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There was still no sign of a mother and baby more than 24 hours after a human placenta and umbilical cord were found on a Sydney riverbank as officials plead for the woman to take herself and her newborn to hospital. Heat sensors have been installed in the homes of teachers in a remote Queensland community – and the government has now also urged them to sleep with duress alarms. A rogue food delivery rider who clocked up 240 demerit points since the start of the year is ­allegedly still on the road driving dangerously – and authorities are struggling to stop him.West Adelaide footballer Sam May has been dubbed a ‘miracle man’ after making a remarkable recovery from serious injuries from a fall at a Port Lincoln hotel last month. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Facebook has become a thriving marketplace for black market merchants hawking everything from counterfeit cash, cloned credit cards and illegal firearms. A sexual harassment scandal has engulfed one of the country’s biggest retailers, implicating its CEO, and forcing the resignation of a senior executive. QLD Premier Steven Miles’ sensational call to slash immigration amid unprecedented growth has been questioned, with documents revealing that the state’s population is on par with what was predicted when Labor came to power nine years ago. Students have moved into the new, $98m expansion of an Adelaide CBD school after construction delays meant they had to learn elsewhere on campus for the start of the year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Black market merchants peddling methamphetamine, ice and heroin are using Facebook posts promoting illegal vapes to funnel customers to websites and Telegram chats selling hard drugs. A new diabetes drug thought to be “better than Ozempic” will be trialled in Melbourne in a move researchers hope can help end global shortages. An Adelaide man has shared how a “fantastic holiday” with his wife came to a horrific end when their Singapore Airlines flight hit severe turbulence, sending them into freefall and leaving his wife with a serious spinal injury. Multimillion-dollar sobering-up centres are sitting largely empty, with just 417 people checking in over their first five months of operation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

SA Premier Peter Malinauskas’s push to ban children under 14 from social media has been bolstered by the US’s top doctor, who urged government action to tackle “a medical emergency among young people”. Aviation experts have begun an investigation into how a Singapore Airlines flight dropped more than a kilometre in less than a minute, leaving one man dead and other passengers “doing somersaults” as the plane plunged. One of Channel 9’s on-air stars has revealed her former boss Darren Wick sexually harassed her in public, groping her and breathing heavily down her neck. Shocking allegations of gender selection within QLD’s embattled fertility industry are being investigated by the health ombudsman. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anthony Albanese has declared he will not go to the polls until he has broken the back of the cost-of-living crisis, saying he is committed to going the distance in his first term of government. A staggering 70 per cent of Queensland’s public hospital staff have been assaulted or witnessed violence at work a damning new survey has revealed, with warnings patients are also at risk. The cost of building a new home in Victoria went up about $25,000 overnight earlier this month. Adelaide commuters purchasing single trips to travel short distances on public transport are paying the highest fares in the country. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

