Jackson Nelson and Zac Langdon are in line for Eagles recalls after both were named on an extended interchange for Josh Kennedy’s farewell game against Adelaide.
There will be at least three changes to the Eagles side who fell to the Suns last week, highlighted by the return of champion forward Kennedy for what will be the final game of his career.
Kennedy will return to the side after missing the loss to the Gold Coast, while Connor West and Jack Petruccelle miss out through injury and Jai Culley is suspended.
Langdon has not played since the West Coast’s round six loss to Port Adelaide and has battled an ankle injury for most of the season.
Meanwhile, Nelson has not featured since he celebrated his 100th game for the club against Geelong in June.
Jackson Nelson and Rhett Bazzo. Credit: Daniel Carson/AFL Photos/AFL Photos via Getty Images
Hugh Dixon, who was last week’s medi-sub, has been named on the extended interchange, as have Samo Petrevksi-Seton, Xavier O’Neill, Luke Foley and Greg Clark.
After missing last week’s game with an ankle injury, young gun Rhett Bazzo is also a chance to return for West Coast.
Jake Waterman, who sported strapping on his right knee and jogged laps with injured trio Petruccelle, Elliot Yeo and Tom Cole at training today, has been named on the wing.
WEST COAST:
B: S Hurn, T Barrass, L Duggan
HB: B Hough, H Edwards, J Jones
C: J Waterman, T Kelly, A Gaff
HF: L Ryan, J Darling, J Cripps
F: B Williams, J Kennedy, W Rioli
FOLL: N Naitanui, J Redden, L Shuey
I/C (from): Z Langdon, S Petrevski-Seton, X O’Neill, L Foley, J Nelson, R Bazzo, G Clark, H Dixon
While Manly Sea Eagles hooker Manase Fainu may not have signed into a Mormon church event where a man was stabbed in 2019, someone called Finau did, a jury has heard.
Under cross-examination during Fainu’s trial on Thursday, the officer in charge of the investigation Detective Brett Hill said one of the adults running the charity dance at Wattle Grove in Sydney had mentioned the sign-in sheet.
The unnamed adult told Senior Constable Odette Hansen that someone with the surname of Finau had signed in, but didn’t say that Fainu’s name was on the list, the court heard.
Manly player Manase Vehikite Am Fainu. (Rhett Wyman)
Hill said he had never seen the document, and had not looked for it.
“You’re a detective, aren’t you? Did you try and find it?” defense barrister Margaret Cunneen SC asked.
“I didn’t really think about it,” the detective replied.
Cunneen said the document was clearly important and asked the officer whether he had investigated the other name, Finau.
“I don’t remember,” he told Parramatta District Court.
Fainu is accused of stabbing Faamanu Levi in the back at the 2019 event organized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
He has pleaded not guilty to one charge of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
After a volunteer security guard ushered Fainu and his friends off the dance floor and outside, they later allegedly returned to the car park outside the church to start a brawl.
Manly Sea Eagles hooker Manase Fainu has been stood down from playing while the trial is underway. (APA)
Levi was rushed to hospital after the confrontation, suffering internal bleeding and a collapsed lung.
Hill told the court that Fainu had voluntarily turned himself into the police after the stabbing and had no prior criminal history of violence.
A sling which the league player had been wearing for a month due to surgery was seized from his home.
However, no blood was found on it and the only DNA which was detected was Fainu’s, the jury heard.
The trial in front of Judge Nanette Williams continues.
The extreme rainfall and flash flooding that killed at least 37 people in Eastern Kentucky this week, washing away houses and cars and turning streets into raging rivers, is one more example of how climate change is poised to overwhelm infrastructure across the United States in the years you eat
“We have dozens of bridges that are out — making it hard to get to people, making it hard to supply people with water,” Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said on Sunday. “We have entire water systems down that we are working hard to get up.”
With the electricity knocked out in many areas that set rainfall records, residents who survived the flooding were left to swelter without air conditioning amid the latest heat wave to hit the area this summer.
