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There are some days in the newsroom that stay with you, and December 12, 2022, was one of those days.

As the phones began ringing late that afternoon and the early details reached our desks of what was unfolding on the Western Downs, I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

I've spent the past 16 years delivering the news to Queenslanders but very few stories have left a mark on me as profoundly as this one.

It would be declared by authorities as "Australia's first Christian terror attack"; a cold-blooded execution of two young police officers and an innocent neighbour.

It left an indelible mark on Queensland and shook the nation.

It was just two weeks before Christmas when four constables were ambushed as they walked down a driveway on a routine missing persons callout in the small outback town of Wieambilla, west of Brisbane.

Two young officers were murdered, and an innocent neighbour was also gunned down.

The property turned into a battleground, with an hours-long gunfight ending in the deaths of the three killers.

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The incident was shocking, and so too were the details that unravelled over the following weeks and months; a twisted tale of conspiracy theories, religious extremism, and teachers-turned-cop-killers.

This led police to the other side of the world, where the case crossed the desks of FBI agents and ended in an arrest in the United States.

The first two episodes of our new podcast, The Ultimate Sacrifice, are out today, with two more coming next week.

These first four episodes meticulously examine the events of December 12, 2022, and the investigation that followed.

In the first episode, we drive out to the crime scene and try to get a sense of the carnage that unfolded. These four young officers didn't know it, but they were walking into a trap. Two would never return home, but two managed to escape injured but alive.

Amongst the tragedy of that day are stories of bravery and heroism.

In episode two, we hear from someone whose life was shattered when gunshots and explosions broke the silence.

Kerry Dare is the wife of Alan Dare, the neighbour who went to investigate the chaos only to be shot dead by a gunman lying in wait. Now a grieving widow, Kerry has more questions than she does answers.

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A year and a half on, the haunting question remains: how did a routine callout lead to Australia's deadliest police shooting?

Starting July 29, the Coronial Inquest will set out to answer that question.

Along with my podcast partner and producer, Jess Lodge, we will take listeners inside the coroner's court as the inquest unfolds, sharing new details and previously unheard testimony in The Ultimate Sacrifice.

We are about to hear from dozens of witnesses, including police officers, experts, psychologists and family.

Evidence will be presented that has never been heard before; police recordings, 000 calls and crucial testimonies revealing the heroism and camaraderie displayed on that tragic day.

This podcast is our heartfelt exploration into the events of that unforgettable day and an earnest pursuit of answers. And as we uncover new evidence during the upcoming inquest, we hold the highest regard for Constable Rachel McCrow and Constable Matthew Arnold, those two young officers who made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.

The Ultimate Sacrifice is available now wherever you get your podcasts (Spotify, Apple Podcasts). It is produced in a partnership between 9News and 9Podcasts.

The first two episodes are out now. The Ultimate Sacrifice is available now wherever you get your podcasts. It is produced in a partnership between 9News and 9Podcasts.

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There are few news stories capable of shocking the world more than the attempted assassination of a former US president. This is how some of Australia and the world's biggest newspapers covered the story.

Shannen Doherty, an actress who starred on the popular series Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed and documented her nine-year battle with breast cancer, has died. She was 53.

"It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of actress Shannen Doherty. On Saturday, July 13, she lost her battle with cancer after many years of fighting the disease," Doherty's publicist Leslie Sloane said in a statement.

"The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and friend was surrounded by her loved ones as well as her dog, Bowie. The family asks for their privacy at this time so they can grieve in peace," her statement continued.

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Doherty developed a devoted fan base with roles as Heather Duke in the 1989 cult classic film Heathers, as Brenda Walsh from 1990 to 1994 in the hit series Beverly Hills, 90210 and its subsequent spinoff 90210, and as Prue Halliwell in Charmed from 1998 to 2001.

Doherty was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, which went into remission two years later. In 2020, Doherty announced the cancer had returned, spread and was stage 4.

She shared in June 2023 with the news that her cancer had spread to her brain.

Doherty had been documenting her experiences with cancer in her podcast, Let's Be Clear with Shannen Doherty. The most recent episode streamed on July 8.

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Doherty, who had been outspoken about living with cancer even as she was clear that it was incurable, kept that mindset as she talked about her plans for the future.

"I guess I'm in a mindset now of I need to make as much money as humanly possible in the next two years, bank it, put it with my investment place, build that so that A., I don't have to work and I only work when I really want to," she said this month. "I can also go on a lot more vacations. Then also when I pass away my mom's got a nice little next egg and I don't have to worry about her."

