‘Labor doesn’t care what we think’:
Dr Ziad Basyouny intends to take on Tony Burke in the safe
western Sydney seat of Watson which covers Lakemba, Bankstown, Punchbowl and
Campsie.
“We’re not being represented truly, and we’re being left
behind. And that is because Tony Burke represents
Labor, not the constituents in Watson.
Tony Burke warns of visa cancellations after Hezbollah flags were seen at a Melbourne protest.
But nobody believes him. Why?
Because Tony Burke’s Sydney seat of Watson
has the highest percentage of Islamic adherents in the country,
Mr Burke has held Watson for 20 years and won it at the last
election by a margin of 15.1 per cent.
Steven Galcsik, 47, allegedly ran over his wife Natalie, 46, with a car at their Pokolbin home where they ran a busisness called Unlax @ Hunter Valley, a luxury bed-and-breakfast.
Her husband was
arrested and refused bail.
Ms Galcsik's sudden death comes just 14 months after the
couple's seven-year-old son died in a drowning tragedy in a dam near the
property.
There was a presence of Hezbollah flags at a pro-Palestinian rally in Melbourne over the weekend.
Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke said "any indication of support for a terrorist organisation is unequivocally condemned".
“I have made clear from
day one that I will consider refusing and cancelling visas for anyone who seeks
to incite discord in Australia," he added.
Retirement villages are home to more than 250,000 older
Australians, drawn by polished marketing that promises independent living in a
safe community environment.
Many complaints centre on the fees charged when residents
leave, which often include an exit fee and the cost of refurbishing the villa.
One retirement village resident, 89-year-old Joan Green,
sees it as a form of robbery......
A Falcon 9 lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Saturday, 28 September 2024 carrying the astronauts of NASA/SpaceX Crew-9 to
the International Space Station.
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Arriving back in Australia
after high-level economic talks in China, today Jim Chalmers will reveal the
final set of Budget numbers for 2023-24 includes a $15.8 billion surplus.
The headline figure — Labor’s
second-consecutive surplus — is $6.4 billion higher than the $9.3 billion
surplus forecast in the May budget.
“We’re the first government
to post back-to-back surpluses in nearly two decades,” he said.
Jack Thompson, now 84, was in a polyamorous relationship
with sisters Leona and Bunkie King in the 1970s and 1980s. Bunkie, who was just
15 when the romance began, left when she was in her 30s, leaving Leona to
continue the relationship with Thompson alone.
Chinese Governor Zhong Yang
has been jailed for 13 years and fined $A268,000 for professional misconduct. She was convicted of engaging in sexual
relations with 58 male subordinates and accepting about $16 million in bribes.
Lobbyist Cameron Milner has claimed Anthony Albanese was set
up to look foolish amid scrutiny over rumoured changes to negative gearing. He claims the leaked story to Nine newspaper
journalist James Massola was a very well-placed political hit on the PM'.
Cameron Milner was once Bill Shorten's chief-of-staff.
Iran's Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been transferred to a secure location inside the
country with heightened security measures in place.
The Israeli security cabinet had previously pulled back from plans to kill Nasrallah, but having established that he was due to attend a meeting at the command complex, approval to kill him went ahead.
The assassination had been carried out by a
squadron of F15I jets equipped with bunker-busting bombs.
Ali Khamis Moh'd, a male nurse who molested three separate
women at Sydney’s Norwest and Nepean private hospitals was found guilty and
will spend at least three-and-a-half years in jail.
He asked a 25-year-old patient to inspect a
surgical wound on her groin area just after her heart operation. He massaged her groin before touching her
vagina with his fingers.
He will be eligible for release in 2028.
Jon Waldron, 53, a disgraced Commonwealth Bank IT executive
was sentenced to 4 years jail in Sydney yesterday. He was found guilty of seven charges of
corruptly receiving $US1.9million as a reward for helping American IT firm,
ServiceMesh, secure two large contracts with CBA.
Waldron will be eligible for parole on July 13, 2028.
Muhammed Ismail, the commander of Hezbollah’s rocket and
missile unit in southern Lebanon, his deputy Hussein Ismail, and other
commanders were killed in the Beirut strike, IDF has confirmed.
