Wet and gloomy weather is set to dampen most of the country this long weekend for King Charles' birthday.

Most states and territories (except for Queensland and Western Australia which mark the day later in the year) will kick off the break this Saturday. 

Let's take a look at what the weather will be in each city celebrating the long weekend, according to forecasts by the Bureau of Meteorology. 

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Sydney

Saturday

Sydneysiders will see a wet start to their long weekend with a high chance of showers in the afternoon and evening on Saturday.

Westerly winds and cloudy skies will persist throughout the day with temperatures set to peak at 20 degrees and drop to 11.

Sunday

Showers will ease by Sunday, which is forecast to be partly cloudy with some winds continuing. Temperatures will remain the same. 

Monday

More partly cloudy and windy conditions are expected for Monday, with only a slight chance of showers in the day.

It will also be a bit cooler as temperatures drop to a high of 19 degrees and a low of 10 degrees.

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Canberra

Saturday

There is a medium chance of showers and winds in the morning before those conditions ease for the rest of the day.

Clouds, winds and temperatures of 16 degrees and a low of five degrees will hang over the city.

Sunday

More showers are expected to develop throughout the day as cloudy and windy conditions persist throughout.

The temperature will continue to drop to a high of 14 degrees and a low of three degrees.

Monday

Showers will finally clear by Monday but clouds and winds will remain.

It will be a frosty day with chilly temperatures of 13 degrees and a low of zero degrees.

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Melbourne

Saturday

Melburnians will kick off the long weekend with a typical day of showers, clouds and winds.

Temperatures will sit between a high of 15 degrees and a low of 9 degrees. 

Sunday

Heavy rain, clouds and winds will persist over the city as temperatures remain the same.

Monday

Showers will loom but slightly ease by the afternoon as clouds and light winds continue.

The temperature will drop to a high of 14 degrees and a low of six degrees.

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Adelaide

Saturday

Northern suburbs will be under a morning fog before it clears to cloudy and windy conditions for the remainder of the day.

Similar to the rest of the country, rain will batter the city most likely in the evening as temperatures sit between seven and 17 degrees. 

Sunday

Showers are forecast to fall and winds will lash in the morning.

Conditions are set to slightly clear to cloudy skies later in the day as the temperature remains about the same.

Monday

The end of the long weekend will be a cloudy day with some showers in the afternoon.

The temperature is warm a bit to a high of 19 degrees and a low of eight degrees. 

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Darwin

Saturday

Darwin will luckily escape the wet weather looming over the east and south coast with warm and sunny weather throughout the long weekend.

It will be sunny with light winds and temperatures reaching a 29 degrees. 

Sunday

The sun will again be out as the mercury rises to 31 degrees. 

Monday

Sunny and hot conditions persist with temperatures remaining about the same. 

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Hobart 

Saturday

It will be a partly cloudy day with light winds. There may be showers in the evening.

Temperatures will sit between six and 14 degrees. 

Sunday

The gloomy conditions will remain as rain is forecast to lash the city.

Temperatures will slightly drop to a top of 12 degrees. 

Monday

Partly cloudy and windy conditions are expected, with temperatures remaining about the same.

There could be some showers later in the day.

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Federal Health Minister Mark Butler says revelations of large-scale fraud in the NDIS are "incredibly alarming" amid reports dodgy providers were spending millions of taxpayer dollars on cars, holidays, and drugs.

National Disability Insurance Agency integrity chief John Dardo told Senate estimates on Monday that the legal system would be unable to cope if every fraudulent provider was chased down and prosecuted.

Butler said stopping the mass rort was "priority business" for the government.

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"This is a terrific scheme that's providing support to people with disability that simply wasn't there more than 10 years ago, but we know there's simply too much waste," Butler told Today.

"There are too many rorts. There's certainly too many dodgy providers."

He called on federal MPs to pass legislation, drafted by NDIS Minister Bill Shorten, which was currently before parliament, and which takes aim at the problem.

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"I mean, there are thousands of unregistered providers out there too," Butler said.

"Too many of them are engaged in rorts and we need the legislation passed through the parliament."

Butler also called on state governments to do their part. and support federal efforts to clean up the scheme.

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"That's how the scheme was set up. We don't have power, entirely, to change these arrangements," he said.

But he conceded that while people in legitimate need struggled to access support, reports of these rorts would leave them "furious".

