The 6ft 5in Aussie Alexei Popyrin has defeated Novak Djokovic in four sets to move into the US Open fourth round for the first time.
Popyrin will play American Frances Tiafoe on Monday for a spot in the
quarter finals
Saturday, August 31, 2024
Alexei Popyrin beats Novak Djokovic in US Open
Doctor released on bail in connection with Mark Perry's death
San Diego
doctor Mark Chavez, 54, is expected to plead guilty in connection with the
accidental overdose death of actor Matthew Perry.
U.S.
Magistrate Judge Jean Rosenbluth allowed Chavez's release on a $50,000
unsecured bond with certain conditions, including surrendering his passport and
agreeing to no longer practice medicine.
Baby attacked with coffee could require skin grafts after second surgery
A GoFundMe
account set up to help cover the infant’s medical costs has so far raised
$97,000 as of Saturday morning, well above the target of just $5000, with
individual donations as large as $5000.
Ant this monster is still at large.
Australian farmers link to Parkinsons Disease
Dr Wesley Thevathasan
thinks that Aussie farmers are at risk of developing Parkinsons Disease because
of their exposure to pesticides.
All sorts of
agents have been implicated, but the evidence is strongest for paraquat.”...................
Friday, August 30, 2024
Taiwan is welcome here
Pacific leaders refuse to stop Taiwan from participating in the region’s top diplomatic gathering and China’s Ambassador to the Pacific nations said the decision “must be a mistake,”.............................
Dinush Kurera guilty of murdering his wife
Today a
Supreme Court jury found Dinush Kurera guilty of murdering his wife Nelomie
Perera and assaulting their son in 2022.
He claimed
he was acting in self-defence when he hacked his estranged wife to death with
an axe and a knife in their Melbourne home.
Rory Amon MP quits Parliament amid child sexual abuse charges
NSW MP Rory
Amon quits Liberal Party and resigns from parliament after being charged with 10 child
sex offences including five counts of intercourse with a child.
The
Pittwater MP faced Manly Local Court today and has been
granted strict bail conditions to appear again on September 18.
Chris Ellison - the boss from hell
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Billionaire
mining boss Chris Ellison has declared he doesn’t want his workers going on
coffee breaks, as he “wants to hold them captive all day long” to improve
output.
The
67-year-old managing director of Mineral Resources made the announcement during
his company’s financial results presentation and it was posted on YouTube on
the 29th of August.
Australia to lead international taskforce protecting Red Sea shipping lanes
The Morrison
government rejected a US request for Red Sea military support just before 2022
election because resources were needed at home and in the Indo-Pacific.
But now Australia
will soon take command of a maritime mission to protect Red Sea trade routes
from Houthi rebel attacks.........
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launch
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches 6 passengers on sub-orbital trip to space
and back.
Karsen
Kitchen greets family and friends after a 10-minute up-and-down flight to
space. At 21, she is the youngest woman to fly in space. Her father, Jim
Kitchen, flew to space aboard a New Shepard capsule in 2022. Blue Origin
Polaris Dawn mission launch postponed
SpaceX has
once again pushed back the launch of its Polaris Dawn mission, which is expected to carry four
private citizens to space, this time because of an unfavourable weather
forecast.
Maori King Dies
Maori King
Tuheitia Paki died peacefully this morning surrounded by family, a
spokesman said. The Maori king, aged 69, had been in hospital recovering from
heart surgery.
Israel halts fighting for polio vaccination of children
A short
pause in fighting in Gaza has been agreed to allow 640,000 children to be
vaccinated against polio, after at least one baby became paralysed by a mutated
strain of the virus.
It was the
first case of polio to hit the territory in 25 years.
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Germany expels head of banned Muslim association
FRANKFURT, Germany —
Germany has told the Iranian head of the recently banned
Islamic Center Hamburg (IZH) , that he is being expelled
from the country and has two weeks to leave, authorities in Hamburg said on
Thursday.
According to findings by Hamburg's domestic intelligence agency, Mohammad Hadi Mofateh was the official deputy of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khemenei, in Germany as head of the IZH, until recently.........
Gina Rinehart wants Australia to drill for natural gas to lower energy costs
Gina
Rinehart has taken a swipe at fellow billionaire Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest over his failed 'green hydrogen' dreams, while arguing that 'her
friend' Donald Trump has the right idea to lower power
prices by drilling for natural gas.
Mrs Rinehart
used her fourth video address to the National Bush Summit, which was held in the NSW central western town of Orange today, to
argue that renewables or even nuclear weren't the way to urgently rein in
soaring energy costs.
‘Natural gas
is needed as a feedstock for manufacturing, and processing, aside from its uses
to generate electricity for homes, offices, hospitals, shopping centres,
hotels, restaurants, traffic lights, schools, sporting and entertainment
centres’she said.
