Former police officer Nicholas Filmer has had his sentence suspended after pleading guilty to child abuse material charges.
The judge found Filmer had "exceptional circumstances" and showed remorse to the court.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Three people sentenced over roles in $5.8m fraud against NDIS and ATO
Three Sydney people —
two men and a woman — were among those arrested in April 2021 by the AFP, suspected
of being fraudulent NDIS providers based in Sydney.
Search warrants discovered 8
kilos of gold bullion, $600,000 in cash and $635,176 worth of cryptocurrency……..
"Nobody is going to feel it" says Trump about Elon Musk's economy crash prediction
Just hours after Elon
Musk admitted Donald
Trump’s policies will tank the entire economy, the former president confirmed
his plans to let Musk be a part of the destruction, claiming that “nobody is
going to feel it.”
Just hours after Elon
Musk admitted Donald
Trump’s policies will tank the entire economy, the former president confirmed
his plans to let Musk be a part of the destruction, claiming that “nobody is
going to feel it.”..................
Trump
Doubles Down After Elon’s Shocking “Tank the Economy” Confession | The New
Republic
Hugh Nelson sentenced to 18 years
A man who used AI to create child abuse images using
photographs of real children has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
In the first prosecution of its kind in the UK, Hugh Nelson, 27, from Bolton, was convicted of 16 child sexual abuse offences in August.
Nelson had used Daz 3D, a computer programme with an AI
function, to transform “normal” images of children into sexual abuse imagery. In some cases, paedophiles had commissioned
the images, supplying photographs of real children with whom they had contact in
real life.
ABC journalist Matt Peacock has died
Former ABC journalist Matt Peacock has died at the age of 72 after battling pancreatic cancer.
He was best known for exposing how global materials giant James Hardie Industries covered up the deaths of thousands of Australians from asbestos.
His book 'Killer
Company: James Hardie Exposed' detailed the hundreds of hazardous products that
the company manufactured.
He was elected to the ABC's board in 2013 by his colleagues following a vote by 1,800 employees.
Gina Rinehasrt and Chris Ellison do a deal
Gina Rinehart's company Hancock Prospecting announced today (Thursday) it was buying the Lockyer/North Erregulla Conventional Gas Project located
in WA’s mid-west Perth Basin as part of $1.1billion deal with
previous owner Chris Ellison of Mineral Resources.
Urartu, the resting place of Noah's Ark?
Researchers decipher Babylonian map showing journey to
Urartu, believed to be the ark's resting place after the Great Flood.
Scientists have recently unlocked the secrets of the world's
oldest map, a 3,000-year-old clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, which is
believed to show the location of Noah’s Ark........
She's still alive
‘She's still alive’: First Sarco suicide pod user ‘found
with strangulation marks’ as boss remains in custody.
The first person to use the controversial suicide pod dubbed
the “Tesla of euthanasia” was found inside with strangulation marks on her
neck.......
King Charles and Camilla visit Wellness clinic in India
King Charles and Camilla landed in southern India last Sunday for a private four-day visit to the Soukya International Holistic Health Centre in Bengaluru. The resort specialises in alternative medicine.
Both
Charles and Camilla have visited the centre several times before.
Reddit stock price surging
Reddit's stock price is surging after the social media
player posted a rare profit.
A key factor behind Reddit's fast growth of late is
artificial intelligence. In a letter to shareholders, Reddit co-founder and CEO
Steve Huffman said a new AI-powered service that lets people translate posts
between English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German quadrupled its
number of users. Reddit plans to roll out the feature to more than 30 countries
over the course of 2025, he added.....
Founder of TikTok owner tops China's rich list
Founder of TikTok owner ByteDance jumps to top of
China's rich list as number of billionaires shrinks. Zhang Yiming is China’s richest person, with
personal wealth of $49.3 billion, an annual rich list showed.
Zhang, 41, who stepped down in 2021 as chief executive of
ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent company of TikTok, becomes the 18th individual to be crowned China’s
richest person in the 26 years since the Hurun
China Rich List was first published.
Tragic incident at Niagara Falls
A New York woman and two children aged 9 years and a 5 month
old baby, crossed over a safety guard rail and went over Niagara Falls on Luna
Island which is attached to Goat Island.
An investigation has determined that this incident was
intentional in nature.
San Diego toddler's final bill for snakebite was $297,461
San Diego toddler Brigland Pfeffer was bitten on the
hand by a rattlesnake in his backyard.
The final bill was $297,461, which included two ambulance
rides, an emergency room visit, and a couple of days in paediatric intensive
care. Antivenom alone accounts for $213,278.80 of the total bill………
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
The remaining terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip had gathered in Jabalya
“The surprise for Hamas was complete. We trapped hundreds of terrorists inside the camp, including senior operatives," the IDF said, adding that the terror group had used the population as human shields for over a week and had shot at the legs of residents who attempted to escape.......
