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Labor minister Anne Aly has expressed her ‘outrage’ at Israel’s response to Zomi Frankcom’s death.
Labor minister Anne Aly has expressed her ‘outrage’ at Israel’s response to Zomi Frankcom’s death. Photograph: Morgan Hancock/AAP

What we learned – Thursday 4 April

With that, we will shut the blog for the evening. Stay safe and dry out there. Here were today’s major developments:

  • Sydney is bracing for heavy rain to drench the city over the coming days, potentially causing flash flooding, flooded rivers and the spillover of the Warragamba Dam. Rain is forecast to likely begin tonight in Sydney and become heavy on Friday before easing on Saturday.

  • A man has died after his vehicle was found in flood waters on the outskirts of Brisbane this morning. Queensland police were called to conduct a welfare check of a vehicle submerged in flood waters at a private property on Begley Road in Greenbank.

  • The Northern Territory’s Don Dale youth detention centre remains in indefinite lockdown after a group of inmates set fire to the education centre and climbed the roof as part of a riot.

  • Private and rental electric scooters will become a permanent fixture on Melbourne streets as Victoria puts the finishing touches on safety regulations.

  • And the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Nacc) says it’s conducting 15 corruption investigations and will soon publish a final report of one of its recently completed probes. The commission’s latest figures, released on Thursday, show the federal integrity body received 2,747 referrals of potential corruption in the nine months since it opened its doors.

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All eyes on Warragamba Day as heavy downpour approaches

Back to the weather. All eyes are on the Warragamba Dam and its possible spilling in New South Wales, with forecasts predicting rain of up to 200mm into the weekend.

The dam level is currently at 96.2%, with just 3.7mm of rain in the past week. Don’t panic yet, though – it hasn’t dropped below 90% all year.

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