Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hey Chris Bew with you, welcome to The Briefing. The way we diagnose ADHD in Australia has completely changed over the past couple of years and now GPs have been given the green light to identify and treat it.
It's a really great initiative that Australia is doing and making ADHD support more accessible to more people but without having the infrastructure in place it's going to actually be really hard for any GP to get that. Right.
That chat is coming up in the second half of this episode. First, though, let's get into the headlines with Sasha Barbagat on Tuesday the 12th of May.
Hey, Chris. A group of Australians who are on board a cruise ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak have boarded a plane home this morning. The repatriation flight departed the Spanish island of Tenerife around 3am, bound for the Netherlands, with an additional plane waiting to take them on to Perth.
It's there the four Australian citizens, a permanent resident and a New Zealander will enter a purpose-built quarantine facility to isolate for at least three weeks.
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Chapter 2: What recent changes have occurred in Australia's ADHD diagnosis process?
The federal government has announced one of the strictest lockdowns in the world for returning passengers who had been on the MV Hondias, which had been on a tour of some of the world's most remote islands when the outbreak occurred, killing three on board and infecting a suspected nine people.
You know, I do make no apology for the fact that this is one of the stronger responses you will see around the world. Many other countries are putting in place quarantine orders at a centre like this or at a hospital only for two or three days rather than three weeks. That was Health Minister Mark Butler speaking there.
He also warned they could be forced to isolate longer because of the lengthy potential incubation time for the Hantavirus, which is a believed 42 days. Now, Butler said they will seek further advice from health experts as this kind of quarantine period, this initial three weeks continues. gets underway, they're going to seek that additional advice.
Now, this trip home, we talked a little bit about it yesterday, but it's going to be very strict conditions for those passengers. There will be medical staff on the flights to monitor and assist them.
Chapter 3: What challenges do GPs face in diagnosing ADHD effectively?
But it's not only the passengers who are going to have to quarantine and isolate when they get back to Australia, but it's also the flight crew who So, yeah, pretty rough job for them. But they will be landing at the RAAF base in Perth. Now, the quarantine facility next to that base was actually built during the COVID pandemic. Oh, gosh. It was never used.
You might remember this was happening already. all over the country. It was around 2021 where everyone, you know, all the states were going, oh, we better build some sort of purpose-built facilities to deal with quarantine cases because of how bad hotel quarantine ended up being for so many reasons. But yeah, so many of them just sat unused.
Chapter 4: How has the prescription rate for ADHD medication changed over the years?
So it's interesting to see one finally dusting off the shelves and putting some patients in beds.
Pauline Hanson has hit back at comments made by senior Liberal Tim Wilson about whether One Nation and the party could ever form an alliance. In response to the Libs' dismal result in the Faro by-election, the shadow treasurer had left the door open to a possible deal to form government with the minor party, later clarifying his comments with this.
I have never, ever, ever and never, ever, ever will make such a statement in favour of such an alignment.
In an interview with Tash on yesterday, Arvo's episode of The Briefing, Hanson, fresh off One Nation's win on the weekend, had this to say in response.
Well, I tell Tim Wilson, I'll never, ever, ever consider giving you preferences again at the next election. So they need to change their attitude towards One Nation.
So that was an interesting take from Pauline. It sounded like she was saying, I'll never, never, never, but then said, but they need to change their language. So maybe, maybe Pauline is going to be open to it in the future.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of GPs diagnosing ADHD on healthcare accessibility?
As to her goal now, she had this to say with Tash.
One Nation is going to go for government. I'm not going to keep, you know, playing the tail on the dog and thinking that I need to be there to prop up the coalition government.
So, yeah, some interesting comments from the Senator there on the briefing. Now, if you do want to hear the full chat, you can hop back into yesterday, Arvo's ep. And to make it easy for you, we'll even pop a link in the show notes.
Now sticking with politics briefly, tonight Jim Chalmers is handing down his fifth budget and he's set to reveal a $45 billion improvement to the Commonwealth's bottom line. The improvement comes amid what we're being told is a responsible budget focused more on saving than spending amid a tense political landscape and of course the impacts of the war in Iran.
Now, among those savings, which we already know, they've already been announced, changes to the NDIS, which will save $37 billion over four years, as well as trimming investor tax concessions, winding back health insurance rebates for older Aussies, and scaling back the electric car discount, which will help bring the total savings to over $50 billion.
Now, we here at The Briefing will have a breakdown of the most important things you need to know about the budget in a special Headlines ep tomorrow morning. You don't need to go anywhere else for your budget coverage. We've got it right here. Make sure you tune in.
To New South Wales now, where police believe one of the largest manhunts in the state's history is over, with a body found in remote bushland believed to be that of alleged triple killer Julian Ingram.
The 37-year-old had been on the run since January 22 after allegedly shooting dead his heavily pregnant former partner Sophie Quinn, her friend John Harris, before going on to kill her aunt Nerida Quinn and seriously injuring a fourth person, Caleb McQueen.
Ingram is believed to have carried out the killings just hours after reporting for bail at a local police station and was last seen driving out of the Western New South Wales town in a white ute that same day.
