A treatment for Type 2 diabetes is helping those who are severely overweight shed kilos.

The simple injection style pen has helped Victoria's Lily Pentensuzzo drop a third of her bodyweight.

At her heaviest, Ms Pentensuzzo weighed 137kgs.

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She was diagnosed as borderline diabetic and was prescribed Ozempic as treatment.

Three years later, Ms Petensuzzo has dropped 58kg.

"I was wearing size 26 and I'm wearing now size 14," she said.

Just like an insulin pen, Ozempic is administered by the user at home weekly.

According to Dr Catherine Bacus, the drug works to slow users' guts down, making them feel fuller for longer.

It allowed Ms Petensuzzo to follow a low calorie diet without being constantly hungry.

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Ms Petensuzzo said she felt "so much better" on the treatment.

While Ozempic is currently fully TGA approved and on the PBS for treating Type 2 diabetes, it has not yet been approved for treating obesity.

Doctors like Dr Bacus hope it will be approved soon.

"Eventually we'd love to see this listed on the PBS for the treatment of obesity," she said.

Like most weight loss treatments, health professionals advise the drug must be combined with diet and exercise to achieve long term results.

Australia Post will temporarily suspend parcel post collections for eCommerce retailers for three days to clear a backlog of parcels in its network.

From 9am Saturday September 4 until 7am Tuesday September 7, Australia Post will not collect regular post parcels from ecommerce retailers in NSW, Victoria and the ACT that have prepared items to be shipped to customers.

Express Post, Premium, Startrack Express and letters will be collected as normal. Parcel post collection will continue as normal for all other states.

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Australia Post offices will remain open as normal and customers will be able to pick up and parcels that are waiting for them in their local offices.

The temporary pause on parcel collection from retailers comes as 500 employees of the postal service have been ordered into self-isolation by local health authorities.

"Australia Post currently has 500 people in necessary self-isolation, placing increased pressure on our network, while we also manage flight restrictions, temporary facility closures, and parcel volumes as high as our Christmas peak period," an Australia Post spokesperson said in a statement.

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"Deliveries will continue across the weekend, post offices will remain open as usual, and parcel processing continues, as our people deliver record amounts of parcels to Australians.

"We sincerely apologise to our customers for the inconvenience."

Parcels that are lodged at Post Offices and Standard Post Boxes will also continue to be collected.

As winter draws to a close and warmer temperatures roll in, people are getting out and making the most of the first day of spring.

A Melbourne mum who was eight months pregnant when she killed her aunt, prominent greyhound trainer Karen Leek, with a hammer will spend at least 13 years in jail.

Jessie Moore, 26, was sentenced to a maximum of 18 years' jail in the Supreme Court this morning, after pleading guilty to a charge of murder.

The mother-of-two was handed a non-parole period of 13 years.

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Moore pleaded guilty to killing her 69-year-old aunt in May 2020 in Melbourne's outer south-east before the Supreme Court on August 20.

Moore, who was eight months pregnant, and her five-year-old daughter were living at Ms Leek's Devon Meadows home at the time of the murder.

The court heard Ms Leek was a respected leader of Victoria's greyhound racing industry.

Justice Paul Coghlan recounted the violent incident to the court at the sentencing.

"You struck her to the face and head with the hammer at least 12 times using a severe amount of force," he said.

"A pathologist later described this as a conservative estimate of the number of blows."

The court heard how Moore then tied a plastic bag around Ms Leek's face and put Ms Leek's purse, wallet and keys in another plastic bag.

Moore put the hammer, gloves and her phone in another plastic bag then grabbed her daughter, who heard the argument, and fled the house.

The following morning Moore returned to the house and pretended to have found Ms Leek dead, the court heard.

Moore denied being involved in her aunt's death and lied about what she had been doing at the time.

Police then found a diary in the house, in which Moore had written of her hatred and animosity towards Ms Leek, before DNA linked her to the crime.

Justice Paul Coghlan said the objective seriousness of Moore's crime was high.

"Apart from the fact that your offending was not premeditated, there is nothing about the circumstances which mitigates you behaviour."

"Your young child was nearby. The number of blows demonstrate that this was a sustained attack," he said.

"The placing of the plastic bag across Ms Leek's face was an additional abuse of her."

The court heard Moore suffered from multiple mental and intellectual disorders, some of which were taken into account in the sentencing.

Justice Coghlan further noted he accepted Moore was remorseful and did not see her as a risk to the community.

Moore had already served 454 days' jail at the time of the sentencing.

Packets of pastrami are being recalled nationwide after incorrect use bay dates were printed on the packaging, sparking fears the meat could make people sick.

Anyone who bought a packet of Barossa Fine Foods Pastrami 100g with the use by date marked as 09/12/2021 is being urged to return the product for a full refund.

The meat product has been sold at independent food stores across the country, including IGA supermarkets in every state and territory.

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Knoll Consultants & Investments Pty. Ltd. issued the recall today after it was discovered the Use By date should have been printed as 16/09/2021 – months earlier than what was on the packet.

Food Standards Australia & New Zealand has advised the food could cause illness if it is consumed after 16/09/2021.

Customers who bought the product should return it to the retailer they bought it from for a full refund.

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South Australians have been warned to be on high-alert after five truck drivers from interstate tested positive to COVID-19 within the last six days.

SA Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier called a last minute media conference this afternoon to update residents across the state about the heightened risk, as well as to announce that virus fragments had been detected in a number of sewage sites.

Two men had entered SA from NSW last week – details of which had previously been made known to the public – with communities in the Port Augusta area notified and some planned events cancelled due to the risk.

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Since then, another three drivers have tested positive in recent days – one just this afternoon.

"This is very, very recent news," Professor Spurrier said.

"But I needed to tell the South Australian community that the outbreak in New South Wales and also in Victoria is a real risk here for us in South Australia.

"If anybody has any symptoms whatsoever of COVID-19 you must go and get tested because this is a real situation it is a real risk."

The third truck driver came also came from NSW, receiving a positive result on August 30.

He had a test in NSW last Saturday, and he hadn't received the result of that until he entered SA.

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"As soon as he got that result he let his company know that he was positive, and in fact, that site was able to get hold of the people working there and put them into quarantine very quickly," Professor Spurrier said.

"So, he has now left SA, but we have two listed exposure sites and these have been previously advised, and these sites are up on the SA Health."

A total of 144 contacts of the third driver have been identified, 40 of whom have been ordered into home quarantine.

The fourth driver is a man in his 20s, who previously had been in NSW and in Victoria, and he has also left the state and is now back into Victoria.

Just this afternoon, a fifth truck driver tested positive.

"My team is currently interviewing this person, and risk assessment is underway," Professor Spurrier said.

More details on the fifth driver will be announced in the coming days.

Professor Spurrier said that COVID-19 fragments had also been detected at two sites in Adelaide.

"Now, I have another little bit of concern here just to pass on, we as people know I do regular wastewater testing in South Australia, and I was informed about two positive wastewater tests like yesterday," she said.

"One of those is in the Salisbury area, and we know that we've had positives in that area before related to the Modbury outbreak, so it may be indeed that there have people living in that area that have had COVID and are still shedding the virus.

"But there is another area which is the Hallett Cove, Lonsdale, Morphett Vale, Reynella area and that wastewater site, which is collected on a regular basis, had a test positive yesterday."

All residents across the state have been urged to come forward and seek testing should they experience any symptoms at all, and to regularly check the SA Health website for updated health advice.