Jarryd Hayne has been released from jail and reunited with his family after being granted bail following the former NRL star's rape convictions being quashed for a second time.

But the prospect of a fourth trial still looms for the 36-year-old as he awaits his next court date.

Hayne has been behind bars for more than a year after a jury found him guilty in April 2023 of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent.

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His lawyer Lauren MacDougall declined to comment about the prospect of another trial as she left the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal on Wednesday after a successful bid to overturn the April finding.

"He's really, really looking forward to getting home to his family," she said.

Prosecutors did not oppose Hayne's bail on Wednesday afternoon, but need time to consider holding another trial before returning to court on July 26.

"Any decision about a possible retrial will be made in accordance with the prosecution guidelines," a spokeswoman for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions said in a statement.

The state's highest court quashed Hayne's convictions, ruling the trial judge erred by not allowing further cross-examination of the complainant over her communications with third parties regarding the night of the alleged sexual assault.

The appeal court ruled the judge did not properly direct the jury regarding allegations from Hayne's lawyers the complainant had lied about the contact, exacerbating the earlier error in not allowing her to respond to questions about it.

Hayne's third ground of appeal, arguing the now-quashed guilty verdicts were unsafe or unreasonable, was not upheld, despite convincing one judge.

"I am of the view there is a significant possibility that an innocent person has been convicted," Justice Deborah Sweeney said in the court's published reasons.

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But she was overruled by Justices Stephen Rothman and Anthony Meagher.

Justice Meagher did not support any grounds of the appeal.

"I am comfortably of the opinion that it was open to the jury to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt (Hayne) was guilty," he said.

Hayne was accused of raping a woman with his hands and mouth at her Newcastle home on the night of the 2018 NRL Grand Final.

Three separate criminal trials were told the woman, who cannot be identified, changed her mind about having sex with Hayne after realising he had a taxi waiting outside.

He was sentenced to four years and nine months in jail, but had already served some of that time before his earlier successful appeal.

Justice Rothman said there was good reason for no fourth trial, noting it was unlikely to occur before Hayne's three-year non-parole period expired in May 2025.

Justice Sweeney was of a similar view given the matter's history.

"To put (Hayne) on trial for a fourth time would not be in the interests of justice," she said.

Hayne's barrister, Tim Game SC, told April's appeal hearing messages the woman sent to Hayne and others, deleted from her phone, amounted to deliberate concealment of evidence.

The ex-player's defence team argued the woman should have been cross-examined on why she allegedly told police, "If those messages get out, I'm f***ed and he will get off".

Judge Graham Turnbull, who oversaw Hayne's third trial in the NSW District Court, refused requests for the woman to be cross-examined further, saying her anticipated answers, and their ultimate absence, would not create any real unfairness.

But Justices Sweeney and Rothman ruled Hayne's lawyers should have been able to question the complainant further and the jury left to consider her evidence and credibility.

Hayne's quashed convictions followed a hung jury in his first trial in 2020 and a previous appeal overturning guilty verdicts from his second trial in 2021.

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A problem crocodile that ate dogs and threatened passersbys has been removed from a remote town in the Northern Territory.

Police and wildlife rangers removed the almost four-metre long saltwater from its home at Baines River in Bulla yesterday afternoon. 

Floods earlier this year had brought the crocodile into the waterway, where it has been notoriously stalking and lunging at children and adults living nearby since.

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"The crocodile had also reportedly taken multiple community dogs," police said.

Police said the crocodile was shot following consultations with community members, traditional owners and wildlife officers.

Children were given an opportunistic safety lesson and the animal was taken into the community and prepared for a feast in a traditional manner. 

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"There's never a dull moment in remote policing," police commander Kylie Anderson said.

The Northern Territory contains large and potentially dangerous crocodiles, according to the Department of Environment Rangers, Parks and Water Security.

Locals are urged to be crocwise and only swim where there are designated swimming signs.

People suffering from depression are benefitting from a more targeted version of an existing brain stimulation treatment.

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) delivers magnetic pulses to a patient's brain through a robotic coil placed on the exterior of the scalp. The pulses stimulate nerve cells involved in a person's mood.

Experts say the treatment provides another option for medication-resistant depression patients like Beau Jones.

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"Depression at the worst of times is lethal and at the best of times is awful," Jones said.

Jones has been suffering from depression for 15 years and underwent TMS as an alternative path to treatment after his medication stopped working.

"It's definitely improved my mental health," he said.

"The situations I find myself in are not as intense or dark as they had previously been."

In standard TMS treatments, all patients receive magnetic pulses to the same area, but now the University of Melbourne and Queensland Neurostimulation Centre are developing a more targeted approach.

Researchers like Dr Robin Cash from the University of Melbourne use an MRI scan to map specific areas in each patient's brain that are triggering the depression.

The TMS is then sent to that spot with a millimetre of allowance.

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"What we're doing is a precise targeted approach that's based on a brain scan," Cash said.

"Our initial data suggests up to 65 per cent of individuals respond to this personalised and targeted therapy." 

Luca Cocchi from the Queensland Neurostimulation Centre explained that the robotic coil sends up-to-date information to the machine.

"We will have a robot that will use information from the brain of the participant who will very precisely and consistently deliver the stimulation."

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The wood and corrugated iron structure was adorned with a red bicycle.

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Victoria Police officers have spent the past two days searching the Ballarat area for missing mother Samantha Murphy, a fortnight after officers discovered her phone on the edge of a dam.

The 51-year-old mother was last seen leaving her home on Eureka Street in Ballarat East to go for a run in the Canadian State Forest on the morning of February 4.

She has not yet been found, but on March 8, 22-year-old Patrick Orren Stephenson was charged with her alleged murder.

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Officers spent today and yesterday undertaking another "targeted" search in the Ballarat area as part of their investigation into her disappearance.

Missing Persons Squad detectives and a range of specialist police resources were involved in the search.

Police advised about 5pm that the search had concluded and said officers would not continue searching tomorrow.

"Since February, police have regularly undertaken a range of enquiries and small-scale searches as part of the current investigation," a statement from police said.

"Samantha's family has also been advised of the search.

"We are not in a position to supply further specific details of the operational activity at this time.

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"A number of items located during a search in Buninyong on 29 May are still being forensically assessed. There are no updates on this process."

Police discovered Samantha's iPhone by a private dam near Slaughterhouse Road, south of Buninyong, on May 29.

The dam was just five kilometres away from the phone tower where her mobile last pinged. 

Her husband Mick Murphy was called after police made the discovery. He told 9News he immediately knew it was hers. 

It's hoped data from the device can lead them to Samantha's body.

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