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Trump has arrived in Warsaw, where the White House says he will showcase his commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in a speech and in meetings with a group of nations closest to Russia on his way to the G20 summit in Germany on Friday and Saturday.
"This is the second foreign visit by president Trump and it starts in Poland. This shows we are a country that matters and it strengthens our position in the European Union," Duda said on public radio.
Like other countries close to the NATO frontline with Russia, Poland will be eager to hear Trump embrace the alliance principle that an attack against one member represents an attack against all of them.
Trump flustered allies at his first NATO summit when he dropped a mention of the mutual defence principle, known as Article 5, which is the bedrock of the trans-Atlantic partnership.
Trump will address the Polish people on Thursday in a speech from Krasinski Square.
Mr Costa, 43, was found dead in a Brunswick West park still in his expensive Zegna suit and shoes on Monday.
A Victoria Police spokeswoman on Thursday said police had found the Nissan Patrol connected to the Coburg man, but would not confirm the car's location as the investigation is ongoing.
Police and SES volunteers are also spending Thursday afternoon searching Robinson Reserve in Coburg.
Mr Costa's family say he was a gentle man and thought he may have been on a date the night he was killed.
"Him taken from us in a such a brutal way is beyond repair," his sister Sandra DiGiorgio told reporters on Wednesday.
"I think he had a date that night, 'cos he did go home and put on his good suit.
"He had a heart of gold, I don't know anyone who'd want to hurt him."
A bill to decriminalise sex work in SA passed parliament's upper house early on Thursday.
It will now come before the lower house where all MPs will be granted a conscience vote.
Questions have been raised as to whether the parliament will be keen to address the controversial issue ahead of the election in March, but Mr Marshall sees no reason for a delay.
"If there's an opportunity to debate legitimate reform, the Liberal Party will be all for it," he told reporters.
"This is something that has loosely been on the agenda for more than a decade.
"We lag behind other states and it's time for us to consider this carefully."
The private members' bill was introduced by Liberal MP Michelle Lensink and passed the upper house 13 votes to eight.
Ms Lensink said it would decriminalise all forms of prostitution, but coercion, detaining women against their will, or children working in the industry, would remain illegal.
The Australian Christian Lobby said the vote on Thursday was disappointing.
"It casts aside evidence from Victoria and Queensland that show illegal sex trade and trafficking has continued unabated after those states decriminalised prostitution," SA director Christopher Brohier said.
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill said he was generally supportive of reform but was yet to read the full bill.
He wasn't sure if MPs would "have an appetite" to deal with it before the March election.
Paramedics have responded to 12 trampoline-related triple-zero calls across the state since the school break started on Saturday, which is more than vehicle and bike-related injuries combined.
Patients aged two to 18 have been hurt on trampolines, jumping castles and beds with injuries ranging from a hurt knee to compound leg fractures, dislocated elbows and broken arms.
Separate figures released in March revealed the state ambulance service responded to almost 1800 trampoline-related injuries between 2014 and 2016.
Of those, nearly 900 were children aged under 10.
NSW Ambulance Inspector John Brotherhood on Thursday said parents should be vigilant when their children played on trampolines.
"Many children are injured while jumping with others - the more children on board, the more likely one will fall on another," he said in a statement.
"Also, don't put a trampoline near a fence or other structure or use it as a springboard into a pool."
Insp Brotherhood said he was most concerned by the seven young pedestrians and cyclists who were hit by cars since the holidays began on July 1.
The mild winter weather meant more kids were playing outside, and he implored drivers to keep an eye out.
"It's important to remember that young children in particular sometimes forget to obey the road rules and can behave unpredictably near roadways."
IS - also known as Daesh - now controls only a small section of the old city with fewer than 400 fighters left.
Joint operations chief Vice Admiral David Johnston said the liberation of Mosul was inevitable as Iraqi security forces tighten their advance and squeeze out militants.
"I expect success is now measured within days for when Mosul will be declared as having been cleared," he told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday.
The federal government has committed to supporting Iraq through to the defeat of IS - but how long that might take is unclear.
"I expect our contribution to be there well through the end of the year in its current format and potentially into next year as well," Vice Admiral Johnston said.
"It will all depend on how quickly the Iraqi government decides it needs to move on those other pockets of Daesh resistance."
The fight is expected to continue into smaller towns such as Tal Afar, Hawijah and up through the Euphrates River Valley.
In the meantime, Iraq will need time to replenish its security forces, with about 1000 killed and 6000 injured in Mosul alone as of late May
"So there is still significant work to occur in that country," Vice Admiral Johnston said.
"The pace by which the Iraqi forces can move will be determined by how quickly they can reconstitute themselves."
Non-registered training provider TayTell is being investigated for contracts set up with Bendigo Kangan Institute in which Jetstar employees were seemingly fraudulently enrolled as students.
Calls between TayTell director Rebecca Taylor and Jetstar manager Margaret Jarvie were played at an Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission hearing on Thursday.
