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1. Seven-year old boy alternative medicine death

A seven-year old diabetic boy who was found dead at a hotel in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville on Monday night may have been taking part in “slapping therapy”.

Aidan Fenton had been staying at the hotel with his parents taking part in an $1800 week-long alternative Chinese medicine workshop at the Tasly Healthpac Centre in Hurstville.

Police are investigating Chinese therapist Hongchi Xiao – who has since left the country – who ran the seminar. The treatment involves ‘Paida-Lajin’ or slapping therapy where patients are literally slapped until they bruise to cure illnesses and rid the body of poisons.

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2. Bodies of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran arrive home today.

The bodies of Bali 9 duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will arrive home tonight after their Wednesday morning execution in Indonesia.

News Limited reports that Andrew Chan had made a pledge to do three things before he died – sing all the way, wear his Penrith Panthers jersey and look his executioners in the eye. His brother last night said he did all three.

Julian McMahon, the lawyer for the two men has told of how in the final hours Chan and Sukumaran were role models for their fellow prisoners.

“What the chaplains have said publicly is that the prisoners, clearly with the leadership of Andrew and Myuran, conducted themselves in a wonderful way and there was quite a lot of singing, Amazing Grace especially but other hymns, some prayers,”

“Andrew did a roll call of everyone to check that everyone was okay,” Mr McMahon said.

Meanwhile it has emerged that one of the prisoners, Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte who was mentally ill did not even realize he was being executed.

The Guardian reports that Father Charlie Burrows, a priest who ministers to prisoners in Cilacap told Irish radio “when they put these bloody chains on them, he said to me, ‘Am I being executed?’ ” Burrows said.

“I said, ‘Yes, I thought I explained that you.’ He didn’t get excited – he’s a quiet sort of a guy – but he said, ‘This is not right.’

The families of the men will arrive home today.

3. National Portrait Gallery removes photograph of Joko Widodo.

The National Portrait Gallery has removed a photo of Indonesian President Joko Widodo to avoid it being defaced or destroyed.

The Director of the Gallery, Angus Trumble said that he had been warned the photograph could be vandalised after the Indonesian President refused to listen to clemency appeals for the executed Bali 9 duo.

“I had one 95-year-old lady visitor yesterday morning tell me if I hadn’t of taken it down, she would have torn it down,” he told radio 2GB.

Mr Trumble said he made the decision alone but it was not an easy decision to make.

“It’s a temporary measure only, just as our recall of the ambassador is a temporary measure,” he said.

He told the ABC ” My best assessment of the risk of damage to the work of art, it was necessary to remove it from public display,”

“Also, I was swayed by the statements of both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, and of course the position of the parliament and the recall of our ambassador.”

4. Another woman speaks out against MP Billy Graham.

A second woman has spoken to the media about disgraced MP Billy Graham saying he subjected her to violent and “controlling behaviours”. The unnamed woman has told Channel 9’s A Current Affair that he owed her more than $20,000 in child support.

“He used controlling behaviours, violence, and verbal, physical and emotional abuse towards me in the seven years we were together,” she said.

The woman, Graham’s former partner of seven years says in the interview to air tonight she wants him to “man up” and “admit his wrongs”.

 5. Woman pulled from rubble in Nepal alive after more than five days.

A woman, named as Krishna Devi Khadka, a 24-year old kitchen worker, has been pulled from the rubble in Nepal after miraculously surviving for five days after the devastating earthquake.

Her rescue follows that of a four-month old baby who was rescued yesterday.

Emergency workers from France, Norway and Israel operating with the Nepal army used listening devices to find her. It took 10 hours to free Khadka once they had discovered her.

Ms Khadka, 24, had been stuck underneath a collapsed hotel alongside three bodies and could only breathe due to an air pocket that formed alongside her.

“It’s nothing short of a miracle,” said IsraAid’s Yotam Polizer. “It was hard to believe that anyone could have survived for that long.

5,489 people are known to have died in Nepal alone. Unicef estimates that 1.7 million children require urgent aid.

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 6. Police charge man with murder DV after death of woman in NSW.

Police have charged 46-year-old Jamie Walker, the partner of 51-year old Linda Locke with murder after paramedics found Ms Locke with head trauma, serious facial bruising and a collapsed lung on Monday morning at their Quakers Hill home.

She died in hospital.

He was remanded in custody, and is next due to appear in the same court on 26 June 2015.The murder of Ms Locke brings the number of women killed in alleged circumstances of family or intimate partner violence to 22 this year.

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7. Working parents to win in budget. SAHM – not so much.

Social Services Minister Scott Morrison will next week begin to sell his upcoming budget with the release of key childcare measures that show working parents will benefit from new childcare measures. Stay at home mums – not to be as well off.

The Australian reports that new childcare payments will target scarce resources at parents who use the help to return to the workforce.

According to The Australian:

• Parents will no longer be able to claim the Child Care Rebate and Child Care Benefit unless they are contributing to the workforce in some way.
• The new regime will also place new rules around the number of childcare hours the government will subsidise.
• The Productivity Commission suggested this be cut to 10 hours over two days.
• Mr Morrison has made it clear there will be more investment in childcare to help working parents while offering help for more vulnerable families who need incentives to join or stay in the workforce.( From The Australian)

8. Grandmother could face death penalty.

A Sydney grandmother could face the death penalty in Malaysia after a court revealed that tests have confirmed a substance found in her bag was crystal methamphetamine.

Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto, 52, was arrested on December 7 last year at Kuala Lumpur airport travelling to Australia.

The case has now been transferred to the high court.

 9. The company boss who believed he gets paid too much.

On his last day in his job Telstra boss, David Thodey has said his high salary is “indefensible when compared to those of other employees”

He has called on Australia’s companies to change their culture where a CEO earns millions more than their staff.

Speaking to Fairfax Media said he has earned over $27 million in cash and vested shares in the three years to July 2014.

“I get paid a lot of money [and] my options, should they vest, are worth tens of millions of dollars,” he said. “But I can’t sit here and defend my salary against all the guys who are out there working every day and I wouldn’t try to.

“I think there’s a real issue with income disparity between what an average person gets and some of the really big salaries.”

He said cutting wages at the top wasn’t the answer as big companies were competing for talent against rivals around the world and had to offer similarly high wages.

“I think we need to find some more creative ways to do it so everybody can share in the wealth creation process.”

 10. Prince Charles hoping for a granddaughter.

As the world – and the  Duke and Duchess – wait for the impending arrival of a royal baby Prince Charles has told military veteran at Windsor Castle that he hopes his second grandchild will be a girl.

The Duchess is now thought to be more than a week overdue.

Earlier the UK media went into a frenzy when Kensington palace tweeted an image of the Duchess and Duke with Prince George writing “The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge introduce their son Prince George to the world for the 1st time.” Before then throwing in the hashtag ‪#ThrowbackThursday.

Twitter users accused the palace of trolling.

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