Your afternoon Briefing: drug measures cost taxpayers $500k

Your two-minute digest of the day’s top stories and must-reads.

Your two-minute digest of the day’s top stories and must-reads.

Emergency services attend to a man before he is loaded into an ambulance. Rainbow Serpent Festival. Picture: No byline please.

Drug measures cost taxpayers $500k

Festivals could be forced to foot the bill from March, as 25 people were rushed to hospital with drug overdoses over the weekend.

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The ticket booth and office for Daintree River Wildlife Cruise underwater. PIC: Supplied.

Daintree battles record floods

The Daintree rainforest community will soon be reconnected after being cut off amid the worst flooding in more than a century.

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Former Olympic gold medallist Zali Steggall and her husband Tim Irving, pictured at their home in North Balgowlah today.

Preferential treatment

Bill Shorten will consider preferencing independent Zali Steggall, calling her intervention a symptom of Coalition “chaos”.

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TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump arrives to speak about a temporary reopening of the US government in the Rose Garden of the White House on January 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. - Trump says will sign bill to reopen the government until February 15. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

‘I’ll build wall anyway’

Donald Trump doesn’t believe there’ll be a deal over border-wall funding that he could accept and vows he’ll build a wall anyway.

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