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Doctors across NSW could be forced to jack up their fees by $12 in six months time to combat a state government “tax grab” which could also result in the closure of many GP clinics. King Charles’s cancer diagnosis will force Prince Harry into a potentially tense reunion with his father, stepmother and brother, with the rogue royal expected to fly to London immediately. Two vile predators are now behind bars after an intoxicated 15-year-old was repeatedly raped at an Adelaide party. Queensland will aim to halve the number of children in residential care within five years, after a wide-ranging review sparked by The Courier-Mail found evidence of systemic issues across the sector.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Albanese government will reap billions of dollars from extra tax on fuel, beer and spirits, including a 1.8 per cent hike this week, while sparing Tesla owners and wine drinkers.  Tobacconists across Sydney peddling black market vapes have been swept up in the largest raid blitz so far, with more than 30,000 illegal vapes at a street value of $1.1 million seized over five days last week.  Victorian doctors will have to increase patient fees by a whopping 30 per cent to combat a state government “tax grab”.  Thousands of employees at one of South Australia’s biggest companies are now working nine-day fortnights without reduced pay – and have become more productive than ever. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Distilleries and brewers are warning of a hit to Australia’s hospitality sector and local tourism unless the federal government freezes the twice-yearly tax hike on beer and spirits. It comes after The Daily Telegraph revealed the Western Parkland City Authority (WPCA) was sitting on $500 million in unspent grants and had only managed to start work on a visitors’ centre that has been dismissed as a “shed with a fancy pergola’’. Victorian GPs in training can apply for $40,000 in incentives from today, putting the South Australian government under pressure to match it or risk a brain drain of young doctors. It is an unusually busy time in the medical room at West Lakes with more Crows players suffering injuries. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Margot Robbie has spoken out one week after being overlooked for a nomination at the 2024 Oscars. Risk of being unable to field a team if players are benched for three weeks under new concussion protocols, a Victorian Nationals MP has warned. The number of babies dying within a month of birth has almost doubled since 2018, the year the state’s biggest ever review into maternity services was launched by then health minister Steven Miles. Gaming group SkyCity Entertainment says it faces up to $73m in penalties and legal costs after admitting to serious breaches of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of the biggest changes to Australian recreational sport in history is being urged by the country’s peak sporting institute in the fight against concussion and long term brain injuries. Education Minister Prue Car has slammed her federal counterparts, accusing the Albanese government of trying to “short-change” NSW school kids. South Australian public hospitals had five catastrophic “sentinel” events resulting in serious injury or death in 2021-22, the latest Productivity Commission figures show. Bystanders chased down a man who was seen to stab a woman in the head during a daylight attack on a busy eastern suburbs street yesterday.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Godfreys Group, the iconic retailer of vacuums that has been selling cleaners for almost 100 years, has collapsed into administration, with cost of living pressures and the challenging economic environment sucking out its profitability and causing its demise. Extra prevention measures protecting swimmers from sharks will not be installed around Sydney Harbour despite Monday’s brutal bull shark attack with the Minns government and local council passing the buck over who is responsible.Queensland communities are and facing a mammoth clean-up after torrential downpours of up to 350mm inundated homes and forced residents to swim for their lives.King Charles has left a London hospital, three days after treatment for an enlarged prostate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Australia will remain loyal to its top six for next month’s tour of New Zealand despite the worrying form slump that has resulted in No.3 Marnus Labu­schagne’s Test average dropping by 10 in little over a year. Sydney tradies have offered scathing feedback on the industry’s next generation of workers, describing them as “lazy” and “not willing to put in the hard yards”. Pop superstar Taylor Swift has a wild week of crisscrossing the globe coming up after her boyfriend Travis Kelce qualified for the Super Bowl. A large group of disgruntled homeowners are pleading for state government help  after their new-build townhouses  in Modbury have been unfinished and abandoned. A new technical college in Adelaide’s west has opened and is fully enrolled for its first day, but only after the government changed eligibility to drive up numbers and splashed $1.2m on an advertising blitz.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Federal Government is facing calls to match its fee-free TAFE commitment. A flood watch has been issued for Southeast QLD. The Victorian Government has ignored the parliamentary inquiry recommendation to outlaw recreational duck hunting. NSW caseworkers are failing to visit up to 76 per cent of young people reported as vulnerable. South Australia has overtaken  Victoria as the best-performing economy in the nation by CommSec. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two medical researchers helping to cure melanoma have both been recognised as the 2024 Australian of the Year. North Queenslanders could face three-day power outages and life-threatening flash flooding with Tropical Cyclone Kirrily making landfall. Infectious disease experts have queried official Covid advice sent to Victorian public schools this week. In South Australia, fewer teenage boys are pursuing teaching degrees.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anthony Albanese will almost halve the tax cut going to some Australians in order to deliver savings to low and middle income earners. Former South Australian premier Steven Marshall retire from state parliament. A young boy is fighting for life after being kicked in the head by a horse in Centennial Park. In Victoria, three people are dead in a drowning tragedy at Phillip Island. A 400mm deluge is expected for parts of Queensland, along with wind gusts of 165km/h, when Tropical Cyclone Kirrily crosses the coast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anthony Albanese is poised to abandon his promise to leave Stage 3 tax cuts alone. Laws to indefinitely lock up or permanently monitor repeat child sex offenders in South Australia would be the toughest in the country. Tropical Cyclone Kirrily is forecast to start lashing the Queensland coast this afternoon. Rugby league players like Reece Walsh and Latrell Mitchell could potentially face visa hurdles ahead of the NRL’s Las Vegas premiership-opener.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

