G'day. It's Tuesday, May 10 and you're reading The Loop, a quick wrap-up of today's news.
Let's start here
Michael Gunner has tearfully announced his resignation as the NT's Chief Minister in parliament, saying the birth of his second child last month cemented his decision to step back.
"My head and my heart are no longer here. They are at home," he said.
He made the announcement after delivering the territory's budget, and said handing that down would be his final act as Chief Minister and Treasurer.
In his resignation speech, he said he wouldn't stay in the role "just for the cheque or the ego".
Deputy Chief Minister Nicole Manison will step into the top role in an acting capacity until a vote is held by the Labor caucus in the coming days for a permanent leader.
What else is going on
- PM Scott Morrison has defended his hand-picked candidate for Warringah after she reasserted that transgender people were "mutilated" by medically transitioning. Katherine Deves had previously apologised for her comments, but yesterday walked back her apology while speaking to Sky News. Here's the PM:
- The father of three-year-old Nevaeh Austin says he's "dumbfounded" as to how his daughter was left on a childcare centre bus for six hours after she was the only child picked up that morning. He says he has had no contact from the childcare centre involved, and if the same incident had happened in summer, "she would not be [here with us]".
What Australia has been searching for online
- Nick Cave. The musician has announced the death of his 31-year-old son Jethro Lazenby. Another of the singer's sons, Arthur Cave, died in 2015 after falling from a cliff in England.
- Denis Shapovalov. The men's world number 16 found himself trending over his very calm, very sensible reaction to a disagreement with an umpire that led to a one-point penalty.
One more thing
Regional Australian magistrates courts are no stranger to wild stories, but this one's next-level.
A man in South Australia has been sentenced to more than nine months of home detention over two incidents, including a high-speed police chase during which he had sex with a passenger.
The court heard how police attempted to stop the 28-year-old while he was speeding along the Princes Highway in September 2021 with a female passenger in the vehicle.
With the car's tires punctured from road spikes and travelling at around 50 kilometres per hour, police witnessed the vehicle's female passenger climb over and straddle the man — blocking the driver's view — and begin moving in an up-and-down motion.
"I have never in my time as a magistrate heard that whilst somebody was engaged in a police pursuit, they also engaged in sexual intercourse," Magistrate Koula Kossiavelos said.
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