Janey Camp, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Vanderbilt University, told Yahoo News that the combination of climate change and the nation’s aging and neglected infrastructure are putting millions of people at risk of severe flooding.
“Nobody’s immune. I think Kentucky shows us that. It doesn’t matter if you’re in an urban area like Nashville or if you’re in rural Appalachia,” Camp said, adding, “We’re seeing more of these intense precipitation events, where there’s a lot of water dumped on an area in a short amount of time. And the infrastructure wasn’t designed to handle that amount of precipitation.”
On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the Biden administration would make just over $1 billion in grants available for states to harden infrastructure against threats like flooding and extreme heat.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at an event on funding climate resilience in Miami on Monday. (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)
“In recent days, deadly floods have swept through Missouri and Kentucky, washing away entire neighborhoods, leaving at least 35 dead, including babies, children,” Harris said of the still-rising death toll. “As has been reported, four children from one family. So, the devastation is real. The harm is real. The impact is real.”
Camp said that action, the funding of which came from the 2021 bipartisan Infrastructure Law, was overdue.
“We have a lot of aging infrastructure, especially when you think about storm water. A lot of communities don’t even have their own department for managing storm water, it kind of falls to public works or the water department,” Camp said. “Only in recent years, the past decade or so, have we really started thinking more about storm water. Now we’re being hit with these extreme storm events where the stormwater infrastructure, or any infrastructure put in place to help convey water away from an area, is being exceeded.”
Climate scientists have shown that for every degree Celsius of warming, the Earth’s atmosphere holds 7% more moisture. When conditions are right, that moisture can unload in the form of extreme precipitation events like the ones that dumped 12 inches of rain in Eastern Kentucky last week and another foot of rain days later in Illinois. In fact, three so-called 1,000-year rain events hit the nation’s midsection in a matter of days this past week.
“It’s almost as if you need to be hit by something, unfortunately, before the community wakes up and starts doing things differently,” Camp said, adding, “We can look at trends. We can look at the down-scale climate data and say, ‘Hey, some of these things are starting to happen more.’ What we are seeing in a lot of areas, especially in the Southeast, is more precipitation. year event, it’s an anomaly, but we’re seeing these happen more frequently.”
A car destroyed by flooding in Central Appalachia in Kentucky on July 30, 2022. (Wang Changzheng/Xinhua via Getty Images)
Cities and towns across the country are required by FEMA to formulate hazard mitigation plans, and many do so using Hazus, the department’s computer tool, which is described as providing “data for estimating risk from earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, and hurricanes.”
While that’s a good start at assessing risk, Camp said, the problem is that many communities don’t examine the worst-case models that climate change is making much more commonplace.
“In all reality, nobody’s running a 1,000-year event in their analysis. They’re running a 100-year event and maybe a 500-year event, to check the box and meet FEMA regulations for their hazard mitigation plan,” Camp said. “We need to quit looking at the past and start looking to the future And that’s challenging in a lot of communities, because they don’t have a lot of resources or expertise to do that.”
Indeed, communities like the ones ravaged in Appalachia didn’t have the budget to upgrade infrastructure to meet the threat of climate change. But if the Biden administration’s allocation of $1 billion in grant funding for infrastructure upgrades sounds like too much money, experts say far more money will be needed. As if to bolster that point, initial damage estimates for the recent flooding in Kentucky have been quoted at $1 billion.
A suspect mistakenly released from a Los Angeles County jail where he was being held on suspicion of shooting Lady Gaga’s dog walker and stealing her French bulldogs has been recaptured.
James Howard Jackson, 19, was arrested nearly five months after being released from jail while awaiting trial “due to a clerical error,” the county Sheriff’s Department says.
Here’s what you need to know about the latest development in the saga.
Wait, what happened?
In February last year, Lady Gaga’s dog walker, Ryan Fischer, was shot by a man who stole two of the singer’s French bulldogs in Hollywood.
Detectives said they did not believe the thieves knew the dogs, Koji and Gustav, were Lady Gaga’s at the time.
It is believed the offender was motivated by the value of French bulldogs, which can be thousands of dollars each.
