
By KYLIE STEVENS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
Updated: 01:45 EDT, 27 June 2025
Welcome to Daily Mail Australia’s live blog. Here’s what’s making news on Friday.
A woman has been charged over a string of alleged attacks within a six-hour period in Sydney’s east.
Police launched an investigation following multiple reports of alleged assaults by a woman in the Kingsford and Maroubra areas on Wednesday.
They include an alleged attack on a woman, 22, while walking on Anzac Parade at 3.30pm.
Two hours later, a second woman, 25, was allegedly assaulted at a light rail stop in Kingsford.
A female supermarket employee was then allegedly attacked by a customer at the Anzac Parade store in Kingsford at about 6.45pm.
A fourth woman, 19, was assaulted by an unknown woman at a light rail stop in Kingsford at 9.20pm.
Police will allege the incidents were committed by the same woman, who was not known to her young victims.
Following inquiries, police arrested a woman, 57, on Anzac Parade in Kingsford on Friday morning.
She was charged with three counts of common assault, destroy or damage property, assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
The woman was refused bail and is cheduled to appear in Parramatta Bail Court on Saturday.
An ex-police officer spared jail for killing a 95-year-old woman didn’t give her ‘any real chance’ to avoid being tasered during an encounter that lasted less than three minutes, a court has been told.
Then-senior constable Kristian James Samuel White fired his Taser at Clare Nowland minutes after being called to the Yallambee Lodge nursing home at Cooma in southern NSW.
She died in hospital a week after the incident in the early hours of May 17, 2023.
White, 35, was handed a two-year good behaviour bond and ordered to complete community service in March after a jury found him guilty of manslaughter.
Crown prosecutors appealed against the ‘manifestly inadequate’ sentence when the case went to the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal in Sydney on Friday.
Director of Public Prosecutions Sally Dowling SC argued that Supreme Court Justice Ian Harrison made a number of errors when he decided not to send White to prison.
She told the court Mrs Nowland suffered symptoms of dementia and relied on her walking frame to move around the building.
‘All of the footage … shows how frail she was, how disorientated she was and how confused she was in the hours leading up to the events,’ Ms Dowling said.
The great-grandmother was “extremely vulnerable” at the time because she was tired, confused, frail and moved slowly.
She had no discernible reaction to his warnings or requests to drop the knife she was holding during the two minutes and 40 seconds interaction with White.
‘At no time did Mrs Nowland advance brandishing the knife,’ Ms Dowling said.
She was stationary when he said ‘nah bugger it’ and discharged the Taser at her chest, causing her to fall backwards and sustain a brain injury.
‘(White) did not give her any real chance to avoid being tasered,’Ms Dowling said.
‘There were many other options available to him.’
A veteran broadcaster has been axed from his radio program after just six months in the job.
Ron Wilson’s stint as 2SM breakfast presenter came to a sudden end this week.
‘Thanks for the ride 2SM. It was….interesting…. while it lasted,’ Wilson posted to Facebook on Thursday night
Despite the parting shot, Wilson, 70, insisted he left the station on good terms.
‘They had an option on the contract just to give it a try out for six months, and that’s exactly what happened. It wasn’t quite what they were looking for,’ he told the Daily Telegraph.
‘So we decided that it is probably best we leave it where it is for the time being.’
His photo and bio have already been removed from the radio station’s website.
Wilson has worked in the media industry for five decades, including 33 years with Channel Ten, where he was best known as an evening newsreader.
The former school of a millionaire buisnessman who was allegedly stabbed to death by a teenage boy in Brisbane during a house party has broken its silence.
MrJosephson previously attended St Joseph’s College, where he was a talented rugby player.
‘It is with deep sadness that we inform you of the death of a member of our St Joseph’s College, Gregory Terrace community,’ principal Dr Michael Carroll wrote in a message to parents.
‘Out of respect for his family, we cannot provide further details at this stage.
‘We express our sincere condolences to the man’s family.’
‘This is a tragic incident that will impact members of our College community.
‘Since we became aware of this news, we have endeavoured to contact members of our community. The College will offer those people any support that we can provide.
‘We extend that offer to anyone within our College community who may be seeking assistance including the opportunity to speak with a counsellor.’
