“I want an independent, arm’s-length, objective review undertaken.”

Defence accused him of torching the place after breaking in and assaulting the woman.

A West Australian mother charged over a car crash that killed her twin girls has had her case mentioned in court for the first time.

Rachel Lisa Van Oyen is facing two counts of careless driving causing death, but did not appear in person, with her lawyer saying she is "struggling with the process".

Her seven-year-old daughters, Macey and Riley, died when the car they were in veered off the road and hit a tree by the Great Eastern Highway in Carrabin, about 300 kilometres west of Perth.

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Police will allege their mother was behind the wheel during the accident on the morning of February 18.

The trio had been travelling back to their home in Halls Head from Kalgoorlie, and detectives said everyone was wearing a seatbelt.

After the crash, 31-year-old Oyen was taken to hospital but later discharged.

She will reappear in court in August.

The overflow flooded the ground floor and may have damaged sports equipment.

Parents have welcomed a "statement of regret" issued by Queensland private school Citipointe Christian College over enrolment contracts students were told to sign that called homosexuality a sin and compared it to bestiality, incest and paedophilia.

The school issued the statement last night after its operator, Christian Outreach Centre, reached a settlement with the group of parents that took it to the Queensland Human Rights Commission over the contracts.

Helen Clapham-Burns, who was both a parent and teacher at the school when the contracts were issued in early 2022, and who resigned in protest of them, said the college's statement was a welcome development.

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"The expression of regret says the college is committed to continuing to reviewing and strengthening its anti-discrimination policies," she said today.

"This is really important to me both as a parent and a Christian educator who strives to love in an inclusive way."

The contracts given to students contained a "declaration of faith" that included the following passage:

"We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other.

"We believe that God has commanded that no sexual activity be engaged in outside such marriage.

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"We believe that any form of sexual immorality (including but not limited to; adultery, fornication, homosexual acts, bisexual acts, bestiality, incest, paedophilia, and pornography) is sinful and offensive to God and is destructive to human relationships and society.

"We believe that God created human beings as male or female."

Janina Leo's transgender daughter Amy graduated from Citipointe in 2021, only for her attendance at the school formal while wearing a dress.

Leo said engaging with the school over that was difficult and distressing, and that the contracts issued shortly after made matters worse.

"It was a very painful and distressing time, just following the formal," she said.

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"My family have been involved at the college for over 22 years so we have a long relationship with the school.

"As a result of the changes to the contract and the difficulties with Amy the previous year, I decided to withdraw my (other) two children from Citipointe Christian College.

"I believed it important to bring this issue to the Human Rights Commission in 2022 to highlight that, regardless of gender identity and sexual orientation, children have a right to an education… they have a right to be accepted and supported."

In its statement, Citipointe College did not apologise for the contracts, but said it regretted the "distress or concern" they caused.

"The Christian Outreach Centre and the College acknowledge, on reflection, that those statements were distressing to members and allies of the LGBTIQA+ community," the statement reads.

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"Christian Outreach Centre and the College recognises that all persons have a right to be treated with respect and all students deserve to feel safe and respected," it adds.

"This is consistent with our fundamental belief that all people are made in the image of God."

The expression notes that the contracts were issued by former principal Pastor Brian Mulheran, who resigned following public outrage in March 2022.

The college has also "facilitated a donation to a charity which provides assistance and training with respect to youth mental health issues, including with respect to diversity and inclusion".

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Former President Donald Trump rallied voters in the scorching heat of Las Vegas, at points telling his supporters to ask for help if needed and appearing irritable with the teleprompters that he said were not working.

The presumptive GOP nominee's campaign hired extra medics, loading up on fans and water bottles and allowed supporters to carry umbrellas to an outdoor rally on Sunday in Las Vegas, where temperatures exceeded 37.8 degrees.

The Clark County Fire Department said most of the medical calls were related to the heat, and six people were sent to a hospital and 24 others were treated on site.

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“I don’t want anybody going on me. We need every voter. I don’t care about you. I just want your vote,” he said, adding that he was joking.

Earlier in his speech, he said the campaign would offer help to people who were feeling tired and joked that “everybody,” including the US Secret Service, was worried about the safety of the crowds and not about him.

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“They never mentioned me. I’m up here sweating like a dog,” he said. “This is hard work.”

Trump returned to Nevada, one of the top battleground states in the November election, for his second rally since he was found guilty in a hush-money scandal.

The unprecedented conviction of a former president has juiced Trump's fundraising and galvanised his supporters, but it remains to be seen whether it will sway swing voters.

Trump is scheduled to be interviewed by New York probation officials via a video conference on Monday, a required step before his July sentencing.

Temperatures in the Southwest have cooled since reaching historic highs late last week but remain above normal for this time of year and topped 38C at the rally, which took place at a park with little shade next to the airport.

Well into his speech, Trump said it was “not as bad” as he thought it would be, and said he was angrier with the teleprompters not working well, even when he used to mock President Barack Obama for relying on that device.

“I pay all this money to teleprompter people, and I’d say 20 per cent of the time, they don't work,” he said, adding he would not pay the vendor who provided the prompters.

“It's a mess.”

Campaign organisers handed out water bottles as supporters waited in line to be screened by security officers.

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Inside the venue, large misting fans, pallets of water and cooling tents were placed around the perimeter.

“This is a dry heat. This ain't nothing for Las Vegas people,” Nevada GOP Chair Michael McDonald said.

“But what it symbolises for the rest of the United States — we will walk through hell" to elect Donald Trump.

McDonald and five other Republicans have been accused of submitting certificates to Congress falsely declaring Trump the winner of Nevada’s 2020 presidential election and their trial has been pushed to next year.

Trump said the rioters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to contest the election were “victims” of a “set up.”

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“They were really, more than anything else, they are victims of what happened. All they were doing is protesting a rigged election. That’s what they were doing. And then the police say, go in, go in, go in, go in,” he said.

“What a set up that was. A horrible, horrible thing.”

The conspiracy theory that the Jan 6 rioters were encouraged by law enforcement is widespread on the right but has no basis in fact.

Many of those who were at the Capitol on Jan 6 have said — proudly, publicly, repeatedly — that they did so to help the then-president.

Federal and state election officials and Trump’s own attorney general have said there is no credible evidence the 2020 election was tainted.

The former president’s allegations of fraud were also roundly rejected by courts, including by judges Trump appointed.

The campaign paid for additional EMS services to be on site in the case of emergency.

The Secret Service made an exception to allow people to bring in personal water bottles and umbrellas.

"You know what? It’s worth it,” said Camille Lombardi, a 65-year-old retired nurse from Henderson in suburban Las Vegas who was seeing Trump in person for the first time. “Too bad it wasn’t indoors, but that’s OK.”

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During a Trump rally in Arizona on Thursday, the Phoenix Police Department said 11 people were transported to hospitals, treated and released for heat exhaustion.

Many of Trump’s supporters waited in line for hours and some were unable to get inside before the venue reached capacity.

The temperature reached a record 45 degrees that day.

Trump's Nevada rally, his third in the state this year, came on the tail end of a Western swing that included several high-dollar fundraisers where he was expected to rake in millions of dollars.

Democrat Hillary Clinton won Nevada in 2016 as did President Joe Biden in 2020, but Nevada was the only battleground state where Trump did better against Biden than Clinton.

In the 2022 midterms, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, was the only incumbent governor who did not win re-election.

Trump hopes his strength among working-class voters and growing interest from Latinos will push him to victory in the state.

In a play for Nevada's massive service-sector workforce, Trump said he'd seek to eliminate taxes on tips, a major source of income for food servers, bartenders and others who power glitzy Las Vegas hotels.

The Culinary Union Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge criticised Trump for making that promise, a measure he said the union has fought for decades.

“Relief is definitely needed for tip earners, but Nevada workers are smart enough to know the difference between real solutions and wild campaign promises from a convicted felon,” he said in a statement.

Trump's campaign announced a renewed push for Hispanic voters ahead of the event with a Latino Americans for Trump Coalition.

Four of the speakers who warmed up the crowd before Trump took the stage were Hispanic immigrants.

The US Consulate in North Sydney has been vandalised with a sledgehammer and red spray paint.

Police were called to Miller Street in North Sydney about 3am today to find glass window panels of the building damaged and sprayed with graffiti.

Photos from the scene show several holes in the front window as well as inverted triangles sprayed painted in red – a symbol sometimes used by pro-Palestine activists.

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CCTV footage from outside the consulate shows a person wearing a dark-coloured hoodie with their face obscured carrying what appears to be a small sledgehammer, police said.

At a press conference this morning, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urged for more "respectful political debate and discourse".

"It's not the Australian way. We should be able to have views – including on issues which are difficult," he said.

Albanese said the situation in the Middle East was complex and reiterated calls to activists to "turn the heat down".

"Measures such as painting the US Consulate do nothing to advance the cause of those who have committed what is, of course, a crime to damage property," he said.

NSW Premier Chris Minns said the incident was a "reprehensible" criminal act.

"I don't think it's the kind of public debate the overwhelming majority of Australians want," he told reporters today.

"It's a kind of coarsening of the public debate that no one needs in Australia.

"We can make a point in this country without this sort of violent and malicious behaviour."

Police are appealing for anyone in the area about this time who saw the incident, or who has dashcam or information relevant to the investigation, to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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Coles has introduced an almost nationwide purchase limit on eggs as shortages linked to bird flu disrupt the supermarket giant's supply.

The supermarket has limited customers to two cartons each at all stores except in Western Australia, after bird flu strain outbreaks prompted chicken culls, which led to fewer eggs being laid.

"Due to a shortage of supply on eggs, we have introduced a temporary limit of two items per customer/transaction," signs across Coles supermarkets said.

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"This will help maintain availability and support as many customers as possible.

"Thank you for your patience, we apologise for any inconvenience caused."

Egg suppliers told 9News Melbourne the situation was the worst they had seen in more than 20 years.

One supplier predicted the cost of a carton of eggs could potentially triple within the next few weeks.

WA Commercial Egg Production Association president Ian Wilson has told Radio 6PR, WA farmers have enough eggs to keep supplying the state, but not enough to share.

"At the minute here in Western Australia, we're just concentrated on filling the shelves for our local markets, and I don't think there would be any spare to send to the east," he said.

9News has seen reports of shortages at Aldi and Woolworths today however the supermarkets do not intend to impose purchase limits in the immediate future.