The Hezbollah rocket and missile commander was responsible for numerous attacks on Israel amid the war, including Wednesday’s ballistic missile fire at Tel Aviv, according to the IDF.
Israel only notified the US about the IDF’s major airstrike
targeting Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut after its planes were
already in the air and the operation was in motion.
An American lawsuit has been filed against Novo and Lilly ,
the makers of Ozempic and Mounjaro for allegedly causing severe gastrointestinal injury, including stomach
paralysis, gallbladder issues, colon removal, and more, as well as making
misleading statements about the drugs’ safety.
“We have a very good relationship (with Zelenskiy) and I
also have a very good relationship, as you know, with President Putin,” Trump
told reporters.
“And I think if we win, I think we’re going to get it
resolved very quickly,” he added.
A Viking burial ground that was used during the 9th and 10th
centuries has been discovered in the village of Åsum in Denmark.
The skeletons are so well-preserved archaeologists believe
they will be able to pull DNA samples for scientific analysis.
SpaceX is set to launch two new crew members to the
International Space Station on Saturday, in a capsule that will eventually
bring home two NASA astronauts who flew to orbit on Boing’s problem
plagued Starliner spacecraft.
Hague and Gorbunov are expected to remain at the space
station until February. On their return flight back to Earth, NASA astronauts
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will ride with them.............
The Israeli military said Friday it struck the headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was the target.
It was
not immediately clear if Nasrallah was at the site, and Hezbollah declined to comment.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers conceded he asked his department to
model the impact of changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax
concessions.
About 1.1 million Australians had a negatively geared
property in 2020-21, according to Australian Taxation Office data.
The government has again left the door open to revisiting
the reforms ahead of the next election.
A dramatic early morning police raid has unearthed a vile alleged bestiality and child abuse material production site in a house at Windsor, a suburb on the outskirts of Sydney.
At least two animals were rescued from the property and two
Sydney men were arrested and charged with the most heinous of crimes after an
investigation by strike force trawler......
A statue of former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews is in
the works.
Bronze statues of State Premiers who spent more than 3000
days in office are immortalised outside government offices near Treasury
Gardens in central Melbourne, under a rule introduced by former Liberal premier
Jeff Kennett.
High-fructose corn syrup is a liquid sweetener usually
associated with junk food like sodas and desserts but it has also sneaked into
more 'healthy' foods such as salad dressings, oatmeal, fruit juices, cereals
and bread.
The other ingredient is emulsifiers, which is used to give foods a creamy texture and found in healthy
foods such as low-fat yogurts, cottage cheese, and peanut butter.
Chris Minns has promised to "weed out" the
"horrific behaviour" in the NSW police force following
"harrowing" revelations from an ABC News investigation.
More than a dozen police officers allege bullying, nepotism, sexism and zero support for those suffering PTSD is rife...........
Adam Charles Lusk, 45, a Perth father-of-two has been found guilty of drugging then filming himself raping multiple women and girls – some of them still at school — over an almost two-year period.
He spiked some of their drinks then raped
them at his home while they were unconscious and many have no memory of the
assaults.
A jury has found South Australian MP Troy Bell guilty of
theft and dishonesty charges for stealing more than $436,000 from an
educational not-for-profit.
The jury of eight women and four men returned their verdicts
on Thursday night after a three-month trial in the SA District Court and more
than two days of deliberations.
While she was standing in the terminal at Lebanon's only
international airport, the Sydney woman watched as her flight to Abu Dhabi got
cancelled.
It was one of more than 30 commercial services from the
capital, Beirut, to be scrapped on Wednesday…..
It is, singularly, the worst election campaign in living
memory for anyone who cares about economics,” Joe Hockey said. “It is ground
zero in terms of making promises that are unfunded and probably cannot be
delivered.”
A Liberal MP is trying to change South Australia’s abortion
laws to force people who want to terminate their pregnancy after 28 weeks to
deliver their baby alive.
The mother would have the choice to keep the child or have
the baby adopted.........
Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi told troops positioned on
Israel’s northern border with Lebanon that the airstrikes were to “prepare the
ground” for what could be coming next.
Different Aboriginal groups have different names for the
mountain
One Ngarigo Aboriginal clan favours the name 'Kunama
Namadgi' which roughly translates as 'Snow Mountain'.
