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While there was a risk that a 95-year-old with dementia could hurt herself with a knife, an inquest has heard that leaving her to calm down would have been preferable to shooting her with a Taser.

Then-senior constable Kristian James Samuel White fired his weapon at the great-grandmother after being called to Yallambee Lodge nursing home at Cooma in southern NSW early on the morning of May 17, 2023.

Clare Nowland, who had symptoms of dementia, had taken two steak knives from a kitchen area and refused to give them up.

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Falling and hitting her head after being struck in the chest by the Taser's barbs, she did not regain consciousness and died in hospital a week later after a brain bleed.

Geriatrician Susan Kurrle told an inquest into Nowland's death that attending police and paramedics could have just left her alone to calm down.

"That in this case would have been the least of all evils," the professor said.

Nowland had not shown any prior thoughts of self-harm, and aged care staff could have kept the door ajar a little to supervise, she added.

Professor Joseph Ibrahim said he would have grabbed a chair and sat in the doorway, distracting her with topics about how early in the morning it was.

He shrugged off any concerns after counsel assisting Sophie Callan SC said the 95-year-old could have thrown the knife at him.

"The likelihood that she would have been able to aim it, hit a vital spot is extraordinarily remote," he said.

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Prof Kurrle told the inquest that dementia was "childhood development backwards".

This required anyone approaching a person with dementia to do so as they would a young child – gentle, smiling, without being threatening.

At the three-day inquest, which began on Wednesday, State Coroner Teresa O'Sullivan has examined systemic issues that existed before the Tasering incident.

The focus of the evidence has been dementia care and training for aged care staff, police and ambulance officers.

Judge O'Sullivan has heard of numerous alternatives available to White and other police and paramedics attending, including contacting Nowland's daughter, Lesley Lloyd, for help de-escalating the situation.

Prof Kurrle said the care offered by Yallambee Lodge staff to Nowland before her death was reasonable and appropriate.

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The facility had been deemed compliant with aged care standards after a review by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission in early 2023, she said.

Nowland's family are expected to give a statement about the 95-year-old's passing as the inquest concludes later on Friday.

The great-grandmother's relatives have previously expressed disappointment that White did not spend a day in jail after being convicted of manslaughter by a NSW Supreme Court jury in November 2024.

He was given a two-year good behaviour bond in March 2025, a decision which was later upheld by the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal.

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‘This town is big enough for the two of us,’ the rival bar owner said.

Police say that an armed home invasion in Melbourne's north-east is linked to the discovery of a body in a Melbourne park early this morning.

Detective Inspector Dean Thomas said an aggravated home invasion occurred hours before the grisly discovery, which he believes is connected.

Thomas said they have spoken to the family of the 30-year-old man, who was found near Bruni Drive in Tarneit at 4.30am, and a postmortem is set to determine the cause of death.

"It appears at this point in time that the [victim] was somewhat targeted."

At about 3am, multiple men, allegedly armed with machetes, broke into a home on Darius Terrace in South Morang in a dark-coloured SUV.

Police say they assaulted the man, who is known to police, while he was asleep, dragging him out of the house and into the vehicle before fleeing.

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Another man and two children were inside the home at the time but were uninjured.

Shortly after, emergency crews were called to a parkland about an hour away from the home after it was reported that a man was found dead.

"We believe that male is the deceased we have found this morning in Tarneit," Thomas said.

Police are now appealing to the public for information and have yet to make any arrests, as investigations continue.

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Four other children, who were the girls’ siblings, were also injured in the blaze.

White Australia, the neo-Nazi group, has been listed as a banned hate group after some members of the disbanded Nationalist Socialist Network remained active under a new name.

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said the neo-Nazi Nationalist Socialist Network had re-formed and "phoenixed" into a group known as White Australia.

"Today, the organisation that would be colloquially known as the neo-Nazis, but has gone through different names, the European Australian Movement, the National Socialist Network and White Australia, has been listed as the second prohibited hate group under the changes that were made to the Criminal Code," he told reporters this afternoon.

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"What they did, for a better term, was they phoenixed, changed their name, but didn't change the fact that they were still an organisation and were still engaging in the exact sort of behaviour that met the thresholds for this legislation."

ASIO first advised the government that White Australia had likely met thresholds to be considered a hate group – advocating and engaging in hate crimes – on April 22.

Burke confirmed the group was found to have met all the thresholds of a hate group and said examples of their hateful actions had been widely covered in the media.

"We saw in Melbourne, specific violent action that you all covered…. we've also seen a series of actions of threats, some of which are different arrests that you've reported of people who've been motivated by a white supremacist ideology," he said. 

At a March for Australia protest in Melbourne late last year, some members of the Nationalist Socialist Network stormed the sacred Indigenous Camp Sovereignty site and injured several people.

The assessment process has been completed and, with the opposition's support, White Australia will officially be listed as a hate group at midnight. 

"This means that supporting, funding, training, recruiting, joining, or directing this group constitutes a criminal offence with a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison," Burke said.

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The group has been swept under the government's tough new hate laws that were introduced in January, in the wake of the Bondi attack, to allow Home Affairs to list and ban a hate group. 

White Australia becomes the second group to be listed under the laws, following Hizb ut-Tahrir as the first.

The Nationalist Socialist Network, which was singled out as a concern by ASIO chief Mike Burgess last year, had disbanded before the laws came into effect.

Burke said if the group attempts to reform under a different name, the process to list them as a hate group would be much simpler.

"Effectively, it's a simple regulation change. We don't need to start the process from the start again," he said. 

Burke said while the measures would not stop hateful ideologies and groups from forming, they would prevent groups from organising.

"It sends a clear message to people who believe in racial supremacy that their views have no place in modern Australia," he said.

"We're a country who judges you on who you are, not where you're from.

"The neo-Nazis have gone after almost every different group you can imagine, whether people are Jewish, whether they're Muslim, whether people are of Asian heritage, whether they're First Nations."

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