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Australia will have a budget surplus for the first time in 15 years with a $4bn surplus expected this financial year. An escort’s been charged over the death of a young tradie found in the stairwell of a Sydney apartment block. Members of the exclusive SA club that hosted LIV Golf don’t want the event back next year. The QLD Police Commissioner is warning that the rise of vigilantism across the state will lead to a death in the community. Victoria Police are hunting three men involved in a deadly confrontation in Taylors Hill.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

8 Touko 20233min

Single parents, pensioners, welfare recipients and low to middle-income households will be the big winners from a $14.6bn cost-of-living relief budget package, but Labor’s targeted cash splash will not ease the inflation pain for everyone.  An attempt to rename the proposed new “Gadigal” metro station in Sydney in honour of Indigenous war hero Reg Saunders has been rejected.  Victorian government schools have ramped up their education efforts to prevent ­another chroming tragedy in the wake of the death of 13-year-old Esra Haynes.  More than 2700 new homes are set to be built in regional South Australia with the population of one riverside country town expected to swell.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

7 Touko 20232min

Standing in the same church where, just 229 days earlier, the King bid his “darling Mama” an emotional farewell, the 74-year-old was officially crowned monarch to the cheers of “God Save the King”, from the congregation.  Outback Wrangler Matt Wright has accused Northern Territory Police of ignoring crucial evidence that shows a series of safety rules were broken in the lead up to a deadly flight.  The 2022 edition of the Working for Queensland survey is yet to be released, with the Public Sector Commission pointing to the need for “significant changes” in how the data will be “presented and publicly released” after a redesign.  Aboriginal Victorians would have a say over how taxpayer money is used under plans to expand the mandate of the state’s First Peoples’ ­Assembly.  It's the iconic sweet treat South Australians have been indulging in for more than a century. But now a Melbourne-based lawyer wants to put an end to the jam and cream-filled Kitchener bun, at the least the name it has been known by since about 1915. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

6 Touko 20233min

Paying interest on Australia’s debt will cost $700 every second for the next five years as the federal government moves to target mega gas profits, high super balances, smokers and multinationals with tax hikes to raise budget revenue.  A man who turned up to television star Sophie Monk’s house holding a single rose claims he was duped by an online scammer into believing he was in a relationship with the Love Island host.  The Andrews government is set to hike the average WorkCover premium to 1.8 per cent and exclude stress and overwork from insurance claims in a major shake-up of the scheme.  A woman has told of the horrors of driving from Rockhampton Hospital to her home in Gladstone with her dead baby on her lap in a box she bought from Spotlight.  Glenelg footballer Brady Searle has failed in his bid to have a hefty six-match SANFL suspension reduced in an incident that has left his Norwood opponent with a fractured neck. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

4 Touko 20232min

The 15th season of MasterChef Australia will go to air with the blessing of late judge Jock Zonfrillo’s family.  As many as 95 major infrastructure projects across NSW including highway upgrades and road safety programs could face the chop after federal Infrastructure Minister Catherine King announced a snap audit Monday as the government looks to rein in spending.  The teenager allegedly behind the wheel of a stolen car that killed three people in Queensland was known to police as a serial motor vehicle thief.  Victorian country footy leagues have been told to tell coaches and officials to stay seated  A man who stabbed two police officers who were responding to a “high risk incident” has been identified as Sean Scott Francis Ferris.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

3 Touko 20232min

Entertaining MasterChef judge and award-winning chef Jock Zonfrillo’s devastated wife and their two young children are understood to be making their way home from Rome where they were on a family holiday before his sudden death at 46.   Health workers will today walk off the job in a bid to get the NSW government to deliver on its pre-election promise to scrap the public sector wage cap.   Three women are dead and another is fighting for her life after a stolen car, allegedly driven by a teenager, caused a horrific chain reaction that has left a Queensland community in mourning.   Assistant treasurer Danny Pearson is facing a fourth conflict of interest claim, this time over the state government’s $10bn ­Victorian Future Fund.   The countdown is on for the first British coronation in 70 years – and with just four days to go, Adelaide is poised to put on a royal show in King Charles III’s honour. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

1 Touko 20232min

A soccer referee whose jaw was shattered and teeth knocked out, allegedly by a suspended player, at the end of a match says it won’t stop him officiating the game he loves. Australia will dramatically rethink how the criminal justice system responds to sexual ­assaults and prevent the courts process further traumatising victims under a $14.7m investment into preventive programs and a sweeping review of ­current laws.  Major Sydney crime figure Mohamad “Moey” Alameddine left Australia six days ago and is one of 80 underworld players to leave since the beginning of last year due to increasing pressure from NSW cops over the gang war.  For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at dailytelegraph.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

30 Huhti 20232min

Friends, siblings, a parent and child and legal guardians like aunts, uncles and grand parents will be able to tap into government cash to help buy a home, under a major expansion of who qualifies for three housing schemes.  Thousands of calls and texts to Lifeline are going unanswered each week as centres struggle to assist suicidal Australians amid huge volunteer shortages.  It’s been three years since model and ironman Jett Kenny lost his beloved sister, Jaimi, aged just 33...after her secret battle with alcholism and an eating disorder.   Eviction rates are rising with new State government figures showing an average of 55 tenants have been court-ordered out of their rental properties every week since the start of the year.  For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at dailytelegraph.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

29 Huhti 20232min