Speaker 1: This is the latest from your news feed. It's Tuesday,
Speaker 1: the twenty fifth of June. Vapes will be made available
Speaker 1: at pharmacies without a prescription after the Abenezy government struck
Speaker 1: a deal with the Greens that will soften a proposed
Speaker 1: retail ban on e cigarettes. Health Minister Mark Butler secured
Speaker 1: support from the minor party for Labour's contentious plan that
Speaker 1: originally would have limited vape access to prescription only pharmacy sales.
Speaker 1: While the ban will be in place from July first
Speaker 1: as originally intended, from October, individuals will be able to
Speaker 1: purchase vapes from behind the counter following a conversation with
Speaker 1: a pharmacist about the health harms associated with vaping. The
Speaker 1: boss of Australia's anti doping agency is warned that the
Speaker 1: AFL and Australian sport more widely is at a crossroad
Speaker 1: as a damning report identified key issues around players buying coke, caine,
Speaker 1: ice and ecstasy from criminals. Sport Integrity Australia on Monday
Speaker 1: recommended an immediate overhaul of the AFL's contentious illicit drug policy,
Speaker 1: which includes a so called medical model where players can
Speaker 1: avoid drug strikes and undergo off the books testing. We'll
Speaker 1: be back after this. The notorious bicycle bandit, who plundered
Speaker 1: eleven banks in a terrifying crime spree, has received one
Speaker 1: of the longest sentences in South Australian history, but a
Speaker 1: judge acknowledged the air of artificiality about the penalty given
Speaker 1: he's about to die. On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled
Speaker 1: Kim Alan Parsons crimes warranted no less than eighty five
Speaker 1: years jail reduced to sixty three years and nine months
Speaker 1: for his decades late guilty. Please Justice Sandy McDonald noted
Speaker 1: state law did not allow for the imposition of crushing penalties,
Speaker 1: so she reduced Parsons sentence to thirty five years. And
Speaker 1: new data has revealed Queensland patients waited up to fourteen
Speaker 1: hours in the state's emergency departments as choked hospitals struggled
Speaker 1: to cope with soaring demand. One patient at Brisbane's Princess
Speaker 1: Alexandra Hospital waited more than fourteen hours to be seen
Speaker 1: in February, while in the same month to others waited
Speaker 1: more than ten and a half hours. The figures across
Speaker 1: four months from December to March reveal. While some hospitals
Speaker 1: shown improvements, Queenslanders are still experiencing lengthy delays. We'll have
Speaker 1: an update to your newsfeed tomorrow