2GB and Nine presenter Deborah Knight shares a very special letter to her children this International Women's Day.

To my Dear Daughters,

Happy International Women's Day! It's great being a girl, and there's so much to celebrate.

We've come so far from the days when girls weren't allowed to do so much. We couldn't
have a job, or own our own things. We weren't allowed to vote at elections, or go to school,
and a lot of this was not that long ago, and for no good reason.

Girls and women were just as able to reach their full potential as you are today – they just
weren't given the chance.

'The harsh truth is you can't easily have it all, maybe not all at once. But I really hope you try'

Now, there are so many more opportunities for girls. If you work hard and put your mind to it,
you can achieve so much in your life and career. You can even be a champion in sports that
once only boys were allowed to play.

But unfortunately there is still a way to go before you are judged only on what you are able to
do, rather than whether you're a boy or a girl.

Your brother will still earn more money than you for the same job. He'll do less work around
the house, and retire on more superannuation. He'll be more likely to be your boss or the
Prime Minister.

You'll be at much greater risk of being a victim of domestic violence or sexual assault, and if
you do become a professional sports star, you'll earn a fraction of what your brother would,
and most likely have to fit another job around your training to pay the bills.

There is so much to celebrate this International Women's Day, but I'm not going to tell you
what I believed was true when I was your age.

You can't easily have it all.

If you want to have children of your own and a career, it will be hard. You'll feel like you're
failing at one or both jobs – letting down your boss and your family at certain points. You'll
feel guilty, and be made to feel guilty for the choices you make.

The harsh truth is you can't easily have it all, maybe not all at once. But I really hope you try.

Love Mum.

Xx

And to my Dear Son,

I hope there's a day soon when we don't need to have an International Women's Day,
because boys and girls will be truly equal.

Your Dad does so much more in raising you and your sisters than Grandad or Great
Grandad ever did, and I know you will likely do more than all of them if you have your own
family one day. Although you need to get better at hanging up your towel after you have a
shower…

The truth is, the girls can fight as hard as they like to get the same opportunities as you, but
they'll never really achieve it without boys like you stepping up as well.

You need to make sure you show them respect, and call out boys and men you see treating
girls and women badly, either with their words or their actions.

And the truth is, we'll all be better off if boys and girls are treated equally. It will make life so
much easier for everyone.

So I hope you recognise the importance of International Women's Day, not just for your
sisters, but for families everywhere.

Love Mum.

Victoria's controversial medically supervised injecting room in North Richmond is set to become a permanent service, with a review finding it has saved 63 lives.

A second building to house a similar service has also been bought, Premier Daniel Andrews has revealed.

Andrews announced his government will be introducing legislation to continue the health service indefinitely after an independent review found the facility in the inner city had "successfully managed almost 6000 overdoses" since it opened in June 2018.

"This is changing lives and saving lives," Andrews said.

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He said the government also planned to enact recommendations made by the independent panel that reviewed the facility.

It recommended more be done to provide access to integrated treatment, care and support for the facility's users.

However, locals are unhappy.

"Anyone with half a brain would think that this is not appropriate next to a primary school, let alone 5000 vulnerable residents," Christine Maynard from Richmond said.

Oliver Hagen has run the butcher across the road for more than a decade.

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"We have seen it improve but there's still a large amount of violence around the area," he said.

And the number of needles discarded on surrounding streets has more than doubled, with the council now collecting between 12,000 and 18,000 every month.

Emma Kealy, the Shadow Minister for Mental Health, said: "Now if we've got more needles on the streets, we've got more people not using the injecting room and actually coming to the region to inject drugs – which is of course a massive issue".

"Improving neighbourhood amenity" is a goal of the injecting room but the review panel found the trial "has not achieved this key objective".

But when asked, Andrews said it "was not about amenity, it's about saving lives".

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Andrews rejected a recommendation to allow couples, those on bail and pregnant women to use the North Richmond facility.

Long-time 9News reporter Laura Turner campaigned for the injecting room after her sister Skye died of a heroin overdose in 2017.

"If I had it my way we would have them all over Victoria," she said.

"There would be one in Dandenong. There would be one in Footscray. There would be one in the CBD."

It seems the Premier has one location in mind for the next such facility: the former Yooralla building next to Degraves Street.

"We've bought a building. We think there's a strong case to have a second injecting facility, but it's got to be at the right location," he said.

In addition to the purchase of the building, the government is setting up a committee to ensure health, housing, homelessness, alcohol and other drug and mental health supports are offered to people who use North Richmond room.

Andrews' government opened the safety injecting room in June 2018 as part of a two-year trial, which was then extended for another three years to June this year.

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It has attracted controversy since its opening.

Parents from a nearby primary school, Richmond West Primary School, have complained about its proximity to young children, and neighbours say there have reported an increase in crime and waste in surrounding streets.

A man was found dead just metres from the injecting room in December 2022, while another man was also found overdosed close to the facility in March 2021.

Eight people, including a worker, were arrested for drug trafficking at the facility in 2019.

Plans for a second safe injecting room in Melbourne, opposite the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne CBD, were raised back in 2020.

The government has advised a decision on its opening will come in mid-2023, with Ken Lay AO, APM conducting an independent consultation into the idea.

A safe injecting room has been operating in Sydney's Kings Cross since it was set up back in 2001.

