A much-loved English teacher is being remembered after her remains were found at a waste facility in Melbourne's north last week.

The body of Annette Brennan was allegedly stuffed inside a wheelie bin at her home Coolaroo and discovered by staff sorting green waste at a tip in Epping, about eight kilometres away, on July 3.

A 45-year-old man was taken into custody this morning and is expected to be charged by police this evening.

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It's understood the pair were known to each other.

Brennan's students today gathered to pay tribute to the 67-year-old following the shock discovery.

"She was amazing, I'm really shocked," former student Simona Croce told 9News.

"She was beautiful, loving and a kind woman."

Brennan moved into her Hilgay Street home just two months ago, telling neighbours she was looking for a housemate.

Over the weekend, detectives used a locksmith to access that same address where they would spend 10 hours combing through it and the bins in the backyard.

The news of Brennan's death has rocked the Coolaroo community.

Croce described the English teacher as being like "a second mum".

"No one deserves to be treated this way, no one," she said. 

Investigators believe Brennan's body was inside a bin that was picked up outside a property on Hilgay Street in Coolaroo on Tuesday.

Staff at Repurpose It, a waste facility in Epping, would make the grim discovery.

Repurpose It chief executive George Hatzimanolis released a statement yesterday, saying staff members were left "shaken" by the incident.

"We are deeply saddened to confirm that a body was discovered in the FOGO delivery shed at our facility last Wednesday," he said.

"Our staff members who made this tragic discovery are understandably shaken, and we are ensuring they receive the support and counselling they need."

A former V8 Supercars driver and nightclub owner has been released from court on a suspended sentence for drug possession after a more serious trafficking charge was dropped.

Wayne Jason Wakefield, 53, pleaded guilty in the Brisbane Supreme Court today to a string of charges relating to two police raids on his homes in the space of a year starting in May 2020.

Wakefield admitted 18 charges including possession of a dangerous drug in excess of two grams, possessing a dangerous drug, contravening an order to access an electronic device and possessing a controlled substance.

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Crown prosecutor Jordan Daniels did not continue with six charges including one count of trafficking in dangerous drugs and those charges were dismissed by Justice Declan Kelly.

Defence barrister Anthony Kimmins said Wakefield had attended rehabilitation for abusing "a medley of drugs" as a result of his business ending up in bankruptcy during COVID-19 restrictions.

Police searched Wakefield and his residence on May 19, 2020 and found 4.8g of pure MDMA and 1.82g of pure cocaine, 0.51g of a substance containing methamphetamine and 525.07g of GBL, a chemical that converts to the drug GHB when consumed.

Justice Kelly said police were alerted to the presence of an envelope outside an apartment building in the inner-Brisbane suburb of Fortitude Valley on March 23, 2021.

"Earlier that day [Wakefield] had been captured on CCTV footage dropping the envelope … it was found to contain five clipseal bags each containing approximately one gram of substance containing meth," Justice Kelly said.

Police searched Wakefield's apartment on May 5, 2021 and located clipseal bags with 1.08g of substance containing cocaine, 0.7g of a crystal substance containing meth, three vials containing 6.48g of pure GHB and 13.97g of morphine.

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Police also found a cutting agent used to dilute drugs, a large plate with white powder and a rolled-up $5 note, two electronic scales, four glass pipes, $500 in cash and $675 in casino chips.

Daniels said Wakefield had the drugs for his personal possession but some of his offending was aggravated by being committed while on bail.

Kimmins said Wakefield has used his 146 days in custody and lengthy period on bail to get off drugs and find full-time employment.

"I have known Mr Wakefield for some years. He now looks like a completely different person," Kimmins said.

Justice Kelly said Wakefield had shown genuine remorse.

"Your experience in custody was incredibly difficult and onerous. It has left you with a firm resolve to never return to custody and to avoid the circumstances that gave rise to your offending," Justice Kelly said.

He sentenced Wakefield to 15 months' imprisonment to be immediately suspended for a period of 15 months.

Wakefield said he felt "good" as he left the court building.

The woman had been visiting a care home resident before the accident.

Two teenagers who worked together to stop a school bus when the driver had a heart attack have been described as heroes.

The pair, along with more than 20 other students from Aquinas College, were on board the bus on the Gold Coast yesterday afternoon when the 70-year-old driver had the medical episode.

A teen girl, just 15 and not yet old enough to drive, and a male student managed to bring the bus under control so safely that no one was injured.

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"Us students on the bus, we didn't know what was happening and everyone was screaming," Bennet Rogers said.

"She had to steer the bus so we didn't crash into a building," he added, speaking about the female student who grabbed the wheel.

The 15-year-old had help from a male student in year 12 who managed to hit the brakes. 

"We were only going like five [kilometres an hour], 10 k's, so I was like I better just stop the bus before it gets any worse," Daniel Knight said.

"She opened the door up, she was calming everyone down."

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Their actions have been commended by the school in a letter to parents. The principal said there would be an investigation into what happened.

The bus driver remains in hospital and is recovering from surgery.

Many are calling for the girl to be recognised with a bravery award. That call was backed by Premier Steven Miles who told 9News he'd personally nominate her.

"She's a hero for that, definitely," another fellow student, Brodie Wilkinson, said.

"I really hope she gets an award or something."

The heartbroken sister of a woman allegedly stabbed to death in a Western Sydney home has remembered her as loving and caring.

Nunia Kurualeba, 21, was found dead with two stab wounds to her chest after police were called to the Great Western Highway in Kingswood about 1.40pm yesterday.

Her partner Jeremaia Tuwai, also aged 21, allegedly fled the scene and sparked a six-hour manhunt before he was found and arrested hours later the next suburb over in Penrith.

