It's been claimed that a driver failed a routine pre-race alcohol test last Sunday morning, and was unable to compete in two TCR races at Queensland Raceway.
CAMS has now responded to those claims, however only confirming that alcohol testing took place, not if there was any breach.
“CAMS can confirm alcohol testing was conducted at Queensland Raceway on the weekend, but is unable to disclose any information about any results, positive or negative," read a statement.
TCR Australia declined to comment.
According to CAMS regulations, a first offence would have resulted in exclusion from that particular day of the event.
"On first occasion that a participant returns a positive reading following a confirmation test, that participant will: (i) Be excluded from that particular day of event; and (ii) Issued an official warning letter, noting the participant’s first official breach of this Policy," reads CAMS' alcohol policy.
Esper made the suggestion the day after the U.S. pulled itself from a Cold War-era arms control pact governing the use of those weapons.
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty had banned nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 300 and 3,400 miles. The original ban between Moscow and Washington resulted in 2,692 missiles being destroyed.
The U.S. has blamed Russia for violating the now-defunct treaty since 2014, a claim Moscow denies.
Esper did not give any information on where in Asia the missiles would be placed.
An Australian woman with terminal cancer has become the first person to end their life under new assisted dying laws, a charity says.
Kerry Robertson, 61, died at a nursing home in the state of Victoria in July.
She was granted permission to use the controversial legislation - which exists only in Victoria but is being considered in other states - after a 26-day approval process.
Her family said she was able to have "the empowered death that she wanted".
Ms Robertson was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, and it later spread to her bones, lungs, brain and liver.
She decided to stop chemotherapy and radiation treatment in March after the side effects and pain became "intolerable", her family said.
Victoria's legislation, which came into effect in June, allows terminally ill patients who meet certain requirements the right to access lethal drugs.
"We were beside her, David Bowie playing in the background, surrounded by love, with final words spoken, simple and dignified," said her daughter, Nicole Robertson, in a statement released by charity Go Gentle Australia.
"To me that is the greatest part: the knowledge that we did everything we could to make her happy in life and comfortable in death."
Who is eligible?
The state's law has 68 safeguards and is designed for people who are in severe pain.
It requires the person to make three requests to end their life to specially trained doctors. The person must be aged at least 18 and have less than six months to live.
Ms Robertson's family said she had applied to utilise the legislation on the day it came into effect in June.
Western Australia and Queensland are considering similar laws.
In 1995, Australia's Northern Territory introduced the world's first voluntary euthanasia law, but it was overturned by federal authorities in Canberra eight months later. The federal government does not have the same power over states.
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Laws allowing terminally ill patients to legally end their lives with a doctor's supervision have been passed in countries including Canada, the Netherlands and Belgium.
An Australian woman with terminal cancer has become the first person to end their life under new assisted dying laws, a charity says.
Kerry Robertson, 61, died at a nursing home in the state of Victoria in July.
She was granted permission to use the controversial legislation - which exists only in Victoria but is being considered in other states - after a 26-day approval process.
Her family said she was able to have "the empowered death that she wanted".
Ms Robertson was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, and it later spread to her bones, lungs, brain and liver.
She decided to stop chemotherapy and radiation treatment in March after the side effects and pain became "intolerable", her family said.
Victoria's legislation, which came into effect in June, allows terminally ill patients who meet certain requirements the right to access lethal drugs.
"We were beside her, David Bowie playing in the background, surrounded by love, with final words spoken, simple and dignified," said her daughter, Nicole Robertson, in a statement released by charity Go Gentle Australia.
"To me that is the greatest part: the knowledge that we did everything we could to make her happy in life and comfortable in death."
Who is eligible?
The state's law has 68 safeguards and is designed for people who are in severe pain.
It requires the person to make three requests to end their life to specially trained doctors. The person must be aged at least 18 and have less than six months to live.
Ms Robertson's family said she had applied to utilise the legislation on the day it came into effect in June.
Western Australia and Queensland are considering similar laws.
In 1995, Australia's Northern Territory introduced the world's first voluntary euthanasia law, but it was overturned by federal authorities in Canberra eight months later. The federal government does not have the same power over states.
