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Australia news live: Albanese heads to Trump reception in New York; number of regular gamblers rising | Australia news

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Mal Lanyon named as NSW new police commissioner Anne Davies Controversial deputy commissioner, Mal Lanyon has been named New South Wales’s new police commissioner, replacing Karen Webb. The 38-year-old veteran of the NSW Police is due to be announced by the […]

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Australia news live: AMA president says ‘no studies’ support Trump claim about paracetamol; PM remembers Zomi Frankcom in UN speech | Australia news

AMA president says no studies show paracetamol use in pregnancy causes autism Danielle McMullen, the president of the Australian Medical Association (AMA), said this morning there are no studies showing paracetamol use in pregnancy causes autism. McMullen spoke to RN Breakfast following US president Donald Trump’s assertion that the popular painkiller was linked to autism […]

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Australia news live: Acma not told of Optus triple-zero network issues for more than 10 hours, chair says | Australia news

Acma not told of Optus triple-zero network issues for more than 10 hours Nerida O’Loughlin, the Australian Communications Media Authority (Acma) chair, said the body usually gets multiple emails per day from telcos when something goes wrong with their networks. But in the case of the Optus outage, Acma wasn’t “notified at all until the […]