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A public well being message from the Victorian Division of Well being
A excessive danger of epidemic thunderstorm bronchial asthma has been forecast for the Northern Nation and North Central districts on Sunday, 13 November 2022.
The mixture of forecast excessive grass pollen ranges and a sure sort of thunderstorm with sturdy winds means there’s a likelihood numerous individuals might develop bronchial asthma signs over a brief time frame.
All different districts have a reasonable danger forecast tomorrow, together with the Wimmera, Mallee, South West, Central, North East, West & South Gippsland and East Gippsland areas.
Well being and emergency providers are monitoring the state of affairs carefully and are prepared to reply.
Folks in high-risk areas with bronchial asthma or hay fever, or who expertise wheezing, breathlessness, a sense of tightness within the chest or a persistent cough, ought to have their reliever treatment with them always tomorrow, and keep away from the wind gusts earlier than the storm by going inside and shutting their home windows and doorways.
Individuals who have bronchial asthma or seasonal hay fever ought to overview the bronchial asthma first assist steps.
Folks ought to name Nurse on Name on 1300 60 60 24 or see their native physician in the event that they require medical recommendation.
There are round 50 GP respiratory clinics throughout Victoria providing free respiratory care. Face-to-face and telehealth appointments can be found and a few clinics are open at night time and on weekends.
For info on clinic places and working hours, go to: GP Respiratory Clinics
Name 000 instantly if somebody isn’t respiratory, if their bronchial asthma all of the sudden turns into worse or isn’t enhancing, or if the individual is having an bronchial asthma assault and a reliever puffer isn’t out there.
For up-to-date info, go to the VicEmergency website or obtain the VicEmergency App.
Consultants imagine the crime rhetoric in some WA group Fb teams could also be main individuals to take the regulation into their very own palms. Lorena Allam and Sarah Collard report:
‘Ukraine will all the time bear in mind this help’, says nation’s overseas minister of Australian assist
AAP reviews from Phnom Penh:
Bushmasters have turn into the most well-liked Australian model in Ukraine because the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, commits a further 30 automobiles to the combat in opposition to Russia’s invasion.
However the Ukraine overseas minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has flagged help with vitality infrastructure will probably be essential to assist his nation by way of the approaching winter months.
Albanese met with Kuleba in Phnom Penh on the sidelines of the Asean summit.
The prime minister stated after discussions with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Australia would commit an additional 30 Bushmasters, taking the overall to 90.
“We’re very proud that that is making a considerable distinction to the defence of your individuals … Be assured of Australia’s ongoing help and our admiration to your wrestle,” Albanese stated.
Australia has additionally despatched 70 Australian defence drive personnel to the UK to offer coaching help to Ukrainian troopers.
Kuleba advised the prime minister the armoured automobiles have turn into an emblem of Australia’s political and financial help to his nation.
“Bushmasters grew to become the most well-liked Australian model in Ukraine,” he stated.
“Ukraine will all the time bear in mind this help that the individuals in Australia prolonged to us.
“We will certainly prevail and when victory comes, it will likely be our joint success.”
However as Ukraine enters its winter months, Kuleba requested Australia and different nations current on the summit for assist with vitality wants. He stated radiators in flats are chilly and buildings are experiencing lengthy blackouts due to Russia’s assaults on vitality infrastructure.
“Transformers, mills, spare elements for the electrical energy grid. These are very technical issues and they’re all of humanitarian function,” he stated. “That is humanitarian assist, they don’t have anything to do with army assist.”
Albanese advised Kuleba he would take the request to his authorities to think about how Australia may help Ukraine additional.
World instability, vitality shortages and inflation attributable to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are key points for Albanese as he embarks on his nine-day abroad journey.
Australia stands with Ukraine in opposition to Russia’s unlawful invasion. Great to satisfy with @DmytroKuleba, Ukraine’s Overseas Affairs Minister on the ASEAN summits in Cambodia to debate Australia’s contribution, together with the additional 30 Bushmasters serving to defend Ukraine’s sovereignty. pic.twitter.com/ij5dXTzKxB
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) November 12, 2022
PM appoints former Macquarie Financial institution boss Nicholas Moore as particular envoy to south-east Asia
Katharine Murphy
Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has used his opening remarks on the Asean-Australia summit to disclose Labor will appoint a brand new particular envoy to south-east Asia, the previous Macquarie Financial institution boss and firm director Nicholas Moore, to drive what the prime minister has characterised as a “complete south-east Asia financial technique” between now and 2040.
