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Factional infighting to continue as party conservatives claim Mark Speakman’s push for four-person panel is ‘blatant challenge’ to federal leadershipFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastModerate powerbrokers in the New South Wales Liberal party have been accused of undermining Peter Dutton by voting for a four-person panel to administer the division, in what opponents have described as an attempt to “neutralise” federal intervention.In an email to members after the NSW executive met on Tuesday, conservatives accused the state president, Don Harwin, and the NSW leader, Mark Speakman, of

Prosecutor says disposal of bodies must be considered when sentencing former Jetstar pilot over Carol Clay’s murder in the Wonnangatta ValleyFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe daughter of a camper murdered by a former Jetstar pilot in Victoria’s high country says Gregory Lynn “stole” her mother from her, as prosecutors seek a life sentence over the killing.Lynn, 57, appeared in the Victorian supreme court on Thursday for a pre-sentencing hearing after a jury in June found him guilty of murdering Carol Clay in 2020. He was acquitted

Legal case targets bus company that employed Brett Button and Transport for NSW for alleged safety failing on road where crash occurred killing 10Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFamilies who lost loved ones in a deadly New South Wales bus crash have launched a class-action lawsuit as the driver responsible was sent to prison for decades.Brett Button, 59, was sentenced on Wednesday to 32 years in jail, with a non-parole period of 24 years, for killing 10 passengers and injuring 25 who had been celebrating a young

Nick Smith says his sons Russell, 11, and Ben, nine, were ‘happy, funny, outgoing boys’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe father of two boys found dead in the Blue Mountains this week has released a statement, saying the loss of his sons has caused “unimaginable pain and distress”.On Tuesday the bodies of Russell Smith, 11, and his brother, Ben, nine, were discovered inside a Faulconbridge home by their father, Nick Smith, who contacted police.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news emailIn Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline

The UN Palestinian refugee agency said the attack on Nuseirat led to the highest death toll among its staff in a single incidentSee all our coverage of the Israel-Gaza warAn Israeli airstrike on a central Gaza school being used as a shelter for displaced Palestinians has killed 14 people, the Hamas-run territory’s civil defence agency has said, with the UN reporting that six of its staff were among the dead.The UN Palestinian refugee agency, Unrwa, said the attack was the highest death toll among its staff in a single incident. Two airstrikes hit the school and its surroundings in Nuseirat,

Government acts on longstanding recommendations from Brereton inquiry into ADF conduct in AfghanistanFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian government has decided to cancel the awards and honours of a small group of former military officers who held command positions at the time that others under their command were accused of war crimes.Their names and positions are not being released, for privacy reasons.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/12/australian-military-officers-to-be-stripped-of-honours-after-alleged-war-crimes-under-their-command-ntwnfb Author : Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent Publish date

Lawyers for Christina Cardenas say she was sexually violated during search when she tried to visit husbandThe wife of a California prisoner will receive $5.6m after being sexually violated during a strip-search when she tried to visit her husband in prison, her attorneys said Monday.After traveling four hours to see her husband at a correctional facility in Tehachapi, California, on 6 September 2019, Christina Cardenas was subject to a strip-search by prison officials, drug and pregnancy tests, X-ray and CT scans at a hospital, and another strip-search by a male doctor who sexually violated her, a lawsuit said. Continue reading...

Ex-children’s laureate Malorie Blackman says no student should feel English is irrelevant because they do not see themselves reflected in the literatureThe English literature curriculum ought to include more “inclusive and diverse” contemporary stories that are “relevant and relatable” to young people’s lives, Malorie Blackman has said.The author of the Noughts and Crosses novels said in the foreword to a Lit in Colour campaign report that it could encourage more children to read for pleasure. She also said that no child should feel that studying English at school is irrelevant because “they never see themselves” reflected in the literature. Continue