Media playback is unsupported on your device
Laws allowing terminally ill patients to legally end their lives with a doctor's supervision have been passed in countries including Canada, the Netherlands and Belgium.
An Australian woman with terminal cancer has become the first person to end their life under new assisted dying laws, a charity says.
Kerry Robertson, 61, died at a nursing home in the state of Victoria in July.
She was granted permission to use the controversial legislation - which exists only in Victoria but is being considered in other states - after a 26-day approval process.
Her family said she was able to have "the empowered death that she wanted".
Ms Robertson was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, and it later spread to her bones, lungs, brain and liver.
She decided to stop chemotherapy and radiation treatment in March after the side effects and pain became "intolerable", her family said.
Victoria's legislation, which came into effect in June, allows terminally ill patients who meet certain requirements the right to access lethal drugs.
"We were beside her, David Bowie playing in the background, surrounded by love, with final words spoken, simple and dignified," said her daughter, Nicole Robertson, in a statement released by charity Go Gentle Australia.
"To me that is the greatest part: the knowledge that we did everything we could to make her happy in life and comfortable in death."
Who is eligible?
The state's law has 68 safeguards and is designed for people who are in severe pain.
It requires the person to make three requests to end their life to specially trained doctors. The person must be aged at least 18 and have less than six months to live.
Ms Robertson's family said she had applied to utilise the legislation on the day it came into effect in June.
Western Australia and Queensland are considering similar laws.
In 1995, Australia's Northern Territory introduced the world's first voluntary euthanasia law, but it was overturned by federal authorities in Canberra eight months later. The federal government does not have the same power over states.
Media playback is unsupported on your device
Laws allowing terminally ill patients to legally end their lives with a doctor's supervision have been passed in countries including Canada, the Netherlands and Belgium.
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. This week’s issue is written by Isabella Kwai, a reporter with the Australia bureau.
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I’ll admit it: I’m an anxious driver. When I’m on those seemingly never-ending stretches of road that connect towns to cities and cities to suburbs, a soothing voice goes a long way to quell the worries. So when I’m driving alone, whether to report or to play, podcasts are the perfect way to wile away the hours until the next pit stop.
There are more than a few podcasts out there these days, which led one of my colleagues to wonder if we’ve reached peak podcast. But the podcast will always have a special place in my heart and commute, and recently I’ve been making an effort to explore more Australian ones. Thanks to our readers who sent in recommendations. Here are four we rate, for whatever mood you’re in.
On the face of it, “Wrong Skin” is about an unsolved death and a missing persons case in the Kimberley, a stunning region in Australia’s northwestern corner. But it’s also a look into a forbidden relationship and the cultural values of Aboriginal Australians in a less populated part of the country. Richard Baker, an investigative reporter with The Age, goes back to the wet season of 1994, when Richard Milgin and Julie Buck, two young lovers, disappeared from the community of Looma. Only Ms. Buck’s body was found, months later.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are warned that the podcast contains names, images and audio of people who have passed away.
If you’re enjoying the New York Times podcast “The Daily,” “7am,” which follows a similar format but for Australian news of the day, is a perfect complement. Created by Schwartz Media, which publishes The Monthly and The Saturday Paper, the show is hosted by Elizabeth Kulas, an Australian journalist who talks to some of the country’s leading reporters to explain the day’s news from Australia and around the world. I’d recommend this one for your morning commute.
Zara McDonald and Michelle Andrew are two Melbourne journalists who go deep on the ‘stupid stuff,’ with plenty of banter along the way. It’s a fun one for pop aficionados, its feels like chiming into a conversation between two very up-to-date friends. But as with all great pop culture discussion, “Shameless” taps into bigger themes that hide beneath and how a zeitgeist can change the way we think.
Who are you? What do you believe in? Do you live your life by a philosophy? Every week, the writer and comedian Wil Anderson spends an hour or so in the company of an interesting person with a simple objective: to uncover how that person lives their life. If you’re incessantly curious about the things that govern people’s decisions, this is a podcast for you. The answers are often intimate, funny and might just prompt some reflection.
The Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, in April. Crown Resorts has been accused of helping its most lucrative clients launder money and circumvent Australia’s strict immigration laws.CreditWilliam West/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The Gambling Investigation Scrutinizing Xi Jinping’s High-Rolling Cousin: Australia is confronting a sprawling scandal involving Chinese money, high-stakes gambling, accusations of money laundering and special immigration favors for high-rollers — including a cousin of China’s top leader.
Teenage Murder Suspects Vanish Into Canada’s Wilderness: Police are searching in bush, swamp and forest for two teenagers suspected of killing three people, including an Australian man. It is an optimal place to hide — and a difficult place to survive.
Last week, Tacey Rychter wrote about the late, beloved cookbook author Margaret Fulton, and the cultural impact she made on Australian cooking. She asked for your memories of home cooking in the 1960s and ’70s. Thanks to everyone who wrote in — there was a fascinating mix of horror and nostalgia in your responses. Here are a few choice ones:
“I recall my mother being partial to a most revolting dessert called “Jellywhip” — a mixture of jelly crystals and custard. It always seemed to be pineapple which made it even more revolting in both taste and color.”
— Jan Aminoff
“As a young adult I didn’t believe vegetables could taste nice. The worst cooking was for cabbage. It was boiled with vinegar and heavily salted for about an hour."
— James Moore
“Prior to The Margaret Fulton Cookbook, all our vegetables were cooked in a pressure cooker, which rendered them all gray in colour, texture and taste. For my brother and I, it was a bridge too far. But we were not allowed to leave the table until we’d eaten everything on our plates. So the contrast between the pre and post-Margaret Fulton eras could not have been more dramatic.”
In this June 27, 2019, photo provided by John Lever an orthopedic plate is laid on a counter at Coowonga, Australia, after it was found inside a crocodile's stomach. Lever had been told the surgical device was from a person's body and had been contacted by relatives of missing people anxious for clues. (John Lever via AP)
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian crocodile farmer who found an orthopedic plate inside a croc's stomach said Thursday that he had been told the surgical device was from a person's body and had been contacted by relatives of missing people anxious for clues.
Koorana Crocodile Farm owner John Lever found the plate inside a 4.7-meter (15-foot-5-inch) croc called M.J. during an autopsy in June at his business near Rockhampton in Queensland state.
He initially wasn't sure if the unusual find had been part of an animal or human. But he said since making photos of the plate public, he had been told it was a type used in human surgery.
Lever estimated that M.J. was 50 to 70 years old when he died. M.J. could have eaten the bone that the plate had been attached to by six screws 50 years ago, he said.
All remnants of human tissue attached to the plate had been long digested before M.J. died several months after losing a fight with another croc.
Lever later said that Queensland police had told him they had opened a missing person investigation and asked him to bring the plate to the Rockhampton station on Friday.
A police spokesman told The AP he could not comment.
Lever is continuing to make inquiries in the hope of discovering what decade the type of plate was used and perhaps who it had belonged to.
"I wouldn't call it an investigation, we're making inquiries because we're fascinated by this whole thing," Lever said. "Obviously this crocodile has chomped on something and that plate has been left in its stomach complete with screws."
Lever bought M.J. from a farmer in Innisfail, 1,000 kilometers (600 miles), north of Rockhampton, six years ago. Sometime earlier, M.J. had been trapped in the wild. Crocodiles are protected in Australia and are only trapped if they are a threat to humans.
"We've had a couple of people get in touch with us about their relatives that have gone missing in the northern Queensland area and they're anxious to find out — there's been nothing heard of these people, they've just disappeared," Lever said. "We'll certainly keep these people informed of any new news that we can get."
The last fatal crocodile attack in Australia was in October when a woman was snatched while gathering mussels with her family in a waterhole in a remote part of the Northern Territory.
The last fatal attack in Queensland was a year earlier, when a 79-year-old dementia patient was killed after wandering from a nursing home at Port Douglas.
The crocodile population has exploded across the country's tropical north since the 1970s. Because saltwater crocodiles can live up to 70 years and grow throughout their lives — reaching up to 7 meters (23 feet) in length — the proportion of large crocodiles is also rising.