The conversations, some of which also involved Ms Taylor's daughter Heather, seem to record the pair aligning their stories to tell investigators.
Ms Jarvie was enrolled as a Certificate IV in engineering student as a Zinfra employee at South West TAFE during 2013.
The Zinfra contract was also delivered by TayTell and has been under investigation for similar fraud allegations.
The hearing was played a series of tapped phone calls between Ms Taylor and Ms Jarvie after the latter had been contacted by IBAC.
"What was my project? Um, oh, my project was to do with the um, consistency - consistent approach in all of the, um - um, what were they? Substations," Ms Jarvie was recorded saying to Ms Taylor.
Phone calls of Ms Jarvie seeming to panic about her handwriting and the handwriting in the workbooks being inconsistent were also played during the hearing.
Counsel assisting, Ian Hill said the conversations were attempts for the two women to align their stories.
"This is all part of you and her putting together a story to tell the IBAC investigators," he said.
Each student was worth $14,000 in government subsidies to TayTell, which allegedly was not qualified to deliver or assess the training and did not provide the 1400 training hours required.
It is also alleged the enrolment forms were fraudulently filled out and assessments ticked off without any actual student assessment having taken place.
Ms Jarvie admitted her assessment documents were "quite fictitious" when questioned by Mr Hill.
The hearing continues.
An online listing offers the "Tasmania Police ID wallet and badge", accompanied by a photograph, which "includes all the security features of the original".
"The item on the website does appear to be a very similar likeness to the Tasmania Police badge," a police spokeswoman told AAP on Thursday.
"Possessing an item of police uniform or identification without proper authorisation is an offence in Tasmania."
Hobart's The Mercury newspaper quoted the ad as telling prospective buyers to "use your imagination" about the ID card's potential use
"(The) ID card can be customised to your requirements and can be ordered as a bundle for just $150," a screen captured image of the ad said.
However, in a discrepancy, the purchase price listed under the sales blurb showed $US1500.
"Maritime will get you entry to docks, aviation to airports, customs to docks and airports, police VIP access to all areas and more," the vendor said.
University of Melbourne Cyber security researcher Suelette Dreyfus said it was difficult to say whether the badges were real.
"In a non-transparent online marketplace such as where these presumably came from, there are plenty of dodgy sellers," Dr Dreyfus said.
"Presumably, the badges have security features that make it hard to fake them.
"However, an amateur collector buying something in this area might not know what to look for, so might easily be duped."
It is an offence to possess a police ID without proper authorisation, and Tasmania Police asked people who suspected someone of impersonating an officer to contact authorities.
The apparent sale of police badges on the dark web comes days after the federal government confirmed Medicare card numbers were being sold online.
"The people that we know had a Medicare card number breach, we have contacted," Human Services Minister Alan Tudge said on Thursday.
Climate Council scientist Will Steffen says the outcome doesn't change the fact science shows the ecosystem is in danger and has little chance of surviving unless the federal government changes its policies.
"The federal government must focus on protecting the reef, instead of labels and listings," Professer Steffen said in a statement on Thursday.
UNESCO's World Heritage Committee endorsed the federal and Queensland governments' Reef 2050 Plan at its annual meeting in Poland on Wednesday.
Federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg said it was a "big win for Australia".
"We're taking every action possible to ensure this great wonder of the world stays viable and healthy for future generations to come," he told ABC Radio on Thursday.
But Prof Steffen said the strategy didn't address climate change and was being implemented while governments continued to support the controversial Adani coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin.
"Unless Australia joins the rest of the world in adopting very strong climate and energy policies, the reef will have very little chance of surviving," he said.
Environmentalists argue the Adani mine will increase greenhouse gas emissions and potentially contaminate the reef as coal is shipped offshore.
Mr Frydenberg and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in a joint statement the government was committed to climate change targets in the Paris Agreement.
He told ABC Radio that land management practices for farmers could still be improved, but he welcomed the Adani mine because of the jobs it would bring to regional Queensland towns.
Queensland Environment Minister Steven Miles accused Mr Frydenberg of taking undue credit for initiatives in the Reef 2050 Plan.
Dr Miles said it was largely work done by his state government that convinced the World Heritage Committee to endorse the strategy.
"When the Palaszczuk government was elected we made very substantial changes to that plan," he said.
Despite its endorsement, the World Heritage Committee expressed "serious concern" about the health of the reef.
It urged Australia to accelerate its efforts to improve water quality, describing it as "essential to the overall resilience of the property".
Dr Miles said the Queensland government had committed to spending a record $63m to address the issue.
Dr Miles said it had also committed to re-introducing tougher land clearing laws if it won with a majority at the next election.
He said if the state government wasn't able to pass the legislation, the World Heritage Committee may have a "different view down the track".
The World Heritage Committee will next consider the health of the reef in 2020.
Households and businesses will save between $9 and $23 on their annual gas bills from 2018, following the regulator's draft decision on how much the revenue gas networks can collect from customers until 2022.
