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Top cop says watching Taser bodycam will taint inquiry

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb says viewing footage of an elderly woman being Tasered could affect her impartiality and taint the investigation.

AAP · May 22, 2023

Mount Gambier In Home Hospice Care calls for ongoing funding for palliative program

The support Satch Niemec received as he succumbed to a terminal diagnosis was an "absolute boon" for him and his wife Jude. But the service is struggling without government support.

ABC News · May 21, 2023

The baby bonus just does not work any more

I was one of five children -- not seen as a particularly big family in Newfoundland at the time -- and there was one year when we allegedly beat Guatemala to have the highest birth rate in the world. (That's probably not true, but people were proud of it anyway.)

Bangkok Post · May 21, 2023

Six Northumberland private gardens to open this summer to raise money for charity

Six private gardens will open for one day only in aid of HospiceCare North Northumberland

Chronicle Live · May 21, 2023

Six NSW police officers used two sets of handcuffs on a distressed 81-year-old dementia patient

Daughter of the woman says ‘police have learned nothing’

The Independent UK · May 21, 2023

Nurses in England offered ‘golden hellos’ as trusts try to ease staff crisis

Staff are being promised up to £4,500 to take up – and stay in – hard-to-fill jobs

The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2023

The ACT's proposed voluntary assisted dying laws have yet to be introduced, but could be the most liberal in the country

The ACT government is expected to introduce laws allowing voluntary assisted dying by the end of this year. For those like Kath Dyason, who has a terminal illness, it can't come soon enough.

ABC News · May 20, 2023

Mental health patients forced to travel hundreds of miles for treatment despite government pledge

Many are having to travel long distances to receive NHS help, despite a promise to end this ‘completely unacceptable’ practice

The Guardian - UK · May 20, 2023

NSW police footage shows officers used two sets of handcuffs on 81-year-old woman with dementia

Exclusive: footage from body-worn camera shows police restraining confused dementia patient Rachel Grahame in 2020

The Guardian - AU · May 20, 2023

Police officers being called to aged care homes is 'standard protocol', industry expert says

The family of 95-year-old taser victim, Clare Nowland, maintain a bedside vigil as questions are raised about why NSW Police police were called to her nursing home.

ABC News · May 20, 2023