1. Logie goes to Scott Cam.
At last night’s 56th Logies in Melbourne, Scott Cam was awarded the Gold Logie for Most Popular TV Personality, with Asher Keddie taking home both the Outstanding and Popular Actress awards.
Chris Lilley won Most Popular Actor for his series, Ja’mie, Private School Girl.
Nine News, NSW Bushfires won the Most Outstanding News Coverage and the ABC’s Foreign Correspondent report titled, Prisoner X, won Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report.
2. ‘Hijacking’ culprit to return to Australia.
The man accused of a hijacking scare aboard a Virgin flight to Bali on Friday will return to Australia this afternoon, where the authorities will decide whether to charge him.
Matt Lockley, 28, of Queensland was released late on Sunday by Indonesian authorities.
He released a statement to the media saying, “This has been a huge misunderstanding. I had a panic attack and I just wanted to use the toilet and I made an accident by knocking on the cockpit door.”
3. Father dead and daughter in critical condition.
A five-year-old girl is in a critical condition and her father is dead after the ultralight plane they were travelling in crashed into a home south-east of Melbourne just after 5.30pm yesterday.
The father was an experienced pilot.
4. John XXIII and John Paul II become Saints.
Pope Francis has held a joint canonization making John XXIII and John Paul II Saints before a crowd of more than 5,000 priests and over 1,000 bishops, leaders and other dignitaries from more than 90 countries, including Francis’s papal predecessor Benedict XVI.
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I'm sorry; but I have long failed to see the point of charging people with minor drug offences. So Geoff Huegill and his wife had a small amount of a recreational drug that they were planning on using themselves. Is being caught with such a minimal amount of an illegal substance really cause to arrest them both, drag their names through the mud, ruin future career prospects, and cost the taxpayers a large amount of money to take them to court only to have a judge most likely roll their eyes due to the fact that they are faced with horrific crimes daily and someone having a tiny bit of cocaine is an actual waste of precious court resources and time??
In the grand scheme of crimes out there, taking a small amount of a party drug is a speck of dust in a giant hall of crap. It is also something that a huge proportion of the general population has engaged in at some point. That doesn't make it right, and it doesn't mean that it should just be allowed; but I question the scale of the response. What would have been better? Okay, how about kicking them out of the venue, issuing them with an official warning and an on-the-spot fine that can also be paid off with community service? Put something back into the community rather than costing taxpayers more by sending them to court. If they are repeat offenders that have been warned multiple times; THEN take them to court. I really do object to damaging people's lives and prospects over one silly mistake by escalating everything so much the first time around.
We need to be realistic. When I was younger I attended a lot of music festivals. I saw a lot of police with sniffer dogs. They caught a lot of young people taking some party drugs and sent them to court.
Did they save lives? No, I don't think so. Most people at the festivals still took drugs. Occasionally something went wrong; but I think that having an increased medical presence there as well as good information and support services available helped much more than any possible preventative effect the sniffer dogs might have had. Contrary to preventing drug taking, the presence of sniffer dogs often prompts young people to take all of their party drugs at once in order not to get caught with them - which is much more dangerous and led to the death of one girl in Perth.
Did they catch any major drug dealers? Not to my knowledge, and I'm pretty sure the media would have covered that. The drug dealers are smarter than that and have ways of getting around the sniffer dogs most of the time.
Did they stop the drug trade? Nope. Did catching recreational users lead to being able to get information on drug dealers? No. Recreational users are not the key to finding king pins.
Did they get lots of worthy convictions? Nope. My old flatmate is a barrister and she's told me stories of courtrooms flooded with minor drug users after festivals. Of judges who are incredibly frustrated by having their dock overloaded with these cases which are just so minor and ridiculous in the grand scheme of things. With a decent lawyer, most will get off - but at a significant cost to themselves and the judicial system. Others will have their lives forever changed and their records marked because of a few party drugs at a festival when they were young.
I think we need a drastic re-think of how our law enforcement and legal systems approach and punish recreational drug use. There are different kinds of drug use and different levels of drugs. Cocaine and Ecstasy are not on the same level as Ice and Heroin. Taking a small amount of drugs at a party every now and then is not the same as having an addiction. We need to examine the differences here and think of better ways to deal with people like Geoff and Sara.
That mom, hmmm. She knows this is never going away because of the internet, and embarrassing for her child when the child gets older, right? So she's not thinking of her daughter's self-worth. And she does know that it's difficult to regain her own health and healthy weight if she's still making milk? At age 5 i don't know what benefits would come from breastmilk. It takes calcium away from the mom, etc. It's just, strange. If she really wanted to keep going she should take care of her own health and nutritiion and just pump & sell the milk, and let her daughter grown up.