Category: MIL-OSI

Source: Tasmania Police

Call for information after release of truck-motorcycle dashcam footage

Monday, 18 May 2026 – 2:18 pm.

Police have released dashcam footage of a near-collision between a truck and a motorcycle on a rural road in southern Tasmania as part of the investigation to identify the parties involved.
The incident came to light recently after a member of the public submitted dashcam footage of it to police.
You can view the video here.
Police are calling for information to identify the truck and its driver, and the two motorcycle riders in the incident, which occurred on Highland Lakes Road, Apsley, at 11.59am on Saturday, 2 May.
No crash was reported to police.
In the video, the truck is seen to swerve across double lines on multiple occasions and, when taking a bend in the road, narrowly avoids a collision with a motorcycle rider coming in the opposite direction.
Tasmania Police Inspector Vanessa Castle described the footage as ‘frightening’.
“It was a very close call and could have had a tragic outcome,” Inspector Castle said.
“Police are investigating the incident and are eager to identify the vehicles involved and to speak with the driver of the heavy vehicle.
“The footage was supplied to police via the owner of the dashcam in a vehicle following the truck.
“The two motorcycle riders are not known at this stage, and we are looking to have them come forward to assist in the investigation.”
Anyone that has information can contact police on 131 444 or report anonymously to Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Source: Prime Minister of Australia

STEVE GEORGANAS, MEMBER FOR ADELAIDE: Good morning everyone, and welcome to the federal seat of Adelaide. It’s great to be here with the Prime Minister here today in the electorate of Adelaide, the Premier, Peter Malinauskas, Nick Champion, and my colleague Louise Miller Frost from the neighbouring seat of Boothby. We were here in 2025 in May to have a look at the construction that was just beginning with the Prime Minister and the Premier. It’s great to be here, nearly two years later, just over two years, to see it come to fruition, and to actually speak to people who have had their lives changed because of the policies that we’ve put in place to ensure there’s more housing. Lots is being done in this area, lots was announced the other night, and I know that the things that we’ve announced and the work that we’re putting into housing will ensure that the next generation of Australians, it will be a little bit easier for them to purchase their home and have the same opportunities that people my age had in terms of fulfilling that Australian dream, and that is a roof over your head. It’s so important, whether it be social housing, making it easier for renters, and ensuring that people can purchase their own homes as well. On that note, I’ll hand over to the Prime Minister.

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Source: Australian Capital Territory Policing

Ingenia Gardens will pay over $1 million after failing to provide safe and functional kitchen facilities in rental units for older, financially vulnerable Victorians. 

Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV) investigated the company after a report from the Housing for the Aged Action Group (HAAG). 

Inspections by CAV’s Renting Taskforce found that many units did not have cooktops and that rental agreements prohibited renters from cooking at home.  

Ingenia Gardens instead offered renters paid meal plans at an additional cost. 

Not having cooktops in a rental property is a breach of Victoria’s rental minimum standards – mandatory requirements to make a property safe, functional and secure. Including unfair terms in a contract is a breach of the Australian Consumer Law.  

Under an enforceable undertaking, Ingenia Gardens has agreed to pay $1 million, will compensate affected renters an estimated $400,000, and will pay $100,000 to HAAG. 

Ingenia Gardens operates over 250 units in Victoria and markets its properties to seniors looking for low maintenance and independent living. 

As part of the undertaking, the company must report to CAV every 6 months to demonstrate it’s improving its properties to meet minimum standards. 

It must also remove unfair contract terms stopping people cooking in their own home. The company may also be audited for compliance at any time. 

CAV Director Nicole Rich said minimum standards were not optional.  

‘They exist to ensure all renters have access to a safe and functional home. Failing to provide basic kitchen facilities and prohibiting renters from cooking in their own homes is unacceptable and unlawful. 

‘We will continue to take strong and decisive action against any rental providers – big or small – who fail to meet their legal obligations,’ Rich said.  

