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1. Joe Hockey resigns with rumours he could be headed to Kim Beasley’s role.
As the Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull unveiled his new cabinet yesterday he also announced the retirement of former Treasurer Joe Hockey. The new Cabinet, larger than before with 21 – up from 19 Ministers – and including Australia’s first ever female defence minister, the first female cabinet minister within the Treasury portfolio and the first Indigenous MP to be a member of the Executive Council is being widely praised throughout today’s analysis.
But there is also talk that Mr Hockey’s next gig will be heading to Washington to replace Kim Beazley as Australia’s Ambassador to the United States.
The Prime Minister said yesterday that Mr Hockey had advised him that he would “not be seeking a place in the new ministry and it was his intention to resign from the Parliament in due course”.
“Joe has made a long and distinguished contribution to our nation’s government and Parliament over many, many years. For which I thank him,” Mr Turnbull said.
In a statement Mr Hockey said after that after having served for nearly twenty years as the Member for North Sydney and seventeen years on the frontbench, he advised the Prime Minister that he did not wish to continue as a minister in the Government and of his intention to resign from the House of Representatives.
“It has been a great honour to serve my local community as the second longest serving Member for North Sydney since Federation. It was a great privilege to serve on the front bench.”
His resignation will trigger a by-election in his seat of North Sydney.
The new team will be sworn-in by Governor-General Peter Cosgrove at 11am today.
2. Marise Payne – our first ever female Defence Minister an “inspired choice.”
Speaking to The Australian association executive director Neil James said it could turn out to be exactly what this year’s exhaustive review of the structure of defence calls for.
According to security and intelligence officials Marise Payne is “ideally equipped to take on the wave of major and very complex defence decisions heading her way in the weeks to come”.
She takes on the portfolio with major decisions forthcoming coming on $80 billion worth of naval shipbuilding, submarines to be chosen for the navy, a white paper to be released, a massive defence restructure under way and RAAF jets bombing in Iraq and Syria reports The Australian.
3. Childcare moved into education portfolio.
Childcare experts have welcomed the Prime Minister’s move of childcare out of the social services portfolio and into education.
Simon Birmingham has been appointed Minster for Education in Malcolm Turnbull’s new ministry.
Jo Briskey, executive director of lobby group The Parenthood, told News Limited she was “cautiously optimistic” about the new look Turnbull Ministry.
“In moving childcare back into the education portfolio the Prime Minister has recognised the importance of early learning towards the education development of our children,” Ms Briskey said.
For more on the Cabinet re-shuffle go here.
4. Airport strikes: travellers warned to expect delays.
Travellers have been warned to plan ahead with strikes today for all eight international airports as Australian Border Force workers halt work over cuts to pay, working conditions and allowances.
Immigration and Border Force workers will cease work from 5am to 7am, and 7pm to 9pm today.
The Community and Public Sector Union says the strikes will continue for at least 10 days.
Airport stoppages today:
- Sydney (7am-9am and 7pm-9pm)
- Melbourne Tullamarine (5am-7am and 9pm-11pm)
- Brisbane (7am-9am and 7pm-9pm)
- Gold Coast (6.40am-8.40am and 7pm-9pm)
- Cairns (4am-6am and 6pm-8pm)
- Adelaide (6.30am-8.30am and 8pm-10pm)
- Perth (5.30am-7.30am and 5pm-7pm)
- Darwin (4.30am-6.30am and 5pm-7pm)
5. Woman defends herself against rapist with car keys.
A 28-year old woman has fought off a would-be rapist with her car keys during an attack in Brisbane.
Police say the woman, a veteran police officer’s daughter was grabbed from behind and forced to the ground on Riverview Terrace at Indooroopilly on Saturday night.
She fought the man attacking by stabbing him in the face with her car keys.
Police are calling for anyone who knows a man with unexplained facial injuries to come forward.
He is described as Caucasian with an Australian accent, about 175cm tall and slim, with short brown curly hair.
Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000
6. Zookeeper killed by Tiger.
Samantha Kudeweh, who was a senior member of the staff and had been a zookeeper for more than 20 years was been attacked by one of Hamilton Zoo’s five tigers. Police said she died at the scene.
