What we learned today, Friday 12 May
And with that, we are going to put the blog to bed. Before we go let’s recap the big headlines:
The Victorian Liberal MP, Moira Deeming, has been expelled from the party room, while her ally Renee Heath has been sanctioned.
The Tasmanian Liberal government has become a minority after two MPs announced their resignations over the new $715m stadium in Hobart.
A “litany of failings” led to the death in custody of Wayne Fella Morrison, South Australia’s coroner has found.
The former governor general Peter Hollingworth says he will stop practising as an Anglican priest, citing “distress” for abuse survivors, who have welcomed his decision.
China is ready to work with Australia on “common understandings”, its foreign ministry says.
The Greens say they will continue negotiations with Labor on the social housing bill.
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is back paying thousands of current and former casual professional staff more than $5m.
Victorian Covid deaths are up 19% this week, the chief health officer says.
Victoria’s child protection minister, Lizzie Blandthorn, has apologised for harm done to First Nations families.
Six children and two drivers have been injured in a school bus collision in the Blue Mountains.
Thank you for spending part of your day with us. We will be back tomorrow morning – until then, go well.
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Australian War Memorial unveils memorial to torpedoed hospital ship
From AAP:
Within minutes of the Australian hospital ship Centaur being torpedoed, crew members ended up in the water where their watches froze in time, marking when the vessel went down.
It was around 4.10am on May 14, 1943.
The ship, sunk by a Japanese submarine about 80km northeast of Brisbane, is the subject of a new display at the Australian War Memorial.
“The loss of Centaur and the majority of her crew was a tragedy at the time and remains so 80 years on,” memorial director Matt Anderson said.
Of the 332 crew members and passengers aboard the ship, which included 12 nurses and 178 members of the 2/12 Field Ambulance, 64 survived after spending 35 hours on life rafts.
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