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Detainee released in High Court ruling stands accused of violent home invasion
By Rebecca Peppiatt and Hamish Hastie
One of the men arrested at the weekend over the violent home robbery of an elderly Perth couple had been released from immigration detention last November as part of a controversial High Court ruling.
This masthead can reveal Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan, 43, is one of three men accused of a violent attack on Ninette and Philip Simons at their home in Girrawheen, in Perth’s northern suburbs, on April 16.
The men allegedly posed as police and said they had a warrant to search the home for stolen gold.
One of the men arrested at the weekend over a violent home robbery of elderly Perth couple Ninette and Philip Simons had been released from immigration detention last November as part of a controversial High Court ruling.Credit: Composite image
Philip Simons, 76, said they tied him up, while 73-year-old Ninette, a recent cancer survivor, was allegedly violently assaulted, telling media that she had thought she was going to die.
The three men allegedly fled the home with $200,000 worth of jewellery and other items.
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Woman settles case against Hillsong over indecent assault
By Sarah McPhee
A woman indecently assaulted by a Hillsong staff member has settled her lawsuit against the megachurch on undisclosed terms.
Anna Christine Crenshaw, who waived her right to anonymity, sued the church; Hillsong College, where she studied; and the perpetrator, Jason John Mays, in the NSW Supreme Court, claiming negligence involving a breach of duty of care over the incident in 2016 when she was 18.
Anna Crenshaw leaves court in Sydney today.Credit: Nick Moir
The civil matter was set down for a five-day hearing in Sydney, due to start today before Justice Robertson Wright. However, after a lengthy adjournment, the woman’s barrister, Kelvin Andrews, informed the court of the development.
“In principle, the matter has resolved between the plaintiff and all of the defendants,” Andrews said.
The judge listed the matter to return to court on Thursday as the parties work to agree on documents.
Mays pleaded guilty to indecent assault in Penrith Local Court and was sentenced in January 2020. He avoided conviction but was placed on a two-year conditional release order requiring that he not commit any further offences.
Child paid ‘as little as $500’ to carry out firebombing, Victorian inquiry hears
By Broede Carmody
There have been 71 tobacco-related arson attacks in Victoria to date, one of the state’s top police officers has confirmed.
Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Martin O’Brien told a parliamentary inquiry earlier today that the overwhelming majority of those firebombings have occurred in Melbourne’s northern and western suburbs.
Damage to the Williamstown Ice Creamery & Frozen Yoghurt after the first firebombing in October 2022.
He also told state MPs that, in one case, a kid was paid “as little as $500” to carry out an attack.
O’Brien told Victorian parliament’s inquiry into vaping and tobacco controls that the current lack of regulation was one of the reasons why Victoria was the “epicentre” of the illicit tobacco trade.
“There needs to be appropriate penalties,” the assistant commissioner said of Victoria’s incoming scheme.
“Opportunistic business people … see it as an opportunity to increase their profit margins with the illicit product knowing, in the current status, they run minimal risk of enforcement. They probably run a great risk of organised crime approaches.”
Premier Jacinta Allan last month confirmed that Victoria will introduce tobacco licensing laws later this year, a move that will bring the state in line with the rest of Australia.
O’Brien’s comments come a week after the largest vape haul in Australian history – some 500,000 illegal vapes – was seized in Victoria. At the time, the assistant commissioner said the estimated street value of the vapes was in the vicinity of $15 million.
This afternoon’s headlines
By Jewel Topsfield
Thank you for following our blog today. My name is Jewel Topsfield and I will be steering our live coverage for the rest of the day.
Here is what we have covered so far:
The news boss at Seven, Craig McPherson, has departed the company, weeks after a string of events placed the Kerry Stokes-owned network under the spotlight including Seven’s recent coverage of the Bondi Junction killings, where Sunrise wrongly identified a 20-year-old university student as the attacker.
Crown Resorts is to cut 1000 jobs in latest restructuring in a major restructuring following a lack of customers in its Melbourne, Sydney and Perth casinos due to stricter regulations and the cost-of living-crisis.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese would not confirm or deny fresh accusations from Sarah Williams, the organiser of Canberra’s rally to end violence against women, that he told her “I am the prime minister. I run the country”.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions is calling for a 9 per cent pay rise in this year’s annual wage decision for awards in largely feminised occupations including early childhood educators, disability workers and hairdressers
Bulk-billing increase ruled out despite rate rise
Almost 1 million extra trips to the GP have been bulk-billed since additional incentives for doctors came into effect, but the government has ruled out further rises to the scheme.
The bulk-billing rate rose 2.1 per cent to 77.7 per cent in March, according to government data.
More Australians did not have to pay for an estimated 950,000 extra trips to the doctor in the past five months, federal Health Minister Mark Butler said.
The government has ruled out further rises to the bulk-billing scheme.Credit: Tamara Voninski
While there has been a large turnaround in the number of bulk-billed appointments, the incentives for doctors to do so won’t be expanded further.
“[The incentives] are working to arrest, first of all, the freefall in bulk-billing that we inherited when we came to government,” Butler told ABC Radio today.
“They’re providing much better remuneration to GPs who are bulk-billing ... and we are seeing a pleasing rebound.”
