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- Police investigate a triple-murder in Sydney
- A man charged with the murder of a girl in Alice Springs
- Australia through to the finals at the World Athletics Relays
Three people are dead after a violent incident at a home at Rosemeadow in Sydney's south-west.
Emergency responders found the body of a man and a woman and another man later died in hospital.
A 64-year-old man, a 61-year-old woman and a man aged 37 are dead while a 30-year-old man is in a serious condition in hospital.
Police believe the incident was domestic violence related.
They say a total of five people lived at the property and they have arrested a 32-year-old man.
Superintendent Grant Healey says emergency service workers had to contend with a gruesome scene.
"They were confronted with a very bloody scene. Blunt force trauma is always horrendous for people to confront and any edged weapon attack is always horrendous to confront. So, the police and ambulance did a fantastic job in very trying circumstances."
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Police in Northern Territory have charged a man with one count of murder and two counts of sexual assault over the case of a five-year-old girl who disappeared from a community near Alice Springs last weekend.
A suspect is in custody for allegedly killing Kumanjayi Little Baby.
Northern Territory Police Commissioner Martin Dole says the girl's family is front of mind.
"This remains a deeply distressing matter and our thoughts are firmly with Kumanjayi's family, loved ones and the wider community that have been deeply impacted by these events."
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Queensland is scouring surplus government land at six key ports for new fuel storage and refinery projects as part of an emergency push to shore up supplies and reduce reliance on volatile global markets.
Adding to its push to drill for oil, the government has launched an Accelerating Fuel Infrastructure Program to encourage new fuel-refining and storage projects on government‑owned land and at ports.
The program includes a statewide audit of suitable sites along the coast, a call for industry proposals and a fast‑tracked approvals process.
Premier David Crisafulli says the state needs to take action to avoid being left at the mercy of global supply chains.
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One Nation convert Barnaby Joyce says he believes the party will win next week's Farrer by-election in a tight race against Climate-200 backed independent Michelle Millthorpe.
The Liberals and Nationals will also contest the seat, and the by-election is being seen as a key test of Angus Taylor's leadership - and whether he can appeal to the regions.
The by-election was triggered when former Liberal leader Sussan Lee left the parliament, and it could be the first federal seat One Nation ever wins at an election.
Mr Joyce sits in the lower house, but won his seat of New England as a Nationals MP, before defecting to join One Nation.
He's told Sky he may recontest the seat despite previously having said he intended to run for the Senate in NSW.
"If it looks, Andrew, like we're going to get a large, you know, a reasonable number of House of Representative seats, then of course, the party, which I'm a part of, will no doubt make the request that I stand for New England, because we have to have some oversight and some process that to make sure we look like a professional, diligent outfit in the House of Representatives, because otherwise they're just going to have a range of people with people who've never been there before. It's not their fault, it's just, that's a tenuous approach. If that is not the case, then we continue with Plan A, which is stand for the Senate."
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United States President Donald Trump says his country is selling a large amount of oil while it blockades Iranian ports.
He says the US Navy has been acting like pirates by intercepting ships and taking over their cargo, including oil.
Mr Trump says there's a possibility American energy companies could operate inside Iran.
"It could be. I'll tell you what, we have a lot of ships coming up to Texas and Louisiana. We have a line of ships, big ones, two million barrels, I mean literally hundreds of ships. We're selling a lot of oil, a lot of oil."
Iran's foreign ministry says President Trump's comments amount to a direct and damning admission of the criminal nature of America's actions against international maritime navigation.
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In sport, an Australian team including sub 10-second man Lachlan Kennedy have equalled the national 4x100m record on a big day one for the green and gold contingent at the World Athletics Relays in Botswana.
Kennedy, Joshua Azzopardi, Christopher Ius and leg runner Rohan Browning stopped the clock at 37.87 seconds - good enough for third spot in the heat and a berth in the final.
The result in Botswana also guaranteed Australia a spot in the men's 4x100m at next year's athletics world championships in Beijing.
Two other Australian records were beaten on day one in Gaborone.