Ingenia Gardens is part of the Ingenia Communities Group (ASX:INA), with over 100 communities and development sites across Australia. 

A copy of the undertaking is available at:

Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services

The Northern Territory Police Force has charged a 23-year-old male in relation to a stabbing that occurred in Tennant Creek on Friday evening.

Around 11:35pm, the Joint Emergency Services Communication Centre received a report that a 31-year-old male had been stabbed while sleeping at a residence in Tennant Creek.

The victim, who is known to the offender, was conveyed to Tennant Creek Hospital before being further conveyed to Alice Springs Hospital where he remains in a stable condition.

The 23-year-old offender was arrested a short time later by attending police and has since been charged with Aggravated assault and Cause serious harm.

He was remanded in custody to appear in the Alice Springs Local Court on Wednesday 20 May.

If you or someone you know are experiencing difficulties due to family or domestic violence, support services are available, including, but not limited to, 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732) or Lifeline 131 114.

Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services

The Northern Territory Police Force has arrested a 29-year-old male after seizing over 600g of cannabis from his vehicle in the vicinity of Curtin Springs yesterday.

At 5:40pm, Kulgera police members were conducting traffic duties on the Lasseter Highway and performed a roadside breath and drug test on the driver of a black Holden Captiva.

The driver, a 29-year-old male, tested positive for cannabis and a subsequent search of the vehicle located 662 grams of the illicit drug.

The offender was arrested and later charged with Possess and Supply Commercial Quantity – Schedule 2 Dangerous Drug, along with traffic related offences.

He was conveyed to Alice Springs and is due to appear in court today.

Senior Sergeant of Southern Desert Division Conan Robertson said, “This was excellent proactive police work by our local members that prevented drugs from entering remote communities.

“Anyone with information about the distribution of illicit substances should contact police on 131 444 or report anonymously via Crime Stoppers.”

Source: Prime Minister of Australia

wo more brand-new apartment buildings including 100 homes ready to be lived in have now been completed at Prospect Corner in Adelaide, as a result of the Albanese Government’s Housing Australia Future Fund program and the Malinauskas State Government.

Today Prime Minister Albanese and Premier Malinauskas marked the milestone by visiting the site and meeting with local residents.

Prospect Corner is an $80 million, 208-home urban renewal project in Prospect, South Australia. Notably, this 2.36-hectare master-planned site was one of the first nationally to receive federal backing from the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) to boost housing supply under the Albanese Government’s $47 billion Homes for Australians plan.

Today’s milestone means that three-quarters of the homes at the Renewal SA precinct are now complete or under construction.

This latest construction milestone at the site builds on the 29‑home, multi-storey apartment completed on the southeastern edge of the development in recent months which is already fully occupied.

Further, an eight-storey building with 71 apartments recently achieved practical completion and residents are expected to begin moving in this week.

Prospect Corner’s original master plan included a single apartment tower with 72 homes.

In 2024, the Malinauskas Government was successful in securing support from the Albanese Government’s Housing Australia Future Fund Facility (HAFFF), enabling a second apartment development to be completed, increasing the total yield.

The tenanted 29-home building is being managed by Community Housing Provider Junction, offering affordable rental opportunities to eligible tenants through a government-led scheme.

Renewal SA is in final stage negotiations with a Community Housing Provider to manage the recently completed 71 home building.

The apartments offer a mix of studio, one, two and three-bedroom homes.

Both the internal and external spaces feature original First Nations artwork commissioned specifically for the site.

A rolling program of construction will see work on the remaining homes begin throughout this year and into early 2027.

In total, there will be 208 homes built at Prospect Corner – with 108 townhouses being constructed in addition to the 100 apartments.

The first homes and the large central park were completed in spring last year and celebrated with a community welcome event. Thirty additional townhouses are expected to be completed within the next three months.

Renewal SA is targeting construction completion of Prospect Corner in 2028.

