Defence Chief Urged To Reconsider Mass Revocation Of Bravery Award 30/11/20

Four Australian Army aviators are feared dead after a horror chopper crash over the Whitsundays in what looms as the nation’s worst peacetime military disaster since 2005. Covid-19 is killing on average 25 people in Australia every day, with more than half the nation not getting any form of booster shot in the past six months. We are coming for your Lamborghinis – that’s the warning from the NSW government’s latest weapon in its crime-fighting arsenal   targeting the criminals at the core of the shootout on Sydney’s streets. Workers on the Queensland state government’s showpiece Cross River Rail project have been hit by falling objects and exposed to hazards posing “serious risk of injury or death”, a litany of official safety breaches reveals. South Australia’s famous southern right whales look to have given the state a wide berth, with numbers right down along the coast.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

29 Juli 20233min

Kylie Minogue is poised to hit the jackpot in America as she joins the world’s biggest music superstars from Adele to U2 with a Las Vegas residency. Criminals across Sydney caught up in the out-of-control gang wars have been warned their doors may be kicked open this weekend as the state’s new crack team swings into action. The Andrews government is preparing to extinguish natural gas in Victorian homes after banning new residential builds from connecting to the gas network. Kids at risk of committing crimes will be trained in business, retail and hospitality in a bid to keep them from being lured into the criminal world. Adelaide’s median house price has hit a whopping $700,000, the latest Valuer-General’s quarterly figures show, prompting affordability concerns from industry experts in the midst of the state’s housing crisis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

28 Juli 20233min

The ex-partner of Julia Gillard sucked a woman’s nipple without her consent while he was “drunk” in Melbourne’s inner-north just two weeks before it became public he’d split from the former Prime Minister. A ROYAL Commission into how drugs are getting into our borders and fuelling Sydney’s underworld war has been called for, as the Premier conceded laws may need to change after the latest deadly shooting to rock the city. Ferrari-driving developer John Woodman paid more than $1.5m to political figures and councillors in a bid to “improperly” influence planning decisions in Melbourne’s southeast suburbs. The Queensland government is refusing to bring the state in line with the rest of the country and the world by restricting the sale of realistic toy guns criminals are using to rob homes and businesses.  Patients are waiting up to five years to see some public hospital specialists for routine or non-urgent appointments - then face going on a separate waiting list if they need elective surgery.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

27 Juli 20233min

“Seamless” travel between Australia and New Zealand will make hopping across the ditch faster – but don’t throw away your passport just yet. A well-known criminal defence lawyer has narrowly survived the latest “targeted” shooting on Sydney’s streets, with the broad daylight attack rocking the city’s legal profession as police search for a motive. Justice figures are demanding a review of the decision by Victoria’s top prosecutor not to pursue charges in the Lawyer X case amid revelations she once represented Simon Overland, the former police chief at the centre of the scandal. Queenslanders could be living with undiagnosed cancer or life-threatening conditions, as more than 50,000 radiology scans sit unreported at one the state’s busiest hospitals. Converting spaces above Adelaide CBD shops into homes will be investigated in a bid to ease the housing crisis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

26 Juli 20233min

Artificial Intelligence may soon be used to detect declining heart failure by listening to how people speak on their smartphone. Nearly 200 NSW public school ­teachers were sacked for not getting the Covid jab last year, amid crippling shortages of staff, new Freedom of Information documents reveal. Decision-making powers for multi-million dollar suburban developments are set to be taken over by the state government to fasttrack housing in middle and inner Melbourne. Some patients are waiting more than 10 hours on ambulance stretchers to get into the Queensland hospitals, new figures have revealed. In a little more than a month the Royal Adelaide Show will open the gates, with organisers on the hunt for thousands of workers to help bring the magic together while making easy cash.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

25 Juli 20233min

International swimming bosses are preparing to take the plunge and push ahead with a world-first event for elite transgender competitors. The Opera House will be lit up in honour of the Matildas if the Aussie women make it to the finals of the World Cup. The first train inside the $14bn Metro tunnel was due to hit the tracks in the early hours of this morning, as the city-shaping project begins months of live testing. The mothers of children allegedly indecently assaulted by a Whyalla school teacher have described the case as “every parent’s worst nightmare”. Pink power has prevailed at the Australian box office over the weekend as audiences fell in love with the new Barbie movie.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

24 Juli 20232min

Many Australians living with chronic pain are continuing to put off dental care, eye checks and even cancer screenings, saying that the rising cost of treatments and medications has them neglecting other areas of their health. A young couple have become the latest innocent victims of a shooting on Sydney’s streets, caught in the crossfire of gunfire which left a man on life support, as politicians became embroiled in a war of words over what can be done to stop the violence. A Victorian man who plunged from a shipping container to his death in a mystery tragedy was searching for a huge haul of drugs, police believe. A $1bn gas field expansion will power a major Queensland manufacturer, in a gas supply deal hailed as securing “long-term local manufacturing” jobs, but it hangs on environmental approvals and the Albanese government’s controversial gas price cap. Port Adelaide star Willie Rioli is hurting after being subjected to racist abuse following Saturday’s two-point thriller against Collingwood, says the Power’s chief executive.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

23 Juli 20233min

Vicious trolls accusing him of betraying Indigenous Australians by advocating against the Voice to Parliament have pushed Warren Mundine to attempt to self harm. NSW Liberal MP Taylor Martin has revealed he is the politician at the centre of a texting scandal, but has strongly denied any wrongdoing, while declaring there are “two-sides” to the story. The Andrews government is considering a tourism levy on short-term stays in Victoria. The sole survivor of a shocking triple fatal crash on the Bruce Highway was released from hospital just days before the tragedy unfolded despite pleas from his mother to keep him in hospital, his family has claimed. Two in every three speeding drivers are caught by police officers on country roads rather than Adelaide, shocking new figures show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

22 Juli 20233min