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The management at the Perth Mint as well as the Western Australian government knew diluted gold had been sold to China nearly a year before it became publicly known.

The national bullion mint sold 100 tonnes of gold to the Shanghai Gold Exchange which potentially did not comply with Chinese purity standards.

The standard for gold purity is 99.99 per cent.

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The scandal was originally reported on the ABC's Four Corners.

Speaking at a press conference this afternoon, Perth Mint CEO Jason Waters said the amount of silver added to the gold sold to China brought its purity from 99.96 per cent to 99.92 per cent.

"These sort of issues are bad for our reputation. It hurts," he said.

"I want to see that repaired and get back to the reputation that we should have."

Waters said the gold doping took place before he was CEO.

He said he had spoken with WA Mines Minister Bill Johnston about the incident.

Waters did not go into detail about their conversations.

"Since my appointment last year and since I became aware of it, I had some conversations with the minister about it

"It's a fresh team here at the mint now."

He said gold was now being minted to Shanghai Gold Exchange standards.

Though the doping scandal only became public knowledge yesterday, there was a possibility that the mint would have to buy back 100 tonnes of bullion.

As the mint is wholly owned by the WA government, such a recall would have forced Western Australian taxpayers to pay for the gold.

Waters was also asked how a notorious bikie was able to buy $27,000 in gold at the mint by just showing his driver's licence, another incident exposed by Four Corners.

Waters declined to comment.

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Police were alerted to an incident on Ngongotahā Rd, near Taui St, about 7.10pm.

‘The benefits far outweigh the costs that we’ve incurred in terms of better engagement.’

A father has narrowly avoided jail after he was caught driving up to 200km/h in an 80 zone on a Sydney motorway after a drinking session.

Accountant Patrick Zhou was handed a nine-month suspended jail term, fined $1330 and is disqualified from driving for two years after he pled guilty to six charges including dangerous driving.

The Hurstville father was caught driving his Mercedes at the excessive speed through the M4 tunnel on Homebush Bay Drive in December.

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NSW Police said the 27-year-old smelt strongly of alcohol and failed to do a breath test seven times.

Zhou resisted his arrest then gave a fake name and address to police.

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His barrister Matt Fordham told the court "it was breathtaking stupidity".

A magistrate told Zhou he could have killed someone and he was lucky to be appearing before a local court instead of the coroner's court.

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A jury has found three people, including the son of a former Australian Taxation Office official, guilty of tax fraud for their part in a scheme which netted over $105 million.

On Tuesday, after seven weeks of deliberations, jurors found Adam Michael Cranston, Dev Menon and Jason Cornell Onley guilty for their role in the Plutus Payroll scheme.

Cranston, Menon and Onley are on trial in the NSW Supreme Court, each facing two charges of conspiring to cause a loss to the Commonwealth and conspiring to deal with the proceeds of crime worth more than $1 million.

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The jury is still considering their verdicts for two other co-accused, Cranston's sister Lauren Cranston and Patrick Willmott, over their alleged roles.

In the trial, which lasted for almost nine months, jurors were told that the financial services group withheld tax from the ATO using a number of second-tier companies.

These fraudulently obtained amounts funded lavish lifestyles featuring fast cars, planes and real estate.

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Adam Cranston would use his father Michael Cranston, who was deputy commissioner of the ATO at the time, to find out whether the tax office knew about their scheme, the jury heard.

The five accused denied their guilt, variously pointing the blame at each other and saying they thought the company Plutus, which was named after the Greek god of abundance and wealth, was a legitimate enterprise.

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Emergency services responded to the crash about 4.15pm near Richardson Terrace.

Workers responsible for refuelling Qantas planes at Melbourne Airport are set to strike for 24 hours on Wednesday as they seek a meeting with the airline and their employer, Rivet, amid an industrial dispute over pay and conditions.

However, Qantas said the strike won't have any impact on travellers, and said customers don't need to change their airport plans.

"Our operations team has done a great job of putting workarounds in place and at this stage we're not expecting any material impact to our flights on Wednesday," the airport said in a statement.

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According to Qantas, those workarounds include flying a spare plane to Sydney with its maximum fuel load and using it to refuel other aircraft there, and carrying extra fuel on flights into Melbourne.

The airline contracts ExxonMobil to provide fuel for Melbourne Airport flights, which in turn subcontracts refuelling to Rivet.

However, the Transport Workers Union (TWU) said Qantas has the sway to impact the industrial negotiations, and called on the airline to meet with Rivet and workers amid the dispute.

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"Qantas has enjoyed a $1 billion half-year profit while workers refuelling Qantas planes have not received a pay increase for nearly three years," the letter from TWU acting branch secretary Mem Suleyman to Andrew David, Qantas' CEO of domestic and international, read.

"As Rivet's major client, accounting for at least 60 per cent of the work, Qantas has the ability and responsibility to dictate through its contracts with labour providers that workers refuelling its planes are receiving fair pay and safe working conditions.

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"We are writing to call on you to urgently meet with Rivet and the elected worker bargaining committee to ensure workers receive a fair package that will ease their increasing workloads, including manageable rosters and certainty over hours, as well as fair provisions for overtime and being called in on a day off."

The refuellers' strike will begin at 4am on Wednesday and, according to the TWU, will mainly impact Qantas, freight airlines Australia Air Express and DHL, and some international carriers.

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