"While the impact of these decisions would be relatively small, any reduction in network charges avoids adding further pressure to household and business budgets when many Australians are concerned about rising energy costs," AER chairwoman Paula Conboy said in a statement on Thursday.
"Gas transmission and distribution pipeline costs in Victoria and Albury make up around 20-25 per cent of residential customers' bills and around 14-18 per cent of small business customers' bills."
The decision covers Ausnet Gas Services, Multinet Gas, Australian Gas Networks and APA VTS Australia.
AGN chief operating officer Andrew Staniford said the six per cent price reduction from January 1 would mean cheaper gas for hot water systems and cooking.
New research carried out in Hungary has found that when toad tadpoles come into contact with the widely used weedkiller Glyphogan their bodies produce more of the toxic chemicals they use to ward off predators.
The scientists behind the research say their findings, published by The Royal Society on Wednesday, suggest that cane toads in Australia could become more toxic given they come into contact with various pollutants and pesticides because they live in such a wide variety of habitats.
Conservative MP James Cartlidge said on Tuesday that the marsupials' bouncing had thrown off Volvo's large animal detection systems, as he called on car manufacturers to consider all road users when designing the devices.
During a Westminster Hall debate on the safety of riders and horses on rural roads, Cartlidge said driverless cars would bring their own issues.
"I don't know if people are aware of Volvo - they have an issue with kangaroos."
The South Suffolk MP said Volvo recently reported their driverless cars had initially been tested to detect and avoid moose in Sweden but had struggled with kangaroos.
"I think it's because they bounce, rather than approach steadily - I don't know, I'm not an expert."
Cartlidge said he hoped the UK would lead the world in the development of driverless cars but large animal detection systems on such vehicles should be able to handle any user met on the road.
The hefty price tag is about $1 billion more than was set aside to build one of Australia's biggest road projects, WestConnex.
According to confidential cabinet documents released to the media on Wednesday, the construction cost of the 32km road has been estimated at $14.5 billion.
Operation and maintenance costs of the freeway, which will connect Sydney to Wollongong, has been estimated at $3.5 billion, the document says.
The revelations come after another report leaked last week showed the cost to upgrade the South Coast rail line - which also links the city to the Illawarra region - at $3.6 billion.
The estimate, which is substantially less than the proposed F6 extension, would cut the Sydney to Wollongong journey to about one hour, the report said.
A spokesman for Roads Minister Melinda Pavey says the motorway extension is still in an early development stage.
"No decision has yet been made regarding the final alignment or form of the proposed F6 Extension, therefore it is too early to speculate on the final cost," he told AAP in a statement on Wednesday.
"The community will continue to be kept informed at key stages of the project."
The Berejiklian government allocated $15 million in June's budget for planning work on the F6.
A further $20 million has already been provided to carry out geotechnical testing and other development work.
North Korea said it successfully test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, days before leaders from the Group of 20 nations are due to discuss steps to rein in Pyongyang's weapons programs.
Gold is typically seen as a store of value and therefore a safe-haven investment in times of economic and political uncertainty, when investors tend to sell riskier assets such as stocks.
World shares, oil and bond yields pulled back on Tuesday as North Korea's long-range missile test and July 4 holidays for US markets curbed investor appetite for risk.
Spot gold was up 0.3 per cent at $1,223.37 an ounce, while US gold futures climbed 0.3 per cent to
$1,222.60 an ounce.
"The market is turning to gold over the conflict in North Korea," Danske Bank senior analyst Jens Pedersen said. "But the market isn't pricing in a further deterioration in relations because this conflict has been going on for a while."
Gold fell 1.7 per cent on Monday, the most in one day since November and reaching its lowest point since May.
Hedge funds and other money managers reduced their net long positions in COMEX gold and silver for a third straight week in the week to June 27, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission
data showed.
"The prevailing threat of geopolitical tensions is likely to cause a knee-jerk reaction to safe-haven assets with bullion up over eight per cent for the year," Sucden Financial said in its quarterly report.
"Accordingly we anticipate impulsive demand for bullion to persist."
Silver slipped 0.1 per cent to $1US6.06 an ounce, after touching its lowest since May 9 at $16.01.
"More investors are coming aboard at the current relatively low entry level for silver and physical demand has been robust both in Singapore and in Hong Kong," said Joshua Rotbart, managing partner, J. Rotbart & Co in Hong Kong.
Platinum rose one per cent to $US911 an ounce, having fallen on Monday to below $900 for the first time since May 10.
A woman was struck by a motorbike in Latrobe Street just before 7.30am and was taken to hospital in a stable condition with minor injuries, an Ambulance Victoria spokeswoman said.
A few minutes later, a second woman was hit by a car in Collins Street, and she suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital in a stable condition.
New president Emmanuel Macron regards taming spending and reducing its budget deficit as key to winning the trust of European Union partner Germany and persuading Berlin to embark on reforms to shore up the bloc.
