Hello, Paddy Kilmurray with a news update.
- The wife of Robert Xie has faced the media this morning – protesting his innocence as he spends his first full day in prison as a convicted killer.
- Authorities are stepping up their warnings about water safety after a 16 year old crashed a jet ski into a boat on Port Phillip Bay in Victoria.
- A tough trip for motorists on Sydney’s busy M4 after a truck and car collided on the westbound run. Traffic is queued for almost 8 kilometres at Silverwater road.
- Industry Minister Greg Hunt is the latest member of the Turnbull team to be accused of inappropriate use of taxypayer funds – with questions over family trips spanning more than a decade.
- Exhausted Tiger-Air passengers have begun arriving in Brisbane – after a long journey home from from Bali. But thousands of other passengers of the Budget Airline are still stranded in Indonesia.
- A new fleet of Ambulance helicopters has been launched in Sydney. The 8 choppers will carry a doctor and paramedic on every flight.
- An Adelaide snowboarder has cheated death on the slopes in Canada…thanks to an early birthday present. The boarder posted a video of the moment his snowboard caused the snow to crack underfoot, triggering an avalanche – which sent him spinning metres down the hillside in Whistler.
- And excitement machine Chris Lynn will make his one day international debut for Australia when they take on Pakistan at the Gabba today.
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