Persevering with the courtship of the area that the federal government has been targeted on since profitable the election in Might, Albanese used Saturday’s handle to underscore Australia’s dedication to Asean companions and to regional values, which he characterised as “the cherished beliefs of peace, freedom, social justice and financial wellbeing”.
In a transparent reference to geo-strategic tensions – which means China’s aggression within the area – Australia’s prime minister stated the problem was to uphold these values in a “advanced and altering world”. Albanese stated Australia remained dedicated to a guidelines based mostly regional order with Asean companions on the centre of that peace and safety. “Working in shut session, we are able to forge a safer and sustainable future,” Albanese stated. “The place worldwide regulation and norms are upheld, and disputes are resolved amicably by way of diplomacy and dialogue”.
“With confidence in our trigger, allow us to affirm the good founding imaginative and prescient of this establishment, and carry it ahead into a brand new period of peace and chance”.
As I famous on the weblog earlier this morning, Asean lacks a unified method to the rise of China within the area, and the group usually faces criticism for that.
Concurrently holding the Asean group shut, Australia can be making an attempt to execute a fragile diplomatic rapprochement with Beijing though many irriants stay within the bilateral relationship.
Within the lead-up to summit season there was hypothesis Albanese may meet the Chinese language management in some unspecified time in the future through the subsequent week, both right here in Cambodia or on the G20 in Bali.
The president of the US, Joe Biden, who will meet the Chinese language president, Xi Jinping, in Bali, has touched down in Phnom Penh this morning.
Jim Chalmers on G20 and B20 summits: ‘alternative to forge deeper worldwide collaboration’
The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, is travelling to Indonesia at this time to attend the G20 joint finance and well being ministers assembly, and to accompany the prime minister to the B20 Summit from 12 to 14 November 2022.
It’s summit season for presidency leaders all over the world. Chalmers stated the suite of conferences “come at a crucial time for the worldwide economic system and our area, and supply an essential alternative to debate international situations and forge deeper worldwide collaboration”.
The worldwide economic system faces vital challenges together with from Russia’s battle in Ukraine, a worldwide vitality and price of dwelling disaster, and probably the most synchronised international financial tightening in latest many years – with a heightened danger of recession throughout main superior economies.
These international challenges will probably be key points on the G20, along with local weather change and future pandemic preparedness.
I’ll take the chance to strengthen bilateral relationships with key strategic companions and have interaction with members of the worldwide enterprise group on the B20 Summit.
The B20 is a gathering of enterprise and business pursuits, allied to the G20 summit.
Flooding replace from the NSW State Emergency Service
The NSW SES is working to resupply quite a lot of communities remoted by flooding in Collarenebri, Walgett, Lightning Ridge, Goodooga, Brewarrina and elements of Bourke.
SES assistant commissioner Nicole Hogan stated this was a really advanced and evolving state of affairs.
“The scale of the realm is about 40,000 sq. kilometres – greater than half the dimensions of Tasmania,” she stated.
“Roads have intermittently been reduce for a number of weeks now, with resupply missions needing to happen by airplane to regional depots, earlier than being loaded onto helicopters and at last transported by automobiles and boats to the specified recipients.
“With renewed flooding anticipated, we anticipate this distant outreach might want to proceed for a while. We’re conducting common flights to make sure the 5000 or so remoted residents obtain the important meals, medicines, mail and necessities they want.
“Because the flood water recedes we hope entry will enhance, nonetheless if persons are in want of resupply they need to get in contact with the NSW SES.”
In the course of the present ongoing flood marketing campaign:
👉32,283 Calls to SES State Command Centre
👉13,018 Requests for Help
👉494 Flood Rescue ActivationsThanks NSW SES members, associate businesses, and communities for going above and past, saving lives and defending communities. pic.twitter.com/ILv4kAxU3K
— NSW SES (@NSWSES) November 9, 2022
In the meantime, NSW SES volunteers have been busy in Condobolin as main flooding continues on the Lachlan River.
Volunteers have been energetic aiding the group with door knocking, sandbagging and conducting flood rescues.
Hogan stated the NSW SES was bracing for declining climate situations over the subsequent 48 hours.
