What we learned, Monday 16 February
We’ll leave our live coverage of today’s news there. Thanks for reading. Here are the day’s top stories:
South Australian police renewed their search for missing boy Gus Lamont and arrested a 75-year-old over an unrelated matter.
Federal police said they would not take action against Lidia Thorpe over her “burn down Parliament House” comment.
The Bureau of Meteorology warned Tuesday would be a “classic fire spike day” for Victoria.
The ACCC’s court case against Coles opened, with the watchdog citing the price of dog food to argue Coles misled shoppers.
Both the Liberals and Nationals will run in the Farrer byelection.
The accused Bondi shooter, Naveed Akram, made his first court appearance.
Officials from Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, faced a parliamentary inquiry on climate misinformation.
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Woman’s death in Melbourne’s east investigated by homicide squad
A woman’s death this morning in Melbourne’s east is being investigated by homicide squad detectives.
Victoria police said officers found the woman dead after 11am today at a property on Mountain Highway in Bayswater.
A 39-year-old local man, believed to be known to the woman, was arrested nearby at about 11.40am, police said.
Homicide squad detectives were investigating and the man was expected to be interviewed this afternoon, police said.
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