Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Residents shocked by drive-by shooting at Port Melbourne0:34 and other top stories.

  • Residents shocked by drive-by shooting at Port Melbourne0:34

    Residents shocked by drive-by shooting at Port Melbourne0:34
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  • What lead to Warriena's death fall?

    What lead to Warriena's death fall?
    Editor on duty: Kate Kyriacou, Melanie Petrinec, Greg Stolz, with AAPGABLE Tostee, the so-called “Tinder killer”, was a gentleman towards an erratic and odd Warriena Wright in the hour before she fell from his 14th floor Surfers Paradise balcony, his lawyer has claimed. Prosecutor Glen Cash said in his closing submissions on Friday Tostee had caused her death “as much as if he had pushed her from the balcony himself”. But defence barrister Saul Holt urged the jury to examine the evidence of the..
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  • NT Royal Commission: Child protection system 'broken', department should be closed

    NT Royal Commission: Child protection system 'broken', department should be closed
    Eighty per cent of boys at the controversial Don Dale Youth Detention Centre had been sexually abused prior to their incarceration.This was one of the bewildering claims made at a public meeting in Darwin where speaker after speaker attacked NT governments for cutting funds to child protection and allowing generations of public servants to take Indigenous children away from families. The Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory was told by se..
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  • Census meltdown played out in new FOI documents

    Census meltdown played out in new FOI documents
    The night of Tuesday August 9 was meant to be the chance for every Australian to be counted, with the federal government confident moving the census online would proceed without a hitch.But newly released Australian Bureau of Statistics documents show a very different story. More News Videos Previous slide Next slide Census: internet's hilarious memes Why the Solicitor-General is so angry All praise Pauline Emotional farewell for Rebecca Wi..
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  • Fremantle restaurant extortion probe: Ruocco's trashed by vandals who allegedly demanded money

    Fremantle restaurant extortion probe: Ruocco's trashed by vandals who allegedly demanded money
    Fremantle restaurant extortion probe: Ruocco's trashed by vandals who allegedly demanded money Updated October 14, 2016 13:53:09 Police have arrested one man and are searching for another over an alleged extortion attempt on a popular Fremantle restaurant.Officers were called to Ruocco's on South Terrace about 2:15pm on October 1, after reports two people were smashing glass display cabinets with a hammer.The men were wearing motorbike helmets during the incident, where..
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  • Teenager remanded in custody after holding grandmother hostage for eight hours on Gold Coast

    Teenager remanded in custody after holding grandmother hostage for eight hours on Gold Coast
    A 17-year-old girl who allegedly held her grandmother hostage at knifepoint for eight hours on the Gold Coast will remain in custody until at least early next month.Rhiannon Peatey faced Southport Magistrates Court today, charged with serious assault of a person over 60, assault occasioning bodily harm, and deprivation of liberty.Police said both women underwent checks in hospital after the stand-off, but neither was seriously hurt. Neighbours have told of a large police operation to end the si..
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  • New lung cancer treatment preserves quality of life for mid-term patients, research finds

    New lung cancer treatment preserves quality of life for mid-term patients, research finds
    New lung cancer treatment preserves quality of life for mid-term patients, research finds Posted October 14, 2016 14:54:07 A new minimally-invasive treatment for lung cancer is providing much better quality of life for mid-term patients with the disease.Research presented at The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists 67th Annual Scientific Meeting held on the Gold Coast today showed that thermal ablation is proving as effective as surgery in patients..
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  • Schools Plus: Public schools get $5 million bonus from business

    Schools Plus: Public schools get $5 million bonus from business
    The architect of the Gonski education reforms, David Gonski, is forking money out of his own pocket as part of a $5.25 million gift to needy public schools across Australia while the federal government refuses to provide billions of dollars in funding for the final two years of his reforms.But Mr Gonski, who savaged the Abbott government's backflip on school funding in 2014 for "ending the concept of aspiration", praised the Coalition government on Friday at the launch of the Schools Plus pione..
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  • Bill Shorten ally Kimberley Kitching wins plum Senate spot

    Bill Shorten ally Kimberley Kitching wins plum Senate spot
    Bill Shorten has sparked a new Labor factional brawl in his home state of Victoria after backing controversial lawyer and close friend Kimberley Kitching to replace Stephen Conroy in his party's plum top Senate spot.Ms Kitching secured the party's backing for the seat on Thursday night with the active support of Shorten's union base, and others, after a frenzy of factional bargaining and lobbying through the day. More News Videos Previous slide Next slide Senator's bomb..
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