But the agency is still continuing with the resource consent process and site clearance.

He arrived dragging a road cone under his car and left without the alcohol he wanted.

A World War II veteran who became a hero in his local community and beyond has died.

Jack Bartlett from Avoca Beach on the NSW Central Coast passed away at the age of 100 years and seven months.

Bartlett joined the navy the minute he was old enough, lured by the shiny boots and crisp uniforms of those heading off to war.

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"I used to spend half my time with no shoe and sock and clothes that somebody else had given us, because we had next to nothing and I couldn't get there quick enough," he told 9News last year.

His daughter Narelle Bartlett said her father "gave so much at such a young age".

"He was larger than life. He was loved by so many, and he was everything to our family," she said.

For 60 years, Bartlett didn't miss an Anzac Day march.

When that became too much, the community came to him, holding a ceremony in the street he lived on.

He'd head to the top of his stairs where old and young would have the honour of shaking his hand.

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"People are so good to me," he told 9News.

"He really appreciated all the support he was always given, especially on Anzac Day," Narelle said.

"But it wasn't just for him, it was for all his mates that he served with as well.

"It was just so beautiful for him and he appreciated it so much."

Bartlett marked his 100th birthday in November.

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His eyesight was fading, but his hearing and mind were as sharp as ever.

"I'm well looked after," he said at the time.

"I'm happy. I've got wonderful friends here. I go to church with my daughter on a Sunday."

Flowers and candles have been left outside a Sydney home where three children were killed in a fire.

The tributes are growing at the home in Lalor Park in Blacktown in Sydney's west, amid the allegation a father tried to stop emergency services from saving them. 

"Rest in peace sweet innocent children," one message left on a bunch of flowers said.

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Police and investigators are combing the Lalor Park home after the blaze, which started around 1am yesterday.

Two boys, aged three and six, were given CPR on the street but they couldn't be saved and a baby girl was found dead inside the home.

As rescue crews, emergency services and locals battled powerful flames, Dean Heasman, 28, was allegedly pushing the children back in.

A nine-year-old girl and three boys aged four, seven and 11 were taken to Westmead Hospital, where a 29-year-old woman was also treated.

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Meanwhile, a neighbour who ran into the burning house to save four children says he is not a hero.

Jarrod Hawkins said he knew his daughter's school friend was inside.

He barged his way in and got three boys and a girl out of the home before emergency services arrived.

"The front door was locked, but I kept shoulder-barging it until I smashed it in," he told the Sydney Morning Herald

"There was too much smoke, I couldn't see a thing, but I knew the daughter was inside."

He told the paper he followed the sound of a child's cough through the smoke.

He grabbed a girl and carried her out onto the footpath, before re-entering three more times to rescue three of her brothers.

Neighbours called him a hero for what he did.

"I don't buy into that… I just reacted with what I could do," he said.

Heasman remains in an induced coma under police guard.

"We're alleging that 28-year-old man took direct actions to prevent the rescue of those young lives that were lost," NSW Police Homicide Squad Superintendent Danny Doherty said.

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Neighbours said the surviving children allegedly told them the man ordered them to stay inside the home as it burned, one of them claiming he tried to fight in a bid to save his siblings

There are claims Heasman was holding the front door shut in a desperate tug-of-war with police.

Residents claimed they saw the man attempting to drag the terrified children back inside.

They said he was shouting "leave me here to die".

The couple who lived at the house had been together for about 10 years.

A Facebook post suggests they are engaged.

There are also reports police were called to the home two weeks ago to conduct a welfare check on the children.

Former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has agreed to hand over mobile phone records from the day a cyclist was injured in a crash.

Ryan Meuleman is taking legal action against Slater & Gordon, claiming that the law firm did not prioritise his interests during negotiations for a compensation settlement.

Andrews' wife Catherine was behind the wheel of a car that collided with a teenage cyclist in Blairgowrie, a seaside village on the Mornington Peninsula, in 2013.

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The crash left the teenage victim in hospital with multiple injuries. No charges were ever laid.

In court today, it was agreed Andrews would hand over the records by July 24.

The case against Slater and Gordon will go to trial in the Supreme Court in May next year.

