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Premium Content A little boy who died on a daycare bus was among more than 16,000 Australian children seriously harmed or sick in childcare last year. A record 13,077 babies, toddlers and preschoolers suffered a serious injury, trauma or illness - including broken bones, burns, cuts, concussions, anaphylaxis reactions and severe asthma attacks - requiring urgent medical attention in 2019/20. Ambulances were called to daycare emergencies 2145 times and 1409 children went missing, or were mistakenly locked in or out of services or taken away without approval. A total of 16,632 serious incidents were reported to state and territory childcare authorities, a new Productivity Commission report reveals today.
A little boy who died on a daycare bus was among more than 16,000 Australian children seriously harmed or sick in childcare last year. A record 13,077 babies, toddlers and preschoolers suffered a serious injury, trauma or illness - including broken bones, burns, cuts, concussions, anaphylaxis reactions and severe asthma attacks - requiring urgent medical attention in 2019/20. Ambulances were called to daycare emergencies 2145 times and 1409 children went missing, or were mistakenly locked in or out of services or taken away without approval. Most “serious incidents’’ happened in NSW, with 5013 cases of injury trauma or illness. A total of 16,632 serious incidents were reported to state and territory childcare authorities, a new Productivity Commission report reveals today.
04:22 EDT, 25 January 2021
The latest chapter in one of the saddest stories in Australian sport was played out in a near empty courtroom in northern Queensland last week.
Former NRL star Brett Dallas wasn t in Mackay Magistrates court last Friday to hear his bail application denied on a raft of drugs and theft charges. He was behind bars in the jail cell where he has been confined for the past seven months.
The charges, which also include breaching bail, contravening a domestic violence order and a weapons offence, are the latest in a long list of alleged offences which have tried the patience of legal authorities to breaking point and could see Dallas jailed for up to 25 years.
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Subscriber only A COWARDLY woman-hater serving a life sentence for the tomahawk murder of his pregnant Gold Coast ex-girlfriend has been found with a notebook in his cell containing threats to kill his own mother. The shocking detail was today revealed in non-inquest findings released into the death of Fabiana Palhares at her Varsity Lakes home on February 2, 2015. Ex-boyfriend Brock Wall bashed Ms Palhares unconscious, jumped on her stomach and attacked her with a tomahawk he found in the garage. A Queensland Supreme Court judge described the killing the stuff of nightmares in 2018 when Wall was sentenced to life behind bars.
19:05 EDT, 16 January 2021
An Instagram influencer and barmaid risk being stripped of luxury cars and thousands of dollars given to them by an ex-boyfriend accused of laundering money.
Tori Maddison Preiss, 25, and 24-year-old Kaori Celine Nakase previously dated a man purported to have a $10million Bitcoin fortune.
That man, Benjamin Thomas Nelson, is being investigated by the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission, who allege he is a money launderer.
Both women face losing assets provided by Mr Nelson, in a case brought before the Queensland Supreme Court by the CCC, the Courier-Mail reported.
Tori Maddison Preiss (pictured) risks losing a luxury car and having cash in bank accounts frozen after they were allegedly provided by an ex-boyfriend accused of money laundering