More than 60,000 of 80,000 failed asylum seekers still in the country have been allowed to remain here with full work and study rights. Patient prescriptions and private GP and healthcare provider information was among the data leaked in the major medical breach involving MediSecure. Victoria Police has rejected a recommendation to introduce nine-hour shifts for frontline cops in a move that pits Chief Commissioner Shane Patton against the Allan government. AFL Brownlow Medallist Ollie Wines has been cleared by his cardiologist to train and play against North Melbourne this week, after he was subbed out of Port Adelaide’s thrilling win over Hawthorn with heart palpitations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Almost 320,000 Australians have been unemployed for between two years and a decade despite living through the biggest jobs booms in Australia’s history. The University of Melbourne has warned pro-­Palestinian protesters occupying a major building on campus that it will send in police to break up their encampment because its “patience is now at an end”. A frightened mother from regional SA says her child’s school was forced into lockdown after a seven-year-old boy with a history of behavioural issues produced a knife and threatened to kill classmates. The Queensland government’s alternative plan for the Gabba could cost $1.1bn and cut its capacity by 4000 seats. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The daughter of missing camper Carol Clay has told a jury she was concerned her mother’s affair with Russell Hill would become public after their disappearance. Apartments could become more affordable in Brisbane under Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner’s plan to remove outdated minimum carparking requirements for new developments in high-density areas. Australia’s peak soccer body is refusing to say how it plans to vote if a motion to expel Israel from the World Cup goes ahead in Bangkok later this week. A tenant in one of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s investment properties has been given an eviction notice but is pleading with the leader of the country not to kick him out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Social media giants such as Meta and TikTok have been put on notice, with the federal government announcing a wide-ranging probe into online platforms’ potential harm to Australians. Confronting footage has emerged of pro-Palestinian students at Queensland’s largest university admitting they would be terrorists if involved in the overseas conflict. Troubled former North Melbourne footballer Tarryn Thomas is again being investigated by police for allegedly harassing a former partner. A Port Lincoln father allegedly caught with methamphetamine in Bali was sent an unsolicited package, purportedly holding lubricant but actually containing drugs, while in the Indonesian party capital. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A repeat domestic violence offender with an apprehended violence order banning him going near his former girlfriend ambushed her outside a Sydney gym and stabbed her in the throat with a kitchen knife. Jewish students and staff at Queensland’s top university fear for their safety after a suspected antisemitic attack on the office of a Jewish academic. The governnment will pump an extra $3.25 billion into the North East Link – the biggest single investment it has made in Victoria since being elected. Twenty scholarships will soon be available for students wanting to work in artificial intelligence research at Lot Fourteen, with significant investment aimed at boosting SA as a global competitor in the sector. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Accused mushroom murderer Erin Patterson has formally entered not guilty pleas to three charges of murder and five of attempted murder as her case will be fast-tracked for trial to the Supreme Court. Premier Steven Miles’ $1000 election sweetener, spruiked as helping Queenslanders with their power bills, could be cashed out and spent on anything in a $2.5bn billing loophole. Medical experts are sounding the alarm as a predicted epidemic of cancer in under 50s threatens to overwhelm the country’s GPs and blow out hospital wait times. Sydney’s iconic Darling Harbour has been given a multimillion-dollar facelift, with a new playground, sound shell and a bamboo forest at the Chinese Garden of Friendship to be officially opened to the public Wednesday. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Under-18s will be banned from buying knives, raising the age limit from 16 while NSW Police will get new powers to search people for blades in response to the alleged stabbing of an Assyrian bishop in Wakeley and the Bondi Junction massacre. A new $400 bonus for an estimated 700,000 Victorian students will be unveiled as the key cost of living measure in today’s state budget. The state government has spent more than $111m buying properties and doing technical studies for a renewable energy project that has no business case, is not backed by the Opposition and is vehemently opposed by locals. A third of primary school students and almost half of high schoolers have sought, or are planning to start, treatment for mental health concerns. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Parents will be able to see social media through the eyes of their teenage children using a new tool exposing how young people can be surrounded by misogynistic content that promotes harmful attitudes toward women. Staff shortages, lenient consequences for poor behaviour and the false perception educators get 12 weeks off a year are some of the systematic issues driving disrespect in the classroom. Queenslanders won’t pay “a single cent” for electricity from July, with Premier Steven Miles doubling the state’s power rebate to $1000 in a major $2.5bn pre-election cash splash. South Australian mums and dads are less likely to yell at their kids or feel guilty about how much time they spend together than parents elsewhere in the country. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Coward-punch killer Kieran Loveridge, whose unprovoked attack on a young man on a Kings Cross street 12 years ago shocked Sydney, is now out of jail and on a crusade to educate young men about the dangers of alcohol and violence, saying if anyone knows the horror consequences, it’s him. The union for prison officers has accused the Victorian government of recklessly endangering their lives amid what it brands an “epidemic of ­assaults”. Queensland Premier Steven Miles has buckled to pressure and will remove the detention as a last resort clause amid poor electoral prospects and mounting criticism the government is soft on crime. AstraZeneca has acknowledged that its Covid-19 vaccine can cause a rare and potentially deadly blood-clotting condition, according to court documents. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Child experts are calling for a national blanket ban on mobile phones in schools as they warn kids are struggling with basic skills in the classroom like reading for long periods of time, critical thinking and recognising emotions on faces. The father of accused Melbourne footballer Joel Smith says he fears his son is being “scapegoated” to cover up rampant illicit drug use in the AFL. CFMEU workers on Brisbane’s $6.2bn Cross River Rail project are expected to walk off the job on Tuesday following unmet demands for huge pay rises that would mean an entry-level construction worker earning $240,000. Rory Sloane thought he might be able to pull just one more “out of the hat” and yet again come back from a serious injury. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anzac Day - unspoiled by commericalism or activism - is fast becoming our nation’s seminal day. Labor is on track for a savage electoral defeat as voters desert QLD Premier Steven Miles and the LNP extends its two-party lead just six months before the state election. Victorian homeowners could be forced to fork out thousands of dollars to upgrade old appliances with energy efficient models as the statewide crackdown on fossil fuels intensifies. Virgin Australia has suspended direct flights from Adelaide to Bali due to the delayed delivery of new Boeing MAX aircraft. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

War heroes and army veterans have slammed a group of pro-Palestine protesters who are set to rally at several city locations on Anzac Day. Police swooped on what they claim was a teen terror cell in Sydney’s southwest ­yesterday, arresting seven youths allegedly linked to the Wakeley church stabber. Queensland teachers are being stabbed with pencils and having desks thrown at them by students, as compensation payouts top half a billion dollars over the past decade. And an Adelaide Inquest has heard a woman who died while being ramped told a paramedic she couldn’t breathe shortly before going into cardiac arrest. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Elon Musk could afford to personally pay the fine for his social media platform X’s refusal to remove footage of a violent stabbing attack in Sydney for centuries, as the billionaire is accused of putting his “ego” ahead of “common decency”. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has admitted the government “needs to do more” to grapple with the growing domestic violence crisis in Australia. The West Adelaide Football Club has shed new light on the moments leading up to the discovery of a seriously injured footballer Sam May at a Port Lincoln hotel on the weekend. Crown Resorts has finally been given the all clear to hold a casino license at Sydney’s Barangaroo by NSW Independent Casino Commission (NICC), ending years of uncertainty over a vision outlined more than a decade ago by James Packer See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Five young Victorian children – including two known to child protection – died from malnutrition and neglect in just 17 months during the pandemic. A NSW woman has allegedly been murdered by her ex-partner just over a fortnight after he was granted bail after being accused of raping her three times. Queensland’s youth crime epidemic has been laid bare as a new report reveals the number of young criminals jumped 5.2 per cent to more than 11,000 offenders, with 11 of those charged with murder. A West Adelaide footballer is in a serious condition in Royal Adelaide Hospital after an incident at a Port Lincoln hotel on Sunday morning. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.