Nema said there is no tsunami danger to New Zealand.

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An unlikely product sitting in millions of Australian families' cupboards and garages could be helping fuel a rise in superbugs, concerning new research suggests.

Antimicrobial resistance is estimated to be responsible for between 1.1 million and 1.4 million deaths worldwide annually.

In October, the World Health Organisation (WHO) again sounded the alarm on the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals around the world.

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The WHO found antibiotic resistance rose in more than 40 per cent of antibiotic-pathogen combinations it monitored in the five years to 2023.

"Antimicrobial resistance is outpacing advances in modern medicine, threatening the health of families worldwide," WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said of the findings.

It's long been thought that overuse of antibiotics was the key driver of bacteria evolving to resist the antibiotics, but research published in Frontiers today suggests that a common weedkiller can have the same effect.

Glyphosate is a common ingredient in many weedkillers, with about 500 products containing it registered by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA).

Its use by both home gardeners and Australian farmers has become ubiquitous over the past 40 years.

Now, new research suggests it is driving antimicrobial resistance in soil bacteria as a side-effect of developing resistance to the weedkiller itself.

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A team of microbiologists in Argentina collected 68 bacterial strains from soil collected near Buenos Aires, near farmland where glyphosate is commonly used, with strains found in local hospitals.

The strains were each found to be resistant to between one and 16 of the antibiotics tested.

Crucially, all hospital strains were also found to be highly resistant to glyphosate and glyphosate-based weedkillers.

"This means that if these bacteria enter the environment through untreated wastewater from hospitals, they could go on to thrive in agricultural areas where glyphosate is used," said one of the study authors, Dr Camila Knecht.

It's not the first time the impacts of glyphosate have sparked controversy.

It is known to harm arthropods, in particular bees, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified it as a probable human carcinogen.

In Australia, a class action by 800 Australian non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients failed to conclusively prove that glyphosate causes cancer.

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South-eastern Australia is set to be blasted by an early taste of winter this week, with chilly, wet and windy conditions forecast for several capital cities.

Converging low-pressure and high-pressure systems will cause a surge of rain, hail, thunderstorms, gusty winds, and even snow across parts of Tasmania, Victoria, NSW, South Australia and the ACT from tomorrow, according to Weatherzone.

Light showers are expected to develop in most areas from tomorrow, but isolated regions can expect heavier rainfall and thunderstorms before conditions worsen on Thursday and Friday.

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Melbourne is headed for its coldest day of the year on Friday, when the mercury is expected to peak at just 16 degrees, coupled with up to 15 millimetres of rain.

Ski resorts such as Thredbo and Falls Creek could see small amounts of snow on Friday.

Showers and a possible storm are forecast for Sydney on Thursday, before the city dips to a maximum of 21 degrees on Friday.

The worst of the weather system is expected to centre around the ACT, where Canberra can expect an afternoon storm on Thursday, before a chilly top of 14 degrees and up to 20 millimetres of rain on Friday.

The temperature in Hobart will fall to 16 and then 15 degrees on Friday and Saturday, respectively. Tasmania won't receive as much rain as the mainland, with showers totalling 7 millimetres on Thursday the peak of the rain for Hobart.

Conditions in Adelaide will be mostly fine, with minimal rain forecast and mild temperatures in the low 20s.

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Residents in Perth and Western Australia's south-west are being urged to keep a close eye on the horizon with ex-tropical Cyclone Narelle likely to redevelop on the open ocean tonight.

After drenching the Northern Territory and the Kimberley, the system is forecast to re-intensify into a powerful cyclone and could potentially track as far south as the state capital by the weekend.

As of this afternoon, Narelle is a tropical low, positioned 25 kilometres west northwest of Kuri Bay and 360 kilometres northeast of Broome, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

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The system has already left a trail of destruction across the Northern Territory, where it made landfall as a category 3 cyclone on Saturday night.

According to Weatherzone, the deluge has been relentless.

A rain gauge at Adelaide River Town recorded 202 millimetres in the 24 hours to 9am on Monday, triggering major flooding.

Weatherzone anticipated Narelle would redevelop into a tropical cyclone "before possibly turning south and heading towards Perth this weekend".

The Bureau now expects that to happen offshore tonight.

The system is heading west southwest and moving offshore of the west Kimberley coast.

