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The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) flew a surveillance plane through the South China Sea the day after a "dangerous" interception by a Chinese warplane.

A Chinese J-16 jet flew "very close" to a RAAF P-8A Poseidon, set off flares and dropped chaff in its path as it conducted routine surveillance in the South China Sea on May 26.

A defence spokesperson has confirmed to 9news.com.au that another mission was conducted in the same region soon afterwards.

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"Defence can confirm that a RAAF P-8A Poseidon flew a scheduled mission on 27 May 2022 in the vicinity of the South China Sea, the day following the incident," the spokesperson said.

The interception on May 26 happened in international waters off the coast of the Philippines, where the RAAF plane took off.

Earlier this month China said the first RAAF Poseidon had entered the airspace close to Xisha Islands for closer surveillance.

"The Australian military aircraft seriously threatened China's sovereignty and security, and the response measures taken by the Chinese military were professional, safe, reasonable and legal," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said.

"The Australian side sought to confound black and white and repeatedly spread the false narrative which is aimed at inciting antagonism and confrontation."

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Zhao then issued a warning.

"We urge the Australian side to immediately stop such dangerous and provocative acts and seriously dissuade its air and naval forces from such acts," he said.

"Otherwise, any serious consequence arising therefrom shall be borne by the Australian side."

Some of the aluminium chaff dropped by the Chinese J-16 jet entered one of the Poseidon's engines.

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Chaff can be seriously damaging to a jet engine and has the potential to cause a crash.

The Poseidon was able to return to base safely.

The Xisha Islands, also known as the Paracel Islands, are a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea.

China, Vietnam and Taiwan all claim de jure sovereignty over the islands, though China has taken control of them.

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A New Zealand tenant has been ordered to pay $NZ7000 ($6373) to her landlord after taking multiple items of furniture from her flat and selling them on Facebook.

Joanna Cathrine Penny Filipaina​ rented a home in Manukau, south Auckland, from Investment Portfolio Management Limited Partnership,​ according to a recently released Tenancy Tribunal decision.

Her tenancy ended in November 2021 and her landlord did an exit inspection the same day.

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They found a wide array of furniture missing: the fridge, washing machine, dryer, swivel chair, bedside table, console, round table, mattress, bedhead, TV, mattress protector, blinds, wardrobe shelves, washer dryer stacker and shower head.

"The tenant admitted in a text message to taking the furniture items and selling them on Facebook," the tribunal's decision said.

As well as the missing items, there was extensive damage to the property, including a broken toilet seat, holes, tagging and scrape marks on the walls and damage to the door lock and the alcove of the apartment.

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The tribunal found some of the damage to the walls was "fair wear and tear", but most was intentional.

It noted the property had been new at the start of the tenancy.

In total, the tribunal ordered Filipaina to pay $NZ7661.83 ($6975) to her landlord.

The bulk of that was for replacing the furnishings she took, as well as the cost of installing them.

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The most expensive item to replace was the dryer, at $NZ780.52 ($710), followed by the washing machine at $NZ733.98 ($667) and the queen-sized mattress at $NZ466.12 ($424).

The tribunal ordered Filipaina to pay $NZ632.50 ($575) to cover the cost of plastering and repainting the walls.

This article was reproduced from Stuff with permission.

A leading doctor has flagged the symptoms parents should be on alert for as flu season has seen an uptick in young children being admitted to hospital.

Dr Margie Danchin, from the Royal Children's Hospital, said both the flu and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) are causing serious infections in young children.

Speaking to Today, she estimates there's been an increase of "about 20 percent of children needing admission to hospital," since March and April.

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With hospitals struggling to keep up, Danchin outlined a set of symptoms that warrant a trip to the emergency department.

"Parents are dealing with this massive influx at the moment…we teach them to look," she said.

"If a child has increased work of breathing or rapid breathing, what we call breathing difficulty, or any blueness around the lips, or any signs of dehydration, so if the child is not drinking, if they're listless, pale, those are the things that should encourage a parent to take their child to the emergency department, rather than straight to the GP.

"If the child has a fever, cough, runny nose, those sorts of more mild respiratory symptoms, then we would encourage them to access community care first."

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NSW Australian Medical Association (AMA) President Dr Michael Bonning said young children under five are a "priority group for immunisation" as they're being hit with severe infections.

"Over the last two years we've had far less exposure to some of these common respiratory viruses, including influenza and RSV," he said.

"We know for infants and toddlers who may not have been exposed to RSV at all in the last two years, this first exposure can be quite severe.

"We're seeing that as well with influenza".

'Unprecedented' number of infections

Hospitals around the country are grappling with staff shortages as admissions from influenza and coronavirus increase.

In NSW this year more than 1,300 people have been admitted to hospital, after almost 9,400 presentations to emergency departments with influenza-like illness.

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Queensland has recorded almost 26,000 flu cases this year – four times the average from the last five years. Over 160 people are currently in public hospitals with the flu and 435 with COVID-19.

Queensland's Chief Health Officer Dr John Gerrard said the flu should be treated with the same caution as COVID-19.

"The days of going to work stoically, coughing and sneezing with a sore throat and fever because you're a good soldier, those days are gone," he said.

"The number of full respiratory virus infections we've seen so far this year in Queensland has been unprecedented."

Australians are being urged to get a flu jab, while it's still free.

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Residents in every state but Tasmania have been eligible for an influenza jab for the month of June.

But from next Friday, people will have to pay for a shot.

NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said "influenza immunisation rates aren't where they need to be".

"Only about one in three people in NSW have received their influenza vaccine this year and we really need to see that number go up, especially among vulnerable groups such as young children and older people who are most at risk of severe illness," she said.

"I want to remind people the flu vaccine remains free for all NSW residents for another seven days, so please book in now to take advantage of this important initiative to boost immunity levels."

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