Former Beauty and the Geek star Tamika Chesser has been named as the woman accused of the grisly murder of her partner in Port Lincoln.
The 34-year-old was arrested last week after police responded to reports of a small fire at the South Australia home she shared with her partner.
The body of a man was found inside.
Chesser was arrested at the scene and later charged with murder.
Her identity was revealed on Friday after Magistrate Ben Sale lifted a suppression order allowing her name and face to be made public.
Fed-up footy fans have vandalised Carlton’s AFL headquarters after the Blues were hammered by Port Adelaide on Thursday night.
The blunt message at IKON Park in Melbourne read: ‘Sack the board, sack (Nick) Austin and (Brad) Lloyd. Keep (Michael) Voss. TDK (Tom de Koning) yes or no?’
The Blues sit 11th on the ladder following Thursday night’s 50-point defeat – and could drop further by the end of round 16.
Bull semen worth $100,000 is part of a haul of allegedly stolen wagyu cattle uncovered by police in northern NSW.
A Grafton man, 34, faces 20 charges including cattle theft and obtaining financial advantage after allegedly stealing more than 100 cattle from his employer.
A vet allegedly contacted by the man also faces animal cruelty charges for failing to provide treatment to some of his cattle.
The cattleman was asked by his boss to sell 200 breeding cattle, but instead is accused of arranging to sell 114 of the animals, including 45 valuable full-blood wagyu cows, to himself.
Police say the deceptive sale led to a discount of almost $100,000 after the man bought the herd through a third-party at a greatly reduced price.
A search warrant connected to the theft allegedly uncovered a liquid nitrogen storage tank containing bull semen stolen from the employer, worth another $100,000.
Embryos for breeding were also part of the alleged haul.
The alleged cattle thief was bailed to appear in Grafton Local Court on August 4 and the vet was bailed to appear there on August 11.
Harrowing new details have emerged about how a dying man drove 500m down the road after he was stabbed in a driveway of a home in Sydney’s west.
Emergency services were called to Driftway Drive at Pemulwuy about 10.45pm on Thursday after a man was stabbed several times.
The 21-year-old is understood to have been attacked in the driveway of a home. He then clambered into his ute and drove down the street.
His ute then came to a stop half a kilometre down the road and he died in the driver’s seat.
An urgent manhunt continues for two men in dark clothing last seen heading south on foot on Driftway Drive.
Police have confirmed the victim and location were known to them.
‘That will form part of our investigation,’ Detective Superintendent Simon Glasser said.
‘He’s not well-known to police.’
Police are yet to determine whether the stabbing is linked to gangland or organised crime.
‘It’s early in the investigation, however, we’ll be certainly looking to see if that is the case,’ Supt Glasser said.
Detectives remain at the two crime scenes on Friday doorknocking residents.
Shocked neighbours recalled hearing frantic screams and the screeching of tyres at the time of the stabing.
‘This is serious high level violence which we can’t tolerate,’ Supt Glasser said.
‘Our detectives are working on this with the assistance of the State Crime Command and we’re throwing everything we can at it.’
The co-founder of the Universal Store clothing chain has been killed after allegedly being stabbed by a teenage boy in Brisbane during a house party.
Greg Josephson, 58, who co-founded the business with his brother Michael in 1999, was found dead at his Clayfield house in the city’s north, shortly after 8pm on Thursday night.
A 15-year-old boy, who was known to the entrepreneur, was arrested at the Oriel Road home and has been charged with murder.
He will face court on Friday.
A street cleaner who won an unfair dismissal claim after being sacked for objecting to an Acknowledgement of Country never completed mandatory racism modules for the council because he was on leave playing golf at the time.
Shaun Turner was dismissed by the Darebin City Council in Melbourne’s inner north after he questioned why the ceremony was being performed at his weekly meeting.
The Fair Work Commission’s Deputy President Richard Clancy found Mr Turner’s statements were not delivered in the manner or tone alleged by the council.
The decision from Mr Clancy, included yet another alarming detail.
More details in the link below.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been grilled by reporters after the White House reiterated calls for Australia to increase its military spending.
The Trump administration has pushed for Australia to increase its defence budget to three per cent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).
It comes after NATO members committed to spending 3.5 per cent of GDP on defence.
‘We have increased our defence investment,’ Albanese told reporters in Sydney on Friday.
