Customer-facing workers ‘should not have to work in fear’, Victorian premier says, announcing plans for tougher laws

Jacinta Allan proposes stronger penalties for people who assault, threaten or intimidate retail, hospitality, and other workers

Jacinta Allan has used her first Labor state conference as Victorian premier to announce plans to change the law to better protect retail, hospitality and other customer-facing workers from abuse and assault amid reports of a surge in violence.

In her speech to party faithful at Moonee Valley Racecourse on Saturday, Allan detailed plans to introduce tougher penalties for people who assault, threaten or intimidate workers.

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Police charge 17-year-old with attempted murder over alleged daylight brawl and stabbing in Brisbane

Boy charged after an alleged fight ended in a man being stabbed multiple times in Acacia Ridge

A 17-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after an alleged fight ended in a stabbing in the Brisbane suburb of Acacia Ridge.

Police allege two men were seen fighting on the footpath outside a Gregory St address at 2.30pm on Friday, before the 17-year-old brought out a knife and stabbed a 19-year-old man multiple times.

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17 of 20 U.S. doctors stuck in Gaza depart with the help of U.S. officials, source says – NBC News

  1. 17 of 20 U.S. doctors stuck in Gaza depart with the help of U.S. officials, source says  NBC News
  2. As Trapped American Doctors Escape Gaza, Some Stay to Sustain Aid Mission  The Wall Street Journal
  3. U.S. medical volunteers says the war is crippling hospitals in Rafah : Goats and Soda  NPR
  4. Medical Workers Evacuated From Gaza, but 3 Americans Refuse to Leave  The Intercept
  5. American doctors uncertain how they will leave Gaza: A day in their life  ABC News
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Trucks carrying 300 pallets of humanitarian aid to Gaza roll across new US pier – The Times of Israel

  1. Trucks carrying 300 pallets of humanitarian aid to Gaza roll across new US pier  The Times of Israel
  2. Aid starts flowing into Gaza over U.S. pier  NBC News
  3. Israel-Hamas war: Gaza aid driven across new US-built pier. Challenges remain  The Associated Press
  4. JLOTS, an obscure Army-Navy capability, arrives in Gaza  NavyTimes.com
  5. Aid offloaded from Gaza pier as Israel again denies genocide allegations  The Washington Post
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Video shows Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs assaulting singer Cassie in 2016

Hotel surveillance cameras at InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles captured incident Combs had vehemently denied

A newly released video shows Sean “Diddy” Combs manhandling and kicking singer Cassie Ventura – his former girlfriend – in plain view of hotel surveillance cameras in 2016, before the rapper, music producer and businessman rapidly settled a lawsuit that she brought against him this past November, according to footage exclusively obtained by CNN.

The video in question illustrates in the most graphic nature possible one of the beatings alleged and described in Ventura’s lawsuit, which Combs had vehemently denied.

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Children’s author charged with online grooming in Sydney

Man, 41, arrested and charged with online grooming after allegedly sending inappropriate images to someone he thought was 13

New South Wales police have charged a children’s author for the alleged online grooming of children, under Strike Force Trawler.

The state crime command’s sex crimes squad force detectives launched an investigation early this month after receiving an interstate report a children’s author was allegedly communicating inappropriately with a child online.

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Expert says employers can be found liable for sexual assault outside of work hours as PwC fights case

Accountancy firm argues it is not liable since it had taken ‘all reasonable steps’ to prevent such behaviour

Employers can be found vicariously liable for alleged sexual assault that occurred between employees outside working hours but only where it was connected with their employment, according to a leading employment law expert.

PwC is facing legal action claiming the accountancy firm is liable for the alleged rape of a graduate employee following after-work drinks.

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Ministers clawing back £251m from carers hit by DWP’s allowance failures

‘Strikingly large’ sum being recouped from people who fell foul of system that did not flag overpayments

Ministers are clawing back more than £250m from unpaid carers over benefit infringements that occurred largely as a result of government failures, it can be revealed.

More than 134,000 people who care for loved ones are being forced to repay often huge carer’s allowance overpayments. The debts are incurred in many cases through no fault of their own, and leave carers saddled with enormous debts, and some with criminal convictions.

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Dabney Coleman, actor who starred in 9 to 5 and Tootsie, dies aged 92

Coleman, known for his ample mustache, won a Golden Globe for The Slap Maxwell Story and also appeared in Boardwalk Empire

Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in 9 to 5 and the nasty TV director in Tootsie, has died. He was 92.

Coleman died on Thursday, his daughter, Quincy Coleman, told the Hollywood Reporter. No other details were immediately available.

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Broncos rally around Payne Haas after father arrested in the Philippines over alleged drug trafficking

Gregor Johann Haas, 46, was arrested in Cebu City on Wednesday and is facing extradition to Indonesia, where he is accused of drug trafficking

Brisbane coach Kevin Walters says the club are supporting prop Payne Haas “in every way” after the player’s father was arrested in the Philippines and facing extradition to Indonesia, where he is accused of drug trafficking.

Gregor Johann Haas, 46, was arrested in Cebu City on Wednesday, according to local media reports.

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Colorado voters to decide on abortion rights after measure qualifies for ballot

Supporters gather enough valid signatures to put measure – that would enshrine abortion rights into constitution – on to ballot

Voters in Colorado will have a say on abortion rights this fall after supporters collected enough valid signatures to put a measure on the ballot, part of a national push to pose abortion rights questions to voters since the US supreme court removed the nationwide right to abortion.

The Colorado measure officially made the ballot on Friday and would enshrine abortion rights into the constitution in a state which already allows abortion at all stages of pregnancy despite the supreme court’s overturning of Roe v Wade.

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