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A culturally significant carved dhulu (tree), taken from Country more than a century ago will return to Australia, instilling optimism in the Gamilaraay people who are its custodians. or signup to continue reading The tree , which was taken from a ceremonial ground, near Boggabri NSW in the early 20th century, has been held in the Swiss Museum der Kulturen Basel's collection for 85 years. Gamilaraay elder Greg Bulingha Griffiths said the tree and its carvings are significant to his people. "The carvings on the tree represent parts of our lore and customs, and about who we are as a people," he told AAP. Mr Griffiths said the return of the tree will mean Gamilaraay people can reconnect to their old people, and the lores and customs represented in its carvings. "It's incredible for me to even think about," he said. "All the things that our forefathers had to endure, contact, colonisation, all the things in our history. "Now we're going to bring back a significant item ... and it can only be inspiring to our people to know that these things can happen." Discussions about the tree's repatriation began in 2022 after Bundjalung, Gamilaraay and Muruwari man and director of the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab at Monash University Professor Brian Martin saw it at Museum der Kulturen Basel. Mr Griffiths and his nephew Wayne Griffiths have travelled to Switzerland, where the tree will be handed over to them in a ceremony on Thursday. The tree is being returned with the assistance of Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Return of Cultural Heritage Program. "Basel has been really receptive to letting us have it back, and we know that's a hard gig or a hard choice to make for museums to return stuff," Greg Griffiths said. "Them being open to it even happening and AIATSIS's work to get all the logistics done, it's been pretty overwhelming." Representatives of the Gamilaraay people have carved a new tree as a gift for the museum. Wayne Griffiths said he hopes more museums will get on board to return cultural heritage items to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the country. He said the return of this tree to Gamilaraay people will mean younger generations will be able to learn about the cultural practices, contained in its carvings. "There's this optimism around our children and the younger generation having more access to this culturally significant piece," he said. "It'll be back on homeland, our kids will get to see it ... when you leave something behind for the next generation it's always a better world in the end." DAILY Today's top stories curated by our news team. WEEKDAYS Grab a quick bite of today's latest news from around the region and the nation. WEEKLY The latest news, results & expert analysis. WEEKDAYS Catch up on the news of the day and unwind with great reading for your evening. WEEKLY Get the editor's insights: what's happening & why it matters. WEEKLY Love footy? We've got all the action covered. WEEKLY Every Saturday and Tuesday, explore destinations deals, tips & travel writing to transport you around the globe. WEEKLY Going out or staying in? Find out what's on. WEEKDAYS Sharp. Close to the ground. Digging deep. Your weekday morning newsletter on national affairs, politics and more. TWICE WEEKLY Your essential national news digest: all the big issues on Wednesday and great reading every Saturday. WEEKLY Get news, reviews and expert insights every Thursday from CarExpert, ACM's exclusive motoring partner. TWICE WEEKLY Get real, Australia! Let the ACM network's editors and journalists bring you news and views from all over. AS IT HAPPENS Be the first to know when news breaks. DAILY Your digital replica of Today's Paper. Ready to read from 5am! DAILY Test your skills with interactive crosswords, sudoku & trivia. Fresh daily! Advertisement Advertisement

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An association of legislative aides at the Colorado state Capitol is demanding the resignation of state Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, D-Longmont. Jaquez Lewis had been stripped of her ability to hire state-paid legislative aides for repeated mistreatment of those aides. In its demand for her resignation, the Political Workers Guild (PWG) asked the Senate Democrats to review the lawmaker's actions and convene an ethics committee if she refuses to sign. That — or another method that will allow for caucus discussion and decision, the aides group said. The duties that Jaquez Lewis had been asking her aides to conduct "shows a lack of respect and decency," the group wrote. "It is contrary to the values of PWG, and we hope the values of the Senate Democrats, to make aides feel pressured to do tasks out of fear of retaliation." "Jaquez