Fremantle Dockers refer second complaint involving Ross Lyon to AFL integrity unit

A SECOND complaint involving Fremantle Dockers coach Ross Lyon has been referred to the AFL’s integrity unit.

According to the Herald Sun, the complaint relates to an alleged incident at a Fremantle bar.

In a statement, the Fremantle Football Club confirmed another person had contacted the club over the past week and the matter had been referred to the AFL Integrity Services Unit.

Dockers Chairman Dale Alcock said the complainant advised he didn’t want to take the matter further.

He added that if anyone had an issue with any employee at the club they would direct them to contact the AFL’s integrity unit.

The new complaint comes as major sponsors called on the club to publicly explain the actions it took regarding a sexual harassment complaint by a former female staffer.

via Fremantle Dockers refer second complaint involving Ross Lyon to AFL integrity unit | PerthNow

Dramatic new footage emerges of police car knocking man to the ground

Previously unseen video of a man being hit by a police car during a dramatic chase shows the moment the man is knocked to the ground before beginning to convulse.

The vision was shot on the weekend by a passer-by, Chelsea, who said she could not believe what she had seen…

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BREAKING: Four Dwellings Academy chemical leak sees 7 hospitalised

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Six pupils and a teacher have been rushed to hospital after a suspected chemical leak during a science class.

The class began struggling to breathe after the gas fumes were released from a bottle containing bromine at the secondary school academy.

Emergency service were sent to the Four Dwellings Academy, in Quinton, West Midlands, where 23 students were present in the class.

The container was resealed straight away but emergency services used breathing apparatus to enter the school.

The pupils were taken to the Queen Elizabeth hospital, in Birmingham, as a precaution but it is believed no one suffered any serious injuries.

The school said in a statement: ‘At 9.45 am today a year 10 student inadvertently and mistakenly opened a bottle of bromine water during a science lesson, a substance which can cause breathing difficulties and irritation if it comes into contact with skin.

The laboratory was immediately evacuated and emergency services were called to the site.

‘We can confirm that six students were driven by minibus to Birmingham Children’s Hospital as a precaution for medical checks.

‘They were displaying no symptoms of any illness at the time and have now been discharged from the hospital all fit and well.’

Source: Four Dwellings Academy chemical leak sees 7 hospitalised | Daily Mail Online

WA faces water and power price rises

State Treasurer Ben Wyatt has warned Western Australians they face increases in fees and charges that will likely be exacerbated due to funding hits received in the federal budget.

Mr Wyatt will deliver his first state budget in September and must come up with a repair plan for coffers that are currently more than $3 billion in deficit, with the net debt at a record $30 billion-plus and forecast to peak at more than $40 billion.

“The entire budget is predicated on increases … I don’t want to increase them dramatically, I assure you of that,” he told reporters.

“Unfortunately we are left in a position where those power bills and those water bills will go up.”

Mr Wyatt says he has been hit with a “dramatic” funding black hole due to Tuesday’s federal budget delivering a $417 million cut in education funding for the next four years and a $100 million health cut.

He complained that he was repeatedly having to deal with new issues in respect of revenue forecasts, spending, future funding assumptions, and that the federal government’s eyes were firmly fixed on the east coast of Australia.

Mr Wyatt said WA should receive a significant amount of a $10 billion National Rail Program announced in the budget, given its own Perth Metronet expansion project was well advanced.

WA should receive above a per capita allocation of $1 billion given it’s “woefully unfair” GST returns, he said.

The WA Government received a Commonwealth commitment of $1.6 billion towards road and rail infrastructure projects, including Metronet which has a $2.5 billion first stage cost.

WA Opposition leader Mike Nahan urged the premier to break his promise and proceed with the $1.9 billion Perth Freight Link he cancelled when elected in March because it would create 6000 jobs.

The budget papers stated that the Commonwealth would still make $1.2 billion in funding available for the PFL.

Source: WA faces water and power price rises | Perth Now

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Sean Spicer ‘hides in bushes’ as reporters question him over James Comey

Sean Spicer hid behind bushes near the White House as reporters clamoured to question him over James Comey’s sacking, it has been reported.

The White House press secretary was much in demand on Tuesday night and, after giving a TV interview on an outside set, retreated to the safety of a nearby hedge, according to the Washington Post.

After several minutes conferring with aides Mr Spicer emerged ready to provide answers, as long as they were not filmed, the Post said.

