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A woman is being treated in hospital for burns following a house fire in Melbourne this afternoon.
Fire Rescue Victoria says firefighters were first called to the Balmoral Place address in Melton West at 3pm after a resident called triple zero to report their house was on fire.
Firefighters said they could see a column of smoke in the vicinity of the address while en route.
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When emergency services arrived, they found the single story brick home "fully involved" in fire.
"Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus quickly surrounded the home with an extra line protecting the threatened home next door," a FRV spokesperson said.
Around 30 firefighters battled to bring the blaze under control in under an hour.
One neighbour said the fire was eye-opening.
"I jumped out of bed and I ran outside and then all I seen is this big black smoke behind me," the neighbour said.
"It was the scariest thing I've ever seen."
The woman inside the house was transported to the Alfred hospital and treated for burns to her hands and possible smoke inhalation.
A Queensland woman has been fined for drink driving after blowing seven times the legal alcohol limit.
A court heard Gold Coast chef Erin Smitherman had been at a party before she was stopped by police officers.
Smitherman told officers she had drank two beers before blowing 0.379, one of the highest alcohol readings ever recorded in Queensland.
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The 36-year-old was detained and subjected to further testing by police.
The court heard the woman was seen swerving and hitting other vehicles, before parking at the Hope Island shopping centre.
Security guards who had seen the woman's driving blocked her car before police arrived on scene.
Smitherman plead guilty to high range drink driving.
The magistrate told Smitherman "I don't even know how you drove".
She was fined $2000 and banned from driving for almost two years.
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A Melbourne homeowner who has been ordered to remove solar panels from her heritage listed property feels like she is being punished for doing the right thing.
Rosie Ganino and her partner Richard Barnes installed photovoltaic panels, which convert solar energy into electricity, on the rooftop of their Canterbury home last year.
However, they have now been told they have until the end of June to remove the panels, after the City of Boroondara Council declared the property was within a "heritage overlay".
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The council sent the couple a letter, demanding the panels be taken down.
In a statement today, the council said it recognises the growing need for more sustainable energy options and supports the installations of solar panels.
"There are some locations where the installation must be balanced against other relevant provisions of the planning scheme," the statement said.
Ganino however said it wasn't good enough.
"I just really, really can't understand it," she said.
The couple is now at a loss, with the panels initially costing them $2500 and the price of taking them down is $500.
VCAT did not wish to comment.
The couple now have 20 days to remove the panels.
Britain's governing Conservatives will hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday that could oust him as Britain's leader.
Party official Graham Brady says he has received enough letters from lawmakers demanding a vote on Johnson's leadership to trigger one.
That happens if 54 Tory lawmakers, which is 15 per cent of the party's group in the House of Commons, write to Brady.
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"The threshold of 15 per cent has been passed," Brady said.
He said the vote would take place in person in the House of Commons on Monday evening UK time.
If Johnson loses the vote among the 359 Conservative lawmakers, he will be replaced as Conservative leader and prime minister.
If he wins, he can't face another challenge for a year.
Johnson has been struggling to turn a page on months of ethics scandals, most notably over rule-breaking parties in government buildings during COVID-19 lockdowns.
Late last month an investigator's report on what has become known as "partygate" slammed a culture of rule-breaking inside the prime minister's No. 10 Downing St. office.
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Civil service investigator Sue Gray described alcohol-fuelled bashes held by Downing Street staff members in 2020 and 2021, when pandemic restrictions prevented UK residents from socialising or even visiting dying relatives.
Gray said the "senior leadership team" must bear responsibility for "failures of leadership and judgement."
The prime minister said he was "humbled" and took "full responsibility", but insisted it was now time to "move on" and focus on Britain's battered economy and the war in Ukraine.
But a growing number of Conservatives feel that Johnson, the charismatic leader who won them a huge parliamentary majority in 2019, is now a liability.
If Johnson is ousted it would spark a Conservative leadership contest, in which several prominent government ministers are likely to run.
Conservative lawmaker Roger Gale, a Johnson critic, said "we have some very good alternatives to the prime minister so we're not short of choice.
"Any single one of those people in my view would make a better prime minister than the one that we've got at the moment," he told the BBC.
Discontent seems to have come to a head over a parliamentary break that coincided with celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee. For many, the four-day long weekend was a chance to relax, but there was no respite for Johnson, who was booed by some onlookers as he arrived for a service in the queen's honour at St Paul's Cathedral on Friday.
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Cabinet minister Steve Barclay, a Johnson ally, said toppling the leader now would be "indefensible."
"The problems we face aren't easy to solve," he wrote on the Conservative Home website.
"Democracies around the world are all currently facing similar challenges. But under Boris Johnson's leadership, our plan for jobs shows how we are navigating through these global challenges.
"To disrupt that progress now would be inexcusable to many who lent their vote to us for the first time at the last general election, and who want to see our Prime Minister deliver the changes promised for their communities."
CCTV footage has captured the moment an unknown person attempted to siphon fuel from a number of vehicles in Melbourne's north.
Community member Carla Shutz said the incident occurred last Thursday at 1.30am in Oak Park.
