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Sunday, September 24, 2017
Police appeal for witnesses after ‘fun-loving’ soccer star killed in hit-and-run in #Sydney yesterday
Saturday, September 23, 2017
New Zealand election: National Party wins most votes but not enough to govern outright
Friday, September 8, 2017
#Irma expected to ‘devastate’ part of the US as death toll rises in Caribbean
Hurricane Irma will “devastate” part of the United States, authorities have warned, after lashing the Caribbean with devastating winds and rain and killing at least 21 people.
Key points:
- FEMA said Hurricane Irma set to hit Florida as early as Saturday (local time)
- Irma is far larger than the last category five storm to hit the US, in 1994
- At least 21 people have already been killed by Irma in the Caribbean
As Irma — one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century — bore down on Florida, Governor Rick Scott issued a stark warning for residents to get out if they were in evacuation zones.
“We are running out of time. If you are in an evacuation zone, you need to go now,” he said.
“This is a catastrophic storm like our state has never seen.”
US President Donald Trump said in a video statement that Irma was “a storm of absolutely historic destructive potential” and called on people to heed recommendations from government officials and law enforcement.
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Greens in turmoil as senior figures trade insults and accusations
A Greens senator is a “team wrecker”. Local members are “kept in the dark and fed on bullshit”. Grassroots democracy in New South Wales is a “farce”. And party founder Bob Brown should “f*** off”.
These are just some of the stinging insults and allegations exchanged by figures in the Greens Party in a behind-the-scenes examination by Four Corners.
Key points
- Bob Brown and other senior Greens have called on Senator Lee Rhiannon to retire
- Christine Milne says a staffer’s ‘joke’ that Bob Brown should ‘f*** off’ reflects ‘talk that goes on in some circles’
- NSW branch claimed to be to be led by controlling group of people not directly elected by members
The sniping comes after a terrible winter for the Greens, where two senators were forced to resign because of constitutional bungles on dual citizenship and a third was locked out of voting in the federal party room for differences on schools funding policy.
Lee Rhiannon, who is the only elected Green from the country’s most populous state, was in June temporarily suspended from voting in her party room after saying she was bound by the NSW party to adopt a different position on schools funding to leader Richard Di Natale and education spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young.
Monday, August 7, 2017
Sunday, August 6, 2017
Osprey mishap: Australian forces to join search for missing marines after MV-22 training incident
Australian Navy divers and a survey ship are expected to arrive at Shoalwater Bay today to assist with the recovery operation of a US military aircraft.
The MV-22 Osprey ditched into the water off the Queensland coast during a training exercise on Saturday afternoon.
Three of the 26 personnel on board remain missing, presumed dead.
Family members believe one of the missing is Corporal Nathan Ordway from Kansas, who lists himself as a Osprey crew chief on his Facebook profile.
Family and friends have taken to social media to call for prayers for Corporal Ordway.
“Please pray for his life, his safety, and comfort for the family,” family friend Heidi Peltzer wrote on Facebook.
One marine was taken to Rockhampton Hospital with a leg injury.
The US Marine Corps called off the search and rescue operation early on Sunday morning, and moved to a recovery and salvage phase expected to take several months.
Defence Minister Marise Payne said a number of Australian Defence Force (ADF) assets were involved in supporting the US-led recovery operation, including HMAS Melville and a Navy clearance diving team.
Thursday, July 6, 2017
G20 protests: Police clash with demonstrators in Hamburg ahead of summit
German police have used water cannons and pepper spray to disperse protesters in Hamburg after being attacked with bottles and stones by marchers protesting about the G20 summit.
Key points:
- Police clash with group of 1,000 black-clad anarchists
- At least seven police officers injured
- About 100,000 protesters expected during summit
At least seven officers were injured in the clashes that erupted near the summit venue on Thursday evening, less than an hour after Chancellor Angela Merkel met US President Donald Trump.
Police said they repeatedly asked a group of hardcore anti-capitalist demonstrators to remove their masks, to no avail.
They fired water cannons at black-clad protesters after they threw bottles and bricks, breaking the window of a police vehicle.
A nearby building was plastered with the slogan: “Borderless solidarity instead of nationalism: attack the G20.”
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Australian cricket’s D-day has arrived. Almost 230 cricketers will be out of contract
Almost 230 players will be out of contract and will not be paid a retainer until a memorandum of understanding is agreed.
