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Four years ending one of Victoria's biggest industrial fights.
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Four years ending one of Victoria's biggest industrial fights.
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Jack Ward has today's developments.
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A tense day of negotiations in a mammoth pay fight ends with a deal.
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After months of frustration, a rally and the threat of more walkouts,
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an in-principle agreement has been locked in between the Union and Victorian Government,
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raising teaching wages by between 28.3% and 32.4% over four years.
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These are significant pay increases that make Victorian teachers valued better than teachers in other states and territories.
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Education staff had been ramping up their campaign since tens of thousands flooded Melbourne streets.
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The union threatened regional rolling strikes at the beginning of this term.
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Victoria has the best teachers in the nation.
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We now have the best paid teachers in the nation.
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Teachers and childhood educators had been pushing for a 35% rise.
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The government initially offered only 17%,
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then 28%, but today a breakthrough.
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They will increase wages for a teacher on $118,000 to $151,000 over four years.
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And they had to give a bit and we had to give a bit.
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And beyond the cash, pupil-free days will jump from five to eight to help manage workload concerns.
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The proposal will now go to union members and is expected to be finalised next month.
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If backed, the agreement needs final approval by the Fair Work Commission.
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That would allow wage increases to start flowing through later this year,
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which would be backdated to May.
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It's an agreement that does what members sought us to do,
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and that's to lift us from the bottom of the pile up towards the top.
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Jack Ward, 9 News.
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A fresh charge has been laid against a Dingley Village primary
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school teacher accused of secretly filming young students with a spy cam.
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Parents have been told Timothy Blamires had also allegedly been wearing glasses with a built-in camera without the principal's approval.
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Eliza Rugg has the exclusive details.
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Navigating the nightmare that is the legal system.
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Sick.
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Yeah.
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Sick to my stomach.
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Carolyn was one of the Kingswood Primary School parents today sitting in the case of teacher Timothy Blamires.
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He's accused of planting a spy cam in the boys' toilets,
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allegedly hidden inside a fragrance dispenser on the wall.
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The device discovered by a cleaner.
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Now the 33-year-old educator has been hit with a new charge of possessing child abuse material.
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That is scary if it's true,
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because then obviously we know that it is worse than what we currently know.
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Adding to the distress,
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the school has told families it was not aware Timothy Blamires had allegedly been wearing glasses with an inbuilt camera.
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After it's claimed, he told parents,
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The trial has been approved by the school's leadership team.
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The meta-AI glasses will be used in a variety of ways to support classroom practice.
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All images and recordings will be handled securely and used only for educational purposes.
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A pair of Ray-Ban glasses were among the electronic items seized by detectives.
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Timothy Blumeyers appeared via video link here today.
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He remains in custody after recently being refused bail because of the potential risk to the community,
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particularly to children.
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He'll be back in court next week.
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Very difficult.
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It's on all of our brains all the time.
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It's going to linger until we know what's happened and what's going on.
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Eliza Rugg, Nine News.
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Victorian taxpayers will spend more than $134,000 to immortalise former Premier Daniel Andrews with a statue.
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State political reporter Heidi Murphy joins us live now from Treasury Place where the tribute will be installed.
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Heidi, the government has been ducking questions about this for months.
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Yeah, Alicia, this is something they have not been keen to talk about and for good reason.
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This statue and the cost of it are going to put a lot of noses out of joint.
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Now, the government argues this was Geoff Kennett's policy that any leader
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that served 3,000 days in office gets to be immortalised in bronze here.
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When Dan Andrews quit September of 2023, he had qualified.
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Premier Allen confirmed he'd get the statue and we now know at what cost.
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They know it doesn't pass the pub test.
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They know that Victorians don't want to see their taxpayer money being spent on this.
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We're just following the policy that was put in place by the previous Premier, Geoff Kennett.
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Nine News has been trying to get statue details since December of last year
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when under FOI we asked what activity had commenced and what potential timing and what the potential budget were.
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The Premier's department has sat on that FOI ever since repeatedly missing deadlines,
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repeatedly offering excuses, stonewalling at every opportunity including just 10 days ago
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when we were told they are continuing to follow it up.
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Now after hiding behind that FOI process for nearly six months.
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We have one of the answers.
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What we don't know is what this statue will look like.
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This is an artist's impression put together by our graphics department.
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And Alicia, we still don't know when Dan Andrews will be installed here in bronze.
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OK, we'll see what happens.
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Heidi, thank you.
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The son of a former Mongols bikey has been kidnapped from his home in South Morang.
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As Selena Zhang reports, his body was later found dumped next to a playground on the other side of the city.
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A man's body lying in the middle of a tiny park just metres away from residents' homes
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and they were none the wiser until police knocked on their door.
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It was a bit of a shock to me and my wife.
