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Victorian police will as we speak search bushland close to Geelong as a part of the investigation into a chilly case that’s greater than a decade previous.
Lorrin Whitehead, 41, was final seen leaving her Bannockburn dwelling on a Friday afternoon in February 2013, then on CCTV at an area grocery store the place she purchased water, a card and a pen.
Police say they now have “intelligence that Lorrin’s remains may potentially be located” within the space they plan to go looking.
A witness had reported seeing Whitehead entering into the motive force’s seat of a purple 4WD, and that is the final report of her being seen by anybody. She didn’t personal a purple 4WD.
Her financial institution accounts remained untouched after her disappearance.
Victoria police stated in an announcement:
The world for as we speak’s search is just not one that folks will recurrently stroll by, so we’re hopeful there could also be some signal of Lorrin right here even in spite of everything these years.
Nuclear hit for Queensland, Labor says
Sarah Basford Canales
Queensland’s financial system shall be nearly a $1tn worse off by 2050 if the Coalition’s nuclear plan will get the general public’s inexperienced gentle on the subsequent federal election, a brand new Albanese authorities evaluation exhibits.
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is criss-crossing northern and western Australia this week in a pre-election blitz to marketing campaign battlegrounds.
Recent from visiting Queensland’s Gympie and Rockhampton on Monday, the federal government has revealed in a single day the opposition’s proposal to construct and function two of seven nuclear reactor websites in Queensland would impression the state’s financial system by $872bn by the mid-century.
The federal government’s evaluation, based mostly on calculations from Australian Vitality Market Operator figures, additionally reveals the opposition’s plan would impression the state financial system’s output by $61.1bn in 2050-51 alone.
On Monday, Albanese informed reporters the opposition chief, Peter Dutton, had a imaginative and prescient for a “smaller Australia”.
“Under the Coalition [Dutton’s] vision is for a smaller Australia, is for making less things, is for less economic activity, is for less jobs … A Soviet-style command economy of the energy system with his nuclear plan, because no one in the private sector would touch this with a barge pole because it doesn’t add up economically.”
Albanese and his entourage of Labor frontbenchers are anticipated to proceed the early-year election-style tour on Tuesday in Cairns, the place the federal government hopes to win the seat of Leichhardt.
Northern Territory’s Lingiari, held by Labor on a razor-thin margin, is anticipated to get a go to earlier than the prime minister heads additional west to the brand new seat of Bullwinkel in outer Perth.
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Queensland’s lawyer basic has requested prosecutors to rethink “manifestly inadequate” sentences handed down in two high-profile legal circumstances. Deb Frecklington, additionally Queensland’s minister for justice and for integrity, stated the 2 sentences “in my view, fail to meet community expectations”.
Staying within the Sunshine State, Queensland’s financial system shall be nearly a $1tn worse off by 2050 if the Coalition’s nuclear plan will get the general public’s inexperienced gentle on the subsequent federal election, a brand new Labor evaluation exhibits. Anthony Albanese will draw on the report back to assault Peter Dutton’s flagship coverage as he continues his tour of electorates in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia forward of the official begin of the federal election marketing campaign. We’ve extra particulars developing.
Senior New South Wales law enforcement officials and the SES are anticipated to offer an replace this morning on the continued efforts to search out the lacking hiker Hadi Nazari. The 23-year-old has not been seen since he started descending the Hannels Spur path within the Kosciuszko nationwide park close to Geehi, between Khancoban and Thredbo within the Snowy Mountains area at about 2.30pm on Boxing Day.
And Sydney is waking up after (or did not sleep by) a giant storm that swept by town in a single day, breaking a protracted sizzling spell. An SES spokesperson informed ABC radio they acquired 189 calls and requests for help, with bushes down on properties, paths and roads, and roofs springing leaks. Extra on this a bit later.