Lewis has consistently shown that she does not have the ability to manage an office, sit in a leadership role as chair, and show basic respect and decency to staff and her colleagues," the group added. "Allowing Jaquez Lewis to stay in the Democratic Caucus is a reflection of the Caucus and their values." The group also asked legislative leaders to create a formal body to address grievances by aides. The group said it would help set such a body up. "For too many years, we have been reporting incidents that have been met with few repercussions for the legislator because of the lack of accountability mechanisms in the current system," the group said. "Too many aides have had to experience workplace violations met with little consequences, and we hope the Senate Democrats view this as an opportunity to send a clear message; that staff in the Capitol are to be respected." The Political Workers Guild "is an open-model minority union that represents legislative aides, campaign workers, and political organizers who want to fight for dignity in our workplaces." It is organized under the Communications Workers of America Local 37074. Outgoing Senate President Steve Fenberg, in a sternly-worded Dec. 3 email obtained by Colorado Politics, told Jaquez Lewis, who was reelected to her second and final term last month, that he had received "new concerns" about the senator's treatment of her legislative aides. "This is now clearly a recurring issue that we have tried to address with you," Fenberg wrote. Colorado Public Radio had reported during the spring that four former aides complained of their pay being withheld, that the senator set unreasonable work schedules and otherwise prohibited them from interacting with other people "in the Democratic sphere." She was removed from a bill dealing with wage theft during the 2024 session as a consequence of that behavior and barred from using Senate partisan staff to help her hire aides. Last January, she was stripped of her leadership of the Senate Local Government and Housing Committee by Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez, a Democrat from Denver. Fenberg said the problems dated back to the 2023 interim, but that he has continued to receive concerns about how Jaquez Lewis treats her aides. According to the Colorado Sun , a workplace misconduct complaint filed on Nov. 15 with the Office of Legislative Workplace Relations alleged she paid an aide, who was a Hispanic man, to do landscaping work and tend bar, and that she paid him with a campaign check. She did not report those expenditures in her campaign finance reports. She also paid the aide to knock on doors for an Adams County commissioner candidate in the June primary who faced off against the wife of one of Jaquez Lewis' legislative rivals, according to reports. “Out of respect to those employees’ privacy, I do not wish to comment in detail on HR matters," Jaquez Lewis told the Sun. "I will note that all campaign work by my staff this cycle was the choice of those individuals and was fully compensated. That compensation is reflected in checks that they were paid. I regret that there was an oversight in filing these payments in TRACER. I am amending the reports to reflect these payments.” The lawmaker has not yet done so. The legislative rival is believed to be Sen. Kyle Mullica, D-Northglenn, whose wife, Julie, was elected to the Adams County Board of County Commissioners in November. The aides association called the recent incidents a clear violation of state law for campaign finance reporting, adding she had asked one of her aides to sign a nondisclosure agreement, which is prohibited by a state law passed last year , one that Jaquez Lewis and the rest of the Senate voted for unanimously. Fenberg has cut off Jaquez Lewis' state-paid legislative aide hours. "It is imperative that you do not engage in any behavior that could be reasonably perceived as retaliatory in nature towards past legislative aides or interns, legislative aides in the building, staff, or Senators. Engaging in any retaliatory behavior may constitute a violation of the Workplace Expectations policy," the president said. Jaquez Lewis can use campaign funds to pay aides during the 2025 session. She easily won her reelection bid in November. As of Oct. 28, she had just over $19,000 left in her campaign account. Jaquez Lewis is one of the more progressive members of the Senate Democratic caucus, sponsoring legislation on gun restrictions. She also pushed for a ban on new oil and gas drilling. In 2023, she sponsored the bill that originally intended to ban the carrying of firearms in almost any public place, although that measure was substantially watered down in its trip through the Colorado General Assembly. Jaquez Lewis has not responded to a request for comment as of Saturday afternoon.

