Former Green MP has given her first in-depth interview after her arrest for shoplifting.

Brown has released the Government’s final roads and transport plan.

The council has been divided over the proposal to sell its shares in Wellington Airport.

An Australian Olympic rowing silver medallist and two-time world champion has pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman by slapping her in the head several times.

Simon Peter Burgess, 56, had previously denied the charge and was expected to face a hearing in Hobart Magistrates Court on Thursday.

However, he changed his plea to guilty over the assault at Franklin, a township in southern Tasmania, on December 2, 2023.

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Burgess slapped a woman to the head multiple times and punched a hole in a bedroom plaster wall, according to court documents.

He had previously pleaded guilty to three counts of breaching a family violence order and a charge of injuring property at the same location on the same day.

According to the documents, he breached conditions of the order which stated he must not directly or indirectly threaten, abuse or assault the woman.

He also breached conditions stipulating he not enter the home or damage property.

Burgess, whose bail was continued, is expected to return to court for sentencing on August 13.

He represented Australia at three Olympic Games, winning silver medals in 2000 in Sydney and 2004 in Athens in lightweight rowing categories.

He competed in 10 world rowing championships between 1990 and 2003, winning gold on two occasions and was also a national champion.

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About 100 homes were flooded and 400 properties and homes were impacted.

Neil Quigley to remain Reserve Bank board chairman for another two years.

Corrections staff and court security were assaulted in the melee.

An unexploded bomb from World War II discovered near the Darwin waterfront has been safely detonated.

Emergency services moved people away from Stokes Hill Road and closed other streets in the Northern Territory city when the device was found at the nearby wharf area yesterday.

The 50kg bomb was safely removed from the area and later detonated by explosives experts from the Australian Defence Force.

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In February 1942, Darwin came under heavy attack by a force of Japanese military planes dropping bombs on targets including the harbour and industrial sites.

The raids left at least 252 troops and civilians dead and large parts of the city reduced to rubble.

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Paris Hilton is opening up about her experience with past abuse as she continues to advocate for legislation that better protects children from suffering institutional abuse.

On Wednesday, the actor, singer, DJ and model said that she will "be the voice for the children whose voices can't be heard" and will "not stop until America's youth is safe" as she urged congressional action to protect child welfare while testifying at a House committee hearing on Wednesday.

Appearing before the House Ways and Means Committee for a hearing focused on foster care and the reauthorization of Title IV-B of the Social Security Act – which provides resources to states to promote child welfare – Hilton said that "families need resources and support so they don't need to come into the child welfare system in the first place."

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Hilton has been an outspoken advocate on child welfare issues and has previously said that she experienced physical and emotional abuse at a boarding school for troubled teens in her 2020 documentary "This is Paris" and her 2023 memoir "Paris: The Memoir."

She has said that she still suffers from PTSD from her time at the institution.

She testified about her experience on Wednesday, telling the committee that when she was 16 years old, "I was ripped from my bed in the middle of the night and transported across state lines to the first of four youth residential treatment facilities."

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"I was force-fed medications and sexually abused by the staff. I was violently restrained and dragged down hallways, stripped naked, and thrown into solitary confinement. My parents were completely deceived – lied to and manipulated by this for-profit industry about the inhumane treatment I was experiencing," she said.

"So can you only imagine the experience for youth who are placed by the state and don't have people regularly checking in on them?"

"As a mom, these stories break my heart," Hilton, now a mother of two, also said at the hearing.

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Hilton has visited Washington DC to advocate for child safety in the past, including a 2022 visit where, according to a White House official, she met with White House policy staff and other survivors to discuss "issues pertinent to the protection of institutionalized youth in America."

"What I experienced at these places, I will never forget," Hilton told CNN's Brianna Keiler during a 2022 interview.

"It has affected me and will affect me for the rest of my life and that's why I am fighting for change so no child ever has to suffer in the name of treatment."

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An Australian woman says she is devastated after she was told she won a car in a giveaway competition run by YouTube star MrBeast, but was then disqualified because of a Woolworths receipt "deemed as fraudulent".

