What we learned; Tuesday 15 July
With that, we will wrap the blog for the evening. Thanks for following along, Nick Visser will be back first thing tomorrow morning.
Until then, here were today’s major developments:
Traditional Owners have warned their communities will be the first climate refugees in Australia after their case arguing the federal government breached its duty of care to protect the Torres Strait Islands from climate change was dismissed.
More families will be contacted by Victorian authorities to get their children tested for sexually transmitted infections after police established alleged paedophile Joshua Dale Brown worked at four more childcare centres.
Australian journalists in China for prime minister Anthony Albanese’s visit were blocked by local authorities and questioned about their visas and recording permissions.
The former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas, who was injured during an interaction with police, has pleaded not guilty to three charges.
And the Country Fire Authority “strongly condemned” a group of volunteer firefighters for writing offensive slogans about the Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, including “ditch the bitch” on their truck.
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Bodies of elderly man and woman found in Sydney house
The bodies of an elderly man and woman have been discovered in separate rooms at a house in Sydney’s south, NSW police say.
About 2pm today, police responded to concern for welfare reports at a house on Knight Street in Arncliffe.
The bodies of a man and woman were located in different rooms in the house, police said, and were “believed to have been at the location for a considerable amount of time”.
Whilst identities are yet to be confirmed the man is believed to aged in his 70’s and the woman in her 90’s.
A crime scene was established, and an investigation was underway.
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