set to be officially recognised under food standard laws

Honey from Australian native stingless bees is not technically honey and moves are buzzing around to change that.




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Bowraville murders: Legal groups oppose changes to double jeopardy laws in NSW

Members of the NSW legal fraternity have spoken out against a bill to change the state's double jeopardy laws brought forward following the acquittal of the prime suspect in the Bowraville murders.





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Mawson Station pioneers reunited 65 years after flag raised in Antarctica

A ship left Melbourne in January 1954 to set up Australia's first Antarctic base. Facing harsh conditions and the unknown, the pioneers built Mawson Station.




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Catholic Church in Tasmania won't follow new confession laws

The Catholic Church says it will not follow new Tasmanian laws that require priests to break the seal of confession to report suspicion of child sex abuse.




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Fears government's religious freedom draft bill will override Tasmania's anti-discrimination laws

Human rights advocates fear the Tasmanian Government's failure to make a submission against the Federal Government's religious freedom draft bill would severely undermine the state's anti-discrimination laws.




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Tasmania News: Worsening state net debt warning, TasPorts withdraws marina application

DAILY BRIEFING: Treasury modelling warns of net debt of more than $4 billion by 2033-34, and a plan to accommodate a bumper Sydney-to-Hobart fleet this year at Constitution Dock hits a snag.




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South Australia to consider banning single-use plastics such as straws

The South Australian Government is looking at banning single-use plastic products such as straws and cutlery in a bid to lead the nation in another anti-littering cause.




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Pub patron stabbed in back after intervening in attempted armed robbery at Mawson Lakes

A woman has been arrested and a man is on the run after a customer was stabbed during an attempted robbery at an Adelaide pub last night.





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Caltex slammed by Fair Work Ombudsman for widespread breaches of workplace laws

The Fair Work Ombudsman releases a report revealing widespread breaches of workplace laws by Caltex franchisees.




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Clive Palmer settles with biggest creditor in $200m Queensland Nickel lawsuit

In a breakthrough during week three of a nine week trial over Clive Palmer's ill-fated Queensland Nickel venture, a "resolution" is reached on Aurizon's $90 million claim, as talks continue with liquidators trying to claw back money owed to other creditors.




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Clive Palmer settles majority of $200 million lawsuit over Queensland Nickel's collapse

Resources magnate Clive Palmer settles the majority of the $200 million lawsuit over the collapse of Queensland Nickel, including striking a deal with government-funded liquidators chasing millions in unpaid entitlements for refinery workers.




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Parole audit after Darwin shooting exposes flaws in monitoring of criminals

An urgent parole audit ordered by the NT's Chief Minister in the wake of a shooting spree in Darwin earlier this month finds a number of parolees and offenders are not being adequately monitored.




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Colin Dawson is hoping the NT Government will exempt him from having to register his wheelchair as a motor vehicle



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Cyclist safety laws coming to Northern Territory a 'challenge' for truck drivers, association says

A road transport group says it will be difficult for truck drivers to give cyclists a wider berth, as required by new rules coming to the Territory.




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Indigenous art depicting bush medicine draws acclaim from critics and collectors

In the remote Northern Territory community of Ampilatwatja, paintings show the prescriptions for thousands of years of traditional healing.



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Man dead after Bootu Creek mine wall collapse, unions call for industrial manslaughter laws

A 59-year-old employee of the company that operates the Bootu Creek mine was killed when a wall of soil and dirt collapsed on him on Saturday afternoon, the Singapore-based parent company says.