Lidia Thorpe suspended, Rate cut hopes dashed, Lebanon ceasefire

Published Nov 27, 2024, 8:46 PM

Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe has been suspended from the Senate after she appeared to tear up a motion by Pauline Hanson on the chamber floor; Interest rate cuts remain a distant prospect with inflation still too high for the Reserve Bank's liking; Thousands of Lebanese civilians have begun returning to their homes, hours after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect.

7NEWS Headlines with Monique Wright for November 28, 2024.

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Good morning, New South Wales.

Police officer Christian White has been found guilty of manslaughter for the taser death of ninety five year old dementia patient Claire Noland. The thirty four year old claimed that he was responding to an imminent threat when he tasered the great grandmother inside her cuma nursing home.

Why did you use it on a ninety five year old woman? Do you have an apology for the family.

White is still on the police payroll and is now likely to be sacked. He returns to court today where the prosecution will ask him to be taken into custody until his sentencing.

You're worried about becoming an independent? Senator?

Lydia Thorpe has been suspended from the Senate after she appeared to tear up a motion by.

Pauline Hansen on the chamber floor.

Miss Thorpe then made a rude gesture as she left the chamber.

In all aspects of life, there is always a time to draw a line in the sand. The fact that this Senate has finally drawn a line in the sand to the reprehensible and repeated disruptive and disrespectful conduct of Senator Thorpe.

Senator Hansen's motion questioned Afghan born Senator Fatima Payman's eligibility to sit in Parliament. Miss Thorpe will not be able to sit in the Senate today. Victorian high country killer Greg Lynn says that he's the victim of a substantial miscarriage of justice. Mister Lynn has been made a number of claims in legal documents appealing his thirty two year sentence for the murder of Carol Clay. Lynn's legal team is also questioning a key firearms witness and describes the jail term as manifestly excessive. A Yarrawonga man has been killed by a falling tree in Victoria's southeast after he was trying to escape a violent storm with his family. It comes as Melbourne and other areas of Victoria were lashed by wild weather yesterday, with the sees responding to more than four hundred and fifty calls for help with fallen trees, flooding and damaged buildings. The Weather Bureau says that the severe weather will ease today and areas in southeast Queensland are now bracing for more heavy rain, whilst northern Queensland will swelter through a severe heat wave. Temperatures there expected to hit forty degrees. The Weather Bureau is warning of severe storms and up to twenty millimeters of rain, with some areas expecting damaging winds and large hail. The heaviest falls are expected around the Scenic Rim and.

The Darling Downs over this coming weekend.

Interest rate cuts remain a distant prospect, with inflation still too high for the Reserve Banks liking it came in at two point one percent in October because of cheaper fuel and energy rebates, but new polling shows that most Australians feel worse off under the Abeneze government.

The past coming back to bite.

Remember this life will be cheaper under.

Me as the present throws up troubling numbers. Monthly inflation flat lining at two point one percent.

Compared with the six it had in front of it when we took office.

Thanks to plunging petrol prices and government energy rebates. But the Reserve Banks preferred trimmed mean measure rising to three point five percent above its target range.

They've blundered their effort to produce the cost of housing.

The board expected to hold rates at its pre Christmas meeting markets now forecasting a cut in May when the election is due.

In the US in September, interest rates work cut, but they didn't stop Trump winning.

As new polling shows, fifty seven percent of people say they're worse off now than they were two years ago. Fifty two percent think the government has the wrong priorities.

There is no plan from this government to restore Australian standard of living.

A majority now believing Peter Dutton is ready for the log.

They have a pro found view that the other side probably won't fix the problem. They're in a punishing mood.

The punishment coming from Labour's heartland, tradees and suburban families, marking the government down more than inner city voters.

I don't think either side can come up with an answer when.

There's inflation in most developed countries, Mark Riley, seven News.

Controversial former CFMEU boss John Setka is launching a worker's compensation claim for PTSD against the Victorian branch of the union. He claims violent COVID protests outside the CFMEU headquarters in twenty twenty one, as well as the collapse of a wall in Swanston Street which killed three pedestrians in twenty thirteen have severely impacted his health. Setka resigned as Victorian CFMU boss just days before serious allegations against his branch concerning links to Biki.

Gangs were revealed.

Sydney Airport was braced for a full scale emergency after the pilot of a Thailand bound Jetstar flight declared that his Boeing Dreamliners seven eight seven was in trouble. The flight departed from Sydney and was forced to circle for almost two hours before diverting back to Sydney to undertake an emergency landing. Jetstar has confirmed that one of the plane's ten tires was damaged during takeoff, but says that it didn't burst. Queensland's adult crime Adult Time Laws will be introduced to the state's parliament today, with young criminals set to face up to ten years jail for stealing cars. The laws also include a maximum sentence of life in prison for murder and a doubling of the sentence time for children found guilty of serious assaults, carjacking and also robbery. Sydney residents had been warned of a hot and expensive summer, with yesterday's blackout threats and surging power prices. Just the beginning, households were urged to avoid using their dishwasher or washing machine to help keep lights on over fears that the energy grid just wouldn't cope with soaring demand yesterday. Thankfully blackouts were avoided, but it won't be the only warning. With summer just days away. Two volunteer firefighters have been injured battling ferocious flames north of Perth. Both are now in a stable condition after being hurt tackling the raging fire at Wedge Island yesterday. The blaze has been burning since Monday after it was started.

