A 19-year-old man has allegedly snuck into the house of a 60-year-old women and stabbed her in the neck and the head, while she was asleep in her bed, on Saturday night, in the town of Woolooga.
She fought off the intruder and sought help from one of her neighbours, before being taken Gympie Hospital for treatment to head and neck injures, which are believed to be non-life-threatening.
The Woolooga man has also been charged with burglary and wounding. He is expected to appear in Gympie Magistrates Court on Monday. Police say the man was known to the woman and no one else was in the house at the time.
It will go down as one of the worst and most awkward moments in Australian television history ever.
Last night on the finale of Australia's Next Top Model, series eight, everything went horribly wrong. Host Sarah Murdoch, looked sick-to-her stomach and the cameras caught every moment as she realised she had read out the wrong name on live television.
Model Kelsey Martinovich, from Sydney, was jumping about the stage in a state of euphoria, having just been told that she had beaten would-be catwalk stalkers from all over the country to claim the prize of Australia's Top Model. She was saying her thank-yous when she was interrupted as Murdoch had realised what had happened.
As the announced runner up Amanda Ware – the show's eventual winner – made her polite second place thank-yous, a look of sheer panic hit Murdoch's face. Someone in her ear-piece was delivering the news.
Oh my God, I don't know what to say right now," Murdoch interrupted. "I'm feeling a bit sick about this. I'm so sorry about this, oh my God. I don't know what to say. This is a complete accident, I'm so sorry. It's Amanda...it was fed to me wrong. "This is what happens when you have live TV folks, I'm so sorry, this is insane."
Ware, from Queensland, was the real winner.\
For her part, Martinovich, took the news gracefully as the once cheering audience looked on now in silence.
"You won it's fine... it's an honest mistake, it's fine," Martinovich told Ware.
Murdoch told the audience that the lead had been constantly changing with a couple of votes from the public the only the difference between winning and losing. "Sarah handled what was a difficult situation with utmost professionalism and grace. Amanda and Kelsey were neck and neck in the voting all night.
Someone will be in the bad books for a long time within the Foxtel family. Opps...
Warner Bros., New Line and all the other financial players involved in The Hobbit are yet to receive the green light for the movie, but somehow there is already another hurdle this troubled production must jump over in order to begin filming. The Screen Actors Guild is urging actors to boycott the upcoming production as part of an international effort being organised by New Zealand’s Actor’s Equity and its umbrella company, the Australian Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), to force the production into a contract for its actors. Meaning a future where Ian McKellan doesn't reprise his role as Gandalf could become real.
Peter Jackson, the film’s producer and expected director is angered by the labor groups. Jackson has invested millions of dollars into his home country’s economy by locating his previous epic adventures such asLord of the Ringsand King Kong in the country, as well as his studio WETA. He issued a scathing statement to the New Zealand press calling the MEAA “an Australian bully boy” with an agenda based solely on “money and power.” Jackson threatens that the production could move to Eastern Europe if the proposed boycott is not called off. He warns that these business practices could lead to a “long, dry big-budget movie drought in this country".
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said that the overwhelming technicalities surrounding the legalisation of euthanasia seem "almost impossible" to navigate, but she is still open to debating the issue.
The issue was brought up when the Australian Greens began the push to give terminally ill people in the NT or the ACT the right to die, as one of the parties top priorities.
Ms Gillard has promised Labor MPs a conscience vote on the issue, but said today she had some of her own reservations.
"I find it almost impossible to conceptualise how there would be appropriate steps and safeguards," she told Network Ten.
"Intellectually, people should be able to make their own decision, but I find it very hard to conceptualise how we would have the sort of safeguards that we would need if we did say that euthanasia was legal."
According to a News Limited poll published earlier in the week, approximately four out of five Australians would like the federal government to allow the territories to legalise euthanasia.
Ms Gillard said it was a matter for individuals, "not looking at the newspaper polls".
She has reserved her final decision until she has seen the full details of the Greens' proposed bill.
Researchers in the United States have for the first time shown that time passes faster the higher up you are.
In relation to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, they attempted to show that someone living or working long hours in a top floor apartment or office will age quicker than someone on the ground floor. To understand this some understanding of the theory of relativity must be had. Einstein theorized that a clock at a higher elevation would tick faster than a clock at a lower elevation due to the varying influence of gravity on the two clocks. This theory has since been proven to be true. Using state of the art atomic clocks which are accurate to the point that they only loose less than a second every 3.7 billion years the researchers have proven that time moves more quickly the higher up a staircase you travel. So people living in top floor apartments will age more quickly, but Dr Chou says it is not a difference that is worth worrying about.
"Just one foot height difference would get you older by 100 billionths of a second or 90 billionths of a second over 79 years of life, so that is quite negligible, so people shouldn't worry about high elevation they are living,"
According to Smarthouse, Samsung has released the official price of the Australian Galaxy Tab (a clear attempt to rival the iPad). The new gadget is said to price at AU$999, meaning it is pricier than Apple’s 32GB 3G + WiFi iPad. Although the idea of a more expensive, perhaps lesser quality 'iPad' seems null to some, it does have some clear advantages. Unlike the iPad, the Galaxy Tab has a camera and flash, USB connectivity, and increased mobility as it is small enough to fit in clothing pockets. Rumour has it, however, that there is a new camera equipped, 7-inch iPad in the works. Good luck, Samsung Galaxy Tab.
The fear that the commonwealth games will not continue has been carried on from the weekend, where several attacks in Delhi cast fear for the safety of the athletes during the games. And now following on from the weekends terrorist attacks there is another issue questioning the continuation of the Delhi Commonwealth games. The attention has turned to the athletes village, which the teams are saying is no where near ready. Dave Currie who is in Delhi told New Zealand radio station NewstalkZB
"If the village is not ready and athletes can't come, obviously the implications of that are that it's not going to happen," he said. "I think they are in severe difficulties...In the timeframe that is left, unless there is tremendous effort and energy and problem-solving ability to get it done, I think it's going to be extremely hard to get across the line...They've got a little bit of time but it's kind of two seconds to midnight really."
There is two days left for the planned completion of the athletes village. Will they finish in time? Will the games continue?