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Chapter 6: How do varying state regulations affect ADHD diagnosis consistency?
Now, there hadn't been any confirmed sightings of him between January 22 until yesterday when National Parks and Wildlife officers stumbled across his ute about an hour away from Lake Hargelico and they found a body next to it together with Ingram's licence and a firearm.
New South Wales Police Assistant Commissioner Andrew Holland says the body appeared to be heavily decomposed and had likely been there for quite some time. Also saying the discovery brings closure to police, the families and the whole community.
There's been hundreds of police involved. Obviously, it's a relief for them to find this body, again, yet to be confirmed as Julian Ingram. But the main thing is, as I said, it brings closure to this investigation. It brings closure to the people of Lake Angelico and gives some solace to the town so they can relax.
A coroner will formally identify the body and determine the cause and time of death.
To the US now, where the man accused of opening fire at last month's White House Correspondents' Dinner has pled not guilty to all charges. Prosecutors allege 31-year-old Cole Thomas Allen fired a shotgun at a Secret Service agent and stormed a security checkpoint in what they're calling a foiled assassination attempt on the president and members of his administration.
He's been charged with attempted assassination of the president, assault on a federal officer and firearms offences.
Allen appeared in court in an orange jumpsuit, shackled at the waist, but didn't speak, with his lawyer entering the pleas on his behalf. His legal team, though, will next push to have Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and US Attorney Jeanine Pirro thrown off the case, arguing both were at the dinner and it would be inappropriate for victims of an alleged event to prosecute the same case.
Now, briefly, while we are in the US, we did hear from Donald Trump this morning speaking in the Oval Office, and he had this to say in response to Iran's peace proposal.
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Chapter 7: What role do patients play in the ADHD diagnosis process?
I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support, where the doctor walks in and says, sir, your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living.
So a bit of context here, Iran had actually sent through their counteroffer to a US proposal to end the war over the weekend or early Monday morning our time. In it, they laid out their demands to end it and reopen the Strait of Hormuz immediately. It would require, if it were to go ahead, it would require a halt on the US naval blockade, no further attacks on Iran, compensation for war damages.
And it had a lot of emphasis on Iranian sovereignty over the straits. So obviously, Donald Trump was not a big fan of that. He did take to Truth Social yesterday, calling it totally unacceptable. But, you know, as you heard in those comments there in the Oval Office, he's not backing down. He also went on to call it unbelievably weak and a piece of garbage proposal.
So, yeah, absolutely no movements when it comes to this ceasefire.
You can fly away with me tonight. No. Yes, Dua Lipa is suing Samsung after the electronics giant used her image to sell TVs. The Grammy Award winner is going after them for US$15 million. That's a bit over 20 mil Australian. After they plastered her picture on boxes containing televisions for retail sale.
In the lawsuit, Dua's lawyers claim using her image allowed Samsung to benefit from what appeared to be her endorsement of the product. The company has declined to comment, so to have the singer's lawyers. It's interesting because in this lawsuit or the commentary around the lawsuit is that some of Dua's fans had commented on posts being like, I only bought a Samsung because Dua's face was on it.
I find this really interesting.
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Chapter 8: What concerns exist regarding telehealth and ADHD assessments?
I mean, I don't claim to be an expert in intellectual property law and stuff like that, but How did they think this was a good, legally safe move?
And it's not like some, like, janky home brand TV where it's just like, oh, it's Bamsung. This is Samsung. Like, come on, guys. You should have, you know, million-dollar lawyers who can look over this stuff for you and go, this is good or this isn't good. It made me look up some previous cases of... celebrities suing companies or businesses.
Recently, of course, we had Blake Lively who sued Wayfarer Studios over her feud with director Justin Baldoni and they settled on the day of the Met Gala and then she just turned up and was like, hey, everyone. Tom Waits, the singer, sued Fritos, which is American Corn Chips, for using a singer who impersonated him on a jingle after he said, there's no way I'm doing advertising for you.
And he won $2.6 million US. This one I found bizarre. So Crispin Glover, who played George McFly in the original Back to the Future, I think the kid, like the younger version of him, he sued Universal because when he refused to come on for the sequels over a pay dispute, they used a mould of his face and made a mask and put it on another actor to make it seem like. Yes.
He had come back for the sequel. Yes, yes. And he successfully sued them. It was settled, but it also changed how SAG-AFTRA contracts handle the use of actors' physical characteristics.
Yeah.
So interesting.
Yeah, I mean, weirdly enough, I want to watch this one very closely because I'm very curious to see the outcome. I mean, they'll probably settle, which sucks, so you don't get to find out all the nitty gritties. But, I mean, if it does go to court and it goes to trial, oh, Can't wait to see the outcome.
I feel like it'll be a pretty boring trial. It'll be pretty quick, right? Anyway, we will wait and see, won't we? Thank you, Chris. Next up, we are getting into Helen Smith's deep dive, looking at how diagnosing ADHD has recently changed. GPs can now do it. This is a big win for people who are struggling with getting a diagnosis. However, as we're about to learn, there are a lot of issues with it.
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