Rohan Dennis asks for another delay
Olympic cyclist Rohan Dennis has asked for another delay to answer allegations he killed his wife and fellow Olympian Melissa Hoskins with his car.
Appearing today in Adelaide Court he was due to enter his pleas to the charges of causing death by dangerous driving and aggravated driving without due care.
Inflation drops to lowest level since 2021
Inflation has dropped to its lowest level since 2021.
Consumer price rises slowed to 2.8 per cent as fuel fell,
and power bill credits helped temporarily ease pressure for Australians. ANZ and Westpac predict the RBA will hold
until February.
Death cap mushrooms
This mushroom is found throughout Australia, and can pose a serious threat.
Never pick a wild mushroom that is white, it
can kill you.
Sydney house prices out of control
Sydney’s median house price has reached a record $1.65
million.
The median unit price has hit a record $815,000.
Jean Towill has been looking to buy in Windsor and surrounds for six months with a $600,000 budget to no avail...............
Limited Edition Bluey $1 coin robbery
A woman was arrested yesterday after it was reported 63,000 Limited-Edition Bluey $1 coins, produced by the Royal Australian Mint, were stolen from a warehouse in Sydney on July 12.
Police will allege the woman was the driver in the
alleged break and enter.
Catholic hospitals in America turn into behemoths that pay their executives millions
Inside the more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the USA,
not a single nun can be found occupying a chief executive suite, according to
the Catholic Health Association.
….But over time, that focus on margins led the hospitals to
transform into behemoths that operate for-profit subsidiaries and pay their executives millions...........
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nuns-catholic-hospitals-charity-profit/
What will happen to Trump's legal issues after the election?
…..If Trump wins the election, he’s dubbed “the most important“ in the history of the country, it would
likely result in the federal criminal cases against him being dismissed, with
state criminal cases possibly being frozen until he leaves office and
additional delays in the various pending civil cases against him.
But if Trump loses to Kamala Harris, he could be facing
a potential jail sentence later in the month for his
criminal conviction in New York and the possibility of additional criminal
trials in 2025. It could also leave him open to additional civil trials in the
near future, while he’s already appealing $500 million in civil judgments against him........
Abortion is legal in Australia but not for everyone
Abortion is legal in Australia but an ABC investigation has uncovered systemic failures and examples of obstruction that have denied women access to legal reproductive healthcare across rural, regional and remote Australia.
Only two public hospitals in the state offer formal
termination services — the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney, and John Hunter
in Newcastle. Terminations in other hospitals remain non-existent, ad-hoc or
provided at individual doctors' own discretion..................
Biggest grain harvests in memory
Twenty kilos of bacon and 35 kegs of beer a week are just
some of what is fuelling the tiny border town of Mungindi through one of
its biggest
grain harvests in memory…………
Dr Mahyar Amjadi guilty of professional misconduct
A Sydney plastic surgeon Dr Mahyar Amjadi who patients
say left them with "disfigurement" has been found guilty of
professional misconduct.
A hearing next month will determine whether Dr Amjadi’s
misconduct was serious enough for his registration to be suspended or
cancelled.
Uni students expelled for serious bullying
Six students have been expelled and a further 21 suspended after
a group of male undergraduate students engaged in the "serious
humiliation" of another male student within their friendship group.
St Paul's College is an Anglican residential college located
within the University of Sydney……
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Steve Bannon out of jail
Steve Bannon served a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from a congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Bannon's legal problems won't end with his release. He was charged and entered a not guilty plea in a separate New York State case in 2022Saying 'no' to developers paid off for Zammit family
A year ago the Zammit family from Quakers Hill in Sydney’s
north west caught world wide attention when they declined to sell their 20,000
sqm parcel of land to developers who had purchased all the land around them.......
Farmers' warning over paraquat chemical's link to Parkinson's Disease
Mr O'Brien said he would regularly be immersed in paraquat
while spraying his potato crops, which he did every two months for years
and in his tiny district, five other farmers have been also been diagnosed with Parkinsons.....................
Lithim batteries a problem for Sydney councils
Vision has captured a garbage
truck on fire, driving along a suburban street in Sydney after picking up a lithium
battery which exploded.
Canterbury-Bankstown Council
said it is the fourth time this month a garbage truck has caught alight after
picking up a dangerous substance.
Wissam Hadded, Muslim cleric, sued by Australian Jewry
Sydney Muslim cleric Wissam Haddad, also known as Abu Ousayd
is being sued for telling followers to “kill Jews” in a vile sermon made at the
Bankstown centre and also published online.
Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive
Peter Wertheim and deputy president Robert Goot is suing the cleric over allegedly
offensive behaviour based on racial hatred.
'Towards the end of times when the Muslims will be fighting the Jews, the trees will speak, the stones will speak and they will say '"oh Muslim, oh believer, there is a Yahud (Jew) behind me, come and kill him".'
