A cardiothoracic surgeon previously banned from performing major heart and lung surgery by the New South Wales medical regulator has been appointed to a senior Queensland government clinical safety position. On Tuesday the deputy director general of Clinical Excellence Queensland, Dr Helen Brown, announced Dr Michael Byrom as the inaugural surgical medical lead for the […]
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Draco Malfoy has become China’s unlikely Lunar New Year mascot
This year’s Lunar New Year decoration trend has a stroke of wizardry. Source link
Zero net migration would reduce the UK economy by 3.6%, says the thinktank | Economic growth (GDP)
The UK economy will be 3.6% smaller in 2040 if net migration falls to zero, forcing the government to raise taxes to overcome a bigger budget deficit, a thinktank has predicted. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said that the decline in the number of births in the UK and a sharp […]
The court system is on the ‘brink of collapse’, the former senior judge warned
An independent review made 130 recommendations – including the creation of a new criminal justice adviser to the PM – to improve the efficiency of the system. Source link
NSW Labor backbenchers to protest Israel president Isaac Herzog’s visit in opposition to the premier | New South Wales
NSW Labor backbenchers have vowed to attend a protest in Sydney against a visit by Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, with one saying he would attend because Australia should not welcome the head of a state engaged in an “ongoing genocide”. Another member of the government said he attended – despite previous objections to the rallies […]
Australian man dies skiing in Japan days after Queensland snowboarder dies in ski lift accident | Japan
A 27-year-old Melbourne man has died at a ski resort in Japan, days after the death of Queensland snowboarder Brooke Day. The man collapsed and suffered a heart attack while skiing with six others in Niseko, Hokkaido, on Monday, according to a spokesman for a local ski lodge who asked not to be identified. The […]
‘I don’t think it’s a good decision’: Labor’s Ed Husic has ‘deep concern’ over Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s visit | Australian news
Labor MP Ed Husic has “deep concerns” about the upcoming visit of the president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, saying that it is difficult to reconcile the concepts of social solidarity with the 2023 image of the leader signing an artillery shell that is about to be dropped on Gaza. Husic said he did not believe […]
Inside the operation to destroy drug labs in the jungles of Colombia
BBC Senior international correspondent Orla Guerin joins specialist police on a mission in the cocaine heartland of Colombia, tasked with destroying crude cocaine labs hidden deep in the jungle. The Jungle Commandos, a police unit armed in the United States and originally trained by the British SAS, are looking for labs that are little more […]
Rights groups say China has jailed two journalists over a corruption report
Liu Hu and Wu Yingjiao were reportedly imprisoned after exposing the corruption of a high-ranking official in Sichuan. Source link
The Scottish state transformed by the green vision of King Charles
A landmark documentary examines King’s “harmony” principles regarding environmental protection. Source link