Shutz said she first noticed something was wrong after the fuel caps were left open on some cars on her street.
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She said after looking back at overnight CCTV footage, she noticed the thief attempting to siphon fuel from the two vehicles with a jerry can.
Although no fuel was taken, there was some damage to the targeted cars.
Shutz said she was deeply concerned that this happened in a quiet neighbourhood, such as Oak Park.
"I have lived here for 16 years and I have never experienced this and I don't want to see this happen again," she said.
"How do they know that the person who owns the car isn't struggling? They don't. Everyone is doing it tough."
Shutz worried as the cost of living and the price of fuel continues to rise, opportunistic crimes such as this may rise as well.
"The damage is done and it's vandalism at the end of the day and we don't expect that to happen on suburban streets like ours," she said.
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After a leaked draft of a United States Supreme Court opinion that would overturn the country's landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision that legalised abortion, the fragility of reproductive rights has been thrown into sharp relief.
Around the world, advocates are calling for access to legal, timely and compassionate abortion care become essential healthcare.
South Australia was the last jurisdiction to decriminalise abortion when the procedure was removed from the state's criminal code early last year.
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But the legal status of abortion is only one step to making the procedure accessible and affordable so it still remains a postcode lottery and difficult to obtain for many people.
With different rules on abortion in each state and territory, reproductive health advocacy groups say there is still some confusion about things such as how much an abortion costs, when and where you can get access to abortion services, and what types of abortion services are available in Australia.
CEO of non-for-profit Children by Choice Daile Kelleher says that some abortions can be covered by Medicare.
"If you go through the public health care system, you can get a fully publicly funded abortion," she told 9News.
"Doesn't always happen though."
Terminations through the public system are not available in all parts of the country so many patients, regardless of their income, still have to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to terminate a pregnancy with a private provider.
South Australia and the Northern Territory have abortion provision in the public system while some vulnerable people in Victoria and Tasmania may access a termination at no cost.
However, even in the public system, people who don't have access to Medicare, such as temporary visa holders, may be forced to pay out of pocket in these jurisdictions.
A medical abortion involves taking medication mifepristone or RU486 together with misoprostol to end and expel a pregnancy.
It can only be done in the first nine weeks of a pregnancy in Australia.
The majority of abortions in Australia take place in the first nine weeks of a pregnancy.
A surgical abortion is often a day procedure.
Conscientious objection to an abortion is where a medical practitioner can refuse to provide information about or carry out an abortion due to a personal belief against it.
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"But they do have to balance their rights as a healthcare professional with the rights of the person to receive health care, and they need to make sure that they refer that person on to an appropriate provider that will give them the health care that they need," Kelleher said.
Kelleher says there has been some confusion around what abortion legislation actually says or means.
"We've found that we've had a staggered decriminalisation across the states and territories in Australia over a number of years," she said.
"So, it just has been confusing because legislation doesn't always match practice."
Here is an outline across each state and territory.
NSW took abortion out of its criminal legislation in 2019.
The new legislation allows terminations up to 22 weeks gestation, after which two medical practitioners must consent for the rare abortions that take place at this stage of pregnancy.
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Abortion was decriminalised in Queensland in 2018.
Abortion is available on request in the first 22 weeks of pregnancy with the approval of two doctors required for any terminations after that time.
Doctors who conscientiously object must refer the woman seeking an abortion to a doctor that will provide one.
In December 2021 abortion was decriminalised in the Northern Territory and medical terminations were legalised.
The change made RU486 legal for up to nine weeks gestation and allowed terminations outside of hospitals in private clinics.
After 24 weeks a woman needs the approval of two doctors to be able to receive an abortion.
Abortions are permitted on request with a referral from a doctor up to 20 weeks of pregnancy.
This is subject to counselling by a medical practitioner other than the one performing the abortion, or when the woman may face serious personal, family or social consequences if an abortion is not performed, when the pregnancy causes serious danger to the woman's mental health, and when the life or physical or mental health of the woman is endangered.
After 20 weeks of pregnancy abortions are only allowed to be performed if the fetus is likely to be born with severe medical problems, and this must be confirmed by two independently appointed doctors.
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If a woman is seeking an abortion in WA and is under the age of 16, then one of her parents must be notified, except when permission has been given by the Children's Court, or if the woman doesn't live with her parents.
Abortion can be carried out upon request up to 22 weeks and six days of pregnancy.
After that additional medical consultation is required.
Although South Australia last year passed laws to decriminalise abortion, the regulations for that legislation to take effect are still under consideration.
Once the new laws are operational, patients will no longer have to seek permission from two doctors to have an abortion and will be able to access RU486 via telehealth like most other pregnant people across the country.
Abortion can be accessed up to 16 weeks through a GP, with medical abortions only able to be performed up to eight weeks.
In certain rare circumstances an abortion can be performed later in the pregnancy by Canberra Hospital.
A woman can legally get an abortion in Tasmania at the 16th week of pregnancy.
The service may also be available after that time frame after an assessment by two doctors.
Abortion was decriminalised in Victoria in 2008.
Patients can seek an abortion up to 24 weeks gestation after which doctors must approve.
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