Govt launches vet bill consultation

BRISBANE – British journalist and filmmaker Max Stahl has been honoured at a funeral Mass in St Stephen’s Cathedral in Brisbane – 30 years after he filmed a massacre in East Timor – an action that helped the tiny nation on its path to independence.The funeral was held on Friday – the 30th anniversary of a massacre at Santa Cruz Cemetery in the capital, Dili, in which 271 youths died.Stahl risked his own life as he filmed Indonesian troops firing on young protesters.His brave action

The Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday passed a government-drafted bill to amend the Chief Executive Election Law, according to which two members of the Chief Executive Election Committee will come from the city’s future municipal organisation.The bill’s outline was passed during a plenary session of the legislature in August.The government proposed the chief executive election law amendment bill, after the legislature passed in July passed a government-initiated bill on the establishment