Nine Australian childcare centres could be stripped of taxpayer funding for failing to meet the bare minimum safety and quality standards.<\/p>\n
The unnamed childcare centres have been given until the end of the month to lift their game.<\/p>\n
The services were among more than 60 placed on notice last year.<\/p>\n
It’s part of a federal government crackdown on dodgy operators, following allegations of child abuse and other failures that have rocked the sector.<\/p>\n
Health authorities are investigating a cluster of fungal infections at a liver and kidney transplant ward at Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, after two people died and four others fell ill.<\/p>\n
The infections are linked to a common mould fungus which can be found in plants, dirt, dust, and also at construction sites.<\/p>\n
It’s harmless to most people but can be dangerous to those who are immunocompromised.<\/p>\n
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has testified she has no information regarding the criminal activities of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n
She’s called for President Donald Trump to face the same scrutiny as her and her husband Bill, given he also appears in the Epstein files.<\/p>\n
She did acknowledge she’d interacted with Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell at conferences hosted by the Clinton Foundation.<\/p>\n
It’s the first of two days of congressional hearings, which will also see former President Bill Clinton answer questions about his association with Epstein.<\/p>\n
South Australia’s state emergency service is urging people to prepare for heavy rain and flash flooding over the next few days.<\/p>\n
The pastoral districts have already copped a deluge this week.<\/p>\n
The weather bureau says the heaviest rain is due in Adelaide on Sunday evening, where totals could reach 100 millimetres.<\/p>\n
And the federal opposition’s criticised the updated cost of the government’s new national emergency warning system.<\/p>\n
The technology was initially expected to cost about $10 million, but the bill’s now due to come in at around $132 million.<\/p>\n
AusAlert aims to send faster alerts to mobile devices.<\/p>\n
But one independent regional MP wants to see disaster roaming put in place.<\/p>\n
That would mean allow mobile users to switch to a competitor’s network in the event of an emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine Australian childcare centres could be stripped of taxpayer funding for failing to meet the bare minimum safety…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,254156,63,13876,14001,52361,64885,138820,254155,137,167463,5634,149060],"class_list":{"0":"post-506138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-ausalert","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-child-abuse","12":"tag-child-care","13":"tag-child-safety","14":"tag-childcare-centres","15":"tag-cluster","16":"tag-fungal","17":"tag-health","18":"tag-hillary-clinton","19":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","20":"tag-paedophile"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}