Police allege 17-year-old has failed to comply with bail conditions and his location is unknown
Police are searching for a teenager who was charged and bailed after an alleged crash that killed a 28-year-old man.
Victoria police on Tuesday afternoon alleged the 17-year-old failed to comply with his bail conditions and his whereabouts was unknown.
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Australians feel ‘crushing burden’ from humanitarian crises
Many Australians are feeling a “crushing burden” as they see images from multiple humanitarian crises around the world, a prominent charity says.
I think sometimes people see this stuff on the news or read about it in the newspaper and they feel like they have to carry this burden on their own shoulder, and so they have nothing in between crisis and themselves.
And they look at something like what’s happening in Gaza and Israel, what’s happening in Ukraine, what’s happening now in Sudan, and think how can they possibly make a difference? What can they possibly do to make that situation better? And so it feels like a crushing burden.
Abortion is a very personal choice, and every Queenslander deserves the level of support and care we are offering with this investment.
Continue reading...Homicide squad detectives are investigating the death, which is being treated as suspicious
The body of a woman has been found at a waste management facility in Melbourne’s north.
Workers made the grim discovery while moving green waste at the site on Cooper Street in Epping on Wednesday.
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‘Pretty clear’ Fatima Payman has been planning to join crossbench for a ‘long period’, minister says
The finance minister and manager of the government in the Senate, Katy Gallagher, is speaking with ABC RN after Fatima Payman’s resignation yesterday.
It’s difficult to go into, you know, when the decision was made – only Senator Payman knows that – but we do know, now that it’s been done, it’s a matter of fact that there had been obviously discussions about her role as an independent senator and for some time.
I think the way these decisions have been made by Senator Payman make it pretty clear that she has been thinking about this for a long period of time, and it was executed this week …
Continue reading...On a morning when the Dandenong Ranges were largely obscured by clouds, Danny Pearson says ‘lots of caffeine’ was driving his enthusiasm
According to Victoria’s transport infrastructure minister, this is a train station with “million dollar views, baby”.
At a press conference on a cloudy Friday morning, Danny Pearson was ebullient in his praise for the views commanded by the new elevated platform at Croydon – to the point that his enthusiasm itself was questioned by reporters.
Continue reading...Officers raided 33-year-old’s home and allegedly seized statue along with 24 suspected stolen drivers’ licences and prescription medication
A man who handed himself in to police has been charged over the alleged theft of a gorilla statue from a retirement village in Melbourne’s north.
The gorilla, a 1.5-metre garden ornament named Garry, disappeared from Leith Park retirement village at St Helena on 6 June.
Continue reading...Boy, 17, charged over driving an allegedly stolen car in a fatal crash that killed a 28-year-old man in Burwood
A teen accused of driving a stolen Jeep that killed another driver was checked on by police hours after the crash and found in bed with a doona pulled up to his chin, police allege.
Police are relying on a pair of white shoes, a phone call and an accusation by a young female co-accused to prove the 17-year-old was behind the wheel during the deadly crash.
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Josh Burns says Labor motion to recognise Palestine as part of the peace process is ‘the bare minimum’
Josh Burns finished with:
This motion before the House is the bare minimum. It says that we support the recognition of a Palestinian state as part of a peace process. That peace process is something that I hold onto and that I have held onto my entire life.
That peace process says that we are all people, above all, and that there has to be a way through this. There has to be a way through this conflict. I wish that we could pull a lever here in Australia and it would all end today, but we have seen time and time again that that is not the case.
There are so many intractable parts of this conflict. I have a degree in this conflict, and I still don’t quite know how to fix it.
I know that there are players who are desperate to end the peace process and to try and disturb any efforts towards peace. I know that trees take years and years and years to grow and can be cut down in a second, and that is what the Middle East has demonstrated over and over again.
Continue reading...Police say 7,500 charges laid, including against a man, 42, who allegedly stabbed a woman and assaulted a teenager in front of two younger children
A man who allegedly stabbed a woman and assaulted a teenager in front of two children was among 2,700 arrests by Victoria police during a five-month blitz targeting family violence offenders in Melbourne’s south-east.
Victoria police on Thursday said 7,500 charges had been laid as a result of the blitz, between January and June of this year.
Continue reading...Police confirm drug’s presence after deaths of boy, 17, and three adults in Broadmeadows last week
A synthetic opioid has been found in the bodies of four people found dead in a Melbourne home last week, police say.
The bodies of the 17-year-old boy, two men aged 32 and 37, and a 42-year-old woman were discovered at the property in Broadmeadows, in Melbourne’s north, in the early hours of 25 June.
Continue reading...BoM forecasts daily showers to continue along east coast until next week while Melbourne should brace for near freezing weather
Sydney and Brisbane are in for another week of wet weather thanks to a potentially record-breaking high pressure system that on Wednesday could also deliver Melbourne its coldest morning so far this year.
Daily showers are forecast along Australia’s east coast until at least next Wednesday, with the Bureau of Meteorology expecting as much as 60mm of rain in the cities.