"The French are hooked on public spending. Like all addictions it doesn't solve any of the problems it is meant to ease. And like all addictions it requires willpower and courage to detox," Philippe told the National Assembly to applause on Tuesday.
Philippe said that for every 100 euros Germany raised in taxes it spent 98 euros, while France spent 125 euros for every 117 euros levied in taxes.
"Who really believes this situation is sustainable?"
The government and its program comfortably won a vote of confidence. The lower house, dominated by Macron's Republic on the Move party, voted 370 in favour of the government with only 67 voting against - mostly far-left and far-right lawmakers.
Some 129 people abstained, with a large number of conservatives from the Republicans party not opposing the government.
Philippe's talk of austerity comes just as other major economies such as Germany, the United States and even Britain are signalling an easing of fiscal policy to underpin growth.
But last week France's independent auditor revealed a more than 8 billion euro funding shortfall in this year's budget, forecasting a deficit once again above the EU cap of 3 per cent of national income.
Philippe, a relatively unknown conservative before he was picked by Macron, said his objective was still to haul the deficit below the EU's cap this year and he would target cuts in spending by three per cent of national income over five years.
Jean-Luc Melenchon, head of the far-left party France Unbowed, and far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen accused Philippe of ignoring the anger of voters with measures they said would hurt their spending power.
Philippe acknowledged that a record high abstention rate in June's parliamentary election meant his government would have to tread carefully with its social and economic reform agenda, but that France could not ignore its problems.
On Europe, Philippe stressed Macron's stance that any talks with Britain over its future relationship with the EU would only come after orderly negotiations over its exit from the bloc.
"Conducting orderly negotiations over the United Kingdom's exit will be a prerequisite for the future relationship's framework," Philippe said.
A Canadian citizen, Khadr was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 at age 15 after a firefight with US soldiers. He pleaded guilty to killing a US Army medic and became the youngest inmate held at the military prison in Cuba.
Khadr later recanted and his lawyers said he had been grossly mistreated.
In 2010, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that Canada breached his rights by sending intelligence agents to interrogate him and sharing the results with the United States.
The case proved divisive: defenders called Khadr a child soldier while the then-Conservative government dismissed calls to seek leniency, noting he had pleaded guilty to a serious crime.
"Meet Canada's newest multi-millionaire - Omar Khadr," said the Conservatives as they unveiled a protest petition.
Tony Clement, the Conservative Party's public safety spokesman, said "it is one thing to acknowledge alleged mistreatment, but it is wrong to lavishly reward a convicted terrorist who murdered an allied soldier who had a wife and two children".
Khadr spent a decade in Guantanamo before being returned to Canada in 2012 to serve the rest of his sentence. He was released on bail in 2015 and lives in Edmonton, Alberta.
The Canadian government and Khadr's lawyers agreed on the compensation deal, said the sources, who asked to remain anonymous given the sensitivity. Canada has reached a series of expensive settlements with citizens imprisoned abroad who alleged Ottawa was complicit in their mistreatment.
Khadr, 30, had sued Ottawa for $C20 million on grounds of violating his human rights. News of the settlement was broken by the Globe and Mail newspaper.
A spokesman for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale declined to comment.
Khadr was taken to Afghanistan by his father, an al-Qaeda member, who apprenticed the boy to a group of bomb makers. The father died in a battle with Pakistani forces in 2003.
At least 80 people died or are presumed missing after the block of flats caught fire early on June 14.
The private meeting took place on Tuesday at the Olympia London in West Kensington, just over a mile from the Grenfell Tower, with Westminster coroner Dr Fiona Wilcox and Metropolitan Police Commander Stuart Cundy in attendance.
Lotifa Begum, a coordinator for the charity Muslim Aid, said the families had been told that the "recovery phase", where the authorities identify bodies, could take until the end of the year.
She said some of the families inside the meeting were "very upset and angry", and a few had been overwhelmed and had to leave.
The family of Jessica Urbano, who lived on the 20th floor of the building, arrived at the meeting wearing t-shirts saying 'Happy Birthday Jessie' along with a picture of the girl, on what a family member online said was her 13th birthday.
Families of victims greeted each other at the entrance before going inside, some ushered in by police staff.
The families were told before the meeting that they would not be allowed to put questions directly to Dr Wilcox or Commander Cundy, and had to email their questions in by 11am the day before.
The Press Association understands that some family members were not happy with how the meeting was organised.
Haider al-Abadi spoke during a news conference in Baghdad, less than a week after he declared an end to IS's self-styled caliphate after Iraqi forces took back the landmark al-Nuri Mosque in the Old City.
"Praise be to God, we managed to liberate (Mosul) and proved the others were wrong, the people of Mosul supported and stood with our security forces against terrorism," al-Abadi said on Tuesday.
His remarks came on the third anniversary of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's sermon at the al-Nuri Mosque, from where he declared an Islamic caliphate on IS-held lands in Syria and Iraq.
