Shareholders approve Myer merger with Premier Investments
Jonathan Barrett
Myer shareholders have accredited a merger with Premier Investments attire manufacturers in Australia, which incorporates Simply Denims, Jay Jays, Portmans, Dotti and Jacqui E.
The merger acquired approval from greater than 96% of votes forged, in response to the outcomes of Myer’s extraordinary normal assembly held at the moment. The vote was additionally extensively supported by Premier Investments shareholders at a separate ballot.
The transaction entails Premier shareholders receiving Myer inventory, which can give Premier chairman Solomon Lew management of just below one-third of Myer shares.
The transaction comes at a difficult time for retailers together with Myer, which not too long ago reported decrease income and gross sales as prospects grappled with rising residing prices, prompting the division retailer operator to low cost its trend manufacturers.
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Tennis Australia declines to return serve on reporters
Daisy Dumas
The Australian Open has not been drawn on its on-court interviewers after Ben Shelton launched a volley of criticism over the way in which the reporters deal with tennis gamers.
The American participant blasted on-court interviewers for being “disrespectful” and for their “negativity” after defeating Italy’s Lorenzo Sonego on Wednesday.
Referring to on-court interviews carried out by John Fitzgerald, Roger Rasheed and James Sherry, Shelton stated in a post-match press convention that he was “just a little bit shocked this week with how gamers have been handled by the broadcasters”.
Tennis Australia, which oversees the Australian Open and employs the reporters, declined to reply to Shelton’s criticism when contacted by Guardian Australia on Thursday.
All three interviewers are understood to be “world feed” reporters chosen to work on the Australian Open by Tennis Australia. The world feed is the dwell broadcast package deal as offered to third-party broadcasters.
Channel 9, which has unique broadcast rights to the grand slam match, is known to make requests through Tennis Australia to make use of its personal expertise on courtroom, comparable to Jim Courier and Jelena Dokic. Not one of the reporters singled out by Shelton are employed by 9.
Protection of the grand slam in Melbourne made headlines earlier this week after Novak Djokovic stated feedback made on air by the Channel 9 broadcaster Tony Jones insulted him and made a mockery of Serbian followers – an incident that Shelton advised was not remoted.
Jones issued an apology to Djokovic after the veteran broadcaster’s feedback led the 10-time Australian Open champion to boycott additional 9 interviews.
The Czech participant Jiri Lehecka and veteran tennis champions Boris Becker and Chris Evert took to X to agree with Shelton after the press convention.
LNP denies choice has been made on Brisbane Olympic venues
Andrew Messenger
The LNP has denied the previous premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s declare {that a} choice has been made on the Olympics athletics venues.
The previous Labor chief skewered each her personal successor Steven Miles and the brand new authorities for the choice to desert her plan to carry the athletics on the Gabba.
The finance minister, Ros Bates, denied her declare that the federal government’s 100-day overview “has truly already determined it’s going” to as a substitute maintain the Video games at Victoria Park.
“Labor had 1,000 days. There are skilled individuals on that panel. So it’s about time that the politicians acquired out of the way in which and had the individuals who truly know what they’re speaking about work out how we’re going to ship all of this infrastructure,” she stated.
Bates stated Palaszczuk “simply principally went after Steven Miles” and stated “he didn’t have a plan”.
On Thursday afternoon, the shadow treasurer, Shannon Fentiman, stated the federal government needed to resolve between resolve whether or not they had been going to “construct new stadiums, or are they going to assist Queensland households?”
“In the event that they’re going to construct a brand new stadium, they’re going to have to seek out further billions and billions of {dollars} that’s going to have to come back on the expense of cuts.”
Australian police forces kind coordinated group to deal with hate crime
An Australian police commissioners’ communique has been released after their assembly at the moment to debate a “current rise in antisemitism and prejudice-motivated and hate crime incidents in some communities”.
It says the commissioners agreed to kind a bunch with deputy commissioners from every jurisdiction to “guarantee a proper discussion board for collaboration on this challenge”.
The communique stated:
The group will meet month-to-month to share data and intelligence and, the place applicable, use present nationwide preparations to help with each lively investigations and proactive operations which will transcend state borders. Whereas every company is nicely outfitted to cope with issues of their jurisdiction, the sharing of intelligence and knowledge is invaluable and Australian businesses have used this strategy for a few years with nice success.
Commissioners mentioned the distinctive function police play in making the various communities of Australia really feel protected by excessive visibility policing, direct neighborhood engagement and sturdy investigations. Commissioners agreed there has by no means been a larger want for legislation enforcement businesses to concentrate on the core function of policing – to cut back crime and the concern of crime, and to make sure neighborhood security and that every one communities really feel protected. That is the inspiration Australian policing is constructed on.
Ongoing engagement with the Jewish neighborhood, in addition to the various numerous communities that decision Australia house, will proceed to be prioritised by all jurisdictions.
Commissioners strongly denounce antisemitism and condemn prejudice-motivated and hate crimes of any variety, which threaten the distinctive cultural cloth of Australia.
Driver jailed for crash that killed 5 individuals
A driver has been locked up for five-and-a-half years after being warned by police a couple of harmful intersection earlier than he drove by it and killed 5 individuals, AAP studies.
Minutes earlier than one of many deadliest crashes in Victoria’s historical past, in April 2023, two officers instructed Christopher Joannidis in regards to the roads in Strathmerton.
“We’ve had 9 killed on it within the final 18 months, principally as a result of individuals don’t see give method and cease indicators,” a police officer instructed him, in a video performed to the county courtroom in November.
However the 31-year-old man didn’t heed this warning.
He crossed over three units of rumble strip and ignored give method indicators as he drove from Labuan Highway on to the Murray Valley Freeway.