The Punjabi Sikhs of Woolgoolga
As World War II came to an end, Woolgoolga’s banana farms,
owned mainly by Italian immigrants, were facing a labour shortage. The Punjabi Sikhs, with their agricultural
expertise, stepped in to fill the gap..............
Victorian father enslaved family to work on their farm
Farmer accused of enslaving his wife and six kids to work on
their Victorian property
Over a six-year period before police became involved in
2021, the man allegedly forced his wife and six children to work, controlling
other aspects of their lives including when they could eat, drink and shower.
The trial is expected to last six weeks..................
Punchbowl, Sydney
Muhammad Alam moves his new wife into the family home
while his ex wheelchair-bound wife, who suffers from cerebral palsy, lives
downstairs.
The couple, who share four children together aged between
six and 19, both still live in the two-storey family home which was built to
accommodate Ms Sattar's needs…….
Monday, October 28, 2024
Elon Musk with Trump at Madison Square Garden
During Donald Trump's Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden
in New York City, Elon Musk smiles down at his son who is wearing an oversized
custom MAGA hat that says: 'Make Voting Great Again'
Karen Maree Salkilld who faked her own death sentenced
Karen Maree Salkilld faked her own death and pocketed a life insurance pay out of $718,000.
She was inspired by a movie to carry out the fraud.
She was sentenced to three years in Perth District Court today
but will be eligible for parole in 18 months.
Gerard Depardieu too sick to attend trial
French actor Gerard Depardieu has asked for a delay to the
start of his trial on sexual assault charges, saying his health has prevented
him from attending the proceedings.
$1m offered for information regarding Prabha Arun Kumar's cold case murder
Prabha Arun Kumar was fatally stabbed around 9.30pm in
Parramatta Park in March 2015. Police
now believed the murder was "a targeted attack" and have offered a
$1m reward for information.
Ms Kumar was an IT worker and planned to return to India in
the weeks following her death.
At the time of her murder, Ms Kumar was on the phone to her husband in India who is said to be having an affair with another woman but he is not the only person of interest.
Nude beach shoot at Bondi Beach
Thousands of people take part in an installation by
contemporary artist Spencer Tunick at Bondi Beach on Saturday morning as the sun
rose over Sydney.
Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images
First Muslim woman in Queensland Parliament
Labor candidate Bisma Asif will be the first Muslim woman to join the state's parliament.
Ms Asif
has won the northern Brisbane seat of Sandgate, taking over from retiring Labor
MP Stirling Hinchliffe.
Scott Mitchell makes a gift fit for a king
Scott Mitchell was asked to create something fit for a king — a
timber box to house an ornate glass coronation plate to be gifted to King
Charles III during his royal visit, on behalf of the Royal Australian Armoured
Corps.
In his workshop overlooking Lake George, just outside
Bungendore in NSW, Mr Mitchell carefully crafted the box from 2,000-year-old
Tasmanian birds eye Huon pine, Victorian fiddleback blackwood and ancient red
gum…….
Common herbicide linked to Parkinson's Disease
Leading neurologists and movement disorder specialists have
made submissions to the Australian chemical regulator calling for a ban on
paraquat, over its links with Parkinson's disease.
Public submissions close tomorrow, with the Australian
Pesticides and Veterinary Medicine Authority due to make a decision on paraquat
in February................
Telstra and Optus switch off 3G today:
Older phones will need upgrading as the nation's two biggest
telco's shut down 3G networks
In a bid to boost the speed, capability and reliability of
their 4G and 5G system, TPG Telecom/Vodafone have already turned off 3G.
Telstra and Optus will follow suit today (Monday).
Arab Americans disappointed in US policies on Gaza
‘You lost this vote’
Arab American voters in Dearborn face tough choices in the
2024 election, disillusioned by U.S. policies on Gaza and other key issues.........
Kamala Harris' first priority as President
Kamala Harris says her first priority as president is to "stop this pain" resulting from abortion bans.
"I pledge to you, when Congress passes
a bill to restore reproductive freedom nationwide, as President of the United
States, I will proudly sign it into law."
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Greens leader Adam Bandt's wakeup call
"People who elected Greens Party representatives to
State and Federal parliament expected them to play a progressive role, not to
play a blocking role; to seek to bring people together, not to divide people,”
Mr Albanese said.
“I think there is a big message in this result for Adam
Bandt. I think that it is the first time that a Greens elected member who has
been elected for a full term has lost their seat.”
US influencer Candace Owens denied visa
Conservative and controversial online influencer Candace
Owens has been refused a visa ahead of her first speaking tour in Australia.
Immigration Minister Tony Burke said the commentator could
"incite discord in almost every direction".
She is mostly described as conservative or far-right.
Switzerland unveils statue of the creator of Bitcoin
Switzerland unveils statue
honoring Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin.
Satoshi created Bitcoin to take
financial control back from financial elites, giving ordinary people a chance
to take part in a decentralized financial system.
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