Her rise to fame

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Doherty's family moved to Los Angeles when she was a child and she caught the acting bug quickly.

She made her acting debut at age 10 with a role on the television series Father Murphy.

Her performance won notice by legendary actor Michael Landon, and she landed the role of Jenny Wilder on his beloved series, Little House on the Prairie.

Doherty honed her craft in various projects including the series Our House, the 1985 film Girls Just Want to Have Fun and the dark teenage comedy Heathers in 1988.

She leveraged her experiences as a child star to inhabit her biggest role yet, as feisty high school student Brenda on the immensely popular Aaron Spelling teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210.

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That role, in which she burned up the screen opposite costar Luke Perry as her love interest Dylan McKay, made her a household name.

Doherty left the show after four seasons following reports of on-set tensions between her and some of her castmates.

She returned to the big screen in 1994's Almost Dead and 1995's Mallrats.

Three years later, Doherty reunited with Spelling for the series Charmed with costars Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs in which they starred as three sisters who were witches.

She left her role as Prue Halliwell on that show after three years and found work again on various movies including The Rendering in 2002 and View of Terror in 2003.

In 2008, Doherty reprised the role of Brenda Walsh in the CW reboot 90210 for seven episodes.

She later played herself in the meta-style reboot BH90210 in 2019, the same year she cameoed as a stranded motorist on the CW's Riverdale, which costarred Perry. He died at the age of 52 after suffering a stroke

In September of 2020, Doherty spoke to Elle Magazine about the feelings of gratitude she was focusing on amid her experiences with cancer.

"I try to treasure all the small moments that most people don't really see or take for granted," she said. "The small things are magnified for me. We have this endless well within us, and it's just about continuing to dig in that well for the strength to face adversity – and so that we can also see all the beauty."

The Princess of Wales has arrived at the All England Club for the Wimbledon men's final, only her second public appearance since announcing she was diagnosed with cancer.

Kate, wife of heir to the throne Prince William, was expected to sit in the Royal Box at Centre Court during the championship match between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz on Sunday.

Since 2016, the princess has been the patron of the club that hosts the annual grass-court Grand Slam tournament.

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Her ceremonial duties include handing out the winner's trophies after the singles finals, although she was not on hand on Saturday when Barbora Krejcikova defeated Jasmine Paolini for the women's title.

Kate revealed in March that she has cancer and was undergoing chemotherapy.

Her lone public appearance since then was attending last month's birthday parade for King Charles III.

Before that event, she released a statement saying she was "making good progress" but still had "good days and bad days".

Prince William has been a regular at Wimbledon finals but was not going to be there on Sunday.

Instead, he planned to go watch England face Spain in the final of the men's soccer European Championship in Germany. He is the president of the English Football Association.

Queen Camilla, wife of King Charles III, visited Wimbledon on Wednesday.

Former president Donald Trump has confirmed he was shot in the upper ear while he was speaking on stage at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

Multiple shots were fired toward the stage by a shooter at Trump's rally in Pennsylvania about 6.10pm on Saturday (local time), leaving one spectator dead and two critically injured, according to the Secret Service.

The shooter was then killed by the Secret Service.

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Who shot at Donald Trump?

The FBI has this afternoon named Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as the subject involved in the assassination attempt.

The political leanings of Crooks were not immediately clear.

Records show he was registered as a Republican voter in Pennsylvania, but federal campaign finance reports also show he gave US$15 ($22) to a progressive political action committee on January 20, 2021, the day President Joe Biden was sworn in to office.

Speaking at a press conference earlier this afternoon, FBI Deputy Commissioner of Operations Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens said authorities were yet to identify the initial shooter and the motive behind the attack, but would not rule out whether the gunman acted alone.

"I think it's too early to say that we have one shooter tentatively identified, but we're not stopping there," he told reporters.

"We are absolutely not taking for granted that this was a lone wolf attack and so we would be looking at additional information that could point us to anyone else that may have had a hand in this.

"We're following up on a lot of information. It will be some time until we can conclusively say or answer that question."

Bivens said their greatest priority was identifying the motive and whether other parties were involved in the attack.

"I think once the shooter is identified anyone that has specific information on that shooter, that would be very helpful also," he said.

The agency said the investigation remains active and ongoing.