Zoo visitor Adam Rich told The New Zealand Herald that he saw the tigers Sunday morning and noticed a female zookeeper opening up a gate to allow them access to an outdoor enclosure.
He said that about 45 minutes to an hour later, zoo staff approached him and asked him to leave. He said they were offering everyone a refund.
“They seemed a bit panicky,” Rich said.
Senior Sergeant Juliet Burgess of Waikato police called it a tragic accident. “This is a tragic incident. It is too early to determine exactly what’s happened.”
7. Sarah Palin’s outspoken view on Ahmed’s clock.
Sarah Palin commented on the story which has gripped the world – the school boy who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school.
14-year Ahmed Mohamed, from Texas in the US was arrested after bringing in a clock that teachers and police thought looked like a bomb to school.
On Facebook she sided with the teachers and police who initially arrested him.
Ms Palin said Ahmed’s arrest was reasonable and school officials were justified for thinking the clock make out of a pencil box, was an explosive.
“Yep, believing that’s a clock in a school pencil box is like believing Barack Obama is ruling over the most transparent administration in history,” she wrote.
“Right. That’s a clock, and I’m the Queen of England.”
She wrote: “Friends, consider the kids disciplined and/or kicked out of school for bringing squirt guns to school or taking bites out of a pop tart until it resembled (to some politically correct yahoo) a gun. Or the student out deer hunting with his dad early one morning who forgot he had a box of ammo in his truck when he parked in the school’s lot later that day. Kids humiliated and intimidated for innocent actions like those real examples are often marked the rest of their lives and made to feel really rotten. Whereas Ahmed Muhammad, an evidently obstinate-answering student bringing in a homemade “clock” that obviously could be seen by conscientious teachers as a dangerous wired-up bomb-looking contraption (teachers who are told “if you see something, say something!”) gets invited to the White House.”
Palin posted images of her children’s “pencil boxes” and wrote ” It doesn’t look like a pencil box to me.”
8. Thirteen refugees die off Turkish coast en route to Greece.
Thirteen refugees, including six children, have died after a boat carrying 46 people to Greece collided with a cargo vessel and capsized. Reuters reports another thirteen people are still missing.
Elsewhere, thousands of migrants and refugees are continuing to travel across European borders, with more than 10,000 arriving in Austria from Slovenia and Hungary in the last 24 hours.
9. Miracle girl survives after drowning.
Doctors say they cannot explain how a three-year old girl survived drowning in a backyard swimming pool. The three-year old was “blue” and unresponsive for more than 12 minutes.
The mother of three-year old Alise says she found her daughter caught under a raft in a pool after a pool party in July.
Jamie Nipper from Missouri in the US told KFVS “All of the sudden I look over and she wasn’t there, where I last saw her,”
In a panic, Jamie Nipper ran to the pool.
“I did a pool check, did not see her,” she said. “I decided to do a second pool check and saw her foot under a raft. Something took over me. I remember jumping across the pool, coming up and shouting, ‘Dial 911.’ I was praying while I grabbed her that she would start coughing as if she’d just fallen in, but when I brought her up from the water, it was evident she was without life. She was blue.”
Jamie Nipper and a friend performed more than 12 minutes of CPR on the little girls’ lifeless body until there was a heartbeat from her.
“She all of the sudden had color and pink lips,” said Jamie Nipper. “Her heart started and she started breathing, it was strong loud breaths.”
After being rushed to hospital though doctors said she didn’t have much of a chance of survival, as the lack of oxygen to the brain for such a lengthy period was potentially devastating.
After six days in the hospital, to everyone’s amazement Alise began to improve.
“When they decreased sedation and she woke up and was talking, it was absolutely amazing,” said Kyle.
After two weeks, Alise got to go home.
“The day we left it was surreal, I felt like I can’t believe we lived through this,” said Jamie Nipper.
Her doctor said it was amazing.
“Her brain has gotten through it, her lungs recovered and as near as we can tell she’s back to functioning as high level a 3-year-old can,” said Dr. Jeremy Garrett.
Less than two months alter she has even returned to the pool. Her mother is now campaigning for the importance of CPR saying it saved her daughter’s life.
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