Lady Gaga with one of her beloved French bulldogs.(Supplied: Instagram)
Is the dog walker OK?
Yes, but he has lost part of a lung as a result of his injuries.
In a social media post following the attack, Mr Fischer thanked Gaga for her support while he was fighting for life in hospital.
“You have shown so much support throughout this whole crisis to both me and my family,” he said.
“I look forward to the future and the moment when I get bombarded with kisses and licks (and maybe even an excitement pee?) from Asia, Koji, and Gustav.”
Ryan Fischer thanked Lady Gaga for her support while he recovered in hospital.(Supplied: Instagram)
And the dogs?
They’re also safe and well.
Lady Gaga offered a $US500,000 reward ($643,000) — “no questions asked” — to be reunited with the dogs.
The dogs were returned two days later to an LAPD station by a woman who police initially said appeared to be “uninvolved and unassociated” with the crime.
Lady Gaga’s French bulldogs Koji, Miss Asia and Gustav. (Supplied: Instagram)
Who was charged?
A month after the kidnapping, multiple people were charged with attempted murder and robbery in connection with the armed snatching of Lady Gaga’s dogs and the shooting of their walker.
Police arrested James Jackson, 19, Jaylin White, 19, and Lafayette Whaley, 27, in connection with the violence.
Police also arrested 50-year-old Jennifer McBride — the woman who returned Lady Gaga’s dogs who police initially said appeared to be “uninvolved” with the crime.
Ms McBride turned out to be in a relationship with the father of one of the suspects.
So someone was arrested, then mistakenly released, but has now been recaptured?
Yep.
Mr Jackson was mistakenly released from a Los Angeles jail in April this year, where he was being held on a charge of attempted murder.
Last month, US authorities offered a $US5,000 ($7,200) reward in return for information that led to his arrest.
At the time, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said the move aimed “to speed up the legal process” and Mr Jackson was arraigned under a new case number.
“Mr Jackson was subsequently released from custody by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. We are unsure as to why they did so,” the statement from the District Attorney’s Office read.
Australia’s Commonwealth Games netball campaign has been dealt a blow, with the Diamonds falling to Jamaica in a thrilling pool match in Birmingham.
Key points:
The Diamonds led by six goals ahead of the final quarter
Jamaica captain Jhaniele Fowler was outstanding with 47 goals
The Diamonds will play either England or New Zealand in the semi-finals
Jamaica trailed by as many as six goals heading into the final quarter, but finished in resounding fashion to overhaul the Diamonds with a 57-55 victory.
It is the first time in Commonwealth Games history that Jamaica has defeated Australia in netball.
The win means unbeaten Jamaica tops Pool A ahead of the Diamonds, who will play either England or New Zealand in the semi-finals.
Jamaica captain Jhaniele Fowler, who plays for West Coast Fever in Super Netball, had a starring role in her team’s win with 47 goals.
Jamaica was rewarded for its persistence in its shock victory over Australia.(Getty Images: Matthew Lewis)
Shanice Beckford provided a valuable 10-goal haul.
Gretel Bueta was the Diamonds’ top scorer with 36 goals, while Steph Wood added 19.
Fowler was unstoppable for Jamaica, with no-one in the Diamonds squad able to counter her size and strength.
Jamaica’s game plan was evident from the outset: get the ball to Fowler early and often, and by whatever means necessary.
It turned the center third into a battleground as players hit the deck on numerous occasions.
The Diamonds had not lost a single quarter all tournament, but on the back of Fowler doing what she wanted Jamaica jumped out to a 7-3 lead.
The Diamonds worked their way back into the contest with Bueta matching Fowler’s 10 first-quarter goals as they took a one-goal lead to the first break.
They started imposing themselves in the second quarter to open up 27-23 lead, but to the delight of the crowd Jamaica stormed home to get within one goal at the long break.
The third quarter was dominated by the Diamonds, who jumped out to a six-goal lead before Jamaica’s late surge in the final term.