Was the shooter attending Donald Trump's rally?

Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger said the shooter was outside the rally grounds at the time of the attack, but he didn't give additional information about where.

"Quite frankly I don't know how he would have gotten to the location where he was, but he was outside the grounds, and I think that's something that we're going to have to figure out — how he got there," he said.

Multiple shots were fired toward the stage by the shooter the Secret Service said, leaving one spectator dead and two critically injured.

The agency said the shooter fired from "an elevated position outside the rally venue." Agents "neutralized" the shooter, who is now dead.

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The agency said the shooter fired from "an elevated position outside the rally venue."

Witness Greg Smith told the BBC he saw a man crawling on top of a building just outside the event in Butler County around five minutes into Trump's speech and alerted police.

"We noticed the guy bear-crawling up the roof of the building beside us, 50ft away," he said.

"He had a rifle, we could clearly see a rifle."

Smith said he later saw the agents shoot the gunman: "They crawled up on the roof, they had their guns pointed at him, made sure he was dead. He was dead, and that was it – it was over."

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What kind of weapon did the shooter have?

Law enforcement recovered AR-style rifle at scene of Trump rally shooting, AP source says.

Trump's message on his Truth Social account explains he was shot by a bullet that pierced the upper part of his right ear.

"I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!" he wrote.

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The US Secret Service is investigating how a gunman armed with an AR-style rifle was able to get close enough to shoot and injure former president Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania, a monumental failure of one the agency's core duties.

The gunman, who was killed by Secret Service personnel on Saturday (Sunday morning AEST), fired multiple shots at the stage from an "elevated position outside of the rally venue," the agency said.

An Associated Press analysis of more than a dozen videos and photos taken at the Trump rally, as well as satellite imagery of the site, shows the shooter was able to get astonishingly close to the stage where the former president was speaking.

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A video posted to social media and geolocated by the AP shows the body of a man wearing grey camouflage lying motionless on the roof of a manufacturing plant just north of the Butler Farm Show grounds, where Trump's rally was held.

The roof was less than 150 metres from where Trump was speaking, a distance from which a decent marksman could reasonably hit a human-sized target.

For reference, 150 meters is a distance at which US Army recruits must hit a scaled human-sized silhouette to qualify with the M16 assault rifle in basic training. The AR-15, like the shooter at the Trump rally had, is the semi-automatic civilian version of the military M16.

A witness told the BBC that roughly five to seven minutes after Trump started speaking his group noticed a man bear crawling on the building near them.

"We could clearly see him with a rifle. Absolutely. We're pointing at him," the witness said.

"The police are down there running around on the ground. We're like, 'Hey, man, there's a guy on the roof with a rifle, and the police were like, 'Huh, what?' You know, like, like, they didn't know what was going on. 

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"You know, we're like, 'hey, right here on the roof', we can see him from right here."

The FBI early on Sunday (Sunday night AEST) identified the shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.

The Secret Service didn't have anybody at a late-night news conference where FBI and Pennsylvania State Police officials briefed reporters on the shooting investigation.

FBI Special Agent in Charge Kevin Rojek said it was "surprising" that the gunman was able to fire at the stage before he was killed.

Members of the Secret Service's counter sniper team and counter assault team were at the rally, according to two law enforcement officials. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorised to discuss details of the investigation.

The heavily armed counter assault team, whose Secret Service code name is "Hawkeye", is responsible for eliminating threats so that other agents can shield and take away the person they are protecting.

The counter sniper team, known by the code name "Hercules", uses long-range binoculars and is equipped with sniper rifles to deal with long-range threats.

US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said his department and the Secret Service were working with law enforcement to investigate the shooting.

Maintaining the security of presidential candidates and their campaign events is one of the department's "most vital priorities", he said.

"We condemn this violence in the strongest possible terms and commend the Secret Service for their swift action today," Mayorkas said.

"We are engaged with President Biden, former president Trump and their campaigns, and are taking every possible measure to ensure their safety and security."

Calls for an investigation came from all sides.

James Comer, a Kentucky Republican who is the House Oversight Committee chairman, said he contacted the Secret Service for a briefing and called on Director Kimberly Cheatle to appear for a hearing. Comer said his committee will send a formal invitation soon.

"Political violence in all forms is unamerican and unacceptable. There are many questions and Americans demand answers," Comer said in a statement.

US Representative Ritchie Torres, a New York Democrat, called for "security failures" at the rally to be investigated.

