Saturday's news in under two minutes

1. YMCA NSW declared not a child safe organisation

YMCA NSW is not a child safe organisation, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been told. The conclusions were drawn by the Commission’s counsel assisting Gail Furness SC after examining the organisation’s handling of YMCA worker Jonathan Lord who was jailed for a minimum of six years for 13 offences involving 12 children in 2009.

YMCA is one of NSW’s largest providers of child care, with 74 before-and-after-school care locations across the state.

2. Body recovered after man fell overboard on cruise ship

The body of a man has been recovered after he fell overboard from the Rhapsody of the Seas cruise ship. An Australian Maritime Safety Authority spokesperson has said that the passenger fell at 2am this morning, roughly 300 nautical miles off the coast of Brisbane.

3. Clive Palmer’s Galilee Basin mine approved

Environment Minister Greg Hunt has approved Clive Palmer’s plans for a mine in central Queensland’s Galilee Basin, desperate conservationists’ concerns. The $6.4b project, named ‘China First, will wipe out half of the 8,000-hectare Bimblebox Nature Refuge, as well as involve the construction of a 453km rail line to Abbot Point port, so that the coal can be exported.

It is estimated that the new mine will provide over 30 years worth of coal for export markets.

4. Congregating in overcrowded apartments could see asylum seekers with bridging visas returned to detention

Congregating in overcrowded apartments is just one type of “antisocial” behaviour that could see asylum seekers on bridging visas placed in detention under Immigration Minister Scott Morrison’s new code of conduct. Previously, those on bridging visas could only be placed in detention after being arrested for a criminal offence.

5. British and US surveillance targets included UNICEF and Israeli PM

Leaked top secret documents from the GCHQ and the NSA have revealed that a very diverse group of organisations and individuals were coming under their surveillance. The documents show that UN children’s charity UNICEF, former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and Medecins du Monde were all targeted in their surveillance operations.

6. 79 injured after West End theatre collapse

79 people have been injured following the collapse of a balcony in the Apollo Theatre in London’s West End. A full house were watching a performance of the Olivier award winning The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime when the balcony began to creak and eventually fell. It is currently believed that theatre patrons leaning on the railing of the Grade II listed building may have caused the collapse.

7. 2013 predicted to be Australia’s hottest calendar year

Having already secured Australia’s hottest day (49.6C, recorded in Moomba on January 12) and hottest month (January) it appears that Australia may have experienced its hottest year on record.

The year has included a variety of heat related-feats. These included the country’s hottest ever winter day (August 31, which averaged 29,92C across the country.) The month of September was also much hotter than usual, a full 1.1 degrees above the previous mean record.

Definitive stats on 2013’s mean temperature will be released in the new year.