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May 17, 2024 - World

Magistrate finds the former chief of staff to federal MP Craig Kelly ‘deliberately manipulated’ young women and took advantage of their vulnerabilityFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastFrank Zumbo, the former chief of staff to federal MP Craig Kelly, has avoided jail on a string of aggravated indecent assault convictions, despite a magistrate finding he had not displayed “any remorse or contrition” for his “pattern of ongoing criminal conduct”.Francesco Zumbo, 56, was sentenced to a two-year intensive corrections order by magistrate Gareth Christofi in Sydney’s Downing Centre court on Friday. The order is a custodial sentence but served in the community.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...

May 17, 2024 - World

NSW police allege a senior player for the A-League men’s team was arranging ‘for yellow cards to occur during certain games’ in late 2023Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMacarthur FC has said it is “shocked” after three of its players were arrested and charged in Sydney in relation to an international investigation that uncovered an alleged betting corruption scandal.New South Wales police said on Friday they had arrested and charged the three A-League footballers in early morning raids across the city following an investigation by the organised crime squad which began in December and was assisted by the UK gambling commission. Continue reading...

May 17, 2024 - World

Woman told to buy MacBooks after being threatened with knife at the Stud Park shopping centre on 10 May, police sayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA mother and her baby were abducted from a Melbourne shopping centre by a knife-wielding man who then forced the woman to drive to electronic stores to buy laptops.Victoria police are hunting for the man after the incident in Rowville, in Melbourne’s south-east, on 10 May.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...

May 17, 2024 - World

Tanya Plibersek ordered investigation after judge accused law firm of ‘subtle coaching’ of Tiwi Island traditional owners during legal challengeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Environmental Defenders Office did not breach the conditions of its $8.2m in federal funding, according to a government review of the legal firm’s conduct.The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, requested the review after a federal court judgment in January made sharp criticisms of the EDO’s conduct in a legal matter against Santos.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...

May 17, 2024 - World

It is the NHS’s worst treatment disaster – with 30,000 patients infected. Two survivors, Ade Goodyear and Andy Evans, explain why it took so long for it to be brought to lightAde Goodyear was 15 when he was told he had contracted HIV. Like about 30,000 other NHS patients – including more than 300 children – who were given blood transfusions or commercial blood products before 2019, he was infected by contaminated blood. Some patients got HIV and hepatitis C from blood transfusions after childbirth or other medical procedures. Ade was infected with HIV at the medical centre of his school.Pupils at his Treloar’s college, which had a specialist haemophilia unit, were among those given injections of a blood plasma product called factor VIII concentrate. Concerns had been raised a decade before by the World Health Organization because it was a commercial product that mixed plasma from tens of thousands of often high-risk donors. If one had an infection such as HIV, it could contaminate the whole batch. Continue reading...