“By Sunday and Monday we’re prepping for a considerable amount of rainfall because of extreme storms that are predicted to come back by way of the state which sadly may result in renewed riverine flooding and harmful flash flooding.
“The NSW SES is urging residents to not drive or play in flood waters. The chance of flooded roads poses a really harmful danger in already flood affected communities the place rivers are full and all further water will run off and trigger some areas to flood in a short time,” she stated.
For the final 24 hours NSW SES have carried out 5 flood rescues and acquired 145 requests for help.
Katharine Murphy
Victory will probably be a ‘joint success’, says Ukraine’s overseas minister
Throughout their dialog, Ukraine’s overseas minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has advised the Australian prime minister he understands that everyone on the planet needs this battle to finish – the Ukrainian individuals most of all.
However he says Russian aggression makes peace unattainable at this cut-off date. “The battle goes on,” Kuleba stated. Ukraine’s overseas minister then made a shifting remark:
Ukraine will all the time bear in mind this help the individuals of Australia prolonged to us. We will certainly prevail and when victory comes it will likely be a joint success.
Anthony Albanese meets Ukraine overseas minister in Cambodia
Katharine Murphy
Australia’s prime minister has simply opened Saturday’s program with a gathering with Ukraine’s overseas minister, Dmytro Kuleba, who’s in Phnom Penh on the invitation of the Cambodian authorities.
The pair had a heat dialog. Anthony Albanese characterised Russia’s conduct as “outrageous” and “reprehensible” and “unlawful” and he outlined Australia’s latest army help and contribution to coaching Ukrainian forces within the UK.
Albanese, who’s in Cambodia for the Asean summit, stated the individuals of Ukraine might be assured of Australia’s ongoing help through the battle, and the Ukrainian overseas minister quipped the Bushmasters (that are the Australian army automobiles provided within the battle) had turn into “the most well-liked” Australian model in his dwelling nation.
The overseas minister stated he understood the world needed the battle to finish, however Ukraine was grateful to Australia and different international companions for the sustained help.
New flood warnings have been issued in New South Wales.
Here’s a view on the climate system sweeping throughout nation from the Bureau of Meteorology.
Showers and thunderstorms are growing throughout central and japanese Australia at this time, rising and turning into heavy throughout Qld, NSW and Vic on Sunday.
⚠️Extreme Thunderstorm and Extreme Climate Warnings are present.
Newest forecast and warnings https://t.co/PxMY44eB6b pic.twitter.com/qMqjwymIa4
— Bureau of Meteorology, Australia (@BOM_au) November 12, 2022
Australian males’s basketball crew pulls out of Iran recreation over security fears
Basketball Australia has cited participant security considerations for its determination to withdraw the boys’s nationwide crew from an upcoming World Cup qualifier in Iran.
Following the defeat of Kazakhstan that sealed their spot in subsequent yr’s event, the Boomers had been attributable to journey to Tehran and meet Iran on Tuesday (AEDT).
As a substitute, the aspect will return to Australia and await directions from FIBA as as to if the match will probably be rescheduled elsewhere.
“Basketball Australia have carried out an intensive danger evaluation along with related authorities and because of this we won’t be sending any groups into Iran at the moment,” an announcement learn.
A sequence of protests erupted in Iran following the demise of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was allegedly violently arrested by the nation’s Steering Patrol in September for failing to put on her hijab correctly. She died in custody three days after falling right into a coma.
At the moment, Iran is considered one of 19 international locations to which the Division of Overseas Affairs and Commerce advises Australians to not journey.
“Protests proceed across the nation and there’s been a rise within the variety of overseas nationals arrested,” DFAT’s recommendation reads.
“Medical evacuation could also be tough. In the event you’re in Iran, we advocate you allow. Airways might cancel or cut back their operations to and from Iran at brief discover.”
A consultant stated Basketball Australia had knowledgeable FIBA of its security considerations previous to the present spherical of qualifiers.
Basketball Australia stated they’d not have travelled to Iran no matter whether or not they had defeated Kazakhstan to verify their spot on the World Cup.
The choice to withdraw won’t have an effect on Australia’s qualification for the World Cup, set to be held throughout Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines from August subsequent yr.
Australia have received all 9 of their video games on the highway to the World Cup and are presently set to play Bahrain and Kazakhstan in February for the sixth spherical of qualifiers.
FIBA has been contacted for remark.
– AAP
