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Judge says evidence points to MH17 being shot down by Russian-made missile
By Broede Carmody
In case you missed it, a judge in the Dutch murder trial relating to the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 has heard evidence the plane was hit by a Russian-made Buk missile.
Four suspects – three Russians and a Ukrainian citizen – are accused in absentia of shooting down the aircraft over eastern Ukraine in July 2014. All 298 of the plane’s occupants were killed, including 38 Australian citizens and residents.
Presiding judge Hendrik Steenhuis, centre, and other trial judges and lawyers view the reconstructed wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.Credit:AP
“Experts have stated that the impact on the hull [of the plane] is compatible with a Buk missile system and a Buk warhead. No damage was found that would not be compatible with that scenario, or that would indicate another scenario,” judge Hendrik Steenhuis said at the trial.
Read our full coverage here.
Nathan Buckley to step down as Collingwood coach
By Broede Carmody
In news just in from our sports desk, former AFL player Nathan Buckley is poised to step down as coach of the Collingwood Magpies.
It comes after months of speculation about the future of his position.
Magpies coach Nathan Buckley.Credit:Getty Images
My colleagues Peter Ryan and Jake Niall will have more on this developing story shortly.
Melbourne drops to 8th place on world liveability index
By David Estcourt
For many years, Melbourne was deemed the world’s most liveable city. Last year, the southern capital was the second most liveable.
This year, Melbourne has dropped to eighth place as hotel quarantine leaks and coronavirus restrictions take their toll on Australia’s cultural capital.
Melbourne’s CBD during lockdown.Credit:Eddie Jim
The Economist has found that Auckland, New Zealand, was the world’s most livable city while Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane all rocketed up the list. Melbourne spent much of the previous decade at the top of the list.
This year’s survey found six of the top 10 most liveable cities were in Australia and New Zealand because “tight border controls have allowed residents to live relatively normal lives”.
“The extent to which cities were sheltered by strong border closures, their ability to handle the health crisis and the pace at which they rolled out vaccination campaigns drove significant changes in the rankings,” the survey found.
“Six of the top 10 cities in the March 2021 survey are in New Zealand or Australia, where tight border controls have allowed residents to live relatively normal lives.”
Many European and Canadian cities have fallen down the rankings, given they have battled additional waves of COVID-19, restricted cultural and sporting events and closed schools and restaurants.
“Auckland, in New Zealand, is at the top ... owing to the city’s ability to contain the coronavirus pandemic faster and thus lift restrictions earlier, unlike others around the world,” the survey found.
Stay tuned for more on this topic later in the day.
Victoria records one new case of COVID-19
By Broede Carmody
Victoria’s daily coronavirus numbers are in.
The state has recorded just one new case of coronavirus in the community. That case is linked to existing outbreaks.
Zero cases were detected in hotel quarantine yesterday. That’s off the back of 28,485 tests.
More than 19,500 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered yesterday.
Australian criminals trusted FBI’s encryption app ‘from the start’
By David Estcourt
The Australian Federal Police’s deputy commissioner of investigations, Ian McCartney, says Australian criminals flocked to the FBI’s Anom app after other encrypted messaging tools were taken off the market.
He said criminal networks trusted the platform from the outset because they did not use code names to discuss drugs and weapons.
Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Ian McCartney.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
“The trust that the platform [had] ... was hugely beneficial for us,” Deputy Commissioner McCartney told the ABC’s RN Breakfast.
“We had the takedown of [the app] Phantom Secure a number of years ago. We learned a lot from that but in fact Phantom Secure left a void and working with the AFP, the FBI filled that void.”
Operation Ironside, as revealed yesterday, led to criminal networks throughout the world given devices they believed would let them send secret communications. Their messages, on a custom-made encryption app, were in fact monitored by police agencies.
The app was on an Android-like communication device that could not make phone calls, Deputy Commissioner McCartney added. The device was distributed by the FBI and users paid a subscription between $2,000 and $4,000 to communicate on it.
“The FBI had a leading role in terms of setting up the platform ... but our role was, was with the technical capability that we brought to the platform,” he said. “The ability to de-encrypt the messages to see what organised crime was actually talking about.”
Complacency a factor in Melbourne’s Kappa outbreak: health department
By Aisha Dow
Senior officials leading Victoria’s contact tracing efforts believe Melbourne’s Kappa coronavirus outbreak would have been contained to just over a dozen people if there had not been a delay between people developing symptoms and getting tested.
Health Department chief Euan Wallace said after almost 90 days without a coronavirus case in Victoria, complacency had become a problem in the lead up to the outbreak, first detected in May, and people were not seeking tests for a runny nose, sore throat or other symptoms.
