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Man facing 25 historic rape charges in Queensland granted bail to return to SA

The man, who is accused of treating a teenage girl in his care four decades ago like "a prize in a card game", will be allowed to return to his home in SA after facing court in Queensland today.

ABC News · May 12, 2023

Papua New Guinea's Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko steps aside

PNG's Foreign Minister faced widespread calls to resign after he called critics of a video, made during a taxpayer-funded trip to the coronation of King Charles III and posted on social media by his daughter, "primitive animals" and "useless individuals".

ABC News · May 12, 2023

AustralianSuper's 'alarming' $70m double-up on customer accounts sparks calls for wider investigation

Australia's biggest superannuation fund reveals that it has been double charging some customers, and will refund around $70 million in fees and insurance costs to about 100,000 people.

ABC News · May 12, 2023

Labor-led Voice committee endorses the government's proposed referendum wording

The committee has spent six weeks travelling the country holding hearings into the proposed wording. It wants the parliament to pass the referendum legislation without any changes.

ABC News · May 12, 2023

'Virtual kidnapping' scams targeting Chinese international students on the rise in NSW, as police issue warning

Police know of four cases across NSW in the past month, with Chinese students as young as 17 targeted and ordered to pay sums of up to $280,000 or face being deported.

ABC News · May 12, 2023

Simon Carberry jailed for fatal 2020 stabbing of Sayed Mousawi in Griffith

Simon Carberry will be eligible for parole in 2026 after fatally stabbing Sayed Mousawi in Griffith, NSW, during what a judge described as an ill-conceived plan to steal the victim's car in 2020.

ABC News · May 12, 2023

Alice Springs' Traeger Park to host community and town-based football competitions again

A compromise has been reached, after Alice Springs council banned this years' community competition from Traeger Park citing concerns about crime, with four weeks to be played in town and four weeks in remote communities.

ABC News · May 12, 2023

ACT top prosecutor Shane Drumgold admits he should have done more to correct reporting of Lisa Wilkinson's Logies speech

Media reports at the time claimed journalist Lisa Wilkinson had been given a clear direction from the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions not to give the speech, which her lawyer disputes.

ABC News · May 12, 2023

Switzerland evacuates village Brienz at risk of being wiped out by massive rockfall

Residents in the village of Brienz have been ordered to abandon their tiny mountain home.

ABC News · May 12, 2023

Infant dies from Murray Valley encephalitis in Northern Territory's Big Rivers region

Health officials say there have now been four cases, inlcuding two fatal, of the disease this year in the Northern Territory compared to two cases in the previous five years.

ABC News · May 12, 2023