Budget cuts to local services fell disproportionately on care for obese patients, leading to ‘postcode lottery’The NHS is restricting access to obesity services across England, leading to patients in nearly half the country being unable to book appointments with specialist teams for support and treatments such as weight-loss jabs.An investigation by the British Medical Journal found budget cuts to local services fell disproportionately on obesity care, with patients living with the condition often deemed less worthy of care than others. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/sep/11/nhs-restricting-access-to-obesity-services-england-bmj-finds Author : Ian Sample Science editor Publish date : 2024-09-11 22:30:05 Copyright for syndicated

Category one storm expected to make landfall Wednesday, bringing damaging winds and life-threatening storm surgeFrancine has strengthened into a category two hurricane ahead of landfall in Louisiana and threatens storm surge and flooding.Amid warnings of life threatening storm surge, and evacuation orders in some parishes communities were braced for Hurricane Francine’s expected landfall later in the day. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/11/hurricane-francine-louisiana-evacuation-orders Author : Anna Betts Publish date : 2024-09-11 21:30:16 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Dr Michael Hall writes to inquiry saying he does not believe nurse received fair trialA medical expert has criticised the opening remarks of the judge chairing the public inquiry into the deaths and collapses of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital for which the nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murder and attempted murder.Dr Michael Hall, a retired consultant neonatologist and visiting professor in neonatal medicine who advised Letby’s legal defence team, has written to the inquiry maintaining his opinion that she did not receive a fair trial and that “important elements” of the medical evidence presented by the

The bill to outlaw the malicious exposure of personal data comes as Labor backs down on a proposal to outlaw hate speech. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGood morning and welcome to our rolling coverage from Canberra, where it promises to be another lively sitting day. In the meantime I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll be bring you the top overnight news before Amy Remeikis comes along to guide you through the day.Anthony Albanese’s government will introduce a new bill today to outlaw online doxing – the malicious use or exposure of

Top nature writing honour goes to Late Light by Michael Malay, which explores modern Britain through the ‘unloved’ lives of eels, moths, crickets and musselsA book that explores modern Britain by examining four “unloved” animals – eels, moths, crickets and mussels – has won this year’s Wainwright prize for nature writing.Michael Malay, a lecturer in literature and environmental humanities at the University of Bristol, took home the award for Late Light, in which he tells his story of moving to the UK as an Indonesian Australian, drawing parallels with the lives of the animals he looks at. Continue reading... Source

Reports suggest star, who was arrested in June and charged with driving while intoxicated, has brokered plea dealJustin Timberlake is expected to appear personally in court in the Hamptons on Friday in his drunk-driving case, amid reports that the pop star will admit to a traffic violation.Timberlake’s expected appearance in local court in Sag Harbor – the seaside playground area for the rich and famous out on New York’s scenic South Fork peninsula on Long Island – stems from his 18 June arrest after he allegedly drove through a stop sign and swerved out of his lane. The singer was

Decision understood to have been made in private as secretary of state says in Kyiv that US will continue to adapt policyThe US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, gave his strongest hint yet that the White House is about to lift its restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weapons supplied by the west on key military targets inside Russia, with a decision understood to have already been made in private.Speaking in Kyiv alongside the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, Blinken said the US had “from day one” been willing to adapt its policy as the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine

GOP lawmakers and analysts virtually unanimous that Trump was second best to Harris in first presidential debateUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump’s campaign was in damage control mode on Wednesday amid widespread dismay among supporters over a presidential debate performance that saw Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent, repeatedly goad him into going wildly off-message and missing apparent opportunities to tackle her on policy.Even with Trump insisting to have won the debate “by a lot”, Republicans were virtually unanimous that Trump had come off second best in a series of exchanges that saw the vice-president deliberately bait him on his

Officer on administrative duties after Sunday’s incidentEtan Thomas: Hill isn’t allowed to act like white peopleMiami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill acknowledged on Wednesday that he could have handled a weekend traffic stop differently, but remained critical of how police officers treated him.Hill said he that he should left the window of his car down when officers instructed him to do so during the stop on Sunday. He rolled up the window instead. The incident escalated quickly from there. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/sep/11/nfl-star-tyreek-hill-wants-officer-involved-in-traffic-stop-detainment-fired Author : Agencies Publish date : 2024-09-11 17:17:19 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the