A child has died and 10 other people have been injured in a car crash in the remote Northern Territory town of Kalkarindji.

A Toyota Prado carrying 11 people had crashed on Mardiyardu Road, between Kalkarindji and Lajamanu, about 11am yesterday, police said.

The vehicle was then allegedly driven back into Kalkarindji, about 500 kilometres outside Darwin, where it was met by CareFlight teams.

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A eight-year-old child was declared dead a short time later.

The 10 other occupants, including a 29-year-old woman who was allegedly driving, suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Two crime scenes were established, one at the crash site and another at the vehicle.

"This is a complex crash involving alcohol and a large number of unrestrained passengers that has tragically resulted in the death of a young child," Detective Senior Sergeant Richard Musgrave said.

He added that communication has been difficult due to the remote location, but police remain at both sites.

Police are supporting the families of those involved and have asked anyone with information to come forward.

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A 27-year-old man is facing negligence charges after three children were allegedly left inside a car alone overnight in south-east Queensland.

Police earlier issued an amber alert for the three-year-old girl and two boys, aged five and six, who went missing from Victor Avenue in Paradise Point at 4pm yesterday.

The children were found at a service station in Mount Warren Park, south of Brisbane, about 7am.

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The 27-year-old father of the children was later arrested on unrelated charges.

Officers recovered a blue Hyundai i30 at 7am today that the children were travelling in.

Police say the children spent the night alone in the car overnight before they walked to a nearby convenience store on Rochester Drive at Mount Warren Park and raised the alarm.

They have been taken to hospital for a medical assessment.

The man has since been charged with failing to provide reasonable provision for the supervision and care for three children known to him.

He has been charged with three counts each of cruelty to children under 16 years and leaving a child under 12 unattended.

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Police praised the help of the public in finding them, but said investigations were continuing.

"It's critical in those, times that we have the assistance of the community to be our eyes and ears and help us with any information they can," said Detective Acting Superintendent Mark White.

The man is due before Beenleigh Magistrates Court tomorrow.

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Alice Springs will go into a three-night curfew following a weekend of crime in the town, including the alleged assault of four off-duty police officers.

Northern Territory Police Commissioner Michael Murphy declared the curfew this afternoon, which will prevent people of all ages going into the city centre between 10pm and 6am over the next three nights without good reason.

"Some of those reasons are if you're fleeing from domestic violence, if you're visiting family, if you have to care for someone, if you're here for employment purposes, if you go into a fast food restaurant or some lawful purpose," Murphy said.

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He said the curfew area would cover "Anzac Hill, Schwarz Crescent, down to the hospital, from the Stuart Highway across to Leichhardt and Stott Terrace".

The curfew comes on the back of a weekend that was littered with several incidents of alleged violent crime.

A group of four off-duty police officers were allegedly assaulted by a group of 20 young men in the early hours of Sunday, while another officer was allegedly run over by a drunk driver outside a bottle shop.

"The offending in Alice Springs over the last few days has been unacceptable," NT Chief Minister Eva Lawler said.

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"The curfew will provide police extra powers to get on top of the situation on the ground in Alice Springs."

The curfew is the second that has been declared in Alice Springs in the last few months, coming after children were barred from a restricted area in the town's centre during night-time hours between late March and mid-April.

The current declaration was made under new laws introduced in May, which gives the police commissioner the power to enforce a 72-hour curfew.

Murphy said he will consider requesting an extension of the curfew if required.

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"If there is a continuation of harmful conduct, which I hope there is not, we apply some measures now and use the community to help us we should see a turnaround," he said.

"If that continues and there's some behaviour that still concerns me, I can apply for a 72-hour (extension) for a different area or go to the (police) minister for another seven days."

Lawler said she believed the curfew would be an effective "circuit breaker", but Swinburne University criminology expert Dr Joel McGregor said longer-term measures were required for broader change in the region.

"To address any crime problem, interventions that lead to long-term behaviour change are required," he said.

"While the Northern Territory curfew may be stopping crimes being perpetuated during the evening, it should not be thought of as a solution to the problems the state is facing.

"It is a short-term intervention measure, as the need to reintroduce the curfew has indicated."