What we learned, 10 November 2024
With that we’re wrapping up the blog. Before we go, here are the major stories from Sunday:
Residents of Australia’s northern regions have sweltered as a heatwave has continued through the weekend, and is expected to linger into next week;
The health minister, Mark Butler, says the US election shows voters are “focused overwhelmingly on cost of living”
The Greens are mounting a push to give the Great Australian Bight world heritage status;
Pregnant women and infants will get free RSV vaccines under an expanded program;
The parliamentary workplace support service announced it has handled 339 complaints in its first nine months;
Independent senator Fatima Payman has called for the Australian government to impose sanctions and divest from Israel at a pro-Palestine rally in Melbourne.
We’ll pick things up again tomorrow.
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Police investigating after woman’s body found in western Sydney hotel
A man is under police guard and an investigation is under way after the body of a woman was found in Penrith a short time ago.
Emergency services were called to a hotel at 1.10pm on Sunday where they discovered the woman’s body in a hotel room along with a man.
The man, believed to be in his 50s, was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being airlifted to Westmead hospital in a critical condition.
The woman is yet to be formally identified.
Officers attached to Nepean police area command have established a crime scene, with inquiries to be conducted by detectives, assisted by state crime command’s homicide squad.
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