Good morning, it's Friday, November 19. Here's what you need to get going today.
One thing to know right now: Aussie nurses are burnt out
Here's the lowdown:
- About two years into the pandemic, with no respite and ever-increasing demand, nurses from both the public and private sector told us they're feeling stretched to the limit;
- The number of registered nurses in Australia continues to increase year on year, but it's unclear whether there are enough to meet the ever-increasing demand;
- That's because the most recent modelling on supply and demand for the nursing workforce was done in 2014 and the federal Department of Health says "no further information regarding the [2014] report can be provided";
- That 2014 report predicted an overall shortfall of 85,000 nurses by 2025 and 123,000 by 2030 under the then-current settings;
- And it obviously didn't account for record economic growth, a pandemic or Australia's recent recession.
One thing you’ll be hearing about today: The Unknown Sailor
- Thomas Welsby Clark has been identified as the Unknown Sailor, which was the name given to him after his body was found on Christmas Island in 2006;
- He was from Brisbane and was 20 when he died;
- He was one of the 645 men who died after a World War II battle that sank the HMAS Sydney and the German cruiser HSK Kormoran on November 19, 1941;
- None of the HMAS Sydney's men were found — except for the body of one sailor who washed up in an invertible life raft on Christmas Island after the battle;
- He was buried by locals and largely forgotten;
- It's only now that technological advances helped the military to reveal his identity.
News while you snoozed
Let's get you up to speed.
- An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck about 200 kilometres east-southeast of Kokopo in Papua New Guinea early this morning. The quake was at a depth of 13 kilometres
- US death-row inmate Julius Jones' execution was halted by Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt hours before he was scheduled to be put to death. He was convicted of a convicted killing a man during a carjacking 22 years ago, but there have since been doubts about his guilt, with celebrity Kim Kardashian joining a handful of Republican politicians and evangelical leaders calling for his sentence to be commuted
The news Australia is searching for
- International Men's Day: The day is marked smack-bang in the middle of Movember and highlights a range of issues facing men and boys. This year's theme for the day is "better relations between men and women".
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Lily James: She's starring as Pamela Anderson in the new series Pam & Tommy, which is about how Anderson and Tommy Lee's private sex tape was made public. She's starring alongside Sebastian Stan (who's playing Lee), as well as Seth Rogen, Nick Offerman and Taylor Schilling. The trailer for the series has just dropped and people have opinions:
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Last Night in Soho: Reviews for the 60s-inspired supernatural thriller starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Thomasin McKenzie and Matt Smith are out.The Screen Show's Jason Di Rosso says there's a lack of plot sharpness but says the two damsels in distress are vivid and captivating. "Subtle it ain't," he says:
- Spotify: The music streamer has launched a feature that shows the lyrics to the songs users are playing in real time.
One more thing: Make sure you look at the moon at sunset
We're in for a partial lunar eclipse — which will be the longest one the world has seen since the 15th century.
But the timing means all the action will start before the Moon rises over Australia, so we won't see the entire eclipse unfold.
That means we're not going to cop a glimpse of the reddish moon our mates in other countries will get to see, but amateur astronomer Ian Musgrave says it'll still something to behold.
"It's going to be a very nice twilight eclipse. [The Moon] will look almost ghostly as you see the partial eclipse emerging out of the twilight."
Be sure to look up at sunset if you want to catch it.
That's it for now
We'll be back later on with more of the good stuff.
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