‘We’ve increased it by $57 billion over the medium term and by more than $10 billion in the short term, as well.’
Albanese was repeatedly asked if he was concerned that Australia could be threatened with tariffs by the US after his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez opted out of the Nato defence spending pledge.
‘I’m not going to comment on things between Spain and the United States,’ he said.
‘What my job is to look after Australia’s national interest, that includes our defence and security interests and that’s precisely what we are doing.’
A man has been charged after an employee was allegedly slashed with broken glass at a convenience store in Adelaide’s CBD.
Police were called to Wright St just before 8.30pm on Thursday after reports of a man allegedly stealing items from a convenience store before leaving.
Police allege the man returned a short time later, where he broke a window and assaulted a staff member with broken glass.
Officers arrested the man on nearby West Terrace a short time later.
The Yalata man, 25, was charged with aggravated assault, theft, and property damage.
He was bailed and will appear in the Adelaide Magistrates Court in August.
The convenience store employee suffered a laceration to their hand but didn’t need medical attention.
Ten passengers and eight crew members from a luxury cruise have been rescued from a remote uninhabited island off the Australian mainland.
Earlier, 60 other passengers made it to safety after they were forced to abandon zodiac boats grounded off Adele Island about 100 kilometres north of the West Australian mainland.
The passengers and guides from Silversea’s Silver Cloud ship were taking part in an expedition tour near the island on Thursday when a fast moving tide caught the group by surprise.
They were stranded in knee-deep water about four nautical miles from the ship.
About 70 passengers and 10 guides were forced to wade 500 metres through a coral reef to deeper water where they were met by a flotilla of zodiac vessels sent from the ship to rescue them.
By sunset, most had been rescued and returned to the Silver Cloud where some were treated for minor cuts and abrasions.
The remaining passengers and crew were stranded in darkness for more than four hours while their zodiac vessels were unable to cross an exposed reef until the tide turned about 10pm.
The Silver Cloud has set sail for Talbot Bay to continue its 12 day cruise of the Kimberley region.
An experienced police officer shot dead at work will be farewelled by loved ones and colleagues at a private funeral and guard of honour.
Tasmania Police Constable Keith Anthony Smith, 57, died on June 16 when he approached a property in rural Tasmania to deliver a court-ordered home repossession warrant.
It was first fatal shooting of an officer in Tasmania in more than a century.
A 46-year-old North Motton man has been charged with murder, attempted murder and aggravated assault.
Family, friends, colleagues and other invited guests will mourn Constable Smith at a private funeral in Devonport on Friday.
It will be followed by a guard of honour and funeral procession through Devonport and Ulverstone, with members of the public who wish to pay tribute to him encouraged to attend.
A boy, 15, has been charged with murder after a man was allegedly stabbed to death at a house party in an affluent Brisbane suburb.
Police were called to Oriel Road in Clayfield, about 8.15pm on Thursday, where a man, 58, was found unresponsive upstairs in a three-storey home following an alleged altercation.
‘There was some sort of altercation that resulted in this 58-year-old male tragically, losing his life,’ Acting Assistant Commissioner Rhys Wildman said.
A Clayfield teen was arrested at the scene and has since been charged with murder.
He will appear in Brisbane Children’s Court on Friday.
Homicide detectives have launched an urgent manhunt after a man was stabbed to death in Sydney’s west.
Emergency services were called to Driftway Drive at Pemulwuy about 10.45pm on Thursday after a man suffering from multiple stab wounds was found lying outside a home.
The man, 21 died at the scene, despite paramedics’ efforts to revive him.
It’s understood the man was attacked in the driveway of his home.
Despite his injuries, he managed to get into his ute and drove 500 metres down the road, before coming to a stop and died in the driver’s seat.
Police launched an investigation with the assistance of the State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad.
Officers and forensic officers spent the night scouring the crime scene and examining a silver Volkswagen Amarok ute.
A trail of blood was seen on the driver door of the vehicle.
Detectives remain at the scene doorknocking residents on Friday morning, where the street remains closed off.
‘It was just horrific.’ one resident told the Daily Telegraph.
‘There was so much screaming and blood.’
No arrests have yet been made.
Police are expected to give an update later on Friday morning.
Anyone with information or CCTV is urged to call Crime Stoppers.
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