Tory Shepherd

4 days ago | theguardian.com | Tory Shepherd

More than two and a half centuries after Capt James Cook arrived in Australia on the HM Bark Endeavour, the Australian National Maritime Museum has published its final report on the ship’s resting place. The museum published a preliminary report in 2022 that a wreck in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island was the Lord Sandwich, which was previously known as the Endeavour.

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Tory Shepherd

One in three Australian men has reported committing domestic violence, world-first research has found – and the same research has identified new ways to tackle it. The Australian Institute of Family Studies found fostering affectionate relationships between sons and fathers (or father figures) was associated with reducing the risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) by as much as 48%. The AIFS Ten To Men Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health is the largest of its kind.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Tory Shepherd

An independent investigator must be appointed to examine the death of a Warlpiri man in police custody, family members say, while also demanding video footage be released. The 24-year-old man with disabilities from Yuendemu died on Tuesday afternoon after police restrained him in an Alice Springs supermarket. His family wants Northern Territory police to “immediately cease making public statements or media briefings that speculate on the cause of death or denigrate the character of the deceased”.

1 week ago | msn.com | Tory Shepherd

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1 week ago | theguardian.com | Tory Shepherd

An anonymous group of Adelaide activists will keep fighting to stop Elon Musk’s Tesla from setting up a battery factory in the suburbs. Tesla has been targeted globally by protesters furious at Musk’s work with the Trump administration, and at his ideology which the billionaire often espouses through his social media platform, X. This week that anger boiled over in the South Australian capital, half a world away from Washington DC.