Lindsay Clancy mistrial renews debate over postpartum mental health care; More Australian specialists arrive in Nepal to help with the flood response; And in sport, a winning start for the Opals at the basketball World Cup.
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- Lindsay Clancy mistrial renews debate over postpartum mental health care
- More Australian specialists arrive in Nepal to help with the flood response
- A winning start for the Opals at the basketball World Cup
A mistrial has been declared in the Lindsay Clancy murder case, after one of the most closely watched trials in the United States ended with a deadlocked jury.
The six-week trial drew worldwide attention and sparked a major debate over maternal mental health and the treatment of women after childbirth.
Clancy admitted killing her three young children at their Massachusetts home in 2023, but her lawyers argued she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time.
Her defence attorney, Kevin Reddington, says the case exposed serious shortcomings in the care available to women experiencing postpartum mental illness.
"Obviously this is not the time for gloating, bragging - expressing victory - it's a very sad case and I think if anything, this case showed clearly and unequivocally, the woeful deficiency that women have when they're pregnant, when they have babies, and God forbid when they're on medication because of postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis. It's just horrible what we saw in this trial."
Prosecutors have not yet decided whether to seek a retrial.
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Australian drone operators have arrived in Nepal to help search for people missing after last month's devastating floods.
The 15-person specialist team landed in Kathmandu late Friday, with seven Australian Federal Police disaster victim identification experts also due to arrive.
Thirty-six Australians remain missing.
Almost 1,300 people have been confirmed dead in Nepal and nearly 4,800 remain missing, including more than 600 foreign nationals.
Across the border in Tibet, Chinese state media says 31 people have died and more than 500 remain missing.
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The number of hospital patients waiting to be transferred into aged care has jumped by around a third in the past year.
More than 3,600 patients are now awaiting transfers nationally, up from 2,700, with about a third of them in Queensland.
State health ministers are calling for more federal funding, but Health Minister Mark Butler has rejected those calls.
He says Australia's ageing population is driving unprecedented demand across hospitals and aged care.
"We are seeing levels of demand increase that this country has never ever seen before. Increases in aged care demand. Increases in demand for people getting support at home. You're also seeing more older Australians in hospitals. This reflects a community wide phenomenon."
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Volkswagen has approved plans to cut another 50-thousand jobs as part of a major overhaul.
The car manufacturer will also reduce its model range and phase out production at four German plants by 2034.
Volkswagen says growing competition from Chinese manufacturers, pressure from US tariffs and changing demand are forcing it to reshape the business.
Automotive analyst Stefan Bratzel says the scale of the overhaul shows how much pressure the company is under.
"What we see now is a fundamental crisis of Volkswagen. It's not only an actual crisis, it's a fundamental change of the whole industry. It's a technological change, it is a change with new players coming into the automotive universe."
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The Melbourne Cup of the Outback is heading into its final day, with thousands of punters in Birdsville for the 144th running of the iconic race meeting.
The two-day carnival has brought racegoers from across Australia to the red dirt of outback Queensland.
Among the familiar faces is Don Rowlands, a Wangkangurru-Yarluyandi elder and long-serving national park ranger with a lifelong connection to the region.
He says the races have become an important part of the community.
"The races I think is a wonderful legacy for the whole community i mean by both groups of people you know the indigenous and non indigenous, I just want to thank the whole country for their support over the many years - there's been lots of up and lots of downs but I really want to acknowledge that."
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To sport, and in basketball, the Opals have opened their World Cup campaign with a 70-54 win over Puerto Rico in Germany.
Steph Talbot was named player of the game with 19 points, while Ezi Magbegor added 11 and Alanna Smith scored 10 before leaving with a lower-leg injury.
Australia is ranked third in the world, with five members of the Paris Olympic bronze-medal team in the squad.
Forward Isabelle Bourne says the Opals are determined to live up to the standards set by previous Australian teams.
"There's definitely high standards for the Opals we want to live up to those standards and do Australia proud in that area so I think we hold ourselves to a high standard as a group we have values that we stand by and we talk it out often and it's definitely stuff that happens off the court and leading up to the world cup that those sort of things matter."
Australia faces Türkiye tomorrow.
