August 20, 2025 • 7 mins
A special police squad set up to investigate Sydney's gang violence has made a major breakthrough, charging a man with murder after a public underworld shooting in May.
40,000 children with autism face being kicked off the National Disability Insurance scheme and sent to a new program.
Findings of an internal review into the Monash IVF mixup will be kept secret. Monash says details won't be released to protect patient privacy but confirmed the Brisbane case was the result of human error.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good morning. We want to go straight to breaking news. Overnight.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
A special police squad set up to investigate Sydney's gang
violence has had a major breakthrough, charging a man with
murder after a public underworld shooting.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
In May.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Taskforce Falcon charged nineteen year old Muhammad Yusef with multiple
offenses for his alleged involvement in the drive by shooting
of Darwood Sakaria, who was shot in the head at
a busy Granville intersection. Lawyer Sylvan Singh was also seriously hersh.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
No, we're not alleging he's the shooter.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We alleged his actions pre during a post the shooting
amount to him being a principal and therefore being charged
with the offenses of murder and attempted murder. Taskforce Falcon
has now arrested more than one hundred people since it
was formed in May. Adelaide Crow's star Isaac Ranken is
set to learn his fate today, facing a season ending
(00:59):
five match ban over a homophobic slur against a Collingwood player.
Crow's officials are arguing finals matches should carry more weight
than regular games, and Ranken was verbally targeted by Magpie's players.
They're also now questioning the AFL's hiring of US superstar
Snoop Dog for the Grand Final, given that the rapper
(01:19):
use the same language in some of his music to
major breaking news in New South Wales now and there's
a desperate search under way this morning for two men
missing in a raging river northwest of Sydney. A car
traveling on Settlers Road near Saint Albans and Wiseman's Ferry
has come off the road during bad weather and plunged
(01:41):
into the McDonald River. Police say one of the passengers,
a man in his twenties, managed to make it out
of the car safely to a riverbank, but two other
men remain missing. A search will resume at first Life
and meantime, flood warnings are in place across the East Coast,
with torrential rain expected for the next thirty six hours.
(02:01):
Dangerous weather systems are threatening New South Wales and Southeast Queensland,
with residents on high alert. Flood warnings are stretching from
the mid North Coast to the Hunter region, with falls
of up to ninety millimeters on the way.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Sydney has already seen sixty eight.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Millimeters of rain since nine am yesterday and in Port
Macquaria downpour of eighty five mills. One of Melbourne's most
infamous nightclubs has been banned from serving alcohol this weekend.
Victoria's Liquor Commission stepped in and suspended the license of
Puran's Love Machine Club after several violent incidents. Most recently,
(02:37):
Western bull Dog star Jamara Eugilhagen narrowly missed being shot
after the gun was fired.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
A meter away from him. Operators of the.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Venue have until three pm to day to appeal that ban.
Forty thousand children with autism face being kicked off the
National Disability Insurance Scheme and sent into a new program.
The federal government says the overhaul is needed to stop
out of control spending, with forecasts that the NDIS price
tag will soon explode.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Kaylee Mattani's girls have autism. She says the NDIS saved
their lives.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
My youngest daughter was told when she was diagnosed that
she would never walk or talk, and it's only because
of therapy that she.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Is able to Three hundred thousand children are on the scheme,
half of them with autism, and.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Frankly, many of those children are being over serviced. The
NDIS model just doesn't suit their needs.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
From twenty twenty seven, children under nine with mild to
moderate autism or developmental delays will be moved off the NDIS.
Those in need of additional support or have behavioral issues
will be able to access a scheme called Thriving Kids.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
We are at a fork in the road right now.
We have to make sure that we shake up this system.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
If not, he says, the NDIS will cost taxpayers one
hundred and five billion dollars a year by twenty thirty four,
more than Medicare, Aged Care and Defense combined. The move
is supported by advocates.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
The structural problem has become so big that children with
any kind of developmental delay are now getting a label
of autism in order to get assistance from the NDIS,
and that's inflated.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
The numbers how Thriving Kids will work will be decided
over the coming months, but since the announcement, many families
have reached out to us to share their concern.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
You're going to end up with a generation who are unsupported,
and that terrifies me.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Jennifer Beshwardi Seven News.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Executives at mining giants BHP and Rio Tinto have met
with Donald Trump, beating the Prime Minister Anthony Alberesi to
the punch. CEOs Mike Henry and Jacob Straussholme secured a
meeting with the President to discuss the supply of minerals.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
To the US.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
The meeting today raising eyebrows around why the PM is
still yet.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
To secure a similar meeting.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Find things of an internal review into the Monash ivf
mix up will be kept secret. Monash says that details
won't be released to protect patient privacy, but confirm the
Brisbane case was the.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Result of human error.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
The Melbourne case was a combination of human error and
what they've called it limitations. The federal government is currently
reviewing the entire fertility sector right across the nation. An
alleged hidden run driver has been charged over a massive
gas explosion in the US which destroyed a VET clinic.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Let's go live to US correspondent Rob Scott.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Now now Rob tell us this huge blast was caught
on camera.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
What happened, well, Monit all boils down to an allegation
that this driver was impaired when he ran his car
off the road and smashed it into this building, rupturing
gas lines, triggering this huge explosion and a fireball which
seem to bri flying into the air and absolutely obliterated
this veterinary hospital. But this is a brand new building.