An Aboriginal man from the New South Wales south coast has been ordered not to fish, dive or possess abalone for the next two years after being found guilty of fisheries offences.
Key points:
Fisher Keith Nye was ordered to pay $4,500 in fines and 200 hours of community service
The magistrate acknowledged his cultural connection but said the crime was a breach of the law
Mr Nye said the fight for cultural fishing wasn’t over
Walbunja man Keith Nye was sentenced to a 26-month intensive corrective order in Liverpool Local Court on Thursday for two offenses of trafficking indictable quantities of abalone.
He was also ordered to pay $4,500 in fines and perform 200 hours of community service, and his vehicle will be seized.
Mr Nye, 65, was arrested in Sydney in January 2017 with 439 abalone in his car. Another 128 were seized elsewhere.
The Fisheries Management Act 1994 defines an indictable quantity of abalone as 50.
In sentencing, Magistrate Adbul Karim acknowledged Mr Nye “had and continues to have a strong cultural connection to fishing for abalone” but noted his conduct was a “substantial breach” of the Act.
Mr Nye was arrested after surveillance by Fisheries officers found he had sold abalone to a restaurant in Sydney on January 20, 2017.
Another 128 abalone were seized from the restaurant’s freezer.
Mr Nye does not hold a commercial fishing license and has been convicted previously for abalone possession.
Mr Nye says he has a right to cultural fishing.(Supplied: Vanessa Milton)
Outside court, he said the sentencing ends a five-year court battle.
“I have been found guilty of practicing my culture, something I have done my whole life … but thank God the judge, I believe, took our culture on board and recognized who we are – it could have been much worse,” he said.
The offenses carry a maximum of 10 years imprisonment.
Mr Nye said he has a right to cultural fishing, particularly for abalone, something he said he’s done since childhood.
“The government expects me to walk away from that,” he said.
“Culturally, it’s a food source. Our elders love eating them but the rules and regulations upon us do not allow us to feed our elder people.
“How can one black man with a snorkel, pair of glasses and a pair of flippers rape the ocean.”
Cultural fishing is recognized under the Act but doesn’t consider it a defence.
NSW Aboriginal Land Council Chair Danny Chapman said he was concerned about the court’s inability to find native title rights to fish and to survive.
“Our cultural rights have been taken away from us by government action over the years and all we have left is our fishing rights – and we will not take a backwards step on our fishing rights,” he said.
“We have to practice it, we have to teach it and we have to hand it on.”
A spokesperson for NSW Department of Primary Industries said it “recognizes and encourages cultural fishing through increased take and possession limits.”
It said it “supports the rights of Aboriginal cultural fishers and is actively working to support Aboriginal cultural fishing within a sustainable natural resource management framework”.
Last month, a district court judge dismissed an appeal by Walbunja man John Carriage to overturn his conviction on fishing-related offenses.
Mr Carriage was convicted in October last year on six fishing offenses after he was found in possession of abalone at South Durras on the NSW south coast in December 2017.
In October last year Mr Carriage was convicted on six fishing offences.(Supplied: Vanessa Milton)
He was given a 12-month intensive correction order and ordered not to dive for or possess abalone for two years.
He appealed against the decision, which he said prevented him from practicing cultural fishing.
The matter was heard in the Parramatta District Court on June 1, where Judge Mark Buscombe dismissed the appeal.
Lawyers for NSW Fisheries asked Judge Buscombe to award them $25,000 in legal costs against Mr Carriage.
Mr Carriage’s lawyer, John Waters, described the request as a “heavy-handed” approach, and said his client was not in a position to pay.
He said there was an element of Fisheries “hounding” his client and described the cost as “a serious amount for any person facing this court, but all the more so for this defendant.”
Judge Buscombe told the court Fisheries’ decision to ask for Mr Carriage to pay costs “troubled” him.
“This man is a descendant of people who have fished in these waters for a millennia. As an ordinary Australian I find it repugnant, quite frankly,” he said.
Dozens of Aboriginal people were charged last year, according to the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics.
Mr Nye said the fight wasn’t over.
