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Victoria police announce renewed seek for Samantha Murphy
Adeshola Ore
Victoria Police has introduced a renewed seek for lacking Ballarat girl Samantha Murphy in Enfield state park, about 25km south of the regional metropolis.
Murphy was final seen greater than two months in the past when she left her Ballarat East dwelling to go for a run on 4 February. Final month, police charged 22-year-old Patrick Stephenson, from close by city Scotsburn, with the homicide of Murphy.
Victoria Police say the search will deal with an space highlighted by intelligence derived from numerous sources.
Mark Hatt, the appearing detective superintendent for crime command, says the search will contain numerous detectives from the lacking individuals squad:
Since Samantha’s disappearance over two months in the past, a spread of searches and different enquiries have been undertaken within the Ballarat space as a part of this investigation. This consists of intensive large-scale searches comparable to we’ve deliberate this week, but in addition smaller focused searches targeted in very particular areas.
I wish to guarantee these within the Ballarat group that police stay targeted on doing all the things we are able to to return Samantha to her household.
Tamsin Rose
Crakanthorp thanks group after Icac investigation dropped
The previous New South Wales minister, Tim Crakanthorp, has thanked the group for its assist after the state’s corruption watchdog introduced it had dropped its investigation into his conduct.
The Impartial Fee Towards Corruption introduced it had “terminated” its preliminary investigation yesterday afternoon, eight months after the Newcastle MP was dumped from cupboard. A spokesperson mentioned:
Because the fee is happy that there aren’t any cheap prospects of discovering Mr Crakanthorp’s conduct is sufficiently critical to justify a discovering of corrupt conduct, it has terminated its investigation.
At the moment, Crakanthorp mentioned:
I welcome yesterday’s assertion from the NSW Icac that they’ve terminated their inquiry. I wish to thank the numerous individuals who have provided sort phrases and assist. It has really been appreciated. My focus for the final 16 years, as each a councillor and a member of parliament, has been to serve the folks of Newcastle to the very best of my means. That can proceed to be my precedence.
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Man to face courtroom after alleged dwelling invasion in Sydney’s south-west
A person will face courtroom at the moment over an alleged dwelling invasion in Sydney’s south-west final 12 months.
On 28 September, emergency companies have been known as to studies of shorts fired at Chester Hill. Officers have been instructed 5 males had allegedly pressured entry into a house and threatened occupants with weapons together with a baseball bat and firearm.
A 46-year-old girl was allegedly hit with a bat, whereas a 48-year-old man suffered a leg wound. Neither required hospital therapy.
Quite a lot of kids have been dwelling on the time of the incident, police say, however weren’t injured.
Following investigations, a 23-year-old man was arrested at a correctional facility yesterday. He was charged with specifically aggravated breaking and getting into with intent whereas armed with a harmful weapon, and discharging a firearm with intent to trigger grievous bodily hurt.
He was refused bail to look at Bankstown native courtroom at the moment. Anybody with info is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
Angus Taylor says discuss of Palestinian state ‘reckless’ and ‘inappropriate’
Angus Taylor additionally reiterated the opposition’s stance that it’s too quickly to be contemplating recognising a Palestinian state.
On the At the moment present, Taylor mentioned:
The precondition for attending to what Penny Wong is asking for is the hostages to be returned, the terrorist infrastructure to be dismantled, religion negotiations and settlement on borders, a data that either side will be capable of be safe below the brand new preparations and we’re nowhere close to any of these issues.
So speak about placing the cart earlier than the horse. That is reckless. It’s inappropriate. We have to, all of us wish to see peace. All of us wish to see peace. However this isn’t the pathway to get there.
For a full explainer on what Wong mentioned throughout her speech earlier this week, my colleague Daniel Hurst has you coated:
Opposition responds to authorities’s new trade plan
The shadow treasurer, Angus Taylor, has criticised the federal government’s new trade plan and argued it might require “throwing hard-earned taxpayers’ cash round”.
Talking on the At the moment present, Taylor additionally mentioned extra info was wanted on the proposal:
In fact… we wish to see extra manufacturing in Australia [but] you don’t beat a price of residing disaster, you don’t deal with a price of residing disaster by throwing hard-earned taxpayers’ cash round. And that’s precisely what Albanese is proposing right here. We haven’t seen any of the main points, I ought to say, and we’ll take a look at these carefully as they arrive in.
In case you missed it: Albanese has introduced plans for a inexperienced interventionist trade coverage, which might use direct authorities assist to hurry up the vitality transition. You possibly can learn the total story from Karen Middleton beneath:
Taylor argued that final time there was loads of inflation in Australia it was solved by “getting authorities out of the best way”.
By eliminating the purple tape, by letting small companies get on with the job of doing the issues that they do. And proper now they’re being crushed.
Look, the nation that’s been taking place this path quickest is the US. And we study in a single day that their inflation goes up, not down. It’s not working. This strategy doesn’t work. It received’t work. Australians want an answer to the price of residing disaster. However this isn’t it.
Peter Hannam
Proposed $4bn pumped hydro mission might energy a 3rd of Sydney’s households by 2031
Sydney’s most important supply of ingesting water might additionally provide sufficient renewable vitality to energy virtually a 3rd of the town’s households by 2031 if a pumped hydro mission utilizing a former coal washery proceeds as deliberate.
