Month: March 2022

Major flood warning for Lismore as parts of Mullumbimby told to ‘evacuate now’|TSMdH

“Locations which may be affected include Lismore, Grafton, Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie, Tenterfield and Dorrigo.”
Ballina Shire councillor Kiri Dicker took to Facebook on Tuesday morning to urge residents in the flood-affected areas to “stay safe and trust your intuition”.

Read More Major flood warning for Lismore as parts of Mullumbimby told to ‘evacuate now’|TSMdH

In a country gripped by violence against women, a new femicide detective squad seeks to make the killers pay.|ABCnetAU

Sayuri’s review found evidence police were too willing to believe the partner’s version of events. Many cases were deemed suicides on the man’s say-so, without police properly following other lines of inquiry. Investigations were also tainted by “prejudices and gender stereotypes” about women, the review found, especially relating to suicide.

“One of [the stereotypes] was that women are very emotional, very impulsive, depressive, not very rational,” she says. “That we would make the decision to take our own life faced with a situation that was difficult to resolve. And the partners, the men, often said that’s how it happened, and the investigation followed from there.”

Read More In a country gripped by violence against women, a new femicide detective squad seeks to make the killers pay.|ABCnetAU

China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735: 132 feared dead after plane crashes into mountain – South China Morning Post

The 737-800 model that crashed on Monday has a good safety record and is the predecessor of the 737 MAX model that has been grounded in China for more than three years after fatal crashes in Indonesia in 2918 and Ethiopia in 2019.
China’s worst ever domestic air disaster happened in 1994, according to the Aviation Safety Network, when a China Northwest Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 flying from Xian to Guangzhou crashed after takeoff, killing all 160 people on board.
The last domestic crash was in 2010, when a plane crashed in Yichun in Heilongjiang province, killing 42.
China’s airlines had recorded over 100 million continuous hours of safe flight as of February 19, according to Zhu Tao, an official with the Civil Aviation Administration.

Read More China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735: 132 feared dead after plane crashes into mountain – South China Morning Post