Donald Trump’s sacking of Mr Comey, the now ex-FBI director, on the advice of his Justice Department had Washington in uproar.

Mr Comey was leading the investigation of alleged Russian hacking of the US election, and of claimed ties between Trump associates and the Kremlin.

But Mr Trump, who has denied any such links, said it was Mr Comey’s handling of the probe into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server — which the Democrat blamed for helping her lose the election — that meant a new face was needed to restore public trust.

Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that is carrying out its own investigation, said he believed the action amount to a “looming constitutional crisis”.

“The president of the United States has just fired the Director of the FBI who was carrying out an investigation into him,” he said.

Senior Republican senator John McCain said he was “disappointed in the president’s decision”. Mr McCain said the firing strengthened the case “for a special congressional committee to investigate Russia’s interference in the 2016 election,” the New York Times reported

Source: Sean Spicer ‘hides in bushes’ as reporters look to question him over Donald Trump firing James Comey | The Independent

Perpetrator’s blood at Bali villa: police

Blood belonging to two different people has been found at the Bali villa where the body of a Perth man was discovered earlier this week, police say.

Hours after Stephen Richardson’s bloodied body was discovered lying on the bed of his rented villa in Sanur on Monday afternoon, forensic officers began scouring the property for clues, fearing he may have been the victim of a fatal assault.

Head of Denpasar Police’s forensic lab, Koesnadi, said results from tests of blood spatter found at the scene showed it came from more than one person.

“There are two types of blood,” he told AAP on Wednesday.

“It means, there is blood from the victim and from a perpetrator.”

The samples have been sent to Jakarta for DNA testing, which they believe will take around a week.

“This will be really helpful for the investigator especially when the perpetrator is caught,” Koesnadi added.

From a superficial examination of the body, head of forensics at Sanglah Hospital Forensic, Dudut Rustyadi, said it appears Mr Richardson may have been the victim of a fatal assault.

“Judging from the location of the wound, like on the back of his head, that kind of violence is not caused by suicidal act or accident.”

He said an autopsy was scheduled for Thursday but they are still awaiting permission from the family.

Police are also examining three cell phones.

Mr Richardson, who is believed to have moved to Bali three months ago, was found after a concerned friend Garry Croker scaled Mr Richardson’s fence.

Police have said there were no signs the 63-year-old had been robbed but added there were “weird things” about the scene – such as how the main gate was locked from the outside.

A friend said he last saw Mr Richardson drinking at a Sanur bar on Saturday night.

On Tuesday, police said they believed he may have injured himself after becoming intoxicated.

DFAT is providing the family with consular assistance.

Source: Perpetrator’s blood at Bali villa: police | Perth Now

Wentworth has aired the most graphic scene on Australian television

SPOILER ALERT — contains storylines from May 9’s Wentworth episode.

IT might well be the most gruesome moment in the history of the multi award-winning drama Wentworth. And that’s saying something.

The drama, which is shown on Foxtel’s showcase channel, saw Joan ‘The Freak’ Ferguson (Pamela Rabe) add involuntary tongue removal to her already alarming CV of dirty deeds.

To recap, The Freak blackmailed the prison nurse to get access to ‘Juicy’ Lucy Gambaro (Sally-Anne Upton) who was scheduled to have an dodgy tooth extracted by an external dentist.

Gambaro, Wentworth fans will remember, sexually assaulted Ferguson in a shower last season.

The patient Ferguson finally got her revenge this week. Dozing off on happy gas in the dental chair, Juicy Lucy wound up being straddled by Ferguson, who was wielding a surgical blade ready to make an unkind cut.

Her final words to Lucy: “You’ve licked your last p!@#y.”

Fans watched as Ferguson severed Lucy’s tongue — the victim then staggered out into the exercise area of the jail and coughed up blood and gore onto poor prison boss and birthday girl Vera Bennett (Kate Atkinson).

Bennett then got the worst birthday present ever on her desk — the tongue wrapped up in a box, Seven style.

Here’s the gruesome story behind Tongue-gate — a scene that is instantly iconic in Wentworth history.

Sally-Anne Upton was given the heads up about the pivotal scene at the start of this fifth series of Wentworth from the Foxtel show’s writers and producers.

“My first thought was ‘Oh no, I can’t do my one-liners and ad libs anymore with no tongue’,” Upton says. “But also I realised it’d be a real moment.”

The scenes in the dental chair took an extraordinary seven and a half hours to film.

