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