“We’re already lobbying … It’s a good feeling to walk out but really is justice there yet? I don’t think it is. We’re not going away.”
Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone has been subpoenaed by the Justice Department in an investigation increasingly involving former President Trump’s closest advisers, according to reports from multiple news outlets.
The subpoena comes as the Justice Department has been bringing other White House officials before a grand jury in its probe into Jan. 6.
Cipollone would be able to offer considerable insight into actions at the White House both leading up to and on Jan. 6. His testimony before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack indicates he had numerous concerns about the former president’s plans for the day and how he responded to the riot.
The Justice Department has already brought two former advisers to then-Vice President Mike Pence before a grand jury.
It has also executed search warrants on Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department assistant attorney general who Trump weighed installing as attorney general so he could forward investigations into the president’s baseless claims of election fraud, along with John Eastman. Eastman, a former law professor, crafted memos for the campaign advising they submit alternate electoral certificates and that Pence buck his ceremonial duty to certify the election results.
According to ABC News, which first reported the subpoena, Cipollone’s attorney is expected to negotiate his appearance, given the former White House counsel’s concerns around executive privilege.
An attorney for Cipollone did not respond to a request for comment and the Justice Department also declined comment.
“This is probably bad for former President Trump. If he goes in front of the grand jury, it shows that this is more than, you know, what did John Eastman do? The attorney that basically came up with that crazy scheme to overturn the election. And it probably has a very deep interest in what the president did,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said in an appearance on CNN’s “New Day” on Wednesday morning.
“The Justice Department knows better what they can, in essence, get around when it comes to saying executive privilege. And so I hope they go at that judiciously. I hope Pat Cipollone actually just tells the truth. I have no doubt that he hasn’t, but there’s no reason to protect particularly criminal behavior or what could potentially be criminal behavior behind executive privilege,” he added.
Jan. 6 committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) told reporters last month that DOJ had asked for transcripts with the panel’s investigators tied to Trump’s plans to transmit fake voter certificates to Congress.
But the interest in Cipollone suggests the probe could be more wide ranging, especially following reporting by The New York Times indicating that federal prosecutors are beginning to more seriously discuss directly investigating Trump’s actions.
Earlier testimony before the House Jan. 6 committee indicated Cipollone pushed back against a plan to issue an executive order allowing the seizing of voting machines.
According to testimony from White House aide Cassidy Hutchison, he also expressed legal concerns about Trump’s plans to march to the Capitol, warning they could be charged with “every crime imaginable.”
And in a portion of his taped deposition played in the committee’s final hearing of the summer, Cipollone was also shown saying he pushed Trump to call off the mob if his supporters stormed the Capitol.
“There needed to be an immediate and forceful … public statement that people need to leave the Capitol now,” Cipollone said.
The findings come just weeks after the SSO made a triumphant return to the refurbished and acoustically enhanced Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, with its new chief conductor Simone Young at the helm.
MEAA’s chief executive Erin Madeley said the union had been encouraged by the quick response of SSO management and the board in accepting all recommendations of the Broderick investigation.
“It is entirely unacceptable for any worker to be unsafe at work or to be fearful about speaking up about bad behaviour, which is why we welcome the initiative taken by SSO to investigate and report,” she said. “Our members are encouraged by the remedial and constructive steps being taken by SSO management which have been and must continue to be inclusive and in cooperation with our members.”
Former CEO Emma Dunch cited the Broderick review in an unfair dismissal claim she has filed against the SSO and its chair.
She claims to have been terminated in December after she had acted against a musician last year accused of sexual assault, a case now before the courts, and hired Broderick to review the SSO’s culture.
Her unfair dismissal case is up for mediation on August 22. At the time of her sacking, she claimed she had been the victim of a political “hit job”.
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It was this parting allegation, rather than the dismissal itself, that the SSO content damaged Dunch’s own professional reputation and career prospects, according to court documents.
In the Broderick report, Wilson and Whitehead noted there was great pride in the role its people played in contributing to the SSO, combined with a great passion for the institution and a desire to be part of its future.