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Tuwai was charged with domestic violence murder.

Kurualeba had moved from Fiji to Sydney to be closer to her younger sister and worked as a housekeeper.

"She was a loving sister to me, she always cared about me, every time when I needed her, she was here," her sister Laite Kurualeba told 9News.

"I have a four-month-old baby that she always cared about."

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Kurualeba was happiest when she was playing netball or when she was surrounded by friends and family.

"She loved everyone, she had a lot of friends," Laite Kurualeba said.

"She's funny, she makes noise, every time she comes home I tell her to keep her voice level down, she doesn't listen."

Kurualeba thought she had found love with Tuwai, also from Fiji, who she dated for a year before they moved in together at the Kingswood unit.

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It was there Tuwai allegedly stabbed her with a kitchen knife.

"She didn't deserve what happened to her," Laite Kurualeba said. 

Tuwai was formally refused bail at Penrith Court today, where he appeared via videolink.

His lawyer requested that he receive mental health treatment while behind bars.

Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).

The number of Australians changing jobs has fallen to pre-pandemic levels, according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

The number of people changing their employer fell to just 8 per cent in the 12 months to February and it has some experts suggesting "quiet quitting" could be in the past.

"This was down 1.5 percentage points from 9.6 per cent in February 2023 and back to around what we typically saw during the five years leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic," Bjorn Jarvis, ABS head of labour statistics, said.

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While the period after the pandemic saw a spike in the number of people changing jobs, recent economic conditions have brought that rate back down to its pre-pandemic average.

The job mobility rate, which measures how many people changed jobs, was lower in almost every industry.

This was most pronounced in the arts and recreation, transport, post and warehousing sectors.

In information media and telecommunications, 1.8 per cent more people changed jobs.

The overall "job mobility" rate fell for both men and women but fell by more for men.

"As a result, job mobility over the past year was slightly higher for women at 8.2 per cent, compared to 7.9 per cent for men, after having been higher for men for most of the past decade," Jarvis said.

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Some experts say the lower job mobility rate could be a symptom of current economic conditions.

"The sharp drop in job mobility for the first time in three years is a clear indication that the power balance in the Australian job market is shifting," human resources firm Reward Gateway's managing director Kylie Green said.

"Contrary to the 'quiet quitting' and 'loud labouring' trends that gathered steam during the pandemic, external pressures including the rising cost of living and widespread redundancies has led to a 4 per cent increase in tenure across all age groups."

Quiet quitting refers to an employee doing the bare minimum tasks required in a job, often with a level of disengagement.

Loud labouring refers to those who spend more time talking about work than actually doing it.

Besides the lower rate of job mobility, the latest ABS data showed there were more than 1.9 million potential workers, meaning people who were not working but wanted to be.

That was up from 1.8 million in February 2023.

In February, 82 per cent of unemployed people reported having difficulty finding work.

Hamish Ray hung his head and cried as the consequences of his actions sunk in.

Two people carrying hammers entered the store and began smashing cabinets.

A former nurse accused of sexually molesting three female patients and a student nurse has said he was merely performing medical procedures.

Ali Khamis Moh'd was a clinical nurse specialist at Sydney's Norwest and Nepean private hospitals, attending to patients scheduled to have surgery in intensive care and coronary care units.

The 44-year-old is on trial at Parramatta District Court after pleading not guilty to five counts of intentional sexual touching without consent and three counts of sexual intercourse without consent.

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The eight charges, related to alleged offending between December 2018 and March 2022, are aggravated given the four women were under his authority at the time.

Today, crown prosecutor Sarah Beaumont told jurors that while Moh'd was teaching a 21-year-old student nurse how to listen for bowel sounds using a stethoscope, he grabbed her underwear, pulled them away from her skin and looked at her genital area.

He has been accused of molesting a 58-year-old patient over two days by inserting his finger into her anus while giving her an enema and putting his finger into her vagina while shaving her groin before an operation.

While looking after a 25-year-old female patient after she had completed a heart operation, Moh'd was asked to inspect a wound on her groin area.

As he was massaging the wound, he allegedly touched her vagina before inserting his fingers, Beaumont told the jury.

That patient started crying after he left the room before calling her doctor to find out the proper procedure for massaging a groin wound.

She filed a complaint with the hospital before going to police.

Jurors heard of alleged conduct around a fourth patient, a 67-year-old woman admitted for heart surgery.

After she had a shower, Moh'd helped place stickers on her body connected to a heart monitoring machine.

While he was doing this, he allegedly touched her breast and squeezed her nipple.

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"You have nice breasts for someone your age," he's alleged to have said.

"Get lost, you're embarrassing me," the patient allegedly said before swatting his hand away.

On the same day after she complained of back pain, he sat her down on the bed and gave her a back massage with some cream.

"You can touch me too if you want to," he's alleged to have said.

Beaumont said Moh'd had a tendency to be sexually attracted to female patients under his care and to act on those interests.

She said jurors would be asked to consider whether the nurse's actions were done for proper health reasons.

"A sexual purpose has no place in genuine medical treatment," she told the court.

Defence barrister Linda Barnes said her client denied sexually touching or having sexual intercourse with any of the four women.

"In short, Mr Moh'd's case is that any contact he had with the complainants was for medical purposes, that is for health or hygiene purposes or for educational purposes," she told the jury.

He had rejected prosecutors' claims that certain sexual acts took place or that he made sexualised comments to the women, Barnes said.

One of the main issues would be the honesty and reliability of the complainants, including their memories and perceptions of events, jurors heard.

Moh'd came before the court an innocent man who had never been charged or convicted of any other offence, Barnes said.

The trial with Judge Ian Bourke continues tomorrow.

Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).

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