Zen Power, an vitality retailer, has introduced it had signed an settlement with the state-owned Water NSW to construct a reservoir at Nattai on the escarpment about 400m above Lake Burragorang on Sydney’s south-west fringe.
The mission has an preliminary price of $3bn to $4bn and can be financed principally by means of debt, a Zen spokesperson mentioned. At 1,000 megawatts of capability and with about 3km of tunnels, the enterprise can be about half the technology measurement of the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro mission, which is presently estimated to price at the very least $12bn with its 27km of tunnels.
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Marketing campaign video to launch on World Parkinson’s Day, highlighting influence of illness
At the moment is World Parkinson’s Day, and the nation’s peak physique for these affected by the illness has launched a report demonstrating its prevalence throughout the nation.
Parkinson’s Australia says greater than 150,000 Australians reside with the illness, equating to 1 in 173 folks. And reported circumstances are rising, with 12,000 folks identified in 2020 alone.
And by 2050 the variety of Australians residing with Parkinson’s is projected to greater than triple, in keeping with Parkinson’s Australia.
Worldwide cricketing legend Allan Border, now residing with Parkinson’s, shall be lending his voice to a video marketing campaign highlighting the influence of the illness on Australians. Olivia Nassaris, Parkinson’s Australia, CEO, mentioned:
The video highlights details and figures from a scoping examine carried out by Griffith College. This examine addresses some elementary gaps in data about prevalence and incidence and different elements vital for the evaluation of the burden of Parkinson’s in Australia.
Our analysis underscores the pressing want for elevated consciousness, assist, and analysis into Parkinson’s. With incidence and prevalence charges set to skyrocket within the coming years, it’s crucial that we take proactive steps to handle the challenges confronted by people residing with Parkinson’s and their households.
Greens say quarterly lease improve knowledge exhibits want for lease freeze
Earlier, we introduced you information through AAP that renters have been hit with the steepest quarterly hike in 17 years.
In response to Area, the median price of renting a home within the mixed capitals reached a brand new report of $630 every week. Marketed home rents rose 5% over the quarter within the nation’s city centres, with models additionally up a strong 3.3%.
The Greens’ housing spokesperson, Max Chandler-Mather, mentioned this demonstrated the necessity for a lease freeze. He wrote on X:
Renters simply copped the *largest* quarterly lease improve in 17 years, in keeping with Area. Home rents went up 5%, models 3.3% in 3 months. That’s greater than 5 instances the current quarterly wage improve. For the sake of thousands and thousands of renters we should freeze lease will increase and cease this.
Renters simply copped the *largest* quarterly lease improve in 17 years, in keeping with Area. Home rents went up 5%, models 3.3% in 3 months. That is greater than 5 instances the current quarterly wage improve. For the sake of thousands and thousands of renters we should freeze lease will increase and cease this
— Max Chandler-Mather (@MChandlerMather) April 10, 2024
Medical affiliation requires nationwide motion plan on menopause in Australia
The Australian Medical Affiliation is looking for a nationwide motion plan to enhance equality for girls affected by menopausal and perimenopausal signs.
In a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into menopausal points, the AMA mentioned many ladies have issue accessing assist and that there’s profound disparity among the many inhabitants of these struggling. AMA’s president, Prof Steve Robson, mentioned:
A 3rd of Australian girls in midlife say menopause signs make it exhausting to do every day actions and they’re additionally being focused with misinformation with a purpose to take care of it.
The out-of-pocket well being bills for girls are, typically, larger than for males and it’s a vital barrier for girls to get equitable healthcare.
Australia is at present and not using a nationwide menopause framework or motion plan and we hope will probably be a suggestion of the Senate inquiry.
The AMA mentioned an plan would come with evaluation of medical and therapeutic assist to fight menopausal signs comparable to excessive anxiousness, despair, temper swings, forgetfulness or mind fog and suicidal tendencies.
Daniel Hurst
Right here’s extra on the letter from the union representing Australian journalists:
The MEAA has demanded the Albanese authorities publicly name on the US authorities drop its prices in opposition to Julian Assange, warning presidential intervention will turn out to be much less seemingly the nearer the US election will get.
The letter coincides with the fifth anniversary of Assange’s detention in Belmarsh jail within the UK. The MEAA mentioned the UK excessive courtroom determination to conditionally grant Assange go away to attraction in opposition to the extradition order was “a small and unsatisfactory reprieve” and the one resolution was a US determination to drop the fees.
In a letter to Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong, the MEAA’s media part president, Karen Percy, mentioned Assange’s extradition and prosecution by the US “would set a disturbing world precedent for the suppression of press freedom and would represent an assault on the general public’s proper to know”.
It might imply that any journalist, anyplace on the planet, might be charged and extradited for dealing with any info that the US authorities classifies as ‘secret’.
We’re writing to induce you within the strongest attainable phrases to take fast public motion to demand the US authorities drop the fees in opposition to Julian Assange so he can resume life as a free man in Australia.
The decision was issued previous to Joe Biden’s feedback in a single day that he’s contemplating the Australian authorities’s request:
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