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A Severe Weather Warning is current in the north Kimberley for damaging winds and possible heavy rainfall.

Bureau meteorologist Ilana Cherny said the cyclone will move roughly parallel to the Pilbara coast tomorrow.

"Once we head later into Thursday and Friday, we're expecting it to intensify further into a category 4 severe tropical cyclone before curving around the Exmouth coast and making more of a south-westwards trajectory," Cherny said.

By the end of the week, Weatherzone said there was a chance it could even reach category 5, the highest tier on the scale.

Will it hit Perth?

Computer models show a significant "curve" in the path of the cyclone starting on Friday.

"Once we head into Friday and the weekend, there is a bit of a range of possible scenarios of where this system will track," Cherny said.

"It may cross the coast closer to the northern parts of the west coast of Western Australia, or it may linger offshore for a little bit longer and cross the coast further south between Geraldton and Perth during the weekend."

Regardless of its path, the southern half of Western Australia can expect heavy rainfall, damaging wind gusts and coastal hazards such as large waves and coastal erosion.

If Narelle tracks southwards, it is expected to accelerate and may transition into an extra-tropical cyclone. 

While technically different in their energy sources, both systems are equally dangerous, capable of bringing powerful winds, heavy rain, and large waves to the Perth metropolitan area by Sunday.

A cyclone reaching Perth is an unusual occurrence, but it is not without precedent.

Bureau records show that 14 systems classified as tropical cyclones have brought gale-force winds or property damage to Perth between 1910 and 2024.

The most recent comparison for many locals is Tropical Cyclone Seroja, which devastated Kalbarri in 2021.

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Diesel for the Mr Whippy vans has jumped $1.38 in a month to $3.19 a litre.

Australian women unable to afford sanitary items are resorting to stealing or using household items like bread instead of pads as the cost-of-living crisis deepens.

As the price of fuel surges to unaffordable levels and consecutive cash rate hikes stretch bank accounts further, many women are being forced to choose between period products and other essentials.

One woman in regional Victoria said she had been using bread to manage her period before coming to charity Share the Dignity for help, while some have used wadded up toilet paper, Chux wipes or old towels.

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Others have needed to shoplift to enjoy the basic dignity of pads or tampons.

It's a problem impacting the majority of people who menstruate.

Some 64 per cent of Australians who need period products have struggled to afford them, according the the charity's Bloody Big Survey.

"When somebody really struggled to fuel their car up at $1.95, what do you think $2.95 is going to do?" Share the Dignity founder and managing director Rochelle Courtenay said.

"Especially to women who already put themselves last."

Courtenay has urged her own staff to work from home as petrol prices near $3 per litre.

The existing cost of living issues compounded by the war in the Middle East has meant the number of people needing charity from Share the Dignity has ballooned to unexpected numbers.

Traditionally, Share the Dignity offers period care products to women experiencing homelessness or fleeing domestic violence.

But Courtenay said the period poverty crisis has spilled out across the country.

She warned even those with incomes above $100,000 were facing the problem.

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"This is going to affect so many more people, I'm scared for what's coming," Courtenay said.

"And nobody wants to admit that they've got their period and that they cannot afford basic essentials.

"There's so much shame in that."

The charity's survey also found that one in four women wear period products for longer than recommended due to spiralling costs.

Courtenay said this is a heartbreaking reminder of the dangers of period poverty.

"That is only going to harm you from a toxic shock perspective, but also but also the anxiety that comes with that," Courtenay said.

"And I'm scared hearing about women having to even think about using bread in their underwear.

"This is really then too much for Share the Dignity.

"We can't get period products in the hands of everybody that needs them."

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Share the Dignity is calling on the federal government, state governments and councils to take action on period poverty.

The charity also urging businesses to provide free products for staff.

The aim is to treat menstrual products with the same urgency and importance as toilet paper.

The charity's March dignity drive, which takes places at Woolworths stores, is coming to an end, but only 26 per cent of the target has been met.

Share the Dignity hosts another drive in August but this month's drive will likely not bring in enough period products to last until then.

"We're giving a woman a warm jacket or a pair of shoes and that lasts a few years. This is a monthly problem," Courtenay said.

"And it's not going away because the price of fuel's gone up.

"Right now, we just need everybody in Australia who can afford it, to donate."

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