Sydney's Tent City 06/06/24

An encampment of rough sleepers has sprung up outside the Reserve Bank’s Martin Place offices as hundreds of people sleep on the street in the City of Sydney every night. 

 

Taxpayers are forking out $2 million a year to look after a intellectually disabled boy, but his care is still failing so catastrophically he has been the subject of more than 500 critical incidents in less than two years. 

 

A court has heard two Queensland owned electricity generators allegedly manipulated the price bracket of their wholesale power packages to create massive artificial spikes in energy market prices for their own profit.  
 

Alleged Bicycle Bandit, armed robber and terminal cancer patient Kym Allen Parsons has been approved for voluntary assisted dying and has the means to end his life, eight months before his trial. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is the latest from your news feed. It's Thursday,
the sixth of June. An encampment of rough sleepers is
sprung up outside the Reserve Bank's Martin Place officers as
hundreds of people sleep on the street in the City
of Sydney every night. The situation has renewed calls from
business leaders for action to prevent Sydney becoming another version

(00:25):
of San Francisco, where homeless people and their tense line
city streets while people are forced to sleep on the
Sydney Street outside the building where the RBA's board sets
the official cash rate. The City of Sydney Council is
sitting with almost eight hundred million dollars in the bank.
Taxpayers are forking out two million dollars a year to

(00:48):
look after an intellectually disabled boy, but his care is
still failing so catastrophically he's been the subject of more
than five hundred critical incidents in less than two years.
In one emergency, the fifteen year old, who the Herald
Son has chosen to identify only as boy Why, was
even able to steal the keys from his cares, driving

(01:10):
it for an hour before slamming the vehicle into a
building he has had five near death experiences, including a
near miss electrocution, attempting to swallow glass and running on
a busy freeway. Will be back after this. A court
has heard to Queensland owned electricity generators allegedly manipulated the

(01:33):
price bracket of their wholesale power packages to create massive
artificial spikes in energy market prices for their own profit.
In one instance of the commercial bidding strategy, power prices
gradually increased from forty dollars and sixty seven cents per
megawatt hour to two hundred and ninety nine dollars ninety

(01:53):
five cents over twenty five minutes, before abruptly spiking to
twelve thousand, seven hundred per minis what hour, then dropping
back to thirty five dollars and fourteen cents. And alleged
bicycle bandit, armed robber and terminal cancer patient Kim Alan
Parsons has been approved of voluntary assisted dying and has

(02:15):
the means to end his life. Eight months before his trial,
The Advertiser can reveal mister Parsons, who has denied responsibility
for the infamous two thousands bank robbery spree, is in
possession of his vad kit and has approval to make
use of it. We'll have an update to your newspeed tomorrow.