Lieutenant General Abdel Ghani al-Asadi, of Iraq's special forces, said earlier in the day that Iraqi forces were just 250m from the Tigris River, in the western half of Mosul.
The Tigris divides the city into its western and eastern half, which was liberated from IS militants in January.
IS militants who remained trapped in just a few hundred metres of territory in the Old City were in a "fight to the death", al-Asadi said.
Qantas says QF93 departed Tullamarine airport before 10am on Thursday. It said the diversion was not an emergency situation.
"The indicator fault (light) appeared in the cockpit and, as a precaution, the captain has made a decision to divert to Sydney," a Qantas spokesman told AAP.
The Airbus A380 aircraft, which seats 484 people, is circling east of Sydney and expected to land about 1pm.
A remote control operator will test the new feature from July 1 by sounding the alarm to alert swimmers and surfers if a shark is spotted nearby.
Primary Industries Minister Niall Blair says the drones and helicopters have proven successful in protecting swimmers in the past.
"Last summer they spotted 571 dangerous sharks and assisted in saving two swimmers caught in a rip," Mr Blair said in a statement.
Drones will be deployed at Lennox Head, Ballina, Evans Head and Byron Bay if weather permits.
Helicopter flights will patrol several beaches in northern NSW beaches some in the Hunter region.
Beachgoers can stay up to date throughout the day by checking the SharkSmart app or Twitter feed.
The online services provide real-time shark alerts when a tagged shark swims within 500 metres of one of 20 listening stations.
Colin Murphy says in his ninth annual audit of government agency information systems he is disappointed many of them are simply not taking the threat of risks seriously.
"As recent high profile malware threats have shown us, no agency or system is immune from these evolving and ongoing threats," Mr Murphy said on Thursday.
Victorian Police Minister Lisa Neville has told 3AW the infected cameras were operated by Redflex and Jenoptiks, neither of which alerted authorities about the problem.
Redflex originally found 55 cameras infected with a virus, before the total was increased on Sunday to 97.
The latest investigation found Jenoptiks also had cameras with the virus on them.
"These are new, 62 of them, that's concerning that both the companies didn't inform us," Ms Neville told 3AW on Thursday.
The minister said she was aware three Jenoptiks cameras were affected last week.
"Some of them have been affected, but the questions is whether some have been infected," she said.
The virus could only have been spread manually but was unlikely to be malicious or deliberate, Ms Neville said.
Last week hundreds of Victorian motorists had fines cancelled after it was discovered a ransomware virus had affected Redflex's cameras.
A contractor inadvertently infected some of the cameras when he connected them to them via USB.
Victoria's Road Safety Camera Commissioner John Voyage is investigating the breach, including how it happened and how many red-light and speed cameras were impacted.
AAP has contacted Jenoptiks for comment.
A Justice Department spokeswoman said details of the breach will be made public once the commissioner's investigation is complete.
"There have now been more than 160 cameras identified as a part of the issue," she said in a statement.
"No fixed camera infringements will be issued until the commissioner has completed his investigation."
Mr Newman, who is now a political commentator for Sky News and sits on the boards of various companies, says the base of the Liberal Party has turned against Mr Turnbull and he needs to put it first.
"He is dividing the Liberal Party, there's a lot of attention on (Tony) Abbott giving these speeches, but the person who is really dividing the Liberal Party is actually Malcolm Turnbull," Mr Newman told ABC Radio.
"The base of the Liberal Party are desperately unhappy and that's reflected in the polling."
Recent polling has the federal coalition on 36 per cent of the primary vote, and Mr Newman says there is no way for Mr Turnbull to turn that around.
While he shied away from naming a potential successor, Mr Newman had harsh words for federal frontbencher Christopher Pyne, whom he labelled a "toffee-nosed schoolboy".
"He's a schemer. He's not focused on doing the right thing. He thinks he's better than he is ... frankly he a walking, talking caricature of a Tory toff."
The former premier also suggested former PM Tony Abbott should resign, but said his ongoing criticisms of the party were "technically right".
Mr Newman's former treasurer and current Queensland Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls says he doesn't agree with his former leader's assertion that the state and federal Liberal parties don't "get" north Queensland.
"People don't want the internal squabbling, they're sick of it," Mr Nicholls told reporters in Cairns on Thursday.
"We understand that, it is about representing the people and making sure you have the right plans for them."
Mr Newman, who was himself ousted from power in one of the largest electoral defeats in Queensland's history, says he considered standing aside when he saw his government struggling in the polls, but the idea was vetoed by LNP Queensland President Bruce McIver.
"If we'd done that, I don't think we would have lost the election and Tim Nicholls would be premier right now," he said.
Victoria Police say 76-year-old Catholic cleric will appear in Melbourne Magistrates Court on July 18 for a filing hearing.
Cardinal Pell, the Vatican's finance chief, has repeatedly denied allegations of sexual assault dating back to his time as a Ballarat priest and as Archbishop of Melbourne.
Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton said a summons was served on Dr Pell's legal representatives in Melbourne on Thursday.