Quotes attributable to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese:

“Our number one focus continues to be supply and we are throwing everything at it.

“We want to reach our target to build 1.2 million homes. And to do that we must use ever lever available.

“My government has a $47 billion Homes for Australians Plan that we have been rolling out since we were elected four years ago.

“We’d had 10 years of Coalition inaction on housing supply. We are turning things around.”

Quotes attributable to Premier of South Australia, Peter Malinauskas:

“South Australia is in the middle of a housing boom, the likes of which we’ve never seen before.

“That is because our government has a track record of taking vacant, strategic land in key locations and turning it into thriving suburbs.

“The Albanese Government has backed in our ambitious housing agenda. That manifests itself in the significant expansion of our efforts to build more homes, just like at Prospect Corner.

“We are building more homes, faster, for South Australians.”

Quotes attributable to the Minister for Housing, Clare O’Neil:

“We’ve got a very simple approach to housing: build more homes. That’s what’s happening here at Prospect Corner and right across South Australia.

“More homes means more affordable housing, and that’s exactly what this project is delivering for South Australians.”

Quotes attributable to SA Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Nick Champion:

“Prospect Corner is a benchmark for smart urban renewal; great location, affordable options and a community that’s coming to life.

“The Albanese Government partners with our government because it knows we can deliver more homes for South Australians at pace.

“A once vacant block of land is now a thriving community – that’s the Albanese and Malinauskas Government’s housing agenda in action.”

Source: Prime Minister of Australia

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Source: Airservices Australia

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC) today released a report detailing the findings of Project Acacia – a joint initiative examining how innovations in digital money and settlement infrastructure could support the development of wholesale tokenised asset markets in Australia.

The project was led by the RBA and the DFCRC in collaboration with industry participants, with support from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), and the Australian Treasury.

Conducted against a backdrop of growing global momentum in tokenised finance, Project Acacia identified the potential for asset tokenisation – alongside innovations in digital money and settlement infrastructure – to enhance the efficiency, functionality and resilience of Australia’s wholesale financial markets. The project also identified several challenges to scaling tokenised markets that warrant deeper analysis by regulators and industry, including some that connect to the broader environment for responsible financial innovation in Australia.

As part of the project, industry participants developed and tested 20 wholesale tokenised asset market use cases spanning a range of asset classes. These use cases demonstrated potential benefits from tokenisation across the asset lifecycle from issuance and servicing to trading and settlement. The use cases also explored multiple methods for settling tokenised asset transactions using different forms of public and private digital money, including traditional RBA exchange settlement account (ESA) balances, a pilot wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC), tokenised commercial bank deposits and stablecoins.

Building on the momentum generated by Project Acacia, the report outlines a new multi-stream program aimed at advancing responsible innovation in Australia’s wholesale financial markets. The program will focus on overcoming long standing co-ordination challenges, removing unnecessary barriers to the safe adoption of new technologies, and enabling industry participants to explore and scale innovative approaches to uplifting wholesale market functioning in a manner consistent with financial stability.

Key elements of the program, which will involve a range of stakeholders, include:

• Strengthened cooperation between industry and regulators
• Exploration of a new regulatory ‘sandbox’ for digital financial market infrastructure to provide industry with a more structured pathway from experimentation to commercialisation
• Consideration of the opportunities and challenges associated with government issuance of tokenised bonds
• Continued industry-led work on interoperable commercial bank deposit tokens
• RBA consultation with industry on opportunities to safely adapt its settlement infrastructure and ESA access arrangements, alongside continued exploration of wCBDC.

The RBA and DFCRC wish to thank all industry participants for their involvement in Project Acacia.

Brad Jones, Assistant Governor (Financial System) at the RBA said:

The constructive engagement between industry and public sector agencies was a foundation stone for the success of Project Acacia. It surfaced a set of common opportunities and challenges in making our financial system more dynamic and resilient through a period of intense technological disruption. The scope of future initiatives we are outlining today is ambitious – covering tokenised assets, money and new infrastructure arrangements – and recognises that it will take a collective effort to ensure Australia’s financial system is well positioned for the digital age.

