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 […]
This year’s Lunar New Year decoration trend has a stroke of wizardry. Source link
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Liu Hu and Wu Yingjiao were reportedly imprisoned after exposing the corruption of a high-ranking official in Sichuan. Source link
A landmark documentary examines King’s “harmony” principles regarding environmental protection. Source link