"Cardinal Pell has been treated the same as anyone else in this investigation," Mr Patton said.
"The process and procedures that are being followed in the charging of Cardinal Pell have been the same that have been applied in a whole range of historical sex offences whenever we investigate them."
Cardinal Pell faces multiple charges and "multiple complainants".
"Cardinal Pell, like any other defendant, has a right to due process and so therefore, it is important that the process is allowed to run its natural course," Mr Patton said.
It is so far unclear just which allegations Cardinal Pell has been charged with.
Complaints were previously made to police relating to alleged sexual assaults in Ballarat between 1976 and 1980 and in East Melbourne between 1996 and 2001.
Cardinal Pell denies all of the allegations made against him. Many were replicated in a book published in May, which Cardinal Pell's Rome office labelled "an exercise in character assassination".
Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher has said Cardinal Pell, who has co-operated with multiple police, parliamentary and royal commission investigations, is the victim of relentless character attacks.
The child sexual abuse royal commission is yet to hand down its official findings into how church figures, including Cardinal Pell, handled past allegations of abuse in Victoria's Ballarat Diocese and the Archdiocese of Melbourne.
Support for the dollar eroded as investors realised the US Federal Reserve might not be the only game in town when it came to higher interest rates.
In Britain, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney surprised many by conceding a hike was likely to be needed as the economy came closer to running at full capacity.
The Bank of Canada went further, with two top policymakers suggesting they might tighten as early as July.
That followed comments earlier in the week from European Central Bank President Mario Draghi that stimulus might need to be toned down so it does not become more accommodative as the economy recovers.
ECB sources tried to hose down the talk but could not stop the euro hitting a one-year high against the U.S. dollar.
"If we want to know what the ECB is planning, we will choose a carefully scripted Draghi speech over anonymous sources every time," said Westpac currency strategist Sean Sallow.
"Backed by the Eurozone's strong current account surplus and the contrast with a Fed which could pause on rate hikes for a while, the euro looks to be on target for $1.1500-1.1600."
On Thursday, the single currency had already pressed on to $1.1409 having climbed three per cent in as many days.
The euro also surged to a 16-month top on the yen as investors doubt the Bank of Japan will be in any position to begin winding back its stimulus for a long time to come.
The Canadian dollar vaulted to C$1.3027, having enjoyed its biggest daily gain in three months, while sterling rebounded to $1.2964.
Against a basket of major currencies, the dollar sank to its lowest since October at 95.801 as volatility returned with a vengeance.
Traders at Citi called the currency reaction "extraordinary" with turnover as much as twice the daily average on Wednesday.
"Central banks will be very cautious in their approach," said Martin Whetton, a senior rates strategist at ANZ.
"But once they start tightening in concert, and their bloated balance sheets start unwinding, it is fair to say that bonds, equities, house prices and other asset markets will face stiffer headwinds than they have for a long time."
The squall had already driven German short-term yields to their highest in a year, while yields on US 10-year Treasuries were up 11 basis points so far this week at 2.23 per cent.
Yet the prospect of higher interest rates also bolstered banking stocks and helped the S&P 500 score its biggest one-day percentage gain in about two months on Wednesday.
The Dow rose 0.68 per cent, while the S&P 500 gained 0.88 per cent and the Nasdaq 1.43 per cent.
Financials gained further after hours as the Fed approved plans from the 34 largest US banks to use extra capital for stock buy backs and dividends.
Asia followed on Thursday with Japan's Nikkei adding 0.5 per cent and Australia 0.8 per cent. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.8 per cent to its highest since May 2015.
The weaker U. dollar helped boost commodities in general, with gold up 0.3 per cent to $1,253.09 an ounce.
Oil recouped a little of its recent steep losses after a weekly decrease in US production offset a surprise build in crude inventories in the world's top oil consumer.
On Thursday, US crude firmed 27 cents to $45.01 per barrel and Brent added 28 cents to $47.59.
Summary inquests into the homicides of Raim Dalipi, who was shot in 2005; Robert Hoff, who was beaten to death in 2011; and Sameh Matar, who died of a gunshot wound to the pelvis in 2010, were held at the Victorian Coroners Court on Thursday.
Leading Senior Constable Kelly Ramsay told Judge Sara Hinchey the murderers had never been identified or charged.
Mr Dalipi, 58, was involved in the sale of cannabis at the time of his death.
The Macedonian immigrant had been in a tumultuous relationship with his wife when a man knocked on their front door in Geelong in September 2005 after Mr Dalipi had purchased a bale of illegal tobacco.
The man asked to buy half a kilogram of the tobacco and left to get money.
He returned a minute later, pushing Mr Dalipi and entering the couple's home with another man who was holding a handgun.
The second man placed a blanket over Mrs Dalipi's head and threatened to kill her if she removed it.
Mrs Dalipi, who used her phone to get help, heard a gunshot.
Upon hearing the two men leave, she removed the blanket from her head and saw her husband injured and unsteady on his feet.
