2 September 2026
Melbourne man Thomas Mifsud admitted he was almost fooled by the letter.
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2 September 2026
Lehrmann is accused of raping a woman in 2021 and will stand trial in Toowoomba in November. He intends to contest the charges Lehrmann, 31, is set to stand trial from 2 November, accused of twice raping a woman at a house in regional Queensland in 2021.
2 September 2026
Police say the sheep were stolen from a property 830km west of Brisbane between February and May 7m were allegedly stolen from a western Queensland farm. Police said the sheep were stolen from a property outside Blackall, about 830km west of Brisbane, between February and May this year.
2 September 2026
Michael Hussey has rejected Stephen Fleming's offer to become England's Test batting coach, opting instead for a flexible consultancy deal with Cricket Australia.
2 September 2026
Speed limit dropped from 60km/h for around 70% of general roads in the hope of making narrow streets of crowded cities safer Drivers on residential roads in Japan have been forced to take their foot off the accelerator, after the speed limit was slashed from 60km/h (37mph) to 30km/h in an attempt to reduce deaths and injuries among pedestrians on narrow urban streets. The new limit, which went into effect on Tuesday, applies to residential roads with no centre line or maximum speed signs, media reports said.
2 September 2026
Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalities Almost half of the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides every single year, a study has found. Using publicly available data from 2006-2023, the study, which was commissioned by Pesticide Action Network , found there to be an estimated 402-433m cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning of farmers and farm workers every year.
2 September 2026
More than four in five seafarer deaths handled by Britannia P&I were caused by illness rather than accidents, with cardiovascular disease emerging as the biggest killer onboard. Britannia’s new Crew Claims Report, based on nearly 3,000 claims from the 2023/24 and 2024/25 policy years, found 81% of fatalities were illness-related and just 19% resulted from …
2 September 2026
What continuous operational data can tell us about safety, risk and performance at sea, by Osher Perry, founder and CEO of ShipIn Systems. I enjoyed reading Alex Byelyavtsev’s article questioning whether an AI camera can measure safety culture. He raises an important discussion for our industry. On one fundamental point, I agree: a camera alone …
