A much-loved father, husband and spearfisher has been identified as the victim of a horror shark attack off the coast of Far North Queensland.

Michael Jensz, 39, was enjoying his lifelong passion of spearfishing with mates when he was mauled by a shark off the Cassowary Coast, about 160 kilometres south of Cairns, about 12pm yesterday.

Jensz's three friends watched on helplessly as he was attacked in the water.

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The Cairns man was brought back to shore for treatment by paramedics waiting at the Hull River boat ramp but he died of his injuries on the jetty.

Jensz, who was a keen hunter, is survived by his children and wife Lisa.

The species of shark that killed Jensz is still yet to be identified.

Charter boat operator Gererd Pike claimed he saw several aggressive bull sharks earlier in the day in the area where the attack happened.

Kennedy Shoal, where the attack took place, is popular with spearfishers.

The deadly attack has renewed a debate over whether culling should be used to curb the population growth.

Kennedy MP Bob Katter joined the chorus and said he would urgently advocate in parliament for changes to controlled culling in Queensland in the wake of the "heartbreaking tragedy".

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"Human beings are being sacrificed for ideology. There's no other way you can interpret what is going on," Katter told 9News.

"But every time we raise safer waterways, we are lectured by public servants and activists who have never spent five minutes in the water north of Mackay," he said in an earlier statement on Facebook.

The Queensland government uses nets and drumlines to manage the shark population in the state.

Conservation groups and environmentalists have argued against expanding this to active culling and have campaigned for modern, non-lethal measures instead.

Jensz's death marks Australia's third fatal shark attack this year.

In January, a 12-year-old Sydney boy Nico Antic died after an attack by a suspected bull shark near Shark Bay in Vaucluse.

And last week, a 38-year-old spearfisher Steve Mattabonni was killed off Rottnest Island in Western Australia after being attacked by a great white shark.

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A second cohort of so-called ISIS brides is expected to soon arrive in Australia from Syria, with at least six women and their children set to touch down in Sydney tomorrow.

The group of six women and their 14 children are due to land in Sydney tomorrow afternoon after they left the Al-Roj detention camp in Syria late last week and headed to Damascus. 

Some of the women could potentially face arrest, after domestic charges were laid against three Islamic State-linked brides who landed in Australia earlier this month.

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One woman who has been living in the Syrian camp is not allowed to fly to Australia after the federal government imposed a temporary exclusion order.

An exclusion order bans a person from entering Australia for two years on national security grounds, even if they are an Australian citizen.

The federal government has insisted it has not assisted any of the women in their repatriation and has said security agencies have been actively monitoring any IS-linked citizens.

The earlier cohort of four women and nine children arrived back in Australia earlier in May after leaving the same camp in Syria.

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One of the women was arrested and charged with terror offences, including charges of entering a prohibited area and being a member of a terrorist organisation, after arriving in Sydney.

A further two women were arrested in Melbourne and charged with slavery offences allegedly committed during their time in Syria. 

The brides who followed their ISIS partners to Syria more than a decade ago have faced a long journey in their return to Australia.

The women and their children have been held in refugee camps in north-eastern Syria for years, following the collapse of ISIS, and recently failed in an attempt to leave the camp for Australia earlier this year.

Australia repatriated two other groups of women and children who were living in the Al Roj camp in 2019 and 2022.

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Guzman y Gomez is facing a class action lawsuit in the US over allegations it failed to give its employees enough notice after shutting down operations.

The lawsuit claims more than 500 workers were impacted after the news of the company exiting the US market was accidentally leaked in an internal memo.

Chicago-based law firm Haseeb Legal shared excerpts of the class action filed in the US federal district court, which director of corporate operations and culinary Scott Bayne posted in the staff communication platform used by the company on Thursday evening local time.

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"After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to exit the US market. This means we will be closing all our restaurants from today," the message said.

Under US law, employees must be given at least 60 days' notice in writing before their employment at the business is terminated.

Haseeb Legal has set up a website where people who have been impacted can sign up and receive updates on the progress of the lawsuit.

The website suggests some employees were informed via an email on the WorkVivo app.

A spokesperson for Guzman y Gomez said the company was aware of the legal action.

"We are confident we have met all of our legal obligations to our US employees," the spokesperson told nine.com.au.

"We are not in a position to provide further comment on this matter."

The chain announced its shutdown last week in an announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange, saying it was shutting its Chicago-based restaurants with "immediate effect".

"Having spent the last 3 months in the US, I realised this was going to take significantly more time and capital than we had expected," founder and CEO Steve Marks said in the statement.

"The financial performance of the US business has not been acceptable and is not meeting targeted hurdles."

It comes as the company's share price plummeted earlier in the year due to the struggles of the expansion into the USA, a crowded market for Mexican-style fast food.

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After lower-than-expected profits in the first half of the financial year, the company's value dropped 10 per cent, or $200 million.

Investors received the news of Guzman Y Gomez's exit from the US market positively, with its share price soaring 20 per cent on Friday, and it has risen by 14 per cent in the last five days.

Marks said the company was now looking to consolidate its expansion in Australia, and focusing on its outlets in Asian nations like Japan and Singapore.

"We have a long runway ahead of us in Australia as we progress towards our long-term target of 1000 restaurants," he said last week.

‘The mum was still lying in bed while the fire was getting bigger and bigger.’

A mass power shutdown across Melbourne's CBD triggered by a burst water main has caused peak-hour chaos in the heart of the city.

Around 10,000 customers in the city's south-east were impacted and dozens of traffic lights in the area went dark after the water flooded a carpark on Little Collins Street, a Citipower spokesperson has confirmed.

The water entered a substation in the basement, resulting in the power being cut in the CBD for safety reasons.