Professor Euan Wallace says complacency has become a problem when it comes to people getting tested. Credit:Simon Schluter
The Victorian Health Department has estimated that if one of the earlier cases in the cluster had got tested within 48 hours, the outbreak would have only spread to 14 people, instead of 73, and the outbreak at Stratton Finance in Port Melbourne wouldn’t have occurred.
Deputy Chief Health Officer Daniel O’Brien said while he was grateful the person did eventually have a test more than two days after their symptoms occurred, it was a reminder not to wait.
“The speed is the key. And when we lose two, three, four or five days, it really puts us behind,” he said.
Associate Professor O’Brien also revealed that subsequent swift action from contact tracers could have averted the cluster spiralling into a major outbreak, as the team being led out of the Austin Hospital managed to contact five rings of potential transmission within just 60 hours.
He said by the time they were aware of the first case at Stratton Finance, there were already another dozen COVID-positive people out in the community.
“If we hadn’t had that speed to get to that so quickly those 12 people could have really led to a major outbreak, a super-spreading event,” he said.
Andrew Lloyd Webber vows to open London theatres by month’s end
By Broede Carmody
To overseas news briefly and award-winning British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, the man behind iconic musicals such as Cats, has vowed to fully re-open his London theatres even if it means getting arrested.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is currently weighing-up whether or not to remove all lockdown restrictions later this month.
Andrew Lloyd Webber, pictured here in December 2019, says his new musical Cinderella cannot make a profit without a full house.Credit:Invision
Lloyd-Webber says his West End venues are facing “acute financial stress” due to coronavirus shutdowns and he is prepared to re-open without enforcing social distancing “come hell or high water”.
Read the full story here.
New Alzheimer’s drug a ‘sign of hope’: Hunt
By Daniella White
Health Minister Greg Hunt says he hopes Australia’s medical regulator approves a landmark new Alzheimer’s drug aimed at slowing cognitive decline.
Aduhelm (aducanumab) was recently approved for use for early Alzheimer’s disease by the US Food and Drug Administration. It’s the first new treatment for the disease to be approved for two decades.
Minister for Health and Aged Care Greg Hunt.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
Mr Hunt says he would list it and make it available on the PBS if Australia’s medical regulator approves it.
“It’s a sign of hope,” he told radio station 2GB earlier this morning. “I met with the company [Biogen] a few years ago when they were developing it.
“I really hope it is approved but it’s an independent medical regulator.”
The FDA’s approval comes despite its scientific advisory panel saying in November that the medication shouldn’t be approved because the evidence of its effectiveness was not persuasive enough.
Fewer than 200 Victorian exposure sites
By David Estcourt
Authorities have removed dozens of locations from Victoria’s official tally of COVID-19 exposure sites since Tuesday afternoon.
Just one area of concern was added to the state’s list yesterday, a tier-3 exposure site for the mass vaccination hub at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. A person with COVID-19 attended the vaccination hub in South Wharf between 3.15pm and 4pm on Monday, June 7.
People queue up for COVID-19 vaccinations at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Credit:Eddie Jim
Authorities have not specified why the list of exposure sites has been culled. It could be because it is health department policy to only list locations for 14 days (or it could be the detection of false positive tests, or both). We’ve asked for clarification and will let you know as soon as we know more.
Tamil asylum-seeker family shouldn’t receive ‘special treatment’: LNP Senator
By Broede Carmody
LNP Senator Matthew Canavan, who represents the state of Queensland where a Tamil asylum-seeker family hopes to return if they succeed in their deportation battle with the federal government, says it’s a “tough” situation but Australia needs to be consistent when it comes to border policies.
“We got where we are by [being] very strict on these issues,” Mr Canavan said on the Today show a short while ago.
Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Matt Canavan Credit:AFR
“Ten years ago we had thousands of people arriving by boat. Possibly thousands of people died on the journey. We have done a great job at removing completely that trade and protecting our borders. So we have to [be] strict. If we start making special treatment for individual cases, then we risk that whole trade opening up again.”
Pressure is mounting on the Morrison government after the family’s youngest daughter, Australian-born Tharnicaa Murugappan, was evacuated from detention on Christmas Island for urgent medical treatment on the Australian mainland. She has since been diagnosed with pneumonia.
Her mother, Priya, has released an emotional plea from the 3-year-old’s bedside and asked for the family to be allowed to return to Biloela in regional Queensland. The family has been fighting their deportation in the courts but the federal government says it won’t budge for anyone who is an “illegal” maritime arrival.
Foreign Minister Marise Payne has flagged resettlement in the United States or New Zealand as possible alternatives.
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