Medicare payments for doctors in major cities who bulk-billed for a standard consultation had increased by 34 per cent, while rural and regional doctors had received an extra 50 per cent.
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Crown to cut 1000 jobs in latest restructuring
By Amelia McGuire
Crown Resorts chief executive Ciaran Carruthers has revealed up to 1000 staff will be made redundant in a major restructuring following a lack of customers in its Melbourne, Sydney and Perth casinos due to stricter regulations and the cost-of living-crisis.
Crown casino in Sydney.Credit: Janie Barrett
Carruthers revealed in an interview with this masthead last week that the cuts were looming, but wrote to staff to confirm the changes this morning, as reported by The Australian Financial Review. Crown employs more than 20,000 people and is one of the biggest employers in the states in which it operates.
PM’s speech at rally to end violence against women was tone-deaf: Nationals leader
By Olivia Ireland
Nationals leader David Littleproud has accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of being “tone-deaf” when speaking at the Canberra rally against domestic violence yesterday.
Speaking on Sky, Littleproud said regardless of whether Albanese was asked to speak, the way he handled the rally was tone-deaf.
Nationals leader David Littleproud.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
Albanese, who was urged to speak by a large part of the crowd, began his speech by saying the organisers had said they did not want him to do so. The rally’s organiser Sarah Williams later called this a “flat-out lie”.
“That’s not the point to make at a rally when it was about a young lady, Sarah Williams, who had the courage of her own convictions to come forward and organise that rally,” Littleproud said.
“If he had issues about whether he was invited to speak or not, it is not to make it public in front of the people that were there, the hundreds of thousands of people that were there and when Sarah became emotionally distraught, for the prime minister to continue on, he was tone-deaf.”
Kyle and Jackie O debut in Melbourne
By Nell Geraets
Sex, drugs and antivaxxers. That more or less sums up the first 20 minutes of The Kyle & Jackie O Show, as it debuted on Melbourne airwaves this morning.
Sydney’s ratings-leading Kyle and Jackie O Show has landed in Melbourne.
For over two decades, the show has been a staple of Sydney radio, regularly claiming record audiences and earning its hosts a spot in the Commercial Radio Hall of Fame.
In the most recent ratings survey, the show topped the market in the breakfast slot with a 16.1 per cent share, up from 15.4 per cent in the first survey of the year.
But this is the first time the show has broadcast into Melbourne, testing an entirely new audience. It replaces outgoing morning hosts, KIIS FM’s Jase and Lauren.
The Age spoke to a bunch of Melburnians to see what they thought of the Sydney export. Click here to read what they said.
Hanson’s tweet led to a torrent of racist abuse against Faruqi, court told
By Michaela Whitbourn
Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi was subject to a “predictable” torrent of racist abuse after One Nation leader Pauline Hanson told the Greens deputy leader to “piss off back to Pakistan” in a social media post, the Federal Court has heard.
Faruqi is suing Hanson under racial discrimination laws in response to the comment on X, formerly Twitter, which was posted on September 9, 2022. The five-day Federal Court trial started in Sydney today.
Faruqi, who migrated from Pakistan in 1992, is seeking court orders requiring Hanson to delete the post, attend anti-racism training at her own cost and make a $150,000 donation to a charity chosen by Faruqi.
The court heard Hanson’s comment was made in response to a post by the Greens senator, who had noted the death of Queen Elizabeth II and said she could not “mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples”.
Hanson responded that Faruqi’s “attitude appalls and disgusts me”.
“When you immigrated to Australia you took every advantage of this country ... It’s clear you’re not happy, so pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan,” she said.
Faruqi’s barrister, Saul Holt, KC, told the court today that Hanson had “played the person and not the ball” and “the racist aspect of it was wholly gratuitous”. The post unleashed a wave of racist abuse against Faruqi that parroted the original comment, he said.
Holt said Hanson’s post was a version of the well-known anti-migrant phrase, “go back to where you came from”. Hanson had previously said “Muslim immigration should be banned entirely”, Holt said.
But Sue Chrysanthou, SC, acting for Hanson, argued the barrage of abuse against Faruqi “arose and started” because of her “provocative and insensitive” comment on X “about the death of the monarch”.
We’ll have continued updates on the case later today and throughout the week.
Unions push for 9 per cent pay boost in sectors dominated by women
By Angus Thompson
Early childhood educators, disability workers, and hairdressers are among workers the union movement says should get a 9 per cent pay rise in this year’s annual wage decision, in a fresh push for pay equity for people working industries dominated by women.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions is calling for the significant pay boost to be applied to awards in largely feminised occupations. It will be a down-payment on greater claims for equity, to be based on research by the industrial umpire into the disparity in gender pay.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
ACTU secretary Sally McManus said achieving equal pay for women required both system change and targeted pay rises in industries that were generally dominated by women and historically quite low-paid.
“A 9 per cent pay increase will not only support families with cost-of-living pressures, it will also be a vital first step to properly valuing the work of working women doing work critical to our community, such as educating the next generation and caring for our loved ones,” she said.
The ACTU will make its case for tailored wage boosts in a fresh submission to the Fair Work Commission’s annual wage review, having last month called for a 5 per cent increase in the minimum wage, currently $23.23 an hour.
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