Harris has a progressive record on climate but indicted a shift, likely to assuage voters in swing statesUS politics live – latest updatesKamala Harris stridently backed new fracking and expanded US gas production in comments that raised eyebrows among some environmentalists as, yet again, the unfolding climate crisis was largely overlooked during a set piece presidential debate.Harris, in a televised debate with Donald Trump on Tuesday night in Philadelphia, rebuffed the former president’s claim that she will end fracking “on day one” if elected by touting booming levels of drilling during her term as vice-president, in which US oil and

Oliver Campbell exonerated 33 years after conviction that followed false confessions in police interviewsOliver Campbell, a man with severe learning difficulties who was jailed for life for the murder of a shopkeeper three decades ago after confessing in police interviews, has had his convictions quashed by the court of appeal.The judgment clearing Campbell, 54, of conspiracy to rob and murder ends what has been described as one of the longest miscarriages of justice in British criminal history, and will throw a new focus on past policing failures and the current approach of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC). Continue reading...

Raising age limit is ‘completely irrelevant’ to the risks young people face online, child protection group cited by the PM warnsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA child protection organisation cited by the prime minister in an opinion piece arguing for his government’s policy to ban younger teens from social media says the ban is unlikely to make any difference, and could create more harm for kids.Following his announcement the government would introduce legislation to ban younger teens and children from social media by the end of the year, Anthony Albanese wrote in a Wednesday opinion

Exclusive: Environment Agency warned about ‘forever chemicals' 20 years before it started to regulate themThe Environment Agency was warned about the “chronic threat” that firefighting foams containing PFAS “forever chemicals” pose to the environment in 2003, 20 years before it started the process of regulating the chemicals, it can be revealed.In a 200-page report obtained by the Ends Report via a freedom of information request and shared with the Guardian, consultants commissioned by the Environment Agency conducted an environmental review of firefighting foams with a “particular emphasis on their fluorosurfactant content”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/sep/11/chronic-threat-pfas-firefighting-foams-environment-agency Author : Pippa

Boy given referral order for involvement in two incidents with his mother also ordered to attend parenting courseA 12-year-old boy who was involved in two separate incidents of rioting told a court: “I want to say sorry” as he was handed a referral order with intensive supervision.His mother, who had been on holiday in Ibiza when her son was due to be sentenced last week, said: “It wasn’t put to me how much I actually needed to be there,” and that she had thought her son, who was accompanied by his uncle on the day, would be able to attend

Harris and Trump will mark the 23rd anniversary of the 11 September 2021 World Trade Center terrorist attacksKamala Harris and Donald Trump will both attend the annual commemoration in New York on Wednesday morning of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attack that killed almost 3,000 people, in an awkward juxtaposition after the fiery presidential debate just hours earlier.Joe Biden, the US president, will attend alongside Harris, his vice-president and now the Democratic nominee for president in this November’s election since Biden ended his re-election campaign in July after his own disastrous debate against Trump. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/11/harris-trump-9-11-commemoration

US secretary of state and British foreign secretary in Ukraine as Kyiv pushes to use long-range weapons deep inside Russia Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, has said Moscow will destroy any new deliveries of long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine by the United States, Reuters reported citing the state TASS news agency.The State Department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, said “the U.S. and UK stand united with Ukraine as they defend their sovereignty and freedom.” Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/11/antony-blinken-volodymyr-zelenskiy-ukraine-kyiv-russia-europe-live-news-latest Author : Martin Belam (now) and Lili Bayer (earlier) Publish date : 2024-09-11 12:12:47 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the

Session comes as this morning’s growth figures underline economic challenge for new governmentA new Labour pressure group aiming to “take on the Nimbys” is being launched today, PA Media says. PA reports.The Labour Infrastructure Forum (LIF) said it would challenge the government to “push through the pain” to meet the party’s manifesto commitment to get Britain building again.Describing itself as a “group of senior policymakers, industry experts and stakeholders from across the Labour movement”, the LIF is backed by former shadow roads minister Bill Esterson and three new Labour MPs – Luke Murphy, Kirsteen Sullivan and Mike Reader.Those of a