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Taser Investigation 27/05/2023

Police allege the encounter between an officer with a taser and a great-grandmother with a knife all played out within one minute. 

A LAB analysis of “lolly” flavoured vapes widely sold in Queensland has revealed the devices are filled with a toxic cocktail of chemicals including arsenic, formaldehyde and lead. 

Lawyers for the First Nations families at the centre of the Hawthorn racism scandal have recommended a settlement to the AFL which could end the long and damaging saga.  

Fearful frontline health workers are urgently calling for help almost 30 times a day on average, amid escalating levels of violent and threatening incidents in the South Australia’s hospitals. 

New SA Health data reveals clinicians and hospital staff made almost 80,000 “Code Black” calls to combat dangerous and abusive patients, families or supporters in seven years. 

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