“I’d done a bit of research on tongues. I’m a nurse too, nine times out of 10 someone will die from an incident like that because the tongue is so vascular. I knew we only had a short amount of time for me to get out into the courtyard. I was reading an article about a guy who had his tongue cut out because he knew too much.

“He said it was the most painful thing but he couldn’t scream. He couldn’t vocalise it. That’s why she screams and it’s that last cut and there’s no scream.”

MORE: Wentworth TV drama: The Freak cuts out Juicy Lucy’s tongue | Perth Now

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Australian soldier believed to have been killed in training exercise outside of Darwin

BREAKING NEWS: An Australian soldier, believed to be aged in his 20s, is understood to have been killed in a training exercise outside of Darwin.

It is believed the incident took place this afternoon at the Mount Bundey military live-fire training facility.

Members of the Northern Territory Police Major Crime Unit and Forensics have been sent to Mount Bundey to investigate.

NT Police confirmed that the soldier was medivaced to Royal Darwin Hospital.

“At this stage we have no further details,” police said.

Unconfirmed reports said the young soldier died from a wound to the head suffered at the training facility.

It is understood the soldier was taken to Royal Darwin Hospital.

An Australian Defence Force spokesman refused to make any comment other than to say that a statement was being prepared in response to questions put to them by the NT News.

The Mount Bundey Training Area is 75km southeast of Humpty Doo, south of the Arnhem Highway, between the Mary River and Kakadu National Park.

Previously a cattle station, the property was acquired as a training area in 1988.

United States and Singaporean forces both conduct joint tank exercises with Australian forces at Mount Bundey, which also features an Urban Operations Training Facility constructed in 2005.

The training facility has been heavily used by the US Marine Air Ground Task Force since its first deployment in 2012.

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Source: An Australian soldier believed to have been killed in training exercise outside of Darwin | Perth Now

‘Trump screamed at TV during reports about Russia links’, as calls mount for independent counsel to probe campaign links with Kremlin

Jetstar offers flights across Australia for just $13

Jetstar is the latest budget airline to offer its travellers a bargain, with flights across Australia available for just $13.

Only hours after competitor TigerAir set the internet alight with an offer of $1 flights to and from Cairns, Darwin and Perth, Jetstar followed suit.

A total of 10,000 domestic fares – including routes to Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and the Gold Coast, will be available at the bargain basement price.

And the best bit is there’s only a small catch, with the fares available to members of the airline’s ‘Club Jetstar program’ – which costs just $49 to join.

There’s still time to join the club too, with the sale not beginning until noon Thursday and lasting through until 11.59pm tomorrow.

Among the routes on sale are Melbourne to Gold Coast for $13, while Sydney to Perth is available for under $50.

It comes after Tigerair offered 14,000 return flights at $1, beginning from 12pm on Wednesday to 12pm on Saturday, according to The Cairns Post.

Those lucky enough to snag a deal can travel between mid-July to mid-September.

Under the deal, when heading from Brisbane to Cairns it will cost $95 for the flight there and $1 for a return flight.

So that means a ticket will cost $95 from Brisbane to Cairns and $1 home to Brisbane and a ticket from Cairns to Brisbane will cost $95 to Brisbane and $1 return to Cairns.

For the Cairns to Melbourne route a one-way ticket costs $135 with a $1 return.

For the Cairns to Sydney route it will cost one-way $139 and $1 return.

There are a total of 1,600 seats available for the Brisbane to Cairns route, 400 for the Cairns to Melbourne route and 500 for Cairns to Sydney.

Travellers can also fly to Cairns, Darwin, Melbourne, Sydney, Whitsundays and Perth from Brisbane for a $1 return airfare.

Source: Jetstar offers flights across Australia for just $13 | Daily Mail Online

BREAKING: DJ Robert Miles, ‘No 1 hit Children’, dies from undisclosed illness aged 47

BREAKING NEWS:

DJ Robert Miles famous for his 1990s hit Children has died at the age of 47, it has emerged.

The Swiss-born Italian, whose real name is Robert Concina, died of an undisclosed illness.

Miles topped the charts in at least 12 countries with his dance track Children, released in 1995.

His longtime friend Joe T Vanelli is quoted as saying: ‘The tragic news of the death of a very talented artist of our time, makes me incredulous and upset.

‘I will miss the fights, brawls, criticism, judgements but especially your talent in finding sounds and melodies unparalleled.’

