Good morning. Nick Visser here to get the news going. Here’s what’s on deck:
Leah Stewart, the woman who was bitten by a shark at Sydney’s Coogee beach, issued a thankyou to those who supported her after the attack.
She wrote on GoFundMe: “After what has been an incredibly difficult few months, I’m so happy that I’ve progressed enough to build some independence, and I can finally see some light after all of this.”
Stewart was in an induced coma after the shark attack and had multiple surgeries, including the amputation of one of her arms.
Meanwhile authorities have begun vaccinating as many of Phillip Island’s little penguins as they can against the H5 strain of bird flu. The island, south-west of Melbourne, has a 5,000-strong colony, which sees a nightly ritual of the penguins returning to the same burrow, along the same path, making them ideal candidates for vaccination. It comes a day after authorities revealed the death of a seal from the flu, the first confirmed mainland mammal fatality.
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