"The federal government must constantly learn from security failures in order to avoid repeating them, especially when those failures have implications for the nation," Torres said.

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat, posted on X that he and his staff were in contact with security planning coordinators ahead of the Republican National Convention set to begin Monday in Milwaukee.

"We cannot be a country that accepts political violence of any kind — that is not who we are as Americans," Evers said.

The FBI said it will lead the investigation into the shooting, working with the Secret Service and local and state law enforcement.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department "will bring every available resource to bear to this investigation".

"My heart is with the former president, those injured, and the family of the spectator killed in this horrific attack," Garland said in a statement.

"We will not tolerate violence of any kind, and violence like this is an attack on our democracy."

A Melbourne mum is demanding change after her son died following his first shift on a CFMEU government worksite.

Tammie Palmer claims 18-year-old Ben, who had mental health issues, was bullied to death.

In January, the Ringwood North man went to work his first day on a CFMEU site.

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That night, before his 19th birthday, he died of an overdose.

"They locked him in a shed for three or four hours – just a young boy, with mental health issues," Palmer said.

While the CFMEU denies the claims, Palmer claimed her son, a proud Gunditjmara teen, was relentlessly bullied because he was wearing the shirt of a small Indigenous construction firm he'd previously worked for.

She said the CFMEU didn't like the firm because it was aligned with a rival union, the AWU.

"If Ben had another shirt on, none of this would be an issue," Palmer suggested.

9News obtained videos showing Ben's former boss from the same Indigenous firm receiving similar treatment from a CFMEU official, at another site."You're a f—ing rat. I declared you a dog in front of the boys, what are you going to do about it?" somebody can be heard saying.

"He would have felt worthless, useless, like he'd done something wrong," Palmer said.

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It's the kind of toxic worksite culture that starts at the very top, according to a months-long investigation from 9News, 60 Minutes and Nine newspapers.

Security vision shows ex-CFMEU boss John Setka dumping a suitcase with the words "Leo the dog" written on it outside the home of fellow senior union official Leo Skourdoumbis.

"I think the message is quite clear and that was – you speak out against us, we know where you are – and we can get to you," Skourdoumbis told 60 Minutes.

Setka said the claims were "more false allegations", adding "once again youse have put sauce on everything".

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Palmer wants change, that's why she's speaking out, despite safety concerns.

"They can't hurt me more than I'm already hurting," Palmer said.

"People should be able to go to work and be treated with kindness and respect, it's not hard.

"All he wanted to do was work."

Already at the footy club, mental health has become a major priority.

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"We're starting to find that a lot of the families are starting to engage directly with us, because the football club is a place of sanctuary for them," Chris Leahy from North Ringwood Junior Football Club said.

On Friday it was announced John Setka would step down as the CFMEU's Victorian secretary, effective immediately, the union said.

Setka received an icy farewell from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese following revelations that alleged organised crime figures had infiltrated the group.

ANALYSIS: There are events that define history, and the attempted assassination of former US president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is one of those moments.

This will shape the remainder of the presidential campaign and if he didn't already have it in the bag, will help secure Trump victory over President Joe Biden.

The contrast between the two couldn't be clearer.

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On the one side is the image of Trump, blood smeared across his face with his fist raised high as the American flag flies in the background, having survived a gunman's attack – defiance personified.

Even after dodging a bullet he stands at the lectern to chant "fight, fight", before being bundled by heavily armed Secret Service away to safety – one last fist bump before being driven from the frightening scene.

On the other side is a frail and infirm Biden, forgetting names and stumbling at every public appearance, who even senior members of his own party want to stand down from the race.

He is behind in the opinion polls and is now all but certain to lose the election on the first Tuesday in November.

It is remarkable that Trump has survived this gunman's attack and the Trump campaign will milk this appalling act of violence for all its worth.

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What is surprising is that Americans are shocked that this attack occurred in the first place.

The personal attacks from both sides have been ramping up in a country that is deeply divided and armed to the teeth.

It's not just presidents and nominees who are the target of death threats and attacks, but also judges, campaign organisers and even independent electoral staff who are simply doing their jobs.

They and their families are subject to verbal threats and worse.

Sadly, this attack won't turn down the temperature in an increasingly volatile campaign, or provide pause for US lawmakers to reconsider their ludicrous gun laws.

This attack will only serve to provide greater impetus for Donald Trump to regain the keys to the White House.