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Shorten says he thinks Labor party is trying to give Senator Payman ‘space and time’
Bill Shorten continues:
I see why people feel so strongly. They can feel so strongly about the hostage is not being returned, or the deaths in Gaza. People could feel also very strongly about the near million deaths in Sudan.
I can get these very incredibly strong issues. And if you come from particular communities, they’re even more intense, although that doesn’t need to be the prerequisite.
Before I deny something, what’s your source?
No, I don’t believe that.
… Because I wasn’t there and I don’t believe it. I actually think the prime minister, Senator Wong and the leadership are handling a complicated issue pretty well.
Continue reading...Rescue operation run by specialised whale disentanglement crews cut off ropes and buoys to let it to swim freely again
A humpback whale which became tangled in 800kg of fishing equipment has been rescued off the Gippsland coast, almost a week after it was first seen to be in trouble.
The whale was spotted near Loch Sport in Central Gippsland on Sunday 23 June by a commercial helicopter, but then disappeared until Friday when it was seen near Lake Tyers off the south-east coast.
Continue reading...Scores of workers allegedly breached security checks, and air crew accused of stashing illegal products in false-bottom suitcases
Dozens of Melbourne airport staff have been accused of working for organised criminals trying to smuggle drugs into Australia.
Aviation workers were the subject of a Border Force investigation targeting criminals in airport supply chains.
Continue reading...Weather bureau says the cold front sweeping from SA to Tasmania will move up into alpine areas to bring much-needed snowfalls
Large parts of Australia will shiver through much of the coming week, with temperatures as much as 4C below average expected in some regions.
The Bureau of Meteorology says ski fields could also expect some much-needed snowfalls in time for school holidays in some of the eastern states.
Continue reading...A Guardian Australia investigation has revealed Panthera had circumvented blacklisting designed to stop it operating in Victoria
Major private debt collector Panthera Finance has appointed new directors and put parts of the company into administration as it seeks to sell off its scandal-plagued business.
Last month, Guardian Australia revealed Panthera, one of the country’s biggest private debt collection firms, had circumvented a blacklisting designed to stop it from operating in Victoria and continued to strike debt purchase deals within weeks of regulatory warnings.
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Housing minister Julie Collins is speaking to the ABC RN about Labor’s build-to-rent bill which was knocked back in the Senate yesterday, with the Greens and the Coalition combining to delay it:
What we want to do is get this done. We’ve already been consulting, we announced it in the previous budget. Any delays will actually stop the pipeline of construction and the certainty for the sector.
What we want to do is get more affordable homes and more homes of every type on the ground as quickly as we can.
We’re saying they have to have a minimum of 10% to be eligible for the tax concessions that we’re talking about for each development.
That’s what our consultations and our discussions with the sector have done and, as I said, this is not the only thing we’re doing for affordable homes … My point here is that they continually delay and block housing up every time by coming together and having this unholy alliance between the Liberals and the Greens in the Senate, because they’re more interested in votes than they are about people.
We’re not open to negotiation and we want to get this done.
Continue reading...Airport operator says it will fight for more costly underground option despite expert report’s findings
The long-promised train to Melbourne airport appears to have hit yet another snag, after the prolonged and bitter standoff between Victoria and the airport that has delayed the line for years intensified, despite government-imposed mediation.
The train project – which would be funded by the federal and state governments – has stalled over the state’s insistence it would only finance a cheaper above-ground train station instead of the costlier underground option demanded by the airport.
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Wong rejects Birmingham’s criticism, says US alliance ‘deep and strong’
Asked about her Liberal counterpart Simon Birmingham’s criticism of Anthony Albanese’s phone call with Julian Assange and his claims that the deal to release Assange has “damaged” the US-Australian alliance, Penny Wong says:
That’s not not correct and disappointing that Simon would go to the alliance. He would know that our relationship with the United States is deep and strong.
And that is why we were able to advocate in the way we did. And ultimately, the pathway to resolving this, … had to be through the resolution of the legal process.
Dr Yang remains a priority for our government. We continue to raise his case with the Chinese authorities at all appropriate levels and we will continue to do so. It was obviously raised, as you know, when Premier Li was here.
What I would say is today I am very pleased to see Mr Assange reunited with his family in Australia.
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The Queensland government plans to establish a new greater glider forest park as part of a $200m plan to reform the state’s timber industry.
The premier, Steven Miles, will today announce he will ban logging in between 50,000 and 60,000 hectares of high value ecosystem within the Eastern Hardwoods region in Wide Bay, north of Brisbane.
In addition, a new park to protect the greater glider will be established in the south-east Queensland bioregion.
The state government will also appoint an advisory group to develop a 30-year plan for the sector. It will include representatives from the timber industry, forestry experts, the conservation sector, First Nations peoples, the Australian Workers’ Union, construction sector and outdoor recreational groups.
Queensland’s timber industry is the backbone of the housing and building sectors.
That’s why I’m doing what matters to support timber workers and the industry to continue building our state, while also increasing our protected area estate.
The terms of reference released today map out our priorities as a government – that is, timber supply security, environmental protections, jobs and diverse employment opportunities.