Why exactly are STIs spreading more and more across Australia?

Sexual transmitted infections have continued to grow across Australia over the last three decades, with chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis spiking in New South Wales alone. The reasons why are complex, experts say.

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The jury at Sean "Diddy" Combs's sex trafficking trial has reached a verdict on four of the five counts the music mogul faces, according to the New York judge overseeing the case.

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The US envoy to the Ukraine War, Keith Kellogg, has accused Russia of trying to "stall" peace negotiations and called for an immediate ceasefire.

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Parts of the New South Wales Central and South coasts are being lashed by a vigorous coastal low weather system, described by meteorologists as a bomb cyclone, that is causing damaging winds and heavy rainfall.

Emergency warnings remain in place for multiple regions due to a continued risk of flash flooding, with some suburbs receiving up to 130 millimetres of rain through the night. More than 35,000 homes and businesses remain without power.

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Australia's first formal truth-telling inquiry has found crimes against humanity and genocide were committed against Aboriginal people in Victoria, and has recommended that Victorian First Peoples be compensated through treaties with interest.

Since 2021, the Yoorrook Justice Commission has been tasked with investigating the past and ongoing impacts of colonisation in Victoria.

Running for more than four years until this week, it is now the longest state-run royal commission in Victoria, hearing from hundreds of witnesses over 67 days of public hearings.

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On a pristine Australian island, the seabirds have become so full of plastic they crackle and crunch.

For about 18 years, Dr Jen Lavers has been travelling to Lord Howe Island to study the mutton birds, and every time finds more and more plastic inside them.

She says what is happening to the mutton birds is happening everywhere. Plastics and microplastics are being found in everything, including humans, but the migratory shearwater is a ‘sentinel species’ for a bigger problem.

“These birds have a very important story to tell, and what they are telling us is that their populations are in decline, that the amount of plastic they’re consuming is going up and up,” she said.

“The birds are telling us we need to do more.”

Dr Lavers has been seeking to raise the plight of the mutton bird, saying it is a canary in the coal mine for the world’s larger plastic problem.

And so, as Australian politicians campaigned in a federal election, she enlisted the help of long-time friend and Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson, asking him to join her and see for himself the state of the mutton birds on Lord Howe Island.

Arriving to the island for the first time, Whish-Wilson said the mountainous landscape rising out of the fog was like something from Gilligan’s Island.

“It’s not really the kind of place you come to be shocked, and walk away feeling a little bit traumatised.”

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