There will be no back pay, no matter how long it takes. About 70 other players are on multi-year contracts that go beyond June 30.
The now uncontracted players will not have to play, train or do media commitments, so it would not be a strike for them, but a lockout.
For the players on multi-year contracts, they will have to choose to strike to retain solidarity with their locked-out compadres.
The women’s team is currently competing in the World Cup in the UK. They have a special contract that will run until the tournament is complete.
After that, they will be in the same boat as the men.
What about the games on the schedule?
The Australia A tour of South Africa is now in question — the first match is supposed to start on July 12.
And let’s not even talk about the tour of Bangladesh, or the Ashes in November.
If currently uncontracted players want to train, they will not be prevented from accessing the Australian cricket training facilities and staff.
The Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) says the players are expected to turn up, unpaid, on Monday as an act of “incredibly good faith”…
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Christopher Pyne ‘very sorry’ for ‘damaging’ same-sex marriage remarks`
The Minister for Defence Industry and Leader of the House made his full-throated apology to local branch members in Adelaide, after playing down the significance of his comments earlier this week.
The comments were secretly recorded and released to the media, enraging senior conservative colleagues who privately demanded Mr Turnbull dump Mr Pyne as Leader of the House.
At a local branch meeting on Wednesday night in his electorate of Sturt, Mr Pyne said: “I’m very sorry that my comments at an event last Friday have caused such a distraction for the Government. I apologise to anyone they have offended.
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Daniel Ricciardo wins ‘crazy’ Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Hamilton: Sebastian Vettel a ‘disgrace’
Daniel Ricciardo has produced a storming drive, battling back from 17th position to win an incident-packed Azerbaijan Grand Prix from the Mercedes of Valterri Bottas and Williams’ Canadian rookie Lance Stroll.
Sebastian Vettel finished fourth in his Ferrari, while pole-sitting Lewis Hamilton was fifth after both were handed penalties, which ultimately allowed Ricciardo to take the race lead and win.
Hamilton later claimed Vettel had “disgraced himself” when he steered into the back of the Briton’s Mercedes under safety car conditions after a red-flag stoppage on lap 22.
The win is Ricciardo’s fifth Grand Prix victory and first since he took out the Malaysian Grand Prix in October of 2016 but it was also the one he least expected to occur.
Ricciardo admitted on the podium it was a race he never saw himself winning once he had to pit on lap six after encountering a problem caused by debris from Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari after the Finn had an opening lap incident with countryman Bottas.
“It was just a crazy race, we knew the podium was a chance after the restart and then we heard about the problems with Lewis and Seb,” Ricciardo said.
“I made an unplanned pit stop at the beginning, we had some debris in the brakes so we had to stop and clean them and dropped back to 17th place.
“Did I think I would win today? Absolutely not.”
Friday, June 23, 2017
Sydney Swans v Essendon: AFL round 14 live scores, stats and commentary `
The Bombers looked set to complete an epic come-from-behind win on Friday night, piling on seven consecutive goals to hit the front with 10 minutes remaining.
The visitors pushed it out to a 19-point lead but the Swans rallied in remarkable fashion. Lance Franklin missed two shots in the ensuing chaos, but his side still managed to kick two goals in the final 80 seconds.
The margin was cut to five points when Franklin marked outside the 50-metre arc, wheeled around and kicked his sixth behind of the night.
Soon after, the Sherrin landed in the lap of Rohan, who had cost Sydney two goals during the Bombers’ preceding blitz, and the flame-haired speedster did not disappoint.
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Driver dies PG fuel tanker collides with car in Mornington Peninsula, causing ‘massive explosion’
A driver has died in a “massive explosion” that shook nearby houses after his car collided with a tanker on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.
The B-double truck carrying LPG collided with the car on the Dandenong-Hastings Road in Tyabb at 8:00pm on Thursday night, police said.
The truck driver was able to escape the flames, which spread onto the road, and was taken to Frankston Hospital for observation.
The 49-year-old driver of the car died at the scene.
Somerville Highway Patrol Sergeant Peter Martin said it will be a lengthy clean-up operation, but it could have been much worse.
“The diesel tanks of the petrol tanker, the propellant, they split open and the diesel spread up and down the road,” he said.
