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Afternoon News Bulletin September 16, 2024

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Afternoon News Bulletin September 16, 2024

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  • FBI says Donald Trump was target of new assassination attempt
  • A political battle over housing legislation
  • Australian Oscar Piastri celebrates winning the Azerbaijan Grand Prix
Donald Trump was the target of an attempted assassination at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, the FBI said, just nine weeks after the Republican presidential candidate survived another assassination attempt.
The former president says he is doing well.
Secret Service agents spotted a gunman with an AK-47-style rifle in the bushes near the property line.
They spoke with the suspect, identified as 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh of Hawaii, who allegedly fired at least four shots.
The shooter fled in a black Nissan, leaving behind his rifle and backpacks.
Police issued a warning, which led to Routh’s arrest on I-95 by Martin County deputies.
Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw explains that if Trump had been the sitting president, the shooting may have been prevented.
“Well, you have to understand that the golf course is surrounded by brush. So if someone climbs into the brush, they’re pretty much out of sight. Okay? And at this level where he’s at right now, he’s not the sitting president. If he was, we would have this entire golf course surrounded. But because he’s not, the security is limited to the areas that the Secret Service deems possible. So I imagine the next time he comes to the golf course, you know, there’s probably a little bit more people around the perimeter. But the Secret Service did exactly what they were supposed to do. They provided exactly what the protection was supposed to be. And their agent did a fantastic job.”
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spoke on ABC when the news broke, saying it was important that differences in a democracy were resolved through the ballot box and not by force.
“It’s good that President Trump has said he’s safe, and the incident – the details of which are still coming out. So it’s not entirely clear what all those details are. What is clear is that President Trump is safe. That’s a good thing.”
The Prime Minister has urged the Greens to support Labor’s housing bills as they go before the Senate this week.
There is no clear path for the legislation through the Senate, as neither the Coalition nor the Greens support Labor’s Help to Buy or Build to Rent housing initiatives.
The Help to Buy shared ownership scheme allows the government to lend up to 40 percent of the cost of a home to 40,000 eligible buyers. The Build to Rent tax relief, on the other hand, is designed to encourage developers to build affordable rental homes.
Housing Minister Clare O’Neil says it’s time for politicians to take action on housing.
“What we’ve had so far is Peter Dutton trying to stop us from getting this bill through, and the Greens supporting him. That has got to stop. We’ve heard a lot of politicians in this parliament talking about their concern for home ownership over the last two years. Now it’s time for action.”
The construction arm of the Victorian branch of the CFMEU has become trapped in a cycle of ‘lawlessness’, with violence accepted and threats replacing negotiations.
This is one of the findings of an interim report into allegations that the Building and General Department was involved in criminal and corrupt practices, as exposed by Nine Newspapers earlier this year.
The interim report was conducted by lawyer Geoffrey Watson, who was hired in July by CFMEU national secretary Zach Smith to conduct an independent investigation into the allegations.
Mr Watson made seven recommendations, including that further research be conducted to identify instances where officers from the Victoria department have engaged in or been subjected to threatening, violent or abusive behaviour.
The death toll from flooding in Central Europe has now risen to eight people, with thousands of people evacuated from their homes in the Czech Republic.
A low-pressure area has brought torrential rain from Austria to Romania, causing some of the worst flooding in nearly 30 years in the worst-affected areas of the Czech Republic and Poland.
In the Czech city of Opava, rescue worker Jindrich Stefek says teams are being forced to find alternative ways to reach stranded or trapped people.
“We were rescuing people who were two meters above us on a roof. There were more people stuck in front of the roof, but the current is very strong. We tried to get there, to find an alternative way to reach them, because the current is too strong for the boats.”
In the sporting world, Australian Oscar Piastri has revealed that he ignored his race engineer’s instructions and carried out the daring and dangerous overtaking move that won him the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Looking back on what he called “probably the best win of my career”, Piastri said he chose to seize the opportunity with his overtake on lap 20.
He added that he was going against a warning from race engineer Tom Stallard over the radio, who had asked him to be careful with his new tyres.
The 23-year-old says he decided to take the risk.

“After the pit stop I saw that we had somehow managed to gain quite a bit of time. And the first lap or two of the first stint I had a bit of a chance – but I didn’t really get close enough. So I knew that when I was in DRS (drag reduction system) on that one lap, I knew I had to try everything to hang on because if I didn’t I definitely wasn’t going to win the race. So I knew I had to go for it.”

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