Summary
Thank you for joining us on today’s blog. Here is a wrap of the main news:
Former New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian has lost her legal challenge against an anti-corruption watchdog finding that she engaged in “serious corrupt conduct”. (She had argued the finding by the Independent Commission Against Corruption was invalid because the commissioner was no longer at Icac when the findings were handed down.)
Nine’s newspaper journalists went on strike from 11am today after crisis talks yesterday failed to stop a strike at Nine Entertainment’s mastheads, with journalists from the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review, the Brisbane Times and WAtoday rallying outside newsrooms of Nine Entertainment across the country.
Queensland parliamentary estimates heard the Queensland police has yet to show any “drastic” improvement in human rights, years after the legislation of the state’s Human Rights Act was passed.
The Northern Territory government will not renew a lease for Energy Resources Australia (ERA) on the Jabiluka uranium mine. The lease had been previously granted for for 42 years.
Anthony Albanese has joined with his Canadian and New Zealand counterparts to say a ceasefire in Gaza is “needed desperately” and to urge Israel to “listen to the concerns of the international community”.
Have a great weekend, and see you next week.
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Bus driver charged after pedestrian fatally struck in Brisbane
A Brisbane bus driver has been charged with manslaughter after a pedestrian was fatally struck at a city intersection.
Police allege Carl James Van Der Wiel, 59, was driving the bus carrying 10 passengers when the pedestrian aged in his 40s was hit at South Brisbane on 28 June.
Emergency services arrived about 11.30pm but the pedestrian was declared dead at the scene.
None of the bus passengers were injured.
Van Der Wiel appeared in Brisbane magistrates court on Friday.
He was granted bail and the matter was adjourned until 26 August.
- Australian Associated Press
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