“The engine bay and the the rest of the chassis of the car caught fire. The entire truck was engulfed but, luckily, the tanks were designed to withstand it and they did withstand it.”
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Monday, June 12, 2017
Qantas flight to Perth: 40 passengers forced to disembark because plane was too heavy
A NUMBER of passengers on board a Perth-bound Qantas flight were forced off the plane over concerns the aircraft was too heavy to fly.
Passengers on board the Boeing 737-800 Sydney to Perth flight told Radio 6PR that they had their names called out and were asked to disembark, WA Today reported. It is estimated that up to 40 passengers had to be removed…
Source: Qantas flight to Perth: Up to 40 passengers forced to disembark because plane was too heavy
Monday, May 29, 2017
Angela Merkel has underlined her doubts about the reliability of the United States as an ally
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Billion-dollar warship dry-docked as engineers scramble to fix engine issues
One of the Royal Australian Navy’s largest warships, HMAS Adelaide, has been dry-docked as naval engineers scramble to fix engine problems with the $1.5-billion vessel.
It is still unknown how long it will take to repair the Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD), which was only commissioned into service 18 months ago.
HMAS Adelaide’s sister ship HMAS Canberra also remains out of action, berthed at Sydney’s Garden Island Naval base.
“You don’t expect it when it’s a few years old. This is capability that we should be confident that we got the specifications right and it should be operational,” said David Smith from Professionals Australia, a union representing scientists and engineers in Defence.
In March, the ABC revealed HMAS Canberra and HMAS Adelaide had been sent to Garden Island after problems were identified with their propulsion systems.
HMAS Adelaide was moved into dry dock at Garden Island early on Wednesday morning but Defence is giving few details on the progress of the investigation and repair work.
“During first-of-class flight trials, Defence identified an emergent issue with the propulsion systems of HMAS Canberra. HMAS Adelaide was also inspected and there are indications of a similar issue,” the Defence Department said in a statement.
“Defence has adopted a deliberate and disciplined approach to resolve this problem early in the ships’ life.”
Defence Minister Marise Payne has also expressed frustration at the time taken to repair mechanical problems with the Navy’s two largest ships.
“This is the period of time in which, in Defence acquisition and implementation terms, we’ve identified these sorts of issues and we address them,” she said.
“That’s not to say that it’s not frustrating that it has been an issue that’s under examination for some time.”
Some Defence insiders fear the engine issues on both ships will not be resolved before next month’s Talisman Sabre military exercises with the United States, but the department and Minister are refusing to speculate.
“Whatever time that takes is frankly the time that it will take. I don’t intend to ask them to rush it, I don’t intend them to work to an artificial or self imposed deadline from anyone else,” Ms Payne said.
Labor MP David Feeney is demanding the Government reveal publicly exactly what is wrong with the Royal Australian Navy’s two LHDs.
“This Government I think now needs to step up to the plate and explain precisely what the circumstances are,” he said.
“Moving these ships in the dead of night might be tricky but it’s not actually telling the Australian people what we need to know — what is the status of these ships,” he said.
Monday, May 1, 2017
Protesters throw petrol bombs at police during Paris May Day rallies
Protesters in France threw petrol bombs at police during rallies marking the international workers’ holiday of May Day, which turned violent in many capitals across Europe.
One Paris police officer was seriously burnt and two others injured in confrontations with protesters.
A small group of Italian demonstrators clashed with police as they tried to break through a police barrier in the northern city of Turin.
The spokesman for Belgium’s Workers Party was knifed in the leg at a rally in Liege.
In Turkey, police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up demonstrations and arrested hundreds.
In Paris, television showed police officers trying to shake out flames from their riot gear and clouds of tear gas enveloping the streets around the Bastille monument.
The clashes foreshadowed the approaching confrontation between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, the two winners of the first round of France’s presidential election.
They will meet in a second-round vote on Sunday, and each verbally attacked the other at May Day rallies.
The centrist Mr Macron evoked the memory of a May Day 22 years ago as he tried to paint his eurosceptic, anti-immigration opponent as an extremist.
On that day, a young Moroccan man drowned after being pushed into the River Seine by supporters of Ms Le Pen’s National Front, led then by her father, Jean-Marie.
For her part, Ms Le Pen portrayed Mr Macron as a clone of the outgoing president, the highly unpopular Francois Hollande.
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