Veteran House DJ Pete Tong was among those to pay tribute to the hit-maker.

He wrote on Twitter: ‘Sad to hear Robert Miles passing r.i.p thanks for the music #deconstruction#classichouse.

Source: DJ Robert Miles dies from undisclosed illness aged 47 | Daily Mail Online

TV presenter Jenny Scordamaglia strips off on-screen AGAIN

RAUNCHY TV presenter Jenny Scordamaglia stripped off on screen AGAIN – just weeks after full-fronting a new cookery show. The Naked Chef got her kit off to file a report from the shower and once more prove she’s not shy.

Last month The Sun revealed Scordamaglia’s latest raunchy offering – The Naked Kitchen cookery show on Miami TV.

In the latest episode, Jenny – who turned heads after going clubbing starkers recently – is ably assisted by glamorous guest Eila Adams.

Both women chat about the cooking as if they are totally oblivious to being in the buff on camera.

One of the dishes involves stuffing meat into what appears to be a coconut.

Sex bomb Scordamaglia has presented her sexy online entertainment programme in a see-through electric blue dress, a plunging red party frock and in the buff covered in gold body paint.

VIDEO + MORE: Raunchy TV presenter Jenny Scordamaglia strips off on-screen AGAIN as she files report from the shower

House of Cards s5 ep1: Trump is there, like a weed growing through cracks

*Mild spoilers for S05E01 of House of Cards*

The problem for shows like House of Cards and Veep is that they can’t not acknowledge Trump. As much as they might want to just keep their heads down and explore their own stories, by virtue of them being predicated on a real world institution they can’t ignore a political shift without damaging their own authenticity. This sucks if you’re a screenwriter; who knows what Donald Trump will do in 11 days, let alone in 11 months when the season launches? Trump is an existential threat to House of Cards‘ raison d’être, a show the premise of which could be reductively be boiled down to: ‘Wouldn’t it be crazy if the president was only interested in power, not policy?’

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Almost certainly in response to the bullish new real world president, President Underwood’s ruthless and disruptive nature has been ratcheted up. There is a long list of things about the first episode Netflix has asked me not to disclose and I’m not going to, but the most obvious Trump parallel is not particularly spoilerific, seeing Underwood sit in on Congress. A highly unusual move for a president, Frank further ruffles feathers when he speaks in front of the House of Representatives, launching into a shouty, kind-of reverse filibuster, demanding the US makes a declaration of war. There is the President of the United States, angry, impulsive and capricious, breaking protocols and having no regard for the political system; you can draw the dots (and again with a certain immigration policy Frank proposes, and then again with frustration over his lack of press briefings).

Season 5 finds ICO, House of Cards‘ ISIS stand in, still the main political trending topic, and foreign policy looks set to be a multi-episode focus. Claire Underwood is still very much a key player and, judging by the opener, only looks set to become more powerful and influential, something on the surface of it useful to Frank, but also something he should probably be wary of.

Despite the departure of creator Beau Willimon this season, the show is as smart, barbed and menacing as ever. I only hope it can up the stakes when it comes to its protagonist, as the last two seasons I felt confused as to Frank’s motives. We know he’s not interested in changing the world so, now he’s achieved the position he wanted, what drives him? Where is he heading as president? With the end of the show starting to loom on the horizon, hopefully this season we’ll get a sense of how his presidency is going to wrap up.

All episodes of House of Cards season 5 go live on Netflix on 30 May.

TRAILER: House of Cards season 5 episode 1 review: Trump is there, like a weed growing through cracks | The Independent

The Limehouse Golem trailer goes on the hunt for a sinister Victorian killer

The Victorian murder mystery is a genre awash with potential thrills and chills, and The Limehouse Golem intends to take full advantage.

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Adapting Peter Ackroyd’s novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, director Juan Carlos Medina is bringing to screen a crime film of epic Dickensian proportions, set around a series of gruesome murders in London’s Limehouse district.

In 1880, it was a place where death and sin lined every doorstep, from the misdemeanours of petty thieves to the vast criminal network operating in the area.

It’s here the film sets loose its serial murder, whose calling card sees Latin inscriptions smeared across the walls in the blood of his victims, in crimes so disturbing many in the area begin to believe them the work of the golem of Jewish legend.

Inspector Kildaire (Bill Nighy), however, is on the case, in a film which brings in fictionalised versions of historical characters to aid in its mystery, including music hall star Dan Leno, novelist George Gissing, and Karl Marx.