Mr Dalipi died later that night from a gunshot wound to his abdomen.
Robert Hoff was a 50-year-old man who lived at Carrum Downs. He was attacked by a seemingly random assailant while on his way to catch a bus to his job as a forklift driver in March 2011.
Sen Const Ramsay said Mr Hoff was known as a gentle, sensitive man who had never been in a relationship.
A resident found him on the ground with blood around his head, dead from blunt force trauma.
Sameh Matar was a 23-year-old Lebanese immigrant who was on bail for drug trafficking and possession at the time of his death.
He died of extensive blood loss from a gunshot wound to the pelvis after an argument with a group of men at Hadfield in July 2010.
Summary inquests are mandatory in homicide cases where no one has been charged.
No witnesses are called during the proceedings.
Coronial inquiries can be reopened if new information into the homicides is discovered.
The Indonesian detainee known by the single name Hambali was notified last week that prosecutors are preparing to try him before a military commission at the US base in Cuba on charges that include terrorism and murder in violation of the law of war.
He is accused of conspiring with leaders of al Qaeda in a series of attacks, including the bombings in Bali in October 2002 that killed 202 people.
A Pentagon legal official known as the convening authority must still approve the charges before the case can proceed to an arraignment.
Marine Corps Brigadier General John Baker, the chief defence counsel, said in an email that he was notified that prosecutors do not intend to seek the death penalty even though some of the charges are potentially capital offences.
Baker said he would be submitting a request for additional resources to "effectively represent" Hambali but the decision to not seek the death penalty means he will not have to find experienced capital lawyers who are typically civilians.
Hambali, 53, whose full name is Encep Nurjamen has been held by the CIA and subjected to what the US government has called its "enhanced" interrogation program.
He is accused of being the "operational mastermind" of the Southeast Asia-based Islamic extremist group known as Jemaah Islamiyah, an affiliate of al Qaeda.
Charging documents provided to the AP allege he orchestrated the Bali bombings as well as an August 2003 attack on the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta, which killed 11 people, and other plots.
Hambali is one of 41 prisoners still held at Guantanamo.
The government has confirmed the former GoPrint site at Wooloongabba will be transformed into a Cross River Rail stop and an interchange with Brisbane City Council's Brisbane Metro.
Tuesday's state budget allocated an additional $1.95 billion towards the $5.4 billion project, allowing the development to move ahead despite the reluctance of the Turmbull government to help fund it.
But Deputy Premier Jackie Trad insisted the government was still chasing the federal government to contribute.
"It is time for Malcolm Turnbull to come to the party, but we're not waiting for him," Ms Trad told reporters on Wednesday.
"What this means is that we can move forward as a new world city, with a world-class public transport system, with the state government and Brisbane city council working hand in hand to unclog some of the critical choke points in our transport system."
Opposition leader Tim Nicholls claimed the actual cost of the project would be much more than $5.4 billion, and the government was being reckless by going it alone.
"The cost of Cross River Rail is going to be more like $14 billion," he said.
"It would be like building a hospital and not having the beds and the doctors."
But Ms Trad says outlining the capital investment has always been the standard way of costing projects, including when the Liberal National Party was in office.
The government says the ongoing cost of the project would be met through a number of means, including federal funding and private sector investment.
Work is expected to start on the Woolloongabba station in September this year, ramping up to December.
The government's agricultural forecaster says wheat production will drop by 31 per cent to 24.2 million tonnes, while barley will be down 39 per cent.
"While down on the record production ... the latest estimates still paint a positive picture for Australia's cropping sector, with winter crop production forecast to be around the five year average to 2015/16," acting ABARES executive director Peter Gooday said on Wednesday.
A government bill aims to resolve uncertainty around more than 120 indigenous land use agreements relating to major projects, including the Queensland mine proposed by the Indian resources giant Adani.
It reverses the impact of a Federal Court ruling known as the McGlade case, which found an indigenous land use agreement could not be registered unless all members of the "registered native title claimant" signed the agreement, including members of the group who may have died.
That ruling overturned an earlier decision, which found that an area land use agreement could be registered if it had been signed by at least one member of the registered native title claimant group.
The amended bill passed the Senate with Labor and crossbench support on Wednesday.
Stella Schnabel, daughter of painter Julian Schnabel, reported her death on Instagram. "Thank you for the most important lessons," wrote Schnabel.
An Italian-German actress, model, and fashion designer, Pallenberg was known as an icon of 1960s style. She was said to have an important influence on several Rolling Stones albums, and described herself as "a vagabond. An adventurer. I am not a person with one specific talent. I wish I was."
Her film roles included playing the Great Tyrant in Roger Vadim's Barbarella, a nurse in cult film Candy and in Performance.
In her later years, she took classes in textiles, designed clothes, gardened, and painted. She also appeared in an episode of Absolutely Fabulous with Mick Jagger's one-time girlfriend and fellow fashion inspiration Marianne Faithfull, with whom she remained close.
