source : the age
A Perth father is in intensive care at a Bali hospital after being attacked by a “group of Australians” while on holiday at the popular Indonesian tourist island.
Liam Dougan has started a fundraiser for his father, Paul, who has undergone three surgeries, including to have his spleen removed, after the attack.
In the fundraiser, Liam wrote his father was “brutally assaulted by a group of Australians who are yet to be identified”.
“They beat and kicked him multiple times putting him in a life threatening condition,” Liam wrote in the fundraiser, which was created on Wednesday.
Here’s what’s making headlines elsewhere today:
Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Thursday, August 20.
Making headlines today is the revelation more than 100 Olympic pools worth of “bin juice” are seeping into the ground from a tip in Perth’s north.
Tamala Park landfill is run by the Mindarie Regional Council and has accepted the household waste of 800,000 Perth homes for 35 years.
The council is made up of seven local governments and was due to reach the end of its operational life around 2028, however, an excessive buildup of liquid waste is now threatening to derail those closure plans.
