What we learned today, Thursday 25 April
With that, we’ll end our live coverage of the day’s news.
Here’s a summary of the main news developments:
Thousands of Australians have gathered at dawn services around the country to commemorate the sacrifices of service men and women past and present on Anzac Day.
Five of the seven teenagers arrested on Wednesday as part of counter-terrorism raids in Sydney have been charged with a range of terrorism offences.
The family of a Cobram woman found dead at her home in northern Victoria have remembered her as “proud aunty” who had the “biggest heart of anyone we know”.
A cluster of 20 drug overdoses in New South Wales has prompted the state’s health department to issue a public warning about the danger of synthetic opioids, which are often substantially more powerful than heroin.
Five women who allege they were forced off a Qatar Airways plane by armed guards and intimately examined at Doha airport are attempting to overturn a legal decision that found they could not sue the airline directly.
Authorities rushed to save more than 150 whales from a mass stranding at a beach in Western Australia’s south-west.
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Updated
A man has died after he fell from a collapsing wind tower in the Whitsundays region of Queensland.
Queensland ambulance service responded to a call at a property near Lake Prosperine at about 12:40pm, the Courier Mail reported, with an TACQ helicopter later sent.
An ambulance spokesperson told the Courier Mail the man, who working at the time of the incident, had fallen 20 metres, sustained critical injuries and was treated on the scene but succumbed to his injuries.
