World leaders to discuss healthcare at the COP28 summit. Calls for a resolution to eligibility issues for the National Disability Insurance Scheme. And in the AFLW, the Lions celebrate their grand final win.
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- World leaders to discuss healthcare at the COP28 summit...
- Calls for a resolution to eligibility issues for the National Disability Insurance Scheme...
- And in the AFLW, the Lions celebrate their grand final win.
Over 40 million healthcare professionals are calling on world leaders to prioritise health at this years COP28 Climate Summit.
Government ministers are expected to discuss ways in which they can protect public health as climate change threatens to overturn decades of public health progression.
Experts from the World Health Organization are warning that from 20-30 - heat stress, malaria, diarrhoea and malnutrition will push up the global death toll by 250,000 per year.
The World Health Organization says floods in Pakistan last year caused malaria rates to rise by 40 percent and wildfire air pollution in the United States now kills between 4,000 and 28,000 people per year.
Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova says humanity is marching towards the precipice.
" Every five seconds, someone dies a premature death because of pollution. Our inaction will soon make it every four seconds. Eighty-eight percent of the existing disease as a result of climate change occurs in children under five years of age. How much more do we want to harm the future generations?"
Disability advocates say people living with autism shouldn't be excluded from the National Disability Insurance Scheme, as leaders prepare to discuss reforms at National Cabinet this week.
The NDIS is facing cost blowouts, partly driven by unexpectedly high number of Australians with autism and developmental delay joining the scheme.
Some of the changes flagged include shifting some costs to the states - and an autism diagnosis likely won't be enough to qualify someone to access the scheme.
Equal Access For Autism chairman Peter Marshall told SBS, he wants to work with the federal government to find solutions.
"Without pre-empting the discussions, we say there should be automatic inclusion. The NDIS is there to support families with disabilities. And indeed there are so many families affected with children on the spectrum. We would love to have that discussion about what could be achieved. We would love to be able to translate that into seeing how we can match our aspirations with that of the NDIS."
Ukraine's air force says Russia launched twelve drones and a guided Kh-9 cruise missile into Ukraine's northwest over the weekend.
Ukraine says their air defence systems took down ten of the Russian drones in the south of Ukraine before they reached their target.
They say the cruise missile was not destroyed but did not reach it's target, giving no further details on the missile and making no on what happened to the other two drones.
The drones used by Russia are Iranian-made self detonating Shahed drones.
Russia is accusing Ukrainian forces of striking several villages in the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine but says no major damage or casualties occurred.
The Philippines says there are over 135 Chinese vessels now 'swarming' around Whitsun reef off one of its coastlines.
The Philippine's Coast Guard says they counted one hundred and eleven vessels in November and that the growing presence the ships is alarming.
The Coast Guard says "no response was made to the radio challenges issued by the Philippines Coast Guard to the Chinese Maritime militia vessels."
Beijing claims a majority of the waters in the South China Sea and has historically ignored international tribunal decisions that it has no legal claims to the waters.
Whitsun Reef is over 1,000km away from the nearest Chinese landmass.
The Brisbane Lions have have delivered a 17-point win over North Melbourne in the AFLW grand final.
Brisbane forward Dakota Davidson kicked two last-quarter goals to help the Lions secure the premiership win.
The matches final scores were forty four to twenty seven.
Brisbane Coach Craig Starcevich told Channel Seven, Davidson's appearance on the field was unsure leading up to the final due to a knee injury in the preliminary.
"Saturday night last week I was planning for a different looking forward line. Sunday morning, when we got a bit of nondescript scan back we were sort of still waiting to see what it looked like, and then by Sunday afternoon we knew that she right to go basically. Normally the medical staff come to us pessimistically, but when they actually come to you optimistically I'm thinking ooh, we're some chance here so. She's such an important part of our group both from an energy, but she's a player"