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Herbert looks to maintain interception-free streak when Chargers host BuccaneersSupporters of Luigi Mangione , the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York, say he is a political prisoner. The December 4 Legal Committee, comprised of 15 volunteers from around the country, formed shortly after Mangione's arrest on December 9 and created a GiveSendGo fundraiser for the suspect's legal expenses. At the time of publication, the fundraiser has over $84,000 in donations . D4 committee spokesperson Sam Beard told Newsweek that assassination is a "political act," making someone who engages in an assassination a political prisoner. "It is not the celebration of murder, but the political desire for a healthcare system that actually cares for people that has led to an outpouring of support for Luigi from all walks of American life," Beard said. "Our legal system treats single incidents of violence much more harshly than the legalized, structural violence that allows insurance companies to profit from people in their most vulnerable moments," he added. "If Woody Guthrie were around today, he might say, 'some people kill you with a ghost gun, some people kill you with an algorithm,'" Beard said. While a motive in the killing has yet to be determined, Mangione criticized the United States health care system in a three-page manifesto recovered by law enforcement. "United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple , Google , Walmart . It has grown and grown, but [h]as our life expectancy?" the manifesto said. "No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it." New York City Police Department Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told NBC New York on Thursday that Mangione was not a UHC client but may have targeted the insurance company because of its size and influence. Beard told Newsweek that no one in the committee knows Mangione personally but they support his coming legal battles. "To see why this fundraiser is important, simply take a look at all the other crowdfunding campaigns in the U.S. The vast majority are for medical expenses from people in desperate situations, the exact situations that insurance theoretically should protect against. It doesn't," Beard said. "The medical insurance industry is a scheme to profit off pain, sickness and death. It doesn't work for anyone but the people at the top." Do you have a story Newsweek should be covering? Do you have any questions about this story? Contact LiveNews@newsweek.com.Trump won about 2.5M more votes this year than he did in 2020. This is where he did it

Herbert looks to maintain interception-free streak when Chargers host BuccaneersA damaged poster of Bashar al-Assad in Syria's second city of Aleppo. Photo: Reuters "We celebrate with the Syrian people the news of freeing our prisoners and releasing their chains and announcing the end of the era of injustice in Sednaya prison," said the rebels. Sednaya is a large military prison on the outskirts Damascus where the Syrian government detained thousands. Just hours earlier, rebels announced they had gained full control of the key city of Homs after only a day of fighting, leaving Assad's 24-year rule dangling by a thread. Intense sounds of shooting were heard in the centre of the Damascus, two residents said on Sunday, although it was not immediately clear what the source of the shooting was. In rural areas southwest of the capital, local youths and former rebels took advantage of the loss of authority to come to the streets in acts of defiance against the Assad family's authoritarian rule. Thousands of Homs residents poured onto the streets after the army withdrew from the central city, dancing and chanting "Assad is gone, Homs is free" and "Long live Syria and down with Bashar al-Assad". Rebels fired into the air in celebration, and youths tore down posters of the Syrian president, whose territorial control has collapsed in a dizzying week-long retreat by the military. The fall of Homs gives the insurgents control over Syria's strategic heartland and a key highway crossroads, severing Damascus from the coastal region that is the stronghold of Assad's Alawite sect and where his Russian allies have a naval base and air base. Homs' capture is also a powerful symbol of the rebel movement's dramatic comeback in the 13-year-old conflict. Swathes of Homs were destroyed by gruelling siege warfare between the rebels and the army years ago. The fighting ground down the insurgents, who were forced out. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham commander Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the main rebel leader, called the capture of Homs a historic moment and urged fighters not to harm "those who drop their arms". Rebels freed thousands of detainees from the city prison. Security forces left in haste after burning their documents. Residents of numerous Damascus districts turned out to protest Assad on Saturday evening, and security forces were either unwilling or unable to clamp down. Syrian rebel commander Hassan Abdul Ghani said in a statement early Sunday that operations were ongoing to "completely liberate" the countryside around Damascus and rebel forces were looking toward the capital. In one suburb, a statue of Assad's father, the late President Hafez al-Assad, was toppled and torn apart. The Syrian army said it was reinforcing around Damascus, and state television reported on Saturday that Assad remained in the city. Outside the city, rebels swept across the entire southwest over 24 hours and established control. EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO ASSAD RULE The fall of Homs and threat to the capital pose an immediate existential danger to the Assad dynasty's five-decade reign over Syria and the continued influence there of its main regional backer, Iran. The pace of events has stunned Arab capitals and raised fears of a new wave of regional instability. Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Russia issued a joint statement saying the crisis was a dangerous development and calling for a political solution. But there was no indication they agreed on any concrete steps, with the situation inside Syria changing by the hour. Syria's civil war, which erupted in 2011 as an uprising against Assad's rule, dragged in big outside powers, created space for jihadist militants to plot attacks around the world and sent millions of refugees into neighbouring states. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the strongest rebel group, is the former al Qaeda affiliate in Syria regarded by the U.S. and others as a terrorist organisation, and many Syrians remain fearful it will impose draconian Islamist rule. Golani has tried to reassure minorities that he will not interfere with them and the international community that he opposes Islamist attacks abroad. In Aleppo, which the rebels captured a week ago, there have not been reports of reprisals. When asked on Saturday whether he believed Golani, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov replied, "The proof of the pudding is in the eating". Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group withdrew from the Syrian city of Qusayr on the border with Lebanon before rebel forces seized it, Syrian army sources said on Sunday. At least 150 armoured vehicles carrying hundreds of Hezbollah fighters left the city, long a point on the route for arms transfers and fighters moving in and out of Syria, the sources said. Israel hit one of the convoys as it was departing, one source said. ALLIES' ROLE IN SUPPORTING ASSAD Assad long relied on allies to subdue the rebels. Russian warplanes conducted bombing while Iran sent allied forces including Hezbollah and Iraqi militia to reinforce the Syrian military and storm insurgent strongholds. But Russia has been focused on the war in Ukraine since 2022 and Hezbollah has suffered big losses in its own gruelling war with Israel, significantly limiting its ability or that of Iran to bolster Assad. 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H.S. FOOTBALL: Warriors are Super Bowl-bound againSuchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26. Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August. He was well-regarded by colleagues at the San Francisco company, where a co-founder this week called him one of OpenAI's strongest contributors who was essential to developing some of its products. “We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news and our hearts go out to Suchir’s loved ones during this difficult time,” said a statement from OpenAI. Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26 in what police said “appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation.” The city's chief medical examiner's office confirmed the manner of death to be suicide. His parents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy said they are still seeking answers, describing their son as a “happy, smart and brave young man” who loved to hike and recently returned from a trip with friends. Balaji grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and first arrived at the fledgling AI research lab for a 2018 summer internship while studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned a few years later to work at OpenAI, where one of his first projects, called WebGPT, helped pave the way for ChatGPT. “Suchir’s contributions to this project were essential, and it wouldn’t have succeeded without him,” said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman in a social media post memorializing Balaji. Schulman, who recruited Balaji to his team, said what made him such an exceptional engineer and scientist was his attention to detail and ability to notice subtle bugs or logical errors. “He had a knack for finding simple solutions and writing elegant code that worked,” Schulman wrote. “He’d think through the details of things carefully and rigorously.” Balaji later shifted to organizing the huge datasets of online writings and other media used to train GPT-4, the fourth generation of OpenAI's flagship large language model and a basis for the company's famous chatbot. It was that work that eventually caused Balaji to question the technology he helped build, especially after newspapers, novelists and others began suing OpenAI and other AI companies for copyright infringement. He first raised his concerns with The New York Times, which reported them in an October profile of Balaji . He later told The Associated Press he would “try to testify” in the strongest copyright infringement cases and considered a lawsuit brought by The New York Times last year to be the “most serious.” Times lawyers named him in a Nov. 18 court filing as someone who might have “unique and relevant documents” supporting allegations of OpenAI's willful copyright infringement. His records were also sought by lawyers in a separate case brought by book authors including the comedian Sarah Silverman, according to a court filing. “It doesn’t feel right to be training on people’s data and then competing with them in the marketplace,” Balaji told the AP in late October. “I don’t think you should be able to do that. I don’t think you are able to do that legally.” He told the AP that he gradually grew more disillusioned with OpenAI, especially after the internal turmoil that led its board of directors to fire and then rehire CEO Sam Altman last year. Balaji said he was broadly concerned about how its commercial products were rolling out, including their propensity for spouting false information known as hallucinations. But of the “bag of issues” he was concerned about, he said he was focusing on copyright as the one it was “actually possible to do something about.” He acknowledged that it was an unpopular opinion within the AI research community, which is accustomed to pulling data from the internet, but said “they will have to change and it’s a matter of time.” He had not been deposed and it’s unclear to what extent his revelations will be admitted as evidence in any legal cases after his death. He also published a personal blog post with his opinions about the topic. Schulman, who resigned from OpenAI in August, said he and Balaji coincidentally left on the same day and celebrated with fellow colleagues that night with dinner and drinks at a San Francisco bar. Another of Balaji’s mentors, co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, had left OpenAI several months earlier , which Balaji saw as another impetus to leave. Schulman said Balaji had told him earlier this year of his plans to leave OpenAI and that Balaji didn't think that better-than-human AI known as artificial general intelligence “was right around the corner, like the rest of the company seemed to believe.” The younger engineer expressed interest in getting a doctorate and exploring “some more off-the-beaten path ideas about how to build intelligence,” Schulman said. Balaji's family said a memorial is being planned for later this month at the India Community Center in Milpitas, California, not far from his hometown of Cupertino. —————- EDITOR’S NOTE — This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. —————-- The Associated Press and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement allowing OpenAI access to part of the AP’s text archives.

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