The film also stars Me and Earl and the Dying Girl‘s Olivia Cooke, alongside Douglas Booth, Eddie Marsan, and Daniel Mays.

VIDEO HERE: The Limehouse Golem trailer goes on the hunt for a sinister Victorian killer | The Independent

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Sea World Gold Coast polar bear cub dies

ONE of two polar bear cubs born at Sea World on the Gold Coast last month has died.

The twins were born to 16-year-old polar bear Liya on April 26. The cub died on Saturday.

“Initial concern for the welfare of the smaller of two cubs was raised last Thursday, when it was eight days old,” Sea World’s director of marine sciences Trevor Long said.

“Of the two cubs, one was more dominant and it was considered the smaller cub was not getting enough mild or growing at a healthy rate.

“Liya had also begun to focus more of her attention towards the larger cub.

“Our ultimate aim was to give Liya every opportunity to raise both cubs, however the situation worsened on Saturday morning when it was observed Liya was no longer being attentive toward the smaller cub.”

The cub was retrieved from the den and placed in a humidity crib, given fluids and a specialised formula.

However, it passed away that evening.

Mr Long said Liya continued to display positive and confident maternal behaviours towards the one remaining cub.

“The team are continuing to carefully observe Liya and the cub 24 hours a day through state-of-the-art monitoring systems and we remain cautiously optimistic for their welfare of the cub during the extremely critical period,” he said.

It is the second time Liya has lost one of her cubs. In 2013, Henry’s twin died days after it was born when Liya also shunned it to focus on one cub.

The tiny cub died despite a daring rescue mission where animal handlers donned night vision goggles and used tongs to extract the baby girl from the pitch-black den while mum Liya was distracted.

Mr Long said everyone at SeaWorld was heartbroken by the death but acknowledged nature was often tragic.

Everyone is extremely saddened as you can imagine,” he said.

“Our staff have taken it very hard.

“But it is not uncommon in nature and it is often the case that only the fittest survive.”

In 2013, Sea World also lost a baby bear, but that cub died inside 24 hours, but Sea World staff grew increasingly optimistic this time as Liya cared for both cubs for the first eight days.

Mr Long said he hoped it was a sign that Liya was developing better parenting skills that might allow her to successfully raise two cubs in future pregnancies.

Source: Sea World Gold Coast polar bear cub dies | Perth Now

Kim Beazley: No sleuth to assume the motive behind Trump’s sacking of James Comey FBI Director

IT doesn’t take a sleuth to assume the motive behind American President Donald Trump’s sensational sacking of FBI Director James Comey, Kim Beazley says.

The former Australian Ambassador to the US described Mr Trump’s move as “of enormous significance”, as Washington reels from the news.

“I don’t quite know what the public reasons are associated with it but certainly the inquiry the FBI is currently conducting into the relationship of Trump’s campaign team, maybe Trump himself, and the Russians is such that it may have reached the point where somebody would want to be able appoint an FBI director to suppress the investigation,” Mr Beazley told a PwC breakfast in Brisbane this morning.

“That (investigation) carries the biggest threat of impeachment for Trump. You don’t have to be too much of a sleuth or a suspicious fellow to assume that there is a linkage here.”

The White House confirmed Mr Comey had been “terminated and removed” at the President’s direction, in relation to his investigation of the Hillary Clinton email controversy.

“The president has accepted the recommendation of the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General regarding the dismissal of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer said in a statement.

Mr Comey was leading the agency charged with investigating the Trump campaign’s ties with Russia and that country’s apparent interference with the election.

That fact has prompted outage from Democrats and some Washington observers.

Former federal prosecutor and respected legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin launched an extraordinary attack on the move during an appearance on CNN, describing it as “a grotesque abuse of power”.

“This is the kind of thing that goes on in non-democracies, that when there’s an investigation that reaches near … the leader they fire the people who are in charge,” Mr Toobin said.

In a letter, Mr Trump told Mr Comey: “You are hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately.

“While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau.

It is essential that we find new leadership for the FBI that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission.”

The decision was pinned on the FBI Director overstating the number of Clinton emails top aide Huma Abedin forwarded to her husband, during his testimony last week to a Senate committee, according to several reports.

MORE HERE: Donald Trump fires FBI Director James Comey after Hillary Clinton emails | Perth Now