The first thing the captain said to us after we stopped was that we experienced “engine [exceedance]” on the right side, and that the fire trucks were coming because the brakes were very hot … He later said two tyres were flat. We got towed for a short bit before we had to stop as the flat tyres were damaging the runway.
We have contacted Etihad and Melbourne airport for more information, and will update once we hear back.
Victoria, scattered showers were expected throughout today.
Some of those showers dumped 10mm of rain on the Grampians fireground by 9am, with as much as 25mm predicted. A State Control Centre spokesperson said “every little bit helps”.
She said the good news was that over the weekend, despite extreme fire danger predictions, the fire at Halls Gap stayed within containment lines.
A moderate risk-of-fire rating remains in place after days of extreme and high fire danger. Residents near the 2.7 kilometre Moliagul fire were today advised smoke would be visible.
Victoria attends nearly 200 rescues across weekend
Across the weekend from Friday to Sunday, Life Saving Victoria attended a total of nearly 200 rescues.
Director Kane Treloar spoke with ABC News Breakfast earlier this morning, and said there had tragically been two drownings:
Tragically, two people drowned on Friday. A young boy out in eastern Victoria out in the rivers, and a gentleman down at Rye on Friday. There was a further event on Friday, but that appears to have been a medical episode.
On Saturday, there was also a “significant” incident involving a jetski collision, he said, with crews pulling two children from the water and providing first aid. They were later taken to hospital by ambulance.
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Guy Pearce is nominated for best male actor in a support role in a film for The Brutalist.
Cate Blanchett is nominated for best female actor in a television limited series, for Disclaimer.
In the same category, Naomi Watts is nominated for Feud: Capote vs the Swans.
Memoir of a Snail, by Australian stop-motion film-maker Adam Elliott, is up for best animated film.
You can read the full list of nominations below, before the awards ceremony begins at 12pm AEDT.
a poll conducted by the Nine papers which found she was the nation’s most likable federal politician.
Asked about the results, Lambie told ABC News Breakfast “I just go out there and do the job”, giving the following advice to others:
I think everybody goes in with good intentions and unfortunately when you belong to the major parties, you’ve got to toe the line and they start to lose their authenticity a little bit. I think from me, be yourself, learn from the job and deliver more and more.
Lambie was also asked how both Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton were resonating with voters in Tasmania. She said there was a lot happening on a state level with the Liberals, which is “probably not helpful” for the party at a federal level.
I don’t think the state Libs are performing as well as what they should be, and I’m not talking about the premier, I’m talking about his ministers down here. So I think that’s starting to hurt them a little bit … On the ground down here it is about 50/50, I would say.
video was posted to Reddit, appearing to show firefighters spraying the engines of the plane at the end of the runway. One Reddit user who said they were on board the flight wrote:
The first thing the captain said to us after we stopped was that we experienced “engine [exceedance]” on the right side, and that the fire trucks were coming because the brakes were very hot … He later said two tyres were flat. We got towed for a short bit before we had to stop as the flat tyres were damaging the runway.
We have contacted Etihad and Melbourne airport for more information, and will update once we hear back.
will head off on a multi-state blitz today, gearing up for the election later this year. Is this pork-barrelling in a state where Labor needs to win votes?
Catherine King said the government had “significantly” reformed infrastructure investment, engaging with Infrastructure Australia in the decision-making process for commonwealth investments.
We’ve actually worked really hard to make sure that we aren’t actually making decisions about where infrastructure is needed based on, frankly, what the previous government did on the colour of the seats that it would go through.
She said the focus was on “where do we need to lift productivity in the nation, [and] where do we need to look at things such as road safety, liveability and sustainability.”
If you look up and down that [Bruce Highway] corridor, there are not a lot of seats that Labor holds or is expecting to hold along that corridor. We are investing in Queensland, we’re investing in the productivity of the entire state, and this project, this investment really will improve road safety for all of those communities alongs highway.
Victoria and bring much-needed relief, including to fire crews working on the fire front in the Grampians.
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Source: theguardian.com