Sudiksha Ahuga cruellest nurse in Australia
Sudiksha
Ahuja laughed as she reduced a dementia patient to tears by bashing a therapy
doll's head against a table - knowing the elderly woman believed it was a
real-life baby. She then tried to
cover it up by trying to convince a junior colleague who witnessed the sick
joke to lie about what she had seen.
NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal this week
found the young enrolled nurse guilty of 'callous and deplorable' professional
misconduct and is now facing calls to revoke her registration.
Hunt for stranger who poured hot coffee over baby
Detectives
have released new images of a man wanted after hot coffee was poured over a
baby boy.
The baby was
at a picnic with his mum and friends at Hanlon Park in Coorparoo in Brisbane when
an unknown man approached the group at about midday on Tuesday.
The baby had
burns to his face, neck, chest and arms, and he will need regular dressing
changes under anaesthetic over the next few weeks.'
Pavel Durov facing charges in France
Pavel Durov,
the founder and chief executive of the messaging app Telegram, is facing
preliminary charges after French authorities barred him from leaving
France.
Mr Durov was
arrested on Saturday outside Paris as part of an investigation into child abuse
material and drug trafficking on Telegram.
Ghost educational colleges shut down
Labor shuts
down150 dodgy educational colleges and 140 were issued warning notices.
The Albanese
government last week announced that more than 150 dormant
vocational education and training (VET) providers had been shut down after
failing to show proof of training for 12 months or more.
"The Albanese government is calling time on the rorts and loopholes that have plagued the VET sector for far too long under the former LNP" Andrew Giles said in a statement.............
Biden wants Israel to stop civilian violence in West Bank
The United
States has imposed sanctions on an Israeli settler group and a civilian
security guard in the occupied West Bank.
The
sanctions yesterday targeted Hashomer Yosh, which describes itself as a
volunteer organisation that aims to “protect” Israeli farmers in the West Bank,
and Yitzhak Levi Filant, the civilian security coordinator of the Yitzhar
settlement, south of Nablus.
The
sanctions freeze the assets of Filant and Hashomer Yosh in the US and bar
American citizens/companies from engaging in financial transactions with them……
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Richard 'Dick' Caine, the paedophile who ruined young lives
Richard
'Dick' Caine was today found to have committed 39 acts, including rape and
indecent assault, on female members of his swimming squad aged 10 to 16 across
the 1970s and 1980s.
Caine, now
in his late 70s is in palliative care, reportedly with cancer and
dementia.
The assaults
took place at the Carss Park swimming pool in Sydney's
south, as well as at Caine's home and in his car.
Why Egypt and Jordan won't take Palestinian refugees
Jordan and Egypt refuse to
accept Palestinian refugees. Their
refusal is rooted in fear that Israel wants to force a permanent expulsion of
Palestinians into their countries and nullify Palestinian demands for
statehood.
In October, a leaked document from Israel’s Intelligence Ministry
included recommendations to forcibly transfer Gaza’s population of 2.3 million
out of the territory and into tent cities in Egypt’s Sinai Desert.
Government ministers Bezalel
Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir have also both openly advocated the expulsion of Palestinians from
Gaza to make way for their replacement by Israeli settlers.
Jordan refuses to take any
more Palestinians. There are about three
million Palestinians already living in Jordan who were granted citizenship
through a 1954 amendment to nationality laws that came after the annexation of
the West Bank. But those displaced from the Gaza
Strip after 1967, were not.
The Jordan-Israel Peace
Treaty was signed on October 26, 1994.
The treaty guaranteed Jordan the restoration of its occupied land
(approximately 380 square kilometers), as well as an equitable share of water
from the Yarmouk and Jordan rivers.
Australian University heads eye watering salaries
…..Over in South Australia, Colin Stirling, boss of Flinders University, ranked 380th, took home a pay packet of $1,345,000.
Not bad, considering it was over $100,000 more than
Lawrence Bacow, who was head of Harvard University.........
Israeli hostage rescued by military
Israeli hostage Qaid Farhan
Alkadi is reunited with family after being rescued by military. The 52-year-old was transferred to hospital
and his condition is stable.
Israel has not released
details of the operation in which he was freed, citing the
security of the remaining hostages and Israeli forces.
Australia's international student industry
Australia
has the second highest share of international students in the world which
brings in $30 billion a year.
As
Education Minister Jason Clare says “it’s the biggest export we don’t dig out
of the ground.”
The government is cracking
down on the sector amid a wider push to bring down migration, in what
Australian National University higher education expert Andrew Norton has called
"by far the biggest reversal in policy" since international education
was established.
