What we learned - Friday 12 January
That’s where we’re going to wrap the blog up for today. Here were the main events:
Victoria SES doorknocked homes that remain under threat from rising floodwaters.
The emergency management minister urged Queenslanders to stay across BoM warnings amid predicted monsoon trough.
MPs criticised Dutton’s Woolworths boycott call as Steggall questioned need for ‘plastic crap’ on Australia Day at all.
Aldi joined Woolies in its decision to not sell Australia Day merchandise.
US President Biden announced Australia had supported the US and UK airstrikes against Houthi sites in Yemen.
If you’re in an area experiencing extreme weather right now, stay safe.
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Dingo attack on K'gari
A young girl has been hospitalised after the second dingo attack on K’gari in just two weeks.
A spokesperson for the Queensland Ambulance Service said they were called to K’gari, also known as Fraser Island, at about 12.30pm on Friday.
It was reported that a primary-school age girl had been bitten by a dingo at Hook Point on the island.
She had “significant leg lacerations,” the spokesperson said.
The girl was initially transported to Gympie hospital, before being taken to the larger Sunshine Coast University hospital.
It’s the second attack in a week. A seven-year-old was bitten on 5 January at the same location on the island.
The state government rolled out a new dingo risk management strategy on the popular tourist island in 2019.
But it hasn’t stopped attacks, with three dingos euthanised last year after attacks. No dingo had been euthanised since 2019.
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