Key Points
- “Night stalker” admits to historic sexual assaults from 1990s Sydney
- Federal Government defend recognition of Palestinian statehood as sole path to peace
- Wallabies focused on full game ahead of Bledisloe Cup opener against New Zealand
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A serial rapist known as the "Night Stalker" in Australian media, has admitted to 18 sexual assaults and one attempted sexual assault in the 90's.
Glenn Gary Cameron who appeared before Downing Centre Local Court [[on Tuesday]] was charged with dozens of offences related to eight women who were targeted after dark.
It comes afer more than three decades, where at least ten women reported being assaulted in Sydney's Moore Park and inner-west areas between 1991 and 1993.
The 61-year-old's arrest at the Sydney International Airport in February 2024 was possible after breakthroughs in forensic technology.
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Defence Minister Richard Marles says the federal government believes that a two-state solution is the only way to achieving enduring peace in the Middle East.
He says Australia's recognition for a Palestine state along with United Kingdom, Canada and other countries is an important step forward.
"We want to see a ceasefire in respect of Gaza. And we want to see a return to the hostages and we want to see the conditions that we have put in respect of recognition fulfilled."
Earlier today, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese echoed a similar sentiment in his address to a two-state solution event at the United Nations.
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A police officer has been charged after former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas was injured during a protest in Sydney’s west in June this year.
The 33-year-old constable has been issued a court attendance notice for assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
He is currently attached to a specialist command in the South West Metropolitan Region, but New South Wales Police says his employment status is under review.
The charge follows an investigation by the NSW Police Professional Standards Command after a 35-year-old woman sustained facial injuries during the demonstration in Belmore.
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The Northern Territory Opposition leader says there's been a cover up, with the CLP government hiding a huge conflict of interest in a recent court case.
Selena Uibo who's also the former NT Attorney General, is calling on Marie-Clare Boothby to resign as the Northern Territory Attorney General, five days after revelations she is related to a man sentenced in a fatal hit and run case.
Jake Danby received a community corrections order and will serve time in home detention, after pleading guilty to hit-and-run driving causing death.
His case attracted attention after it was revealed he had bragged about hurting the victims and sent texts with racial abuse described by the sentencing judge as "disgusting".
Ms Uibo hopes that Ms Boothby's resignation would restore integrity to the CLP government.
"The Attorney General has been asked some very simple questions by the public, by the media about how do you declare a conflict of interest when a family member is involved in a serious incident of this nature. She has no answers. She has no credibility in the process and her leader nowhere to be seen. Lia Finocchiaro is not standing up and supporting and defending her attorney general, so there are very clear, shaky grounds here."
Ms Uibo says she's had Northern Territorians reach out to her with concerns on inconsistencies on crime and punishment in the NT, and how those decisions are being made through the courts.
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Qantas flights to Hong Kong have been delayed, as the territory prepares for the impact of Super Typhoon Ragasa - expected to be one of the strongest storms this year.
In an earlier statement the airline said Hong Kong's airport would be closed from 10pm tonight to 6pm on Thursday.
The airline says it would contact customers who are affected by this.
This traveller, who was at Sydney airport, has told Channel 10 she is going back to Hong Kong because her mother died.
"The airline is on time because I'm worried when I arrive in Hong Kong I still need to go by the train to Guangzhou, but all the trains is closed so maybe I need to stay at Hong Kong airport overnight and not sure unsure when it's open."
Typhoon Ragasa brought winds speeds of up to 295 kilometres per hour when it hit northern Philippines.
It's expected to remain in the South China Sea, while passing south of Taiwan and Hong Kong before making its landfall on the Chinese mainland.
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In rugby union, Wallabies winger Max Jorgensen says the team is focusing on delivering an eighty-minute effort, heading into Saturday's Bledisloe Cup showdown with New Zealand in Auckland.
A slow start against Argentina in their last match cost the Australians victory, and Jorgensen says they can't afford to play that away again.
"There's a lot of stuff we're still working on as a team, but I think it's ultimately becoming an eighty-minute team- putting in an eighty-minute performance that we can really be proud of. Like, last week, we sort of let Argentina get away with it in the first forty, and then we ended up coming back in the last forty there, but we really want to do that for eighty and put on a good performance."
Australia lost the Bledisloe Cup to New Zealand in 2003, and hasn't held it since.
Australia will have to win both Saturday's match in Auckland, and the re-match in Perth the weekend after, to regain the trophy.
