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Your speedy update on all the day’s big stories Monday, March 31 2014

PM Abbott: “We won’t stop searching for your families.”

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has revealed that the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 won’t stop, despite the airline declaring that the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean three weeks ago. Mr Abbott  has said: “We can keep searching for quite some time to come and we will keep searching for quite some time to come.” Whilst acknowledging that unless the actual wreckage is found they’ll be relying on ‘guesstimates’, Abbott says they will keep working to “try to bring peace and closure to the families of the 239 people on board that ill-fated aircraft.” Authorities are currently analysing several bright orange objects which were spotted in the southern Indian Ocean yesterday.

Fines over dangerous drop-offs.

A crackdown on mums and dads doing the wrong thing during school drop off and pick up times outside schools is seeing up to 20 people a day getting fined. According to Sunrise, the undercover surveillance scheme, which involves cars with dashboard cameras, is currently being trialled in Melbourne by Monash council to catch parents who park illegally. Geoff Lake, Monash Mayor, says that 'stopping in no standing areas around schools is putting kids' lives at risk,' especially because they are the busiest times of day.

Woman mauled by dogs left bleeding on the street

A 46-year-old mother was on an early morning run in Kellyville, Sydney, when she was mauled by two large dogs and left with serious facial injuries. Angela was passing a man with dogs on  leads at 6:30 am on March 24 when they both launched at her and attacked her face. While she bled on the ground, the man asked if she was alright and reluctantly led her back to her car before disappearing. Angela says: "I was so disappointed the guy left me and so many people went past me. I had blood on my face and I was in shock. No one stopped to ask if I was OK and if they could help." Angela was forced to call her ex-husband who came and took her to hospital where she had emergency plastic surgery. She is appealing for the owner to come forward. 

Cate Blanchett saves lives in car accident!

Australian Oscar-winning actress, Cate Blanchett, has become a heroine on the set of her new film, Carol. Blanchett was driving a car with her co-star, Rooney Mara, in the passenger seat during filming when the brakes stopped working. A film insider has told The National Enquirer: "The girls started screaming at the top of their lungs, speeding past the film crew, who’d pulled to the side of the road after they’d finished shooting." Blanchett reportedly was forced to swerve the car, which then spun and hit a fence. Emergency crews were called to the scene but both actresses were able to carry on filming.

The race is on for the Gold Logie

Asher Keddie is looking to be in a good place to take out the Gold Logie two years in a row, after the nominations for the TV Week Logie Awards were announced this afternoon. Asher has been nominated for the fourth time for her role in Offspring and is competing against fellow nominees: Carrie Bickmore (The Project), Essie Davis (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries), Scott Cam (The Block), Stephen Peacocke (Home and Away) and Andy Lee (Hamish & Andy's Gap Year Asia). Despite previously winning the Gold Logie, Andy's partner in crime Hamish Blake has missed out on a nomination this year, but is up for a Silver Logie.

WATCH: Woman hears for the first time.

Joanne Milne, who suffers from the rare Usher Syndrome which causes her to be unable to hear, has been completely deaf for 39 years. Ms Milne was born with the condition but her life changed forever when she was recently fitted with electronic cochlear implants. Her mother recorded this video footage of her hearing for the first time: firstly the doctor's voice and then her own.