By a car crash.

Well, you should never steal a car, but if you did, it would probably help if you drove a manual. Orsi TikToker Ty Baker has shared the moment that a woman tried to steal his car from his driveway but failed at the very first hurdle.

But luckily she did not know how to drive a manual because she could not get it out of the driveway. I did end up going out there and taking my keys out of the ignition while she was still in the car.

But getting a manual car these days could be easier said than done. Very few new models are launched with manual transmissions. Queensland has hoped that the world will see them coming as welcoming and safe in the lead up to the twenty thirty two Olympics, and you report also finding that organizers will have to work very hard to gain more support for the games, with just under half of those surveyed looking forward to hosting the games. Beyond safe and welcoming, participants were also hopeful for Queensland to be highlighted for its affordability and also its sustainability. The Saint John driverthon has made a pit stop in Sydney on its nine week lap of Australia. Saint John aims to train five thousand Australians in CPR while also delivering life saving defibrillators to regional communities in more than thirty locations. The next stop is Newcastle then Tamworth and if you'd like to support the cause, you can donate on their website every single dollar supporting their sixteen thousand kilometer journey. Thousands of Lebanese civilians have begun returning to their homes hours after a ceasefire between Israel and Hesbala came into effect.

Let's go live to Europe. Correspond HA been down in that I now been.

There are mixed feelings among those returning as the conflict comes to an end for now.

Yeah, absolutely mine. While most Lebanese people are overjoined that rockets will no longer be falling on their homes and they'll be able to return to them, that's only if they have a home to return to the other thing that's happening in this ceasefy negotiations. Many actually remain skeptical of the fragile piece that was achieved in the last twenty four hours, though, but there have been scenes of overwhelming celebration on the streets of Beirut and cities like Tire, many people waving those yellow flags they are actually the flags of Hezbolla the militia, and waving the flags of an Israela, calling this a victory for has Boller over the IDF because the IDF has now vacated and people can now move back into their homes. What they're finding, though, very often is rubble, and before the bulldozers can come in and begin the rebuilding process, first Lebanon's military has to come back. That's different to Hasbol the militia. It's the military that's going to occupy that contested space for the last more than a year, and only then after that sixty day period will a ceasefire be achieved. The thing is, though, with a lot of Israeli residents, they're actually thinking they didn't get much out of this ceasefire prospect and it makes them look weak. They hope, like many others across the Arab world, that this paves the way for a ceasefire in Gaza as well, because then it would be the end of the fighting and a lot of those hostages, if they're a man alive, can return home.

Wouldn't that be an amazing thing?

All right?

Ben Downey for ust there, Thank you.

Prince Harry's privacy lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mail newspapers will go to trial in early twenty twenty six. The Duke of Sussex is one of seven high profile claimants, including Sir Eldon John, suing associated newspapers over allegations of phone hacking and other serious privacy breaches. In Prince Harry's specific case, he alleges that the publisher targeted him by unlawfully accessing voicemails and also tapping landlines. SpaceX has launched a the Falcon nine rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After several delays, The Falcon nine deploying twenty four Starlink Internet satellites into low Earth orbit. The rocket's first stage booster launched for the fifteenth Starlink mission.

He throws sorry.

London's Heathrow Airport, one of the busiest in the world, is trialing the use of artificial intelligence to assist with air traffic control. The AI technology is designed to work alongside human controllers, helping streamline decisions about aircraft movements on the ground and in the air. It's already been tested on more than forty thousand flights and checking finance news for you now, the dal Jones is down ninety three points, The Nasdaq fell one hundred and eighty five. In London, the FT one hundred added sixteen points. Germany's DAX lost thirty four. Closer to home, Japan's NICK closed down three hundred and seven points. Hong Kong's Hang Seng added four hundred and forty three points. The All Odds is up forty seven so once the ASX two hundred is again forty seven points only. Commodities market gold is trading at two thousand, six hundred and thirty nine US dollars an ounce, oil sixty eight US dollars a barrel. The Ousie dollar is buying sixty four USNS ninety seven Japanese n a dollar ten New Zealand. Well, it was Penguin's On Parade in the Chinese city of Harbin yesterday. The annual winter spectacle draws in huge crowds. This year ten penguins from Harbin's Polar Park enjoying an outing in front of the Saint Sophia Cathedral. The penguin parade kicks off Harbin's Winter Festival, where an ice and snow park is created every year.

And checking Thursday's where the.

Now a possible shower in Brisbane with a top of thirty degrees, showers at a possible storm in Sydney, thirty one a shower or two in Canberra, and thirty one partly claudy in Melbourne, and twenty four showers easing in Hobart and sixteen partly clady in Adelaide, twenty three sunny in perth thirty three and a shower and a possible storm in Darwin, thirty two degrees up