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The site provides power to around 10,000 people in the south-eastern area of Melbourne's CBD.

According to CitiPower, around 5700 customers were without power as of 5.30pm.

"We have been able to restore power to more than 4000 customers by redirecting power supply from other parts of the network," a spokesperson said.

Up to 40 sets of traffic lights across the city centre, East Melbourne and South Yarra are without power, according to VicTraffic.

Drivers have been warned to stay alert in the impacted suburbs.

Some Metro train lines have also been delayed by the power shut-off.

"Our crews are on site and working to remove the water so they can safely access the zone substation and assess any damage," the spokesperson added.

"We will keep customers updated by SMS and on our website on restoration times."

More to come.

Justice Christine Gordon ruled the Albion St property in Mataura can stay with Bill Elers.

A search has been launched for a man who disappeared while swimming at a beach in Sydney's south.

A man thought to be in his 30s was seen in difficulty about 100 metres offshore at 11am today at Little Bay Beach near Maroubra.

Officers from Eastern Beaches Police Area Command, along with Marine Area Command, PolAir, Marine Rescue NSW, Surf Life Saving NSW and the Westpac Rescue Helicopter, started searching.

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Marine Rescue NSW Inspector Joel Pemberton said the organisation's rescue vessels Botany Hacking 30 and Middle Harbour 30 were deployed.

"Both Marine Rescue NSW vessels are working alongside water police, searching an area from Little Bay Beach to Cape Banks in the south," he said.

"Sea conditions offshore are unfavourable, with a three- to five- metre south-east rolling swell."

A death-defying rescue was performed after a climber fell eight metres while trying to scale an Australian peak.

The woman, in her 40s, was at Mount Buffalo in Victoria's High Country when her gear failed, sending her plunging around two storeys on to a rock ledge.

She was knocked unconscious, had broken ribs and was stranded.

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The Horn is the most prominent peak on the Mount Buffalo plateau in Victoria, at 1723 metres.

Footage shows the delicate rescue by a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service crew unfolding.

A rescuer, MICA Flight Paramedic Shaun Whitmore, was winched out of the helicopter in the precarious feat.

He stabilised the woman, provided splinting and pain relief, and prepared her for rescue in "extremely tight conditions", Ambulance Victoria said.

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She was lifted into the helicopter on a stretcher and taken to ground level in the national park before being flown to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition.

The accident happened on March 22 but the footage has just been released.

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Labor MP Glenn Sterle and Nationals counterpart Bridget McKenzie have been caught in a heated moment of name-calling that briefly derailed a Senate committee.

The pair were debating the federal government's actions on the trucking industry and tax during a hearing on rural and regional affairs and transport today.

Sterle, the chair of the hearing, said he would argue with McKenzie on taxes anywhere and threatened to metaphorically "cut" her up.

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"Happy to have that debate with you on any forum… anywhere in Australia because I'll cut you up," Sterle said.

"You'll cut me up?" McKenzie replied.

"Metaphorically, yes, I'll carve you up is what I should say," Sterle clarified after a silent moment.

"Cheers. I'll be writing to (Finance Minister Katy Gallagher) and (Foreign Minister Penny Wong) on that one," McKenzie replied.

The pair continued arguing and Sterle became visibly agitated, asking the minister being questioned to swap seats so he could "educate the ignoramus from the other side".

"Ignoramus, going to carve me up, going to cut me up, anything else?" McKenzie said.

"What a charmer. Ladies, I hope you're listening."

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Sterle continued to hit out at McKenzie, including over a report about the National senator's use of taxpayer-funded travel expenses.

According to The Age, McKenzie billed taxpayers $853.52 for a four-day trip to Tasmania in February 2023, where she also attended her son's wedding.

The room was quiet as Sterle and McKenzie continued to go back and forth for over two minutes until someone suggested the hearing be briefly suspended. 

Returning to the hearing, Sterle said he regretted using those "choice words".

"As you can see, that was the worst of the worst being on display here," he said.

"As frustrations boil over, language is used that shouldn't be used. I regret using some of my choice words, I take that back but I'm very happy to defend what this government has done with sham contracting with the transport industry.

"I will not use that language again, Senator McKenzie, but if you wish to debate me, the offer is still there."

"Respectfully, I will take that up," McKenzie replied.

A foreign state actor has hacked a parliamentarian and three staff members' WhatsApp accounts, leading to the platform being temporarily blocked.

A Department of Parliamentary Services official told a Senate hearing today there was a "targeted phishing activity" on March 6.

They received reports from a parliamentarian and three staffers that their accounts had been compromised.

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"These accounts were on both personal and DPS devices," the official said.

"All the accounts were compromised in the same manner."

The department found a threat actor had requested a verification code to be sent to the victim, received that code and then used that to log in to the account. 

It found evidence that suggested a foreign state actor was behind the phishing campaign. 

"The objective was to take over the accounts, which is what did occur," the official said.

The official did not state what country was behind the attack. 

"There's lots of public reporting of state-sponsored WhatsApp phishing campaigns targeting government officials," the official said, adding the same had happened in the US, Germany and the Netherlands.

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The Guardian has previously reported Russia was behind increasing phishing attacks against UK parliamentarians on platforms like WhatsApp and Signal.

The department issued a temporary block on WhatsApp web services on March 9, which has since been lifted.

According to the official, WhatsApp still has a place for use but urged parliamentarians and staffers to make accounts as secure as possible and avoid sharing confidential information through the platform.

The Senate hearing heard there have been more than 20,000 phishing attempts, 46 detections of malware and 1458 cyber alerts in this latest financial year to March 31.

"I think there are times where we have much higher attempts and times when, obviously, attention is diverted elsewhere," another official said.

Nine.com.au has contacted the Department of Parliamentary Services for further comment.