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Pushing through the setbacks of four flat tyres and a busted chain with a little help from ibuprofen and cramp relief medicine, he made it.
Rob Bounds crossed the finish line at Corry Cycles on Saturday night after clocking 500km on a ride honouring his cousin Emma Bounds who took her own life on New Year’s Eve. Rob Bounds and the crew just metres from the finishing line on Milton St, Mackay after riding 500km. Picture: Heidi Petith
“It’s great, (I’m) overwhelmed … Mackay’s been amazing,” Mr Bounds said as he briefly rested with a cold beer in hand on an office chair brought down for him.
The banking Royal Commission and subsequent reports have found that the insurance sector discriminates agains mentall ill health, SANE Australia explain.
Westpac to block abuse from money transfers Watch Now
In a bid to make digital banking safer for its customers, Westpac will no longer allow messages containing abuse to be sent in transaction descriptions. It s shocking that individuals are using real-time payment transactions to harass and threaten others, often circumventing blocks on other channels like SMS and social media to reach the recipient, Westpac general manager of customer solutions Lisa Pogonoski said. We want to create a safer digital banking experience for our customers and send a clear signal that abusive messages in payment transactions will not be tolerated.
Pogonoski said in the past few months, Westpac has detected more than 2,500 transactions containing terms that could be considered inappropriate, ranging from swear words through to domestic violence threats.
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Subscriber only A young Mackay woman called her grandmother a f ing cow and brandished a stool as a weapon over an argument about her appetite. Prosecutor Sheena Gravino told Mackay Magistrates Court the grandmother called police to her Mount Pleasant home about 11.20am on December 15 last year after the younger woman began abusing her. She was said to be yelling and screaming and throwing things at her, Ms Gravino told the court. She could be heard screaming in the background of that call to police. The court heard a domestic violent protection order was made in January last year.
Conn s appeal against his conviction was dismissed a year after he was found guilty in 2016. In June last year, Beau applied to join the National Redress Scheme, which was set up during 2018 in response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. A man who was sexually abused as a child when he was a referee at Townsville Basketball said there have been lasting impacts on his life. FILE PICTURE Obviously I want acknowledgment from Townsville Basketball that this happened by their employee on their watch, Beau told the Townsville Bulletin. When an organisation signs up to the scheme it sends a message to the community that it is unacceptable and that (organisation) will be held to account.