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Yeah, waking up to that in our quiet little neighbourhood is something different and unusual.
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It's a quiet area, nothing happens and it's just a shock to us.
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The victim, 30-year-old Patrick Longordo,
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the son of former Mongols barky Joseph Longordo.
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He was attacked inside a South Merang home by a group of men armed with machetes.
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They dragged him into a car outside while his brother and his brother's two children were left behind.
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To be home in your house and to have something like this happen is extremely,
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is very, very frightening.
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The men broke into the house around three o'clock this morning.
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An hour later, the victim's body was found in Tarnate and a dark SUV was seen speeding away.
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Police are now investigating whether the same car was dumped and torched in Ainsbury.
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Homicide detectives have spoken with the ECHO task force who specifically investigate bikey gangs
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but they say it's still too early to tell whether this kidnapping is related.
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We speak to ECHO, we speak to a number of different work units in our command
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and we speak to local police also just to try and piece it all together.
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We're always concerned about retaliation but we work closely with,
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in this case, the deceased family and associates.
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OK, we'll go live now to Selina Zhang in South Morang.
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Selina, the victim's home is still a crime scene.
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Yeah, Alicia, police are set to remain here at the house well into the night
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and they say they will be back again tomorrow.
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They have been continuing to speak with the victim's family but they say they're also relying on the public's help
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to try and find these offenders given these two crime scenes here at South Morang and in Tarnate are so far apart.
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So they're urging anyone who saw any suspicious activity at either of those locations to come forward.
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OK, Selina, thank you.
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Melbourne's hospitality war is heating up with a cleaner force to
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hide inside popular night spot Bar Bambi after it was hit for the third time.
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Crime reporter Gillian Lantouris is there for us this evening.
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Jill, what's the motivation behind these attacks?
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Tom, that is the million dollar question.
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Police are investigating several different theories that includes the illegal sale of alcohol,
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sale of cocaine, whether this is an extortion attempt,
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they want money for protection,
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and whether this is all linked to crime boss Kaz Hamad,
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who is in Iraq, whether some of his associates are pulling the strings from over there,
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given he played such a big role in Melbourne's tobacco war.
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But police are making a bit of headway.
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They have arrested 51 people since April and that includes two teenagers here last night.
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Not even old enough to get into a bar,
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two 16-year-olds are caught red-handed with a jerry can full of diesel.
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Police quick to swarm the teenagers trying to light up Bar Bambi,
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the third time it's been hit in a month.
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What's happening to Melbourne?
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It's insane.
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The pair smash the front window just before 5am,
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their getaway driver speeding off in a white Kia wagon.
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Three others have been arrested this morning as part of Operation Eclipse,
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police trying to get a stronghold on Melbourne's hospitality wall.
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I can give you comfort that every agency available is focused on this.
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What I can guarantee you is that we'll be making more arrests.
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Everybody's concerned, you know, it's our city and nobody wants things like this happening.
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38 attacks including fire bombings,
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home invasions, shootings and kidnappings are being linked to the battle
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and 51 people have been arrested since April including a 20-year-old Tarnit man arrested over weapons offences
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and trying to extort two venues through social media.
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Around the $10,000 figure.
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While teenagers are being recruited to carry out these crimes online,
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police are setting their sights on the masterminds behind the attacks and whether they're based overseas.
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So Organised Crime are out there recruiting kids,
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we're out there recruiting our law enforcement and government partners to work on this holistically.
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In a way it's smart
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because you know the kids they basically get a slap on the wrist instead of the adults going to jail.
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Until the people higher up get caught you know it's just going to carry on.
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Gillian Lantouris, Nine News.
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Five Australians on board the ship at the centre of a
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deadly Hunter virus outbreak are now back on home soil but their ordeal is not over yet.
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The passengers were plunged into quarantine after touching down in Perth,
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possibly until the end of June.
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Damien Ryan has more.
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Finally back in Australia, but still a very long way from home,
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a private jet touching down at the Pierce Air Force Base outside Perth.
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Six people, five Australians and a New Zealander still wearing a hangover from a holiday to hell.
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From head to toe in protective clothing,
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bound for a quarantine facility where they will spend at least the next 21 days shut out from the outside world.
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I appreciate what a difficult ordeal this has been for them and I'm sure they wish they were able to get home.
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Their nightmare began on April 1 when the MV Hondias,
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with 150 passengers and crew on board,
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set out from Argentina on a 35-day expedition.
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Between the 6th and 28th of April,
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several passengers reported a severe respiratory illness.
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On May 4, the World Health Organization confirmed an outbreak of the rodent-borne hunter virus.
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Seven cases were confirmed, including three deaths.
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On May 8, the MV Hondias detoured to the Canary Islands,
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where passengers from 22 countries disembarked and headed home.