(05:55):
It was only set to open next month, so thankfully
there were no people or pets inside. But there were
three firefighters in there. They were searching for a gas
leak when that explosion happened. Two of them were not
seriously injured, but one of them did go to hospital
needing an emergency treatment to severe burns to his hands
and his arms. Now, as you say, the driver a
forty six year old man, he did not stop at
(06:17):
the scene. It was a hit and run. He has
since been arrested. His name is Jason Lee Beach and
he's been charged with a raft of offenses including hit
and run, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving with while impaired,
and causing serious damage.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
All right, Rob Scott for us there, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Prime Minister Anthony Albernezi has finally made it to Adelaide,
nearly five months into the state's algill bloom crisis. He's
promised more than six million dollars in extra funding to
tackle the crisis.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I want to say to South Australian. The Federal government
stands side by side with you.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Alberzi has stopped short of declaring the crisis a national disaster,
leaving millions more dollars in emergency funding. Frozen iconic Aussie
bakery chain Brumbies is getting the slice set to be
sold off by its parent company, Retail Food Group, who
also own Doughnut King, Gloria Jean's and Beefy's Pies, says
(07:14):
it's exploring options to sell the business after poor financial performance.
It follows rfg's decision earlier this year to phase out
Michelle's Patisserie stores.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Right across the country and more on.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Thursday's Weather for You Now. Some showers in Brisbane with
the top of twenty two. Rain in Sydney today eighteen degrees,
showers easing in Canberra fifteen, mostly sunny in Melbourne twenty
A sunny day in Hobart eighteen degrees.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Partley party in Adelaide
Speaker 2 (07:41):
With a top of twenty a shower or two in
Perth eighteen a sunny one in Darwin with a top
of thirty three degrees.
Good morning. We want to go straight to breaking news. Overnight.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
A special police squad set up to investigate Sydney's gang
violence has had a major breakthrough, charging a man with
murder after a public underworld shooting.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
In May.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Taskforce Falcon charged nineteen year old Muhammad Yusef with multiple
offenses for his alleged involvement in the drive by shooting
of Darwood Sakaria, who was shot in the head at
a busy Granville intersection. Lawyer Sylvan Singh was also seriously hersh.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
No, we're not alleging he's the shooter.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We alleged his actions pre during a post the shooting
amount to him being a principal and therefore being charged
with the offenses of murder and attempted murder. Taskforce Falcon
has now arrested more than one hundred people since it
was formed in May. Adelaide Crow's star Isaac Ranken is
set to learn his fate today, facing a season ending
(00:59):
five match ban over a homophobic slur against a Collingwood player.
Crow's officials are arguing finals matches should carry more weight
than regular games, and Ranken was verbally targeted by Magpie's players.
They're also now questioning the AFL's hiring of US superstar
Snoop Dog for the Grand Final, given that the rapper
(01:19):
use the same language in some of his music to
major breaking news in New South Wales now and there's
a desperate search under way this morning for two men
missing in a raging river northwest of Sydney. A car
traveling on Settlers Road near Saint Albans and Wiseman's Ferry
has come off the road during bad weather and plunged
(01:41):
into the McDonald River. Police say one of the passengers,
a man in his twenties, managed to make it out
of the car safely to a riverbank, but two other
men remain missing. A search will resume at first Life
and meantime, flood warnings are in place across the East Coast,
with torrential rain expected for the next thirty six hours.
(02:01):
Dangerous weather systems are threatening New South Wales and Southeast Queensland,
with residents on high alert. Flood warnings are stretching from
the mid North Coast to the Hunter region, with falls
of up to ninety millimeters on the way.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Sydney has already seen sixty eight.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Millimeters of rain since nine am yesterday and in Port
Macquaria downpour of eighty five mills. One of Melbourne's most
infamous nightclubs has been banned from serving alcohol this weekend.