'I think between us all, we'll work it out,' Ngarigo woman
Cheryl Davison said
Hezbollah fires ballistic missile at Mossad HQ in Tel Aviv the first time. In confirming the close call after the missile was intercepted, the Israel Defence Forces said the IAF had returned fire and struck the launcher from which the missile was fired in the area of Nafakhiyeh, Lebanon
Marcellus 'Khaliifah' Williams is set to be executed today even though prosecutors who originally convicted him have now raised serious doubts about his guilt.
The family of the victim also supports saving Williams
from the death penalty.
Stewart Rosenwasser 72, a former US prosecutor and retired
judge killed himself yesterday with a self-inflicted gunshot wound as the FBI arrived
at his home in New York to arrest him.
Federal prosecutors allege that Rosenwasser had been taking
bribes worth $63,000 while working inside the Orange County District Attorney's
Office.
Philip Nitschke enters a 'suicide pod' known as 'The Sarco',
designed to allow a person inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas
into the sealed chamber
Several people have been detained in northern Switzerland after
an American woman died yesterday In a “suicide capsule”.
There could be up to 30,000 Australians in Lebanon and Penny
Wong today warned the government may not be able to assist everyone wanting
to come home.
Several airlines have cancelled flights to and from Beirut’s
international airport after the wave of air strikes.
Syria's President Assad would 'welcome home refugees'
In an exclusive interview with Sky News Arabia, he blamed
the country's economic situation as the reason why refugees are not returning
to their homeland......
Syria's
President Assad would 'welcome home refugees' | World News | Sky News
Labor has rejected a “crazy” Greens ultimatum to overrule
the RBA and cut interest rates.
The Greens said if the RBA holds the cash rate at 4.35 per
cent at today’s meeting then Treasurer Jim Chalmers must exercise his
never-before-used power to steamroll the bank’s independence.
SAIDA, LEBANON - SEPTEMBER 23:
Heavy traffic formed at the entrance of the city of Saida after residents of southern Lebanon, particularly from areas near the border, were forced to flee towards the north of the country due to the intensification of Israeli airstrikes.
Credit: Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images
Authorties are offering $100,000 in an effort to find and capture suspects after four people were killed and 17 more were injured, some with life threatening injuries in the Birmingham shooting,
Police have no suspects or people of interest.
Of the 251 Israelis taken hostage, 154 have either been
released by Hamas, rescued by the Israel Defense Forces, recovered dead, or
killed in encounters.
As of yesterday, at least 97 hostages are believed to still
be in Gaza, with at least 33 people believed to be dead, according to Israeli
officials.
Australia’s First Nations Ambassador Justin Mohamed would be axed on “day one” if the Coalition wins government, Peter Dutton has promised.
His overseas trips include the US, Switzerland, Vanuatu and
Dubai and add up to total $350,000.
Dutton said no one could point to what the position had achieved. "It's the only position of its type in the world" he said."
Peter Dutton said the Coalition would treat nuclear and
renewables as “companions, not competitors”, warning that Labor’s approach of
renewables only was “doomed to fail”.
The upfront cost would be “significant” but would be balanced out by the nuclear reactors’ 80-year lifespan.
“But, I can give you this guarantee; our
nuclear plan will cost a fraction of the Government’s reckless $1.3 trillion
plan,” he said.
On live television, heavily armed Israeli soldiers raided Al
Jazeera’s occupied West Bank bureau in Ramallah and handed the bureau head, Walid
al-Omari, a
notice to shut it down. The
soldiers ordered everyone working the overnight shift at the bureau to leave,
telling them they could take only their personal belongings.
The order came from the Israeli military authority despite
the bureau being in Area
A, an area delineated as being under Palestinian control in the Oslo
Accords.
Mr Justin Mohamed, the world’s only First Nations People
Ambassador — appointed by the Albanese government — took nine overseas trips
amassing $145k for first class travel.
Ramzan Kadyrov claimed Elon Musk gifted him a Cybertruck and accused him of “remotely” disabling the machine-gun-mounted vehicle, which needed to be towed off the Russian battlefield.
“Are you seriously so
retarded that you think I donated a Cybertruck to a Russian general?” Musk replied.
