The Brief · Oct 13
Disaster recovery, smart glass loopholes, a Telstra pay cut and a jailed breach all landed on the same grim, accountability-heavy day.
- A UNSW expert says disaster recovery should be planned over at least five years, since people still living in caravans a year on is a pattern seen after almost every disaster. - The Greens want a 12-month import ban on smart glasses, though the draft law would exempt glasses sold as disability aids.
- The Carnes Hill pool has moved forward after its architect collapsed, with stage one, a 25-metre indoor pool, approved after 11 months. - Shontelle Burston has been jailed for six weeks after four new charges, including stealing meat and failing to stop for police, breached her suspended sentence.
- Charlee Hosking, 11, is back on the Telethon stage with her cheer squad, which has merged into the new CosmicFury team. - An old Gingerbread House in Launceston has been listed, with offers over $735,000 expected for the three-bedroom sandstone home at 2 Cimitiere Street.
- Korean surgery firm Restory has cancelled a Sydney event involving unregistered doctors, saying the two will not travel to Australia and pulling its ads. - Telstra's board has cut boss Vicki Brady's pay by $607,000 and nine other senior executives' bonuses by $1.3 million in total after the July outage.
Why it mattersTaken together, the day shows institutions and companies being held to account, from Telstra's board and a court to regulators checking imports and planners preparing for long disaster recovery.
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