Joannidis’s Mercedes-Benz sedan crashed right into a Nissan Navara ute with 5 individuals and a canine inside, pushing it into the trail of a truck towing two trailers of milk.
The ute’s driver, Deborah Markey, 62, her canine Sophie and 4 farm employees from Taiwan and Hong Kong staying at her house – Zhi-Yao Chen, Pin-Yu Wang, Wai Yan Lam and Hsin-Yu Chen – had been all killed immediately.
Joannidis, who pleaded responsible to 5 counts of harmful driving inflicting dying, had his bail revoked when he confronted the county courtroom in Melbourne in November.
Funding increase, long-term reform wanted for psychological well being sector, skilled says
A big elevate in funding and long-term reform might be wanted to keep away from future employee shortages and supply crucial psychological well being providers, the incoming head of the sector’s peak physique says.
AAP studies that as a pay dispute drives virtually two-thirds of NSW’s public hospital psychiatrists in the direction of resignation, the disaster in Australia’s largest well being system has fuelled requires larger nationwide motion.
Former royal fee into defence and veteran suicide head, Dr Peggy Brown, was introduced as the brand new chair of Psychological Health Australia on Thursday and stated state and federal governments wanted to work extra intently collectively to enhance outcomes.
The NSW disaster ought to spark discussions in regards to the psychological well being sector’s long-term wants, quite than forcing a fast repair that may not stand the take a look at of time, Brown stated.
The danger is discussions will happen to recover from the hump of a disaster, however that the chance may be misplaced to really have these necessary conversations.
The mass resignations in NSW – constructing on present and widespread vacancies within the public system – have spurred state officers to lean on personal sector psychiatrists whereas drawing on different well being employees, comparable to psychologists, GPs and nurses to fill gaps.
Brown stated it was extensively identified that there have been systemic points with providers in different states and territories.
Any overhaul of service supply wanted to be carried out over time, not on the run throughout a interval of disaster, she stated.
Aboriginal individuals given entry to restricted WA authorities information in bid to trace household historical past
Aboriginal individuals in Western Australia will be capable to entry data, often saved from the general public eye, to seek out out extra about their household historical past, AAP studies.
The restricted authorities information, that are closed to the general public due to their delicate nature, span from 1886 to 1972, and embody data on births, household historical past, relations, and medical data.
Analysis specialists from Aboriginal Historical past Western Australia can assist individuals entry these data, and might be travelling throughout the state’s south-west to host free household historical past periods.
They’ll journey, alongside the state library of Western Australia’s Storylines group, to Collie, Manjimup, Margaret River, Busselton, Bunbury and Eaton, serving to households start the journey of researching their household historical past.
The Storylines archive holds greater than 12,000 images and different paperwork regarding Aboriginal individuals within the state.
The Aboriginal Historical past WA neighborhood training officer Duane Kelly stated these periods are an important place to begin for Indigenous individuals to know and perceive extra about their historical past.
Kelly stated Aboriginal Historical past WA, which is a part of the Division of Native Authorities, Sport and Cultural Industries, additionally has numerous truth-telling tasks, which might be highlighted on the household historical past periods.
The reality-telling tasks concentrate on establishments like missions and orphanages or different topics like Aboriginal trackers, or the extent of Indigenous involvement in agricultural and pastoral leases within the state.
Anti-corruption watchdog fees 28 extra individuals over alleged bribes to register Victorian builders
Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog has charged an additional 28 individuals as a part of its investigation into allegations the Victorian Constructing Authority (VBA) accepted monetary bribes in trade for registering builders.
The state’s Unbiased Broad-based Anti-Corruption Fee (Ibac) on Thursday afternoon introduced it had charged one VBA worker and 27 individuals who had been constructing registration candidates or allegedly helped facilitate constructing registration purposes for different individuals.
“These fees are along with six individuals who had been charged as a part of Operation Perseus in 2024, together with two VBA employees, two constructing registration candidates and two different individuals concerned within the alleged corrupt conduct,” Ibac stated.
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An post-mortem confirmed Quairney had died from a coronary heart assault and her nausea and vomiting had been early indicators of her coronary heart failing.
Jamieson discovered St Vincent’s had missed Quairney’s analysis however she recommended the hospital on its response within the years after her dying.
The coroner advisable St Vincent’s and the Australasian Faculty for Emergency Drugs contemplate adopting Quairney’s story as a case research to spotlight the significance of complete assessments and figuring out atypical coronary heart assault signs in ladies.
A St Vincent’s spokesperson instructed AAP the hospital was reviewing the report and would formally reply to the courtroom on the advice.
Coroner finds Victorian girl’s dying may very well be case research for learn how to diagnose coronary heart assaults
Coronary heart assaults can current in another way in ladies so it’s necessary well being practitioners and sufferers study the indicators earlier than it’s too late, specialists say.
AAP studies Sheila Marion Quairney, 68, introduced to Melbourne’s St Vincent’s hospital on the night of two April 2023, with signs of nausea, vomiting and ache in her higher stomach.
She died hours later from a coronary heart assault that was misdiagnosed as an hostile response to codeine.
Victorian coroner Audrey Jamieson discovered St Vincent’s had failed to think about and determine that Quairney was experiencing a coronary heart assault throughout her admission.
The 68-year-old had gone to the hospital’s emergency division a day after she fell and struck her ribs whereas utilizing a stationary bike.
She had taken ache remedy together with codeine however her ache elevated, and the nausea and vomiting started.
Quairney’s important indicators and respiration had been regular when she first introduced on the hospital and two clinicians decided her signs had been seemingly attributable to an hostile response to codeine.
However her situation deteriorated and he or she went into cardiac arrest whereas she was having an intravenous cannula inserted.