They also acknowledged a strong appetite for cultural change, recognizing that the SSO needs to evolve and modernize its culture. “Our people believe now is an opportunity time for us to review and refocus.”
“For many, the hierarchical nature of our Orchestra, the long average tenure of musicians and the overriding view that the orchestra is more like a family than a workplace, creates an environment that while strong, many don’t see as being bound by workplace policies and legislation, and may not support psychological safety for all,” they said.
“Others perceive a skills gap in leading and managing people in both the administration and the Orchestra. There are skills that can be learned.
“There was evidence of cultural division within the organization between musicians and administrators that created a sense of isolation and a lack of belonging and inclusion. We acknowledge that the survey found unacceptable rates of harmful behavior across the company, not just within any specific cohort.”
the herald understands that none of the harassment allegations cited in the report have been referred to the police for investigation. The review identified issues, not individuals, and there had been no personnel changes. The review’s findings and recommendations have been communicated with all staff, and workshops and training programs have begun.
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Gold Coast wizard Izak Rankine has had his head turned by a $4 million, five-year offer from Adelaide as the Crows close-in on a trade heist.
Rankine, 22, was moving towards a new long-term deal at the Suns as recently as last month and bought a house on the Gold Coast earlier this year.
The Suns had been confident of keeping the 22-year-old, who has started to blossom in 2022, believing he would follow Ben King, Jack Lukosius and others in re-committing to Stuart Dew’s project.
Lukosius (pick 2), Rankine (pick 3) and King (pick 6) were all taken by Gold Coast at the pointy end of the 2018 draft.
But the Suns’ confidence of keeping Rankine is quickly evaporating given they can’t compete with the financial package presented by the Crows.
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Gold Coast’s offer is said to be solid, but they are under salary cap pressure and face delicate dealings with their batch of young guns in the coming years as they look to keep their list together.
Officially, Rankine is undecided on his future, but sources at both clubs believe he is now more likely to return home than stay in Queensland where he has previously been settled.
The only decision Rankine has made is to reject an approach from Essendon, whose offer was believed to be very similar to that put forward by Adelaide.
The Bombers presented Rankine with a package that involved a prominent role in the Dreamtime at the ‘G blockbuster, The Long Walk, and other indigenous aspects of life at the club.
But the Crows offer Rankine with the chance to return home and reunite with family, four years after he was drafted out of West Adelaide.
Rankine is out of contract, but not a free agent, and the Suns would demand Adelaide’s first-round pick be involved in any deal.
The forward is said to want to avoid any scenario whereby the Crows could use the threat of the pre-season draft in any negotiation, which is what Carlton did with Jack Martin in 2019.
Rankine was plagued by hamstring and hip injuries that stopped him from making his debut in his first season at the Suns, but he has shone this year, kicking 27.19 from 16 games.
“As a public official, and given the serious nature of the charge, it is my opinion that the vice chancellor should immediately step aside from her duties until the conclusion of court proceedings,” Mr Marshall said.
The family of the schoolgirl came forward on Thursday, telling an NBN News reporter off camera that the vice chancellor touched the teenager’s face and commented on her skin color.
The Catholic Schools Office, Diocese of Armidale, issued a statement on Thursday confirming it was aware that a student had referred a matter to police regarding the “alleged actions of a person at an event … where school students were present”.
“The school was advised of a student’s concern following the event and school staff acted promptly to confirm the student’s wellbeing. No risk to student safety was identified.”
Heywood has been a controversial figure in the university town since she was appointed in 2019, having steered the university through the pandemic and presiding over 200 voluntary redundancies.
Students who were petitioning for a return to face-to-face learning at a Christmas markets in 2020 said the vice chancellor verbally berated them when she learned about their campaign.
Undergraduate student Tamika Kennedy said the vice chancellor had criticized her for not bringing their concerns to her first, although another student had already attempted to do so.
“She said, ‘Do you know who I am? How dare you slander my name on this’,” Kennedy said.
Heywood is due to appear in court on September 26.
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