It has already brought in a
slew of changes aimed at weeding out bogus applicants, including changed visa
processing priorities, more stringent entry conditions, and a doubling of the
application fee, which have led industry bodies to warn that visa
applications are plummeting and job cuts will soon follow........................
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Muhammad Zain Ul Abideen Rasheed sentenced to 17 years
A Perth man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for
coercing 286 victims, including 180 children, into performing sexually explicit
acts on camera or video.
The scale of the offending, in which he targeted victims
from 20 different countries, makes it one of the worst sexual extortion cases
in history……………..
Poll shows Dutton's on right track about Gazan refugees
More voters back Peter Dutton’s call to pause arrivals of Palestinians from the Gaza conflict than oppose it, in a sign the opposition leader’s rhetoric is politically profitable despite the charge he is intentionally dividing Australians while Albanese records approval rating of -10.........................
New hate crime against women in Afghanistan
Women's voices and faces are forbidden to be heard or shown
in public in Afghanistan after virtue laws were introduced by the Taliban,
three years after the militant group retook control of the country.
Uber cuts pay rates
Uber’s decision to cut driver pay is a crushing blow for
many who went out and bought a new car.
Uber said in an email “we anticipate that these changes will
lead to an increase in rider demand and result in more trips for
driver-partners”.
No union, no power
Giuliano Pirone left alone in 24/7 Perth gym
Giuliano Pirone’s family in Perth called 000 when he failed
to come home. Using his phone, Police
tracked him down to a 24/7 gym last night.
After breaking down the cubicle door, police found him lying
unconscious on the floor of the shower. The water was cold and he’d been lying
there for 15 hours .
His is currently in an induced coma in hospital.
Monday, August 26, 2024
Gerard Rennick People First Party
Queensland Senator Gerard Rennick has resigned from the
Liberal National Party after he was dumped from preselection.
But he’s not only running as an independent at the next
election, he will seek approval to establish the Gerard Rennick People First Party.
Children under 12 restricted to fenced in zones on Fraser Island
The Fraser Coast mayor is calling for families with children
under 12 to be restricted to fenced-in zones on K'Gari.
It comes after a string of incidents where children have
been attacked by dingoes.
Daniel Katz installed his bushfire bunker without council approval
Daniel Katz installed a six-person bushfire bunker at his
Bridgewater property after the 2019 Cudlee Creek bushfire, without first
seeking planning approvals.
The local council discovered the shelter and asked he apply
for retrospective approval before issuing a removal notice — a decision which
he is appealing.............
Canberr'a Floriade Festival 2024
Canberra’s Floriade Festival’s head gardener Tim Howard says the flowers have arrived "a bit too soon’’ this year. However, organisers are not planning to bring forward the opening and are confident the flowers will look vibrant throughout the month-long festival.
New Spirit of Tasmania ferries
Tasmania's two new Bass Strait ferries will have
pet-friendly facilities, allowing passengers to choose from sharing a cabin
with their pets or visit them at climate-controlled kennels.
The new Spirit of Tasmania ships are under construction in
Finland and are expected to be in service from 2025.
Bridget Murphy and Macey
Bridget Murphy and Macey – also known as Penmain Promise – are regulars at dressage competitions in Victoria.
Murphy and Macey will compete in the para-dressage at the Paris Paralympics.
Sunday, August 25, 2024
Sydney lawyer attempted to smuggle drugs into prison
Kristy Howell, a Sydney lawyer, will face court later this month after being charged with attempting to smuggle cocaine and ice into Parklea prison for her clients.
Government power to overrule Reserve Bank Board
In case you missed it, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he will
no longer push ahead with the idea of abolishing the federal government's power
to overrule a decision by the Reserve Bank Board.
He says he'll keep the power in place, and he'll now just
try to restrict the circumstances in which it can be used……
Japan's lonely death crisis
When Takuya Shiota's cleaning agency was called to a small
Tokyo apartment, its elderly resident had been lying dead on the floor for more
than three weeks. She was only
discovered when her landlord tried to claim unpaid rent.
She had no family and no friends checking on her.
She lived, and died, in solitude……….
Should police march in Sydney Gay Mardi Gras?
The Sydney Mardi Gras board will vote on whether NSW police force members will march in its annual parade.
The debate came to a head early this year after police Sen
Const Beau Lamarre-Condon was charged with the murder of Luke Davies and
Jesse Baird.
The board asked the force not to march in the parade, however police later agreed to march in plain clothes “in consideration of the sensitivities”.
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Italians open manslaughter investigation after Mike Lynch's superyacht sinks
Italian prosecutors have opened a manslaughter investigation
after British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch's family superyacht sank on
Monday.
The main question investigators are focusing on is how a
sailing vessel deemed “unsinkable” by its manufacturer - Italian shipyard
Perini Navi - sank while a nearby sailboat remained largely unscathed.