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Childcare worker charged for producing abuse material - Neos Kosmos

An out-of-school care worker allegedly produced child abuse material of kids aged six and under while working across suburban schools.
The man, 26, produced material of 10 victims while working at six out-of-school care service providers in the northern suburbs of Sydney and the CBD, between April 2021 and May 2024.
Details of the Australian Federal Police investigation were revealed on Thursday after court-issued non-publication orders were revoked.
The man has been remanded in custody since Oc...
AAP News •

Answers sought for family after daughter vanished

The family of a woman who vanished without a trace are still seeking answers to her suspected death more than a decade after she disappeared.
Leisl Smith, then 23, was last seen alive on CCTV getting into a car at Tuggerah railway station on the NSW Central Coast in August 2012.
Her body has never been found.
Sandi Harvey explains what she hopes to gain from an inquest into her daughter's suspected death. (Rachel Jackson/AAP VIDEO)
Ms Smith's accused killer, James Church, died by suicide on the...
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Young survivors say cancer does not end with remission

Youth cancer survivor Dawson Sorby said words cannot describe how it felt to go into remission.His cancer was gone, but treatment was far from over."I wasn't really able to process it at the time," he said."All of a sudden, I went from being a young person with cancer, to a young person with a disability."
After almost two years of treatment, Mr Sorby was told by doctors that he was cancer-free.
But his sixth and final brain surgery left him paralysed on his right-hand side.
Before he was diagno...
The Canberra Times •

Original yellow Wiggle ditches the skivvy for new role

"This is very scripted ... with the Wiggles we had flexibility and we could improvise," he said."It's one thing to take a man out of the Wiggles but you can't take the Wiggles out of the man," Page said.Eleven-year-old Stephanie McNamara said she let out a scream when she found out she had landed the part.There are also two four-legged members in the cast, with dogs Sandy and Bodhi playing Sandy, the stray dog that befriends Annie as part of the story.Despite the age-old saying, Warlow said he w...
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Life-saving tech for kids absent at under-fire hospital

Potentially life-saving safety equipment for seriously ill children has been missing from a controversial hospital where a toddler and newborn died after waiting for care.
A damning report into Sydney's troubled Northern Beaches Hospital was published without announcement on the Clinical Excellence Commission website earlier in August.
The review identified a concerning absence of safety cameras over the beds of seriously ill newborns and children at the hospital, which was built and operates un...
The Canberra Times •

Decision left up in the air over pro-Palestine march

But whether police will be able to bar protesters from blocking public roads and infrastructure on Sunday is yet to be determined, after a Supreme Court judge ruled she would sleep on her decision.Representing state police, Lachlan Gyles SC argued they would not be able to maintain a safe environment if the protest was authorised and closing the bridge was not reasonable with less than a week's notice. "The circumstances of this protest are not ideal, but the event is now absolutely inevitable,...
AAP News •

Bank hit with first strike as shareholders push back

Australia's largest investment bank has been delivered its first strike as shareholders make known their dissatisfaction with the board's decisions on executive pay.
The outcome was revealed after Macquarie Bank's annual general meeting on Thursday where 25.43 per cent of investors voted against the adoption of the firm's remuneration report, just surpassing the required 25 per cent for a strike.
Known as the "millionaires' factory", Macquarie has become one of Australia's most successful financ...

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'Breaking point': Ballarat Police walk off the job demanding better pay

After just five years, he said 15 out of the 30 academy members he graduated with have already left the force.Acting Sergeant Clarke said it has gotten to the stage where he expects to work overtime for every shift, sometimes up to four hours.With limited resources, he said police choose to put the community's needs above their own, and stay back when they are unable to hand over an important job. "We are servicing the best we can, all we're asking for is to be paid fairly for that."

After just...
The Courier •

'I am prepared to die': Why Harrry Webb risks his life for his sport

"As silly as it may sound, in my mind I was telling myself that I am prepared to die in here and he is going to have to kill me to stop me," he said. "Some people may not understand this mentality but when you're deep in a tough fight and absolutely exhausted there is a dark place you need to go to.""I put in so much work and believed I was destined to win that belt on that night," Webb said. "There was no part of me that was willing to give up.""After all the adversity I had faced over the last...

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Serbia and Kosovo: A Long Road to Reconciliation

Despite a recent spike in tensions in Serbia and Kosovo, community members and groups are continuing to work towards a better future.

Since the war in 1999, Serbia and Kosovo have been at odds. Nearly 24 years later, the people of the two opposing nations seemingly want to move on and reconcile, but the governments they live under hinder the efforts.

A recent spike in political tensions between Pristina and Belgrade made waves in foreign and local press earlier this year. The spike in politica

Cph News | Connections: The New Art Exhibition Shining a Light on Immigration to Denmark

30 years have passed since Denmark accepted 20,000 refugees fleeing from the former Yugoslavia. Connections – Danish artists from the former Yugoslavia, is set to make its debut this weekend at the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK). The exhibition features meaningful artworks that are able to convey the link between history, art and culture.

Connections was curated by PhD fellow at SMK and the University of Copenhagen, Tijana Mišković, who began analysing the works of the featured artists two y

Aarhus Todaily » Ghost Cyclists Continue to Haunt the Streets of Aarhus

In Denmark’s second biggest city, Aarhus, cycling has a spooky side. A report was released late last year by ViaTrafik (a Danish engineering consultant firm) that labelled Aarhus as the epicentre for “ghost cycling” in Denmark. But what action has been taken since the release of this report?

Ghost cycling is a term coined from “ghost driving”, the illegal act of driving in the wrong lane against the flow of traffic. Mobility planner for the Aarhus Municipality, Martin Lov Simonsen, said ghost c

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