Gillard announces $2000 for new cars

The Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard announced that the federal government will give $2000 to anyone who trade in their old car that is manufactured before 1995. This policy will be started from January next year. This policy is implemented because Australians own a lot of old motor cars which guzzle a lot of petrol and spew out lots of pollution. Ms Gillard also stated that the old cars collected would be turned into scrap metal. Moreover, this offer is only for 200,000 new vehicles and it will cost government $394 million. By the way, Ms Gillard also declared that government wants to set up “citizens’ assembly” to curb the difficult issue of a carbon price.

Man found guilty of killing wif

A SOUTH Australian man has been found guilty of suffocating his estranged wife and trying to make her death look like suicide. He had been accused of killing Melissa Allen in port Augusta in July 2008.

In this case, Allen strangled his wife in a shed at their matrimonial home and tried to cover it up by making it look like she had committed suicide. During the prosecution, Allen had always sustained that he got his wife down by unknotting the rope and then tried unsuccessfully to revive her.

On the other hand, the prosecutor revealed that a witness heard a scream come from the shed well before Allen raised the alarm. Moreover, the jury had heard evidence Ms Allen was murdered because she planned to divorce her husband. Witnesses also told the court that Allen had publicly accused his wife of cheating.

On Monday, Allen will return to court for sentencing submissions.

HIV rate doubles for over-50s

The UK’s Health Protection Agency (HPA) revealed that the HIV infections among the elder people aged 50 and above has increased from 299 to 710 a year between 2000 and 2007. The findings suggested over-50s were less likely gets tested and this increases the risk of an early death from AIDS. Besides that, the survey found that half of the HIV infected people aged 50 and over had late diagnoses as well as three quarter of deaths are among them. In the article, a senior HIV scientist at the HPA Center for Infection, Ruth Smith has highlighted the importance of HIV testing at whatever age. There was also stated that the white heterosexual men getting the infection abroad. By the way, the middle-aged Brits urged to practice safe sex like using condom a condom with all new or casual partners to ensure people do not become infected with a serious sexually transmitted infection like HIV.

MyHospitals website to open next month, Roxon announces

The Australia government’s My hospital website is scheduled to be running next month. This website is designed to compare the performances of public hospitals against national benchmarks. Moreover, the website aims to provide information on which hospital requires further assistance. The site will also list the medical services provided, the number of beds and whether outpatient services, such as allied health and dental services are offered. This website currently involves all the public hospitals in all states with the exception of Western Australia, but the government is looking at private hospitals into initiative in the future. Lastly, the website address will be www.MyHospitals.gov.au.

Elderly couple dies in home elevator

The elderly couple who are Sherwood, 90 and Caroline Wadsworth, 89 had been found dead in the closet-sized lift of their three-storey home. The elevator was stuck between the first and second floor and the couple was unable to call for help. This incidence was discovered by a newspaper carrier after noticing the unopened editions going back to July 9 and an untouched watermelon a neighbor had left at the couple’s door the day before. Police estimated they had been dead at least 4days before the police had into the house. Besides that, the autopsies concluded both died from heat exhaustion and believed that the temperature in the elevator reached 35 ºc.