A 50-year-old Queensland woman who was caught by police while driving drunk twice in one day was sentenced in Southport Magistrate's court today.

Tina Regecova was pulled over by officers for a licence check at Mount Nathan in the Gold Coast hinterland on April 12.

Regecova was tested at a nearby police station, where her blood alcohol was found to be four times the legal limit, with a reading of 0.199.

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Regecova's lawyer today said that the woman had been taking insomnia medication and was fasting.

She had not realised she was impaired before she jumped behind the wheel, the court heard.

Police immediately suspended her licence, and she was charged with driving under the influence.

Regecova arranged for a ride-share to transport her home.

Less than three hours later, she was pulled over again by the same officer.

"I told you not to drive," the officer said in a video recorded by body-cam.

Still intoxicated from before, Regecova was again breath tested, giving a reading of 0.183.

She was then charged with another count of driving under the influence, and an additional charge of driving while disqualified.

In court today she pleaded guilty to the three driving offences.

Her license was disqualified for a total of three years, and she was fined $750 dollars.

Regecova apologised while speaking to reporters outside court.

"I am really sorry about it happening, I am," she said.

Bruce Lehrmann will likely have to pay at least some of Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson's legal costs, as the former Liberal staffer weighs whether to appeal his unsuccessful defamation suit against them.

Lehrmann's barrister David Helvadjian has requested further time in which an appeal notice must be delivered, on the basis fresh legal counsel were reviewing the likelihood of such an appeal succeeding.

Justice Michael Lee on Wednesday granted the motion, which was uncontested by the opposing parties, giving Lehrmann until May 31.

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During the Federal Court hearing, Justice Lee reiterated his view the proceedings initiated by Lehrmann, over allegations aired by Ten that he raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House, were unfounded.

The 28-year-old lost the case after Justice Lee found, on the balance of probabilities, Lehrmann did in fact rape Higgins and later lied about it repeatedly, including throughout the defamation proceedings.

"I've made findings about the conduct of the applicant and the conduct litigation being disgraceful, that's a given," Lee said.

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In reserving his ruling on costs to a later date, he flagged to Ten's counsel Matthew Collins KC an order would be made in favour of his client.

Ten and Wilkinson separately retained some of the nation's most highly soughtafter legal representation, which could skyrocket Lehrmann's liability for repaying their costs into the millions of dollars.

In accordance with an earlier court ruling, Ten will be liable for the cost of Wilkinson retaining her own legal representation, which it can also seek to claim from Lehrmann as a legal expense.

However, Lee took issue with a range of conduct by Ten and its lawyers including statements made by Justin Quill in the immediate aftermath of the ruling.

He described comments by Quill including that the network had been "vindicated" in airing the claims as discourteous and somewhat misleading.

Quill told media gathered outside the hearing the way defamation trials pick apart journalists' work is "divorced from reality".

"I made it perfectly plain that what occurred in this case was that the respondents fell well short of a standard of reasonableness in the credulous way they went about reporting these allegations," Lee said.

Among the issues Lee raised were repeated assertions Higgins had been left to cope without support by her former boss Linda Reynolds and chief-of-staff Fiona Brown and equating their termination of Lehrmann's job with "protecting a paedophile".

"Ms Wilkinson in some respects went even further repeating an allegation that Ms Brown and Senator Reynolds were active participants in a systemic cover-up of alleged criminal conduct," Lee said.

Also seeking to have his legal costs paid was ex-Seven producer Taylor Auerbach, who appeared as a witness at the defamation hearing with claims he saw Lehrmann buying cocaine and ordering sex workers.

Auerbach submitted his legal costs for complying with the court's subpoena to produce and give evidence were close to $60,000.

Lee described the terms of the claim as "not on".

"People that get a subpoena shouldn't assume that they're entitled to legal costs," he said.

In submissions on costs made public last week, Ten's lawyers described Lehrmann pursuing the claim as "deliberately wicked and calculated".

"Mr Lehrmann engaged in an abuse of the court's processes, ran a case based on positive falsities, and put Network Ten to the cost of defending a baseless proceeding," Collins wrote.

Helvadjian said his client acted reasonably in bringing the lawsuit to vindicate his reputation, despite the result.

"(The) allegation was of serious criminal conduct, the allegation had not been established in any criminal proceedings, the respondents bore the onus of proof, and (Lehrmann) disputed the truth of the allegation," he wrote.

Lee said his decision on costs would be "relatively prompt".

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An advertising campaign aimed at raising awareness of coercive control has been launched by the NSW government ahead of new laws making the act a punishable offence coming into effect.

Coercive control had been used by the perpetrator on the victim before their death in 97 per cent of domestic violence homicides between 2000 and 2018, the state's Domestic Violence Death Review Team found.

Deputy Premier Prue Car said it was crucial for people to be able to recognise the "insidious" act.

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"Coercive control is an insidious and damaging form of domestic violence – it can leave victim survivors feeling isolated, vulnerable, and alone," she said.

"This campaign is vital in ensuring the broader public know what coercive control looks like, and perpetrators know what they are doing is wrong.

"The past few weeks have brought into sharp focus the need for urgent action on women's safety."

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The campaign includes the tagline "It's not love, it's coercive control".

Coercive control is a "pattern of behaviour which may include financial abuse, threats against pets or loved ones, tracking someone's movements, or isolating them from friends and family to control them", according to the government definition.

Some of its signs mentioned in the campaign include perpetrators demanding to know where their partner is at all times, cutting partners off from friends and family members, and creating financial dependency between the victim and perpetrator.

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"Coercive control is behaviour designed to exercise domination and control over another, and can be hard to spot because it can be deeply contextual," Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Minister Jodie Harrison said.

"This campaign is vital because it helps build community awareness of coercive control and what it looks like in intimate partner relationships, with the ultimate goal of saving lives.

"These ads depict abusive behaviours that are, regrettably, all too familiar to some people in our community.

"It shines a light on this insidious abuse before it escalates and results in homicide."

From July 1, perpetrators who are found guilty of the act in NSW will face up to seven years in prison.

The campaign launch coincides with today's national cabinet announcement from the federal government of a $925 million fund to help people flee abusive relationships, as well as a number of other measures to combat toxic attitudes towards women online.

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The federal government will commit $925 million over five years to establish the Leaving Violence Program, a fund that will help people flee abusive relationships.

Those escaping violence will be eligible to receive $5000 in financial support, along with access to safety assessments and referrals to support pathways.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the program following a meeting of national cabinet this morning, along with a suite of other anti-violence against women measures.

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