Thousands of fans turned out to watch MrBeast, whose real name is James Donaldson, give away 10 cars – including a Lamborghini – to lucky competition winners at the Sydney Opera House forecourt yesterday afternoon.

Sydneysider Isabella Wilson told 9news.com.au she was notified on Sunday evening that she had won a car in the competition.

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Australian fans were given a chance to enter the competition by buying a chocolate bar from MrBeast's Feastables chocolate bar range.

Each chocolate bar purchased qualified the buyer for one competition entry.

A big MrBeast fan, Wilson said she rushed to Woolworths to buy 10 of the chocolate bars as soon as she heard of his Australian competition.

After buying the bars, Wilson followed the competition directions, scanning a QR code which then took her to a website where she uploaded her Woolworths receipt.

"For every chocolate bar you bought, you got a spin on the wheel," Wilson said. 

"On the last spin, I got three Lamborghinis in a row and that means you have won."

Wilson said after spinning the wheel for the final time, a message popped up saying she had won a car in the competition and she would soon receive a call. 

Wilson said she was then taken to a video showing MrBeast. 

"Mr Beast was saying in the video, if you're seeing this, then you have won a car," Wilson said.

The video also told Wilson to go to the Opera House immediately.

Wilson said she was confused by the instruction, as it was around 11.30pm on a Sunday evening, but she did as was told.

"I got out of bed and went to the Opera House, because that is what he was telling me in the video to do," Wilson said.

When she arrived at the Opera House, security staff were also bemused, telling her the MrBeast giveaway event was on Wednesday.

Baffled as to whether she had actually won, Wilson went home.

Needing answers, Wilson said she emailed the Feastable's team on Monday to ask if she had indeed won a car.

On Monday evening, Wilson got the call she was waiting for.

"The man was calling from an American number and he said, 'Is this Isabella?'," Wilson said.

"I said, 'Yeah', and he said, 'I'm calling on behalf of Mr. Beast to congratulate you. You're a winner.'"

The man then asked Wilson if she was available to come to the Opera House on Wednesday, to which she said she was.

Wilson said she was elated with the news.

"I was phoning my mum, saying 'Oh my God. I've at least won a car that is worth $20 grand and possibly even $440 grand if it's the Lamborghini'," she said.

"It was a life-changing opportunity and I almost couldn't believe it. But I thought that that phone call confirmed it."

However, Wilson then woke up on Tuesday morning to find a devastating email in her inbox from the Feastables team.

They were saying unfortunately we deemed your receipt uploads as fraudulent and you have been disqualified.

Wilson said she had both physical and digital copies of her Woolworths receipt and she was bewildered and baffled about why it was considered to be fraudulent.

"I said, 'Can someone please explain this? I can literally come in and give you the receipt in person'," she said.

However, in an email exchange seen by 9news.com.au, a Feastables staff member continued to tell her her entry had been deemed invalid.

"In a review of your receipt upload, it was deemed as breaking our rules," one email message says.

The Feastables staff member then appeared to question whether the person who called  Wilson to let her know she had won had really been a member of the Feastables team, saying the call "shouldn't have come from an American number".

A spokesperson MrBeast's Feastables told 9news.com.au the promoter stood by its decision, which was within the competition's terms and conditions.

"The Promoter conducted this promotion in accordance with the Terms and Conditions and the promoter's decision is final," the spokesperson said.

"The team undertook verification of the entries and disqualified any entrants that were determined to be fraudulent, in accordance with the Promoter's rights under the Terms and Conditions."

Wilson said she was still genuinely confused about why she had been disqualified.

"It's absolutely not a fraudulent receipt," she said.

"That's what's upset me is they're trying to tell me that I've scammed them, when I just bought $25 of chocolate bars and uploaded them as instructed."

After posting about her experience on social media, Wilson claimed she had been contacted by other competition entrants who also had been told that they had won, only to be later denied. 

However, those "winners" had not received the phone call she had, Wilson said.

'We deserve an explanation" she said.

Contact reporter Emily McPherson at em********@******om.au