Professor Tālis Putniņš, Co-CEO and Chief Scientist at the DFCRC said:

Project Acacia demonstrated how tokenised assets, digital money and new settlement infrastructure can improve the efficiency and functioning of wholesale financial markets. This includes faster settlement, reduced counterparty risk, improved capital efficiency and automated asset servicing. Australia achieved important world firsts through Project Acacia, including the issuance of pilot wholesale CBDC onto both public and private distributed ledger infrastructure for research purposes, demonstrating Australia’s capability to play a leading role in the next generation of financial market infrastructure.

DFCRC research estimates that digital finance innovation could deliver $24 billion in annual economic gains for Australia. The opportunity now is to build on the momentum from Project Acacia by translating successful experimentation into real-world adoption through continued collaboration between industry, regulators and government.

For a March 2026 speech summarising the key findings of Project Acacia, see: After Acacia: The Next Era of Financial System Innovation?

Source: State of Victoria Local Government 2

The City of Greater Bendigo is proposing to name the future trail that will run alongside the Ironbark Gully Creek – Yirrip Baring and is inviting the community to comment on the proposed name.

Yirrip Baring means “Ironbark Track” in the language of the Dja Dja Wurrung.

City of Greater Bendigo Active and Healthy Communities Manager Deb Simpson said the construction of the trail is a key project of the City’s 2019 Walk, Cycle Bendigo Strategy.

“The proposed three-kilometre shared trail, links to the existing walking/cycling path network, nearby homes, schools, sports and recreation areas. It will help more people be physically active and make it easier to access quality public spaces,” Ms Simpson said.

“The City is a Naming Authority for places that it owns or manages. The naming of existing and new City-owned facilities in Traditional Owner language is in line with the City’s Reconciliation Plan Barpangu and our commitment to supporting Aboriginal place naming and the use of Traditional Owner language in public spaces across the municipality.

“Naming of all roads, features and localities in Victoria must follow the statutory requirements of the Naming Rules for Places in Victoria.

“Registering place names with Geographic Names Victoria is essential to identify locations for managing emergencies and delivering goods and services in Victoria.”

Submissions will then be considered and a report presented to Council with all the information. All submissions must comply with Naming rules for places in Victoria – Statutory requirements for naming roads, features and localities – 2022.

Source: State of Victoria Local Government 2

The City of Greater Bendigo is encouraging residents to recognise local people who make a difference, with a refreshed Citizen of the Year awards now open for nominations year-round.

The updated awards enable community members to submit nominations throughout the year, with nominations closing on December 1 each year.

Every year, the City celebrates two outstanding residents as Citizen of the Year and Young Citizen of the Year, recognising individuals who make meaningful contributions to the Greater Bendigo community.

Residents are encouraged to nominate people who shine across a range of areas, including sport, arts and culture, education, business and community service.

Greater Bendigo Mayor Cr Thomas Prince said the refreshed awards process makes it easier than ever to celebrate local people.

“We know there are so many remarkable people in Greater Bendigo who give their time, energy and passion to support others and strengthen our community,” Cr Prince said.

“By opening nominations year-round, we’re making it simpler for people to recognise those everyday contributions when they see them, rather than waiting for a specific window.

“Launching the refreshed awards during National Volunteer Week is especially meaningful, as these awards are a way for us to acknowledge the dedication of volunteers who embody the spirit of giving back.

“If you know someone who goes above and beyond, now is the time to nominate them.

“Nominating is simple, all residents need to do is complete a short online form outlining the nominee’s achievements and impact.”

Eligibility:

• Your nominee must be an Australian Citizen living in Greater Bendigo
• A Young Citizen of the Year nominee must be under 25 years of age on January 26
• Sorry, you can’t nominate yourself or immediate family!

To nominate, visit: