You're listening to a Maluma podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast is recorded on Hi. I'm Ailish Delaney from Mummamea's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines. For Wednesday, March twelve, Sunshine has broken through for the first time in days for those facing a mammoth clean up after widespread destruction from a deluge of rain from ex tropical Cyclone Alfred. Brisbane City Council has set up more than one hundred and ninety temporary waste spin sites across the city where the severe weather has impacted regular curb side waste collections. More than fifty thousand homes and businesses remain without power. Down from a peak of four hundred and twenty thousand. Students at more than one hundred schools across Southeast Queensland State home today as assessments were carried out for damage. The state government's emergency Planning declaration to support food, medicine and essential supplies getting into stores has been expanded as natural disaster recovery efforts continue at both ends of the day. The Bureau of Meteorology says No further significant rainfall is forecast for the remainder of the week, with some light coastal showers possible. Several flooding warnings have been downgraded, but moderate risk remains on the Logan, Richmond, Clarence and Orava rivers spanning Queensland and New South Wales. Many areas are still cut off as the focus shifts to recovery efforts in areas where water has subsided. More young people will be kept behind bars under the toughest bale laws in Australia. After heavy pressure to act on crime, Victoria's bail legislation will undergo reform amid mountain community anger about rising crime, including aggravated burglaries and car thefts. The changes include scrapping remand as a last resort for accused youth offenders, and denying bail to anyone accused of committing a serious offense if they're already on bail for a similar offense. Males in their mid to late teens make up sixty four per cent of alleged aggravated burglary offenders, with the government aiming to target these younger serious offenders premier decent to ours. Allen says it will be a jolt to the system that will see a crackdown on the worst of crimes and the worst of reoffending. Australia's biggest retirement fund, Australian Super, is facing court action after families had to wait years to get their dead relatives money. The corporate regulator is suing the fund for allegedly failing to process the claims efficiently, honestly and fairly. Between July twenty nineteen and October twenty twenty four, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission alleges Australian Super took anywhere between four months and four years to assess almost seven thousand death benefit claims. In one case, Acid claims the fund took more than three years to make a payment despite having all the information required. Australian Super says it's considering Assex's claim and will respond in due course, claiming the pandemic clogged its processing systems. An Australian man with heart failure has become the first person in the world to walk out of a hospital with a total artificial heart implant. The patient, a man in his forties, volunteered to be the first Australian RESCS scipient of a bivercre total artificial heart implant in November as a stop gap until a donor heart became available. The Australian researchers and doctors behind the operation say the implant was an unmitigated clinical success after the man lived with the device for more than one hundred days before receiving a donor heart transplant in early March. Doctors hope the biver Core could one day be a permanent replacement for a failing heart. That's your latest news headlines. On tomorrow's episode of The Quikie, we're exploring our complicated relationship with Time. Plus Emelia Lester joins us for another Trump Day. Listen to the Quiki wherever you get your podcasts

You're listening to a Maluma podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast is recorded on Hi. I'm Ailish Delaney from Mummamea's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines. For Wednesday, March twelve, Sunshine has broken through for the first time in days for those facing a mammoth clean up after widespread destruction from a deluge of rain from ex tropical Cyclone Alfred. Brisbane City Council has set up more than one hundred and ninety temporary waste spin sites across the city where the severe weather has impacted regular curb side waste collections. More than fifty thousand homes and businesses remain without power. Down from a peak of four hundred and twenty thousand. Students at more than one hundred schools across Southeast Queensland State home today as assessments were carried out for damage. The state government's emergency Planning declaration to support food, medicine and essential supplies getting into stores has been expanded as natural disaster recovery efforts continue at both ends of the day. The Bureau of Meteorology says No further significant rainfall is forecast for the remainder of the week, with some light coastal showers possible. Several flooding warnings have been downgraded, but moderate risk remains on the Logan, Richmond, Clarence and Orava rivers spanning Queensland and New South Wales. Many areas are still cut off as the focus shifts to recovery efforts in areas where water has subsided. More young people will be kept behind bars under the toughest bale laws in Australia. After heavy pressure to act on crime, Victoria's bail legislation will undergo reform amid mountain community anger about rising crime, including aggravated burglaries and car thefts. The changes include scrapping remand as a last resort for accused youth offenders, and denying bail to anyone accused of committing a serious offense if they're already on bail for a similar offense. Males in their mid to late teens make up sixty four per cent of alleged aggravated burglary offenders, with the government aiming to target these younger serious offenders premier decent to ours. Allen says it will be a jolt to the system that will see a crackdown on the worst of crimes and the worst of reoffending. Australia's biggest retirement fund, Australian Super, is facing court action after families had to wait years to get their dead relatives money. The corporate regulator is suing the fund for allegedly failing to process the claims efficiently, honestly and fairly. Between July twenty nineteen and October twenty twenty four, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission alleges Australian Super took anywhere between four months and four years to assess almost seven thousand death benefit claims. In one case, Acid claims the fund took more than three years to make a payment despite having all the information required. Australian Super says it's considering Assex's claim and will respond in due course, claiming the pandemic clogged its processing systems. An Australian man with heart failure has become the first person in the world to walk out of a hospital with a total artificial heart implant. The patient, a man in his forties, volunteered to be the first Australian RESCS scipient of a bivercre total artificial heart implant in November as a stop gap until a donor heart became available. The Australian researchers and doctors behind the operation say the implant was an unmitigated clinical success after the man lived with the device for more than one hundred days before receiving a donor heart transplant in early March. Doctors hope the biver Core could one day be a permanent replacement for a failing heart. That's your latest news headlines. On tomorrow's episode of The Quikie, we're exploring our complicated relationship with Time. Plus Emelia Lester joins us for another Trump Day. Listen to the Quiki wherever you get your podcasts