More than 25,000 properties across Queensland’s southeast were without power overnight - as storms hit the region after a scorching day. Undercover cop Mick Drury claims Roger Rogerson and other senior police attempted to set him up to be killed after two previously failed attempts. Victoria Police officers clashed with pro-Palestine protesters at the Port of Melbourne on Monday. Up to 5000 new homes would be built within 10km of Adelaide’s CBD under a plan by the construction industry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cricket Australia will walk a delicate tightrope this week when it gently acknowledges the polarities of emotion around Australia Day during the Gabba Test.  A multi-millionaire conman has been found dead in a Sydney hotel, on the same day he was due to be sentenced for a Ponzi scheme which has left up to $24 million unaccounted for.  A South Australian man missing since being caught in a rip has been hailed an “absolute hero” after he risked his life to save his and his best mate’s children.  Tropical Cyclone Kirrily is predicted to make landfall along the Queensland coast as severe category three system in just two days time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Australian basketball star Josh Giddey is reportedly set to avoid criminal charges over his alleged relationship with a minor.  Runaway Brittany Higgins has shared the first update from her new life in France.  In a Wuhan-esque study, Chinese scientists are experimenting with a mutant Covid strain that is 100 per cent lethal to “humanised” mice.  The first luxury hotel in Adelaide’s northern suburbs is set to open its doors this year as the developers announce a premium rebrand. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The driver who allegedly caused the crash that killed an Adelaide family is an Italian honeymooner and part-time international travel blogger whose new wife was also injured on impact.  Former NRL star Sonny Bill Williams has been cautioned by Channel Nine management over a series of controversial personal social media posts he made claiming horrific atrocities committed by Hamas against Israelis were “proven to be untrue”.  A popular Australian YouTuber has decided to leave the country over a government ban on vapes, launching a fundraiser to help cover the cost of the move.  The morning after a victorious night at the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump was back in a New York courtroom for the selection of a jury that must decide how much he owes a woman who accused him of rape. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Victorian developers face delays of up to 18 months due to Indigenous cultural heritage ­requirements that are creating another roadblock to the government’s ambitious plan to build 80,000 homes a year.  New shocking videos of violence between South Australian schoolchildren have emerged on social media – including a boy waving a knife in the face of another child as he performs what appears to be a TikTok-style dance.  An Adelaide man accused of the daylight rape of a 12-year-old girl on a train and following her off the train has appeared in court for the first time – and asked his identity be suppressed  An arrest warrant has been issued for controversial football identity Ricky Nixon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has delivered a fresh warning to supermarket giants, telling them the current voluntary grocery code of conduct could become mandated if they do not do the right thing. Aldi has joined Woolworths in its decision to axe Australia Day merchandise this year. Deadly skin cancer diagnoses are expected to rise by up to 69 per cent in Victoria over the next decade, with experts urging the community to stop underestimating the sun’s deadly UV rays. Hundreds of young Queenslanders are languishing in desperately needed hospital beds across the state as a lack of federal NDIS funding prevents them leaving. Parts of South Australia are being warned to brace for searing weather as an extreme heatwave arrives after a cool, wet summer.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Interest rates could be slashed as early as June, as smaller petrol and food price hikes helped slow inflation to its lowest growth in almost two years. Iconic Australian supermarket brand Woolworths has been condemned for ditching its ties to Australia Day after announcing it would no longer sell any merchandise related to the public holiday. Melbourne footballer Joel Smith is facing a suspension of two years – and possibly longer – for taking cocaine. Hundreds of Queenslanders are in hospital with Covid-19 as the wave that began in October has unexpectedly persisted, leading to a double whammy of two subvariants crossing paths. In Adelaide, the mother of a teenage boy shot in the leg in his suburban home  has told of how the horror ordeal unfolded.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Labor has been accused of an “outrageous cover up” after ­refusing to reveal if more convicted criminals have been ­released from immigration ­detention over the summer. A Sydney council has been slammed for spending thousands of dollars removing a wooden bench from a north shore naturestrip after the seat sparked a two-year battle between warring neighbours. The Victorian government has quietly dumped a promise to put electronic monitoring devices on dangerous young thugs, ­insisting the measure is now not needed because there are fewer youth offenders. More than 50,000 offences were committed every month in Queensland last year – the highest rate this century – with assaults, break-ins and car thefts among the crimes on the rise. A man was flown to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in a stable condition after he was bitten by a shark at Elliston on Tuesday afternoon.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.