She met Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones while modelling in 1965 and left him in 1967 for Richards after Jones became unstable and violent. Jones died in 1969.
Pallenberg and Richards remained a couple until 1980, and they had three children together: Marlon, Angela, and Tara, who died in infancy. Richards has said that they were both addicted to heroin and Pallenberg was charged in the 1977 Toronto drug arrest; the pair went to rehab rather than prison.
She was also said to have had a sexual relationship with Mick Jagger during the production of Performance.
Pallenberg is survived by her two children and several grandchildren.
A 60-year-old woman died after her car crashed into an XPT train at a rural level-crossing in Kyogle, northwest of Lismore, shortly after 8am on Wednesday.
The woman's dog who was in her vehicle had to be put down by a vet at the scene, while the train's 33 passengers were not injured.
In Sydney's west a driver died after crashing into a power pole near Penrith.
Mulgoa Road remains closed around the crash scene and motorists have been urged to avoid the area.
The handwritten note, on Royal Yacht Britannia crested paper, reveals his hopes of people appreciating "the things I try to do after I am dead".
Charles writes that it has been "pretty awful having to live through all the misinterpretation and the flak" following the break-up.
"Perhaps it is part of the test I have to go through in order to come out the other side having been tempered in the fire."
The letter, to interior designer Dudley Poplak, is dated December 11, 1992 - two days after the couple's separation was formally announced.
It will be sold by Dominic Winter Auctioneers in South Cerney, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, on Wednesday, along with a note from Princess Diana.
Auctioneer and senior valuer Chris Albury said there had been many letters from Princess Diana sold over the years, mostly short thank you notes.
"Emotionally charged letters like this, which reveal her genuine interest in new age philosophy against a backdrop of a failing marriage are very collectable.
"Even more unusual is to have a very personal and revealing letter from Prince Charles to the same friend candidly expressing his pain and frustrations too."
Charles ends the letter to Poplak, who died in 2005, by writing: "At least you understand, which is hugely reassuring and comforting".
The state government is reportedly considering acquiring the bushland to extend the motorway between Sydney and the Illawarra.
More than 400 homes and 40 commercial properties would have to be bulldozed if the extension didn't go through the park, according to an internal government document obtained by Fairfax Media.
Greens MP Mehreen Faruqi is shocked the Berejiklian government is considering building a toll road through the country's oldest national park.
"The community love the Royal (National Park), it's the second most visited national park in NSW and they simply won't accept this crazy plan just to satisfy this government's insatiable appetite for toll roads," she said in a statement on Wednesday.
The government was also pitching a false dichotomy between building in a national park and hundreds of people losing their homes, she said.
"The reality is that the F6 will be a disaster either way.
"We know there is another way to improve people's commute by upgrading the train line which is more effective, less destructive and cheaper."
Comment is being sought from the state government.
A market bell will be rung on Wednesday to signal the reopening of the bustling tourist hotspot, which was forced to close after it was targeted in the June 3 atrocity.
Eight people, including two Australians, were killed when three attackers ploughed into pedestrians with a white van on London Bridge, before stabbing revellers in the nearby market with 30cm ceramic knives.
Inquests into their deaths continue at Southwark Coroner's Court on Wednesday.
The wealth effect from surging house prices has provided support to household spending in recent years, but according to Deloitte Access Economics partner David Rumbens it has left many people with "eye-watering" mortgages.
"Servicing these higher debts will eat into retail spending capacity going forward," Mr Rumbens says in his latest quarterly Retail Forecasts report released on Wednesday.
He expects these challenges to remain in the 2017/18 financial year, forecasting retail spending growth to slow to 2.6 per cent from three per cent in 2016/17, although he is predicting improved income growth over the next few years to drive spending.
"But the imminent arrival of US giant Amazon clearly presents a series of challenges for existing retailers in terms of heightened competition in both online and in-store sales," Mr Rumbens said.
He expects prices will get squeezed as Amazon has the scale to absorb very low margins in most of its products, and it will take strong brands and excellent customer service for Australian retailers to keep shoppers where they want them.
National Australia Bank's monthly business survey on Tuesday showed that retail is one patch of softness amongst Australian firms.
Two gauges of consumer confidence - pointers to future spending habits - are due on Wednesday.
The weekly ANZ-Roy Morgan index - delayed by a day because of the Queen's Birthday holiday - rose for a third straight week last week, the longest sustained increase this year.
The monthly Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer confidence gauge fell in May after failing to get a lift from the federal budget.
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INGREDIENTS 1 tablespoon ground cumin 1 tablespoon sumac 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom 1 teaspoon ground turmeric 2 garlic cloves, crushed 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves, chopped 8 chicken drumsticks 1/2 cup hummus, to serve 4 Lebanese bread rounds, to serve SPICED TOMATO SALAD 1 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves 1/2 cup fresh coriander leaves 5 vine-ripened tomatoes, chopped 1/2 red onion, thinly sliced 1 teaspoon ground cumin 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
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