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- Gunmen and suicide bombers attack a paramilitary force headquarters in Pakistan...
- Police to resume search for missing four-year-old Gus Lamont...
- Jeeno Thitikul receives biggest winning cheque in women's golf history.
Officials in Pakistan say gunmen have attacked the country's paramilitary force headquarters in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
The complex was also hit by two suicide bombers, killing three people.
According to a senior official, the first suicide bomber carried out an attack on the main entrance of the headquarters and the other one entered the compound.
The official says law enforcement personnel, including the army and police, have cordoned off the area.
They suspect there may be terrorists inside the headquarters.
A new report has found disproportionately high numbers of people from ethnic and Aboriginal backgrounds are far more likely to be searched by Victoria police.
The report, released by the Centre Against Racial Profiling and based on Victoria Police data obtained under freedom of information laws found that Aboriginal people were 15 times more likely to be searched than people perceived as Caucasian.
For those of African descent they were nine times more likely to be searched, and people from Pacific Islander and Middle Eastern backgrounds were five times more likely to be searched.
Tamar Hopkins is the Report Author.
"Crime squads that are engaging in this everyday force, it's the beat police, it's the patrol, the divisional vans that are going around in our communities. In metropolitan rural and regional Victoria, that are engaging in this excessive overpolicing of particular communities."
A new report from Minderoo Foundation has revealed that 62 per cent of children feel they'll be worse off than their parents, with nearly half of 16–17-year-olds citing financial concerns and housing as their main worries.
Developed by UNICEF, the inaugural State of Australia's Children report surveyed over 2000 children across Australia.
Many of those surveyed reported declining life satisfaction as they grew older, and less than a third of teens said they felt excited and hopeful about the next five years.
Chief Advocate for Children at UNICEF Australia, Nicole Breeze says that the wellbeing of children are at a crossroads.
"We've got growing numbers of children who have caring responsibilities within their families. And kids who are leaving out of home care are at risk of homelessness within a year. That's the first thing, the second thing that we're seeing is challenges growing affecting all families across all demographics across the population. And that's the things like escalating mental health concerns for our kids. Experience of bullying and other challenges."
Police in South Australia have announced they will recommence their search for four-year-old Gus Lamont, who went missing in the state's Mid North almost two months ago.
The search is expected to last three days and will explore six shafts between 5.5 kilometres and 12 kilometres from the Oak Park homestead where the missing boy was last seen.
In a statement, Deputy Commissioner Linda Williams said the new searches were part of ongoing investigations as part of Task Force Horizon.
The search by STAR Group officers and Task Force Horizon officers using specialised equipment will be the fourth search for Gus Lamont.
National data on rental affordability, particularly in regional parts of Australia, has deteriorated even further over the last year.
The data is contained in the 11th annual Rental Affordability Index by SGS Economics and Planning.
After a decade of declining affordability, many urban areas are seeing a stabilisation; but households in many capitals are still spending nearly a third of their income on rent, with Perth being the hardest hit.
Perth single mother-of-two, Emily Clements has been working part-time while also raising two neurodivergent children.
She told SBS, meeting the costs of housing is challenging.
"It's never been on my radar, that I couldn't provide for my kids. It's always been promised to me by the government, it's been promised to me by various - in the education system, everywhere it was promised to me that this is a country that is wealthy and that I'm going to be able to capitalise on that and that hasn't happened. I don't have that for my kids."
Western Australia's Housing Minister, John Carey, says the government is doing everything it can, citing A$5.8 billion in housing measures - and 3,800 social homes built in four years.
And to sport, in women's golf,
Women's world number one golfer Atthaya "Jeeno" Thitikul has won the LPGA Tour Championship season in the US state of Florida.
Thitikul has taken home a big cheque of A$6.2 million.
After being presented the prize, Thitikul says she is really happy with the result, considering she was dealing with a wrist injury.
"Last week in Dallas I was worried a lot that I might not be able to play this week. But I think maybe that one is to point that I'm not thinking too much. I'm not expecting things. I'll just like I'll be able to play and that's good enough."