Victoria's Liquor Commission stepped in and suspended the license of
Puran's Love Machine Club after several violent incidents. Most recently,
(02:37):
Western bull Dog star Jamara Eugilhagen narrowly missed being shot
after the gun was fired.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
A meter away from him. Operators of the.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Venue have until three pm to day to appeal that ban.
Forty thousand children with autism face being kicked off the
National Disability Insurance Scheme and sent into a new program.
The federal government says the overhaul is needed to stop
out of control spending, with forecasts that the NDIS price
tag will soon explode.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Kaylee Mattani's girls have autism. She says the NDIS saved
their lives.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
My youngest daughter was told when she was diagnosed that
she would never walk or talk, and it's only because
of therapy that she.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Is able to Three hundred thousand children are on the scheme,
half of them with autism, and.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Frankly, many of those children are being over serviced. The
NDIS model just doesn't suit their needs.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
From twenty twenty seven, children under nine with mild to
moderate autism or developmental delays will be moved off the NDIS.
Those in need of additional support or have behavioral issues
will be able to access a scheme called Thriving Kids.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
We are at a fork in the road right now.
We have to make sure that we shake up this system.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
If not, he says, the NDIS will cost taxpayers one
hundred and five billion dollars a year by twenty thirty four,
more than Medicare, Aged Care and Defense combined. The move
is supported by advocates.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
The structural problem has become so big that children with
any kind of developmental delay are now getting a label
of autism in order to get assistance from the NDIS,
and that's inflated.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
The numbers how Thriving Kids will work will be decided
over the coming months, but since the announcement, many families
have reached out to us to share their concern.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
You're going to end up with a generation who are unsupported,
and that terrifies me.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Jennifer Beshwardi Seven News.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Executives at mining giants BHP and Rio Tinto have met
with Donald Trump, beating the Prime Minister Anthony Alberesi to
the punch. CEOs Mike Henry and Jacob Straussholme secured a
meeting with the President to discuss the supply of minerals.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
To the US.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
The meeting today raising eyebrows around why the PM is
still yet.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
To secure a similar meeting.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Find things of an internal review into the Monash ivf
mix up will be kept secret. Monash says that details
won't be released to protect patient privacy, but confirm the
Brisbane case was the.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Result of human error.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
The Melbourne case was a combination of human error and
what they've called it limitations. The federal government is currently
reviewing the entire fertility sector right across the nation. An
alleged hidden run driver has been charged over a massive
gas explosion in the US which destroyed a VET clinic.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Let's go live to US correspondent Rob Scott.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Now now Rob tell us this huge blast was caught
on camera.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
What happened, well, Monit all boils down to an allegation
that this driver was impaired when he ran his car
off the road and smashed it into this building, rupturing
gas lines, triggering this huge explosion and a fireball which
seem to bri flying into the air and absolutely obliterated
this veterinary hospital. But this is a brand new building.
(05:55):
It was only set to open next month, so thankfully
there were no people or pets inside. But there were
three firefighters in there. They were searching for a gas
leak when that explosion happened. Two of them were not
seriously injured, but one of them did go to hospital
needing an emergency treatment to severe burns to his hands
and his arms. Now, as you say, the driver a
forty six year old man, he did not stop at
(06:17):
the scene. It was a hit and run. He has
since been arrested. His name is Jason Lee Beach and
he's been charged with a raft of offenses including hit
and run, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving with while impaired,
and causing serious damage.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
All right, Rob Scott for us there, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Prime Minister Anthony Albernezi has finally made it to Adelaide,
nearly five months into the state's algill bloom crisis. He's
promised more than six million dollars in extra funding to
tackle the crisis.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I want to say to South Australian. The Federal government
stands side by side with you.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Alberzi has stopped short of declaring the crisis a national disaster,
leaving millions more dollars in emergency funding. Frozen iconic Aussie
bakery chain Brumbies is getting the slice set to be
sold off by its parent company, Retail Food Group, who
also own Doughnut King, Gloria Jean's and Beefy's Pies, says
(07:14):
it's exploring options to sell the business after poor financial performance.
It follows rfg's decision earlier this year to phase out
Michelle's Patisserie stores.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Right across the country and more on.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Thursday's Weather for You Now. Some showers in Brisbane with
the top of twenty two. Rain in Sydney today eighteen degrees,
showers easing in Canberra fifteen, mostly sunny in Melbourne twenty
A sunny day in Hobart eighteen degrees.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Partley party in Adelaide
Speaker 2 (07:41):
With a top of twenty a shower or two in
Perth eighteen a sunny one in Darwin with a top
of thirty three degrees.
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