☕️ First fixed pill testing site in Victoria

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“I think it really does need to go to a far more worthy recipient. And I’m not just saying that because it would be a PR nightmare if the only bloke got up and stole the Gold Logie from a sea of deserving women. It cannot happen. It can’t happen, and it shouldn’t happen.”
Comedian and television host Hamish Blake telling Sunrise he doesn’t want to receive the Gold Logie, having received his third nomination this week. Blake, who has won it twice, is the only man nominated this year.

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The number of people who were shot and injured in a public shooting in Western Sydney on Monday. NSW Police has begun an investigation into the incident.

‘Birdman’ actor Michael Keaton’s legal name is Michael Douglas. He had to change it because the Hollywood actors’ union only allows one person to work under a particular name at a time, and ‘Fatal Attraction’ star Michael Douglas had beat him to it. Keaton picked his new name from a phone book.

Victoria’s first fixed pill testing site will open in Melbourne’s inner-north in August.

It follows Government-approved trials at five festivals over the summer, which found 91% of people who had pills tested were aged between 18 and 30.

The new site will initially open for 12 months in Fitzroy, 400 metres away from a police station.

The State Government said it chose the location because it is close to Melbourne’s busy nightlife.

Pill testing is a service where health experts examine a sample of a drug bought for recreational use.

The sample is tested for its strength and content, identifying any harmful or unexpected ingredients.

A professional can then share the results and provide advice to the person who requested the test.

In Australia, pill testing services are free and confidential.

Last year, Victoria followed the ACT and Queensland in legalising pill testing trials.

Five festivals hosted pop-up drug checking facilities over the summer, including Hardmission, where nine people were hospitalised for overdoses last year.

The Government said 1,400 samples were tested at the trial. Nearly two-thirds of people who used the service said it was the first time they had discussed their drug use with a health expert.

Fitzroy has been chosen as the location for a fixed pill testing centre, initially contracted for a year.

The centre will open Thursday to Saturday starting in August.

The centre’s location on Brunswick Street is 400 metres from the local police station.

In an interview with TDA last year, Premier Jacinta Allan said police still have the power to arrest anyone in possession of illegal drugs.

Reporting by Harry Sekulich.

Police have caught a man suspected of fatally shooting a U.S. Democrat representative and her husband, according to officials speaking to U.S. media.

It’s believed the shooter entered their home in the state of Minnesota while posing as a police officer. The couple died at the scene.

Police said the shooter also attacked another Democrat and his wife at their home. They were injured but survived.

The suspect has been caught by police after a 36-hour manhunt, according to reports from AP.

In the early hours of Saturday morning (local time), a man arrived at the home of state Senator John Hoffman in a suburban area north of Minneapolis, Minnesota’s biggest city.

The man was dressed in a police uniform.

Hoffman and his wife Yvette were each shot multiple times but survived. Hoffman needed various surgeries for his wounds.

The man then drove to the home of Melissa Hortman, the highest-ranking Democrat in Minnesota’s state legislature (Parliament).

Hortman and her husband Mark were shot dead. The couple had two children.

Sources have now told U.S. media that officials have caught the key suspect, who they identified as 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter.

A federal official had previously told media that Boelter had a list of 70 targets, including other Democrats, and Planned Parenthood, a U.S. sexual health service.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz – who was Kamala Harris’ pick for Vice-President at last year’s election – called the shootings “an attack of targeted political violence”.

“We don’t settle our differences with violence or at gunpoint,” Walz told reporters.

He urged people across the state to not attend political rallies over the weekend out of “an abundance of caution”. This included protests against Trump’s presidency held across the country.

In a social media post, President Donald Trump said: “Such horrific violence will not be tolerated”.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, the top law officer in the country, confirmed the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) was involved in the case.

Bondi said the shootings appeared to be a “targeted attack”.

U.S. authorities are warning the shootings are the latest incident in a wave of political violence in recent years.

Last month, two Israeli embassy staff were shot dead in Washington D.C.

Trump survived two assassination attempts in the run-up to the 2024 election.

A man attacked the husband of then U.S. House Speaker, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, with a hammer at their home in 2022.

Reporting by Harry Sekulich.

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He told crowds who gathered to celebrate the milestone that he “'never thought [he’d] get there” and that "it's with a huge amount of gratitude to my family, friends, and medical team that I'll be celebrating this achievement”.

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Reporting by Zara Seidler.

We all know that feeling when you finally see a seat at a museum, after hours of walking around on those hard tile floors.

Unfortunately for one tourist visiting the Verona museum Palazzo Maffei in April, it was not only a chair – it was an artwork.

A Swarovski-crystal-covered chair crafted by artist Nicola Bolla, in fact.

The museum said two tourists tried to take a “dramatic photo” but one of them accidentally “shattered” the chair by sitting on it.

In a statement, Palazzo Maffei said: “The museum’s decision to share footage of the incident is not merely an act of informing or condemning. Rather, Palazzo Maffei aims to transform this unfortunate event into an opportunity for reflection — raising awareness and fostering a deeper understanding of the fragility of art and the need to care for it.”

Reporting by Annabel Whitehouse.

Long-simmering tensions between Iran and Israel have broken into a full-scale exchange of hostilities, following Israeli strikes on nuclear sites and military targets, including apartment buildings in Tehran. Iran responded with strikes on Tel Aviv, and the two nations have since launched waves of missiles and rockets at each other. In today’s podcast, we’ll explain the long history between these two countries, what’s happened in the last few days, and why the U.S. is involved.