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But the five Australians and the Kiwi had to remain on board
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until the authorities could find a plane to bring them home.
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They waited 48 hours and then were shuffled from country to country,
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ending up in the Netherlands before boarding the flight to Perth.
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I'm pleased to say they are in good health.
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Their fellow passengers from the US and Europe are well and truly home,
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forced to spend just three days in quarantine, not three weeks.
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We are determined to ensure there is no risk at all of any transmission of this virus into the Australian community.
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And officials here aren't ruling out extending the period of isolation.
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The World Health Organisation has recommended,
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but not mandated, a 42-day quarantine period.
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That could see them locked down until the end of June.
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Damien Ryan, Nine News.
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Alright we'll head now to Rachel Clifford who is outside that quarantine facility.
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Rachel the passengers are going to undergo strict testing there.
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Tom that's right it's the strictest testing in the world
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and those passengers are having a full health check right now
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that includes PCR testing as well as blood work
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that information will be sent to Melbourne
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and processed we expect those test results to come back at
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some point tomorrow passengers are now preparing for their first night
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here at this facility in Western Australia it was originally built
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during the COVID-19 pandemic costing the government 400 million dollars inside is 500 beds It sat idle until now.
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Six passengers, two pilots and one doctor are in here tonight,
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finally using the facility, and it'll be for a long haul for those six passengers.
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They'll have facilities such as a TV,
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Wi-Fi and balcony, though, Tom.
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All right, Rachel, thank you.
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Opposition leader Angus Taylor turned salesman today after promising one of the biggest cuts to immigration in Australia's history.
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His focus also on the Albanese government with a pledge for tax reform to tackle bracket creep.
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Emily Saunders with the details.
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In the fight for fairer taxes...
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Really nice to meet you.
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Hello.
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G'day.
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Nice to meet you.
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Both major parties make the case to the people.
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Bracket creep must end.
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The inflation tax must end.
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Angus Taylor's budget reply proposes linking tax brackets to inflation so they increase at the same rate,
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saving the average taxpayer $250 in the first year and $1,000 by the fourth.
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It'll cost the budget $22.5 billion.
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Allowing Australians to keep more of their own money.
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It was unfunded.
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It was a recipe for much bigger deficits,
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much more debt and much more division.
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The Prime Minister is celebrating a quarter of a million first home buyers using its 5% deposit scheme,
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doubling down on his plans to wind back negative gearing and hike capital gains tax.
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All of the measures that were put in place for supply haven't been enough.
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We need to do more.
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While the government is turning around and saying to Australians,
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pull your belt in, the government will not do the same.
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Angus Taylor's tax changes are pitched at the wallets of middle Australia,
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whose wage rises are being gobbled up by bracket creep.
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But it's migration where he's desperate to keep a rampant one nation at bay.
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Mass migration is changing Australia for the worse.
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Calling for the number of homes built in one year to equal the number of migrants coming in the next.
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Australian citizenship, not just permanent residency,
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would be required to access social services like the NDIS and taxpayer-funded parental leave.
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And when they commit to our country,
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we should commit to them.
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The one permanent resident that Angus Taylor seems happy with is Pauline Hanson,
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who's a permanent resident in his head.
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Amelie Saunders, Nine News.
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Delta Goodrum ears through to the Eurovision final after delivering a show-stopping performance.
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The Eclipse singer says she's feeling the love from around the world and back home in Australia.
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More from Hannah Sinclair who's in Vienna.
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From down under to up high on the Eurovision stage,
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Delta Goodrum eclipsing her competition in the second semi-final.
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Australia now into the grand final Australia no matter what happens we can all be
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so proud of her so good
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so good bring it home Delta Delta incredible performance how do you describe this moment thank you
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so much it was oh my goodness my heart was racing
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so grateful to be going through to the grand final Delta's powerful performance complete with a Beyonce style stage lift.
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I've played a lot of pianos,
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I've jumped on a lot of pianos but I was so excited because I've never been lifted out of a piano.
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Her Aussie made dress a dazzling spectacle itself with 7,000 Swarovski crystals.
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Australia's Eurovision journey began in 2015 here in Vienna with Guy Sebastian.
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Eleven years on we've cemented our place in this competition and Delta's become a fan favourite.
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Delta's now second favourite to take out this year's competition.
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Better set your alarms again,
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Australia, for Sunday at 5am.
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In Vienna, Hannah Sinclair, Nine News.
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The recent developments in Victoria regarding teacher wage negotiations reflect the complexities of industrial relations within the education sector. This video was a segment from a local news report highlighting significant increases in teacher salaries after an extended period of negotiations between the Union and the Victorian Government. The discussions were characterized by heightened tensions, a rally, and threats of strikes, all centered around improving the financial conditions for teachers. This context provides a rich backdrop for English learners to engage with real-world issues while practicing their language skills.
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