"We all know people who are struggling to get onto the scheme and would benefit from this world-leading scheme if they were able to get on it," he said.

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A 28-year-old man has been charged with murder following a deadly crash that killed an Uber passenger in Brisbane last week.

Ryan Grafton, 30, died when another car crashed into the ridesharing vehicle he was travelling in about 2.15am on Boundary Road at Wacol in Brisbane's south-west.

It's alleged a man driving a Ford Mondeo sped through a red light and ploughed into the Uber.

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It's alleged the driver of the Ford left the scene prior to police arrival.

Police released a photo of a man they wanted to speak with yesterday, leading Kai Fursey, 28, to present himself to Acacia Ridge police.

He was taken into custody without incident.

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Fursey has since been charged with murder, dangerous operation of a vehicle causing grievous bodily harm and driving whilst disqualified.

He has also been charged with possessing property suspected of having been used in connection with the commission of a drug offence, unlawful use of a motor vehicle and two counts each of possessing dangerous drugs, receiving tainted property and stealing.

He is due before Brisbane Magistrates Court today.

Amanda Knox is expected to appear in person in an Italian court on Wednesday to defend herself in a slander case that has the potential to remove the last legal stain against her, following her exoneration nine years ago of the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher.

Despite a murder conviction against a man whose DNA and footprints were found at the scene, and a 2015 high court verdict definitively clearing Knox and her short-time boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, doubt about her role persists, particularly in Italy, among members of Kercher's family and for the innocent man she accused.

That's partly because of wrongly pinning the murder on the owner of a bar where she worked.

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Here is a glance at the key details in the case:

Who is Amanda Knox?

Knox was a 20-year-old American student who had recently arrived in the university town of Perugia when her British roommate, Kercher, was found dead in her bedroom in the apartment they shared with two Italian roommates on November 2, 2007.

The murder grabbed worldwide attention as suspicion fell on Knox and Sollecito, with whom she had been involved for just about a week.

Headlines dubbing her "Foxy Knoxy" circled the globe, fuelled by sensational images of her and Sollecito in a tender moment outside the murder scene and in a store buying undergarments for Knox, whose apartment had become a crime scene.

Knox and Sollecito were convicted in their first trial but after another round of flip-flop verdicts, they were ultimately exonerated by Italy's highest court in 2015.

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What is the slander case?

Knox was accused of slandering the Congolese bar owner who employed her part-time, based on two statements typed by police that she signed during a long night of questioning just days after the killing.

She recanted in a four-page handwritten note the next afternoon, but the memo showed her confusion as she attempted to reconcile the signed statements with her own conflicting recollections.

During her first trial, Knox said police pressure led her to initially accuse an innocent man.

The slander conviction and three-year sentence remained until the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Knox's rights had been violated during questioning without a lawyer or qualified translator.

Based on that ruling, Italy's highest court threw out the conviction last November and ruled the two statements typed by police were inadmissible.

It ordered a new trial, stipulating the court examine only Knox's handwritten statement for elements to support slander.

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Who is Patrick Lumumba?

Patrick Lumumba is the Congolese bar owner who employed Knox part-time.

He was arrested and held as a suspect in the murder, based on the overnight interrogation of Knox, and despite her hand-written statement later recanting the accusation.

Due to the notoriety in the case, Lumumba has left Italy and is living in eastern Europe with family.

Lumumba has joined the current prosecution as a civil party, as is allowed by Italian law, and continues to believe Knox had a role in the murder.

Who is Rudy Hermann Guede?

Rudy Hermann Guede was convicted of Kercher's murder in a fast-track trial that foresees a lesser sentence.

A drifter who was living in Perugia, Guede was arrested in Germany where he fled after the murder.

He initially told a friend in a wiretapped call that Knox had nothing to do with the crime, but after being returned to Italy blamed Knox and denied involvement.

He was released from prison in 2021 after serving 13 years of a 16-year term that included a ruling that he did not act alone.

Guede was recently ordered to wear a monitoring bracelet and not leave his home at night after an ex-girlfriend accused him of physical and sexual abuse. An investigation was ongoing.

Who was Meredith Kercher?

Meredith Kercher was a 21-year-old student from the University of Leeds who was embarking on a year of study in Perugia, living in a rented flat with Knox and two Italian roommates.

