Tram derails, veers into Melbourne house after collision with car
Tram derails, veers into Melbourne house after collision with car Updated May 17, 2016 17:05:01 A Melbourne man says he is lucky to be alive after a derailed tram came crashing through his house "about a metre" away from where he was sleeping. Key points:Man was sleeping in front room when tram crashed into his houseDriver who crashed into tram taken to hospitalTram driver and two passengers uninjured Commander Bob Lanigan from the Metropolitan Fire Brigade said the ..>> view originalEx-Christian Bro who abused orphans jailed
Former Christian Brother William Stuart Houston beat the orphans who tried to get away from his violent sexual attacks and warned them not to tell anyone."Oh that's right, you can't tell anyone because you've got no-one," he told one boy.Fifty years after Houston preyed on six vulnerable boys at the Christian Brothers-run St Augustine's Orphanage in Geelong, the 77-year-old has been jailed for 12 years and nine months.He must serve at least eight years, and may end up dying in jail."Justice was ..>> view originalBail may be denied for young NT offenders
Police raid Melbourne properties linked to five men charged over alleged Islamic State boat plot
Video will begin in 5 seconds. Five terror suspects to be extradited to Melbourne Five men will face court in Melbourne after they were arrested last week in Cairns, while allegedly planning to leave Australia by boat to join ISIS. PT1M6S 620 349 Police have raided properties in Melbourne's north and west linked to five men charged over an alleged plan to travel by boat to Indonesia in a bid to join Islamic State.The Melbourne men were arrested last week north of Cairns, but ..>> view originalTelling porkies gets easier for pollies as ABC shuts down its Fact Check unit
Video will begin in 5 seconds. Guthrie: ABC a 'critical organisation' Google executive, Michelle Guthrie, who has been appointed the new Managing Director of the ABC speaks on her plans for the ABC. Vision courtesy ABC. PT1M50S 620 349 The ABC will make an imminent announcement on the closure of its fact-checking unit, just three years after it was created as a bold experiment in holding politicians and other public figures to account.Fairfax Media understands senior staff in..>> view originalRACQ calls on Queensland government to get Wicked vans off roads
The Queensland government needs to abandon "redundant" crackdowns on Uber and get Wicked Campers vans off our roads, the state's peak motoring body says.RACQ executive general manager of advocacy Paul Turner said it was time to take a stand after hearing RACQ members had made complaints to the Advertising Standards Bureau about derogatory Wicked Campers vans but nothing had changed. Wicked vans 'degrading to women' The RACQ urges the Queensland government to act over "offensive" mobil..>> view originalFather of jailed 60 Minutes kidnap fixer demands answers from Channel Nine
David Whittington protests the headquarters of Channel Nine headquarters in Sydney. Photo: David Moir The father of Adam Whittington, jailed in a "rat-infested dungeon" in Lebanon for his part in 60 Minutes' botched child snatch case, protested outside the offices of Channel Nine's Sydney headquarters on Tuesday. Friends and relatives joined David Whittington, 65, from St Andrews, in demanding for the network to "step up and help" by confirming its role in the failed attempt to abduct Brisba..>> view originalElection 2016: Mayors call on Coalition to match Labor's funding for Adelaide tram network
Election 2016: Mayors call on Coalition to match Labor's funding for Adelaide tram network Posted May 17, 2016 17:20:12 A coalition of Adelaide council mayors has called on the Federal Government to match Labor and commit funding to an expansion of Adelaide's tram network.Federal Labor will invest $500 million towards plans for six tram lines around Adelaide's inner north, south, east and west if it wins the election.The total cost of the expansion is estimated at $3 ..>> view originalMH17: families share their grief at inquest
Video will begin in 5 seconds. MH17: Coroner's findings released Almost two years after MH17 was shot down, NSW State Coroner Michael Barnes handed down his findings on Tuesday. PT1M14S 620 349 Almost two years after MH17 was shot from the sky over eastern Ukraine, the families and friends of the six NSW victims have spoken of their unimaginable loss and a grief left undiminished by the passage of time.Michael Clancy and his wife Carol Clancy, Gabriele Lauschet, Jack O'Brien,..>> view originalHealth authorities quickly and quietly respond to new legionnaires' disease outbreak in Burwood
Video will begin in 5 seconds. Legionnaires' disease explained Expert in environmental microbiology Dr Harriet Whiley explains the symptoms and causes of legionnaires' disease after an outbreak in Sydney. PT1M54S 620 349 Health authorities are scrambling to contain the most fertile legionella season in recent history after a man died in a fresh outbreak of legionnaires' disease. The death - the second in two months - is associated with an outbreak in Burwood, which has emerged..>> view original
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