Friends, who called her "Mez", described her as "calm, sweet and shy".

The youngest of four children, she grew up on the outskirts of London.

She was last seen on the evening of November 1 having dinner with British friends at a nearby apartment.

Kercher's partially nude body was found November 2 with her throat slashed beneath a duvet in her locked bedroom.

How did Knox rebuild her life?

Knox returned to the United States after an appeals court threw out her first conviction in 2011, following four years behind bars.

While she hoped to resume her life as a college student, she was dogged by public scrutiny as her legal cases continued in Italy.

Now 36 and the mother of two small children, Knox campaigns for criminal justice reform and against forced confessions, drawing on her experience.

She has a podcast with her husband and a new limited series based on her best-selling book in development for Hulu that includes Monica Lewinsky among the executive producers.

She also has recorded a series on resilience for a meditation app, and is an aspiring comedian, recently posting a routine on Instagram riffing on motherhood.

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An app launching in Sydney tomorrow will offer a way for locals to save money on premium food while ensuring businesses don't waste products.

Foody Bag lets bakeries sell food that is left over at the end of the day for a 50 per cent discount, rather than just throwing it away.

App users save nearby stores in the app, and are then alerted directly when there's leftover food for sale.

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The app launched in Perth three years ago year and has already saved over 150,000 food items from ending up in the bin, Founder Stuart Kidd said.

"Food waste at the retailer level is huge…a retailer may lose anything from $20,000 to $200,000 worth of product per year."

Domestic food waste is also an issue, with the average Aussie throwing out 312kgs of food a year, which totals to about $2500, according to the Department of Environment.

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"From apple crumble, Portugese tarts, lemon meringue, we do gorgeous cakes," Cherie Lyden from Wholegreen Bakery said.

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"Gluten-free eating…it's expensive  it will create products that are a little more affordable."

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According to Domain, about 5.6 million properties are at risk of bushfires, almost 1 million at risk of floods and thousands more threatened by coastal erosion.

In some states, as many as two thirds of all properties are in danger.

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The NSW suburb of Ballina has the highest flood risk in the country, Victoria's Upper Yarra Valley has the highest bushfire risk and Queensland's Surfers Paradise has the biggest coastal erosion threat.

A future housing forum today found there was a shocking lack of awareness among Australians.

"We found that just 29 per cent of Australians know the risks associated with their homes when faced against a natural disaster," Domain's head of research Nicola Powell said.

With the population growing and more people priced out of insurance, the threat of natural disasters seriously impacting homeowners is high.

"We are seeing more people live on perilous land in order to find a place to call home," Powell said.

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"If you're in one of those areas prone to either bushfire or flood chances are you've been hit with premium quote that's way above what can afford," Canstar group executive Steve Mickenbecker said.

"Secondly your insurer might have come to you and said 'look we're not prepared to renew'."

Industry leaders have said the growing crisis needs sectors and layers of governments to urgently find a solution.

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In Adelaide Magistrates Court on Tuesday, Dhirren Singh Randhawa, 18, pleaded guilty to one aggravated count of driving without due care.

Randhawa's guilty plea on that charge, and a separate charge of leaving the scene of a crash after causing death, were accepted by prosecutors, who withdrew charges of dangerous driving causing death and failing to answer a question of identity regarding the driver of a vehicle.

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The Encounter Bay teen struck Charlie Stevens, 18, with his car in Goolwa on November 17 last year, during schoolies week.

Stevens and his family were present in court for proceedings and outside court, the commissioner became emotional as he commented on the development.

"Today we have come to the magistrates court and we heard Dhirren plead guilty to aggravated due care causing death and leaving the scene of the collision," he said.

"This is one step in the process, there are a few more steps to go so I think it would be appropriate to say more at a later point in time.

"I think on behalf of our family we'd like to acknowledge that Dhirren has taken responsibility for his actions, that saw us lose our son Charlie. We've also been handed a letter of apology and we'll take time to read that. Thank you for your understanding."

Charlie Stevens died in hospital surrounded by friends and family, including his father, the following night.

More than 1000 mourners paid their respects to the apprentice tradie at an emotional memorial service at the Adelaide Oval later that month.

Randhawa was remanded on continuing bail to appear in the District Court in August for arraignment and sentencing.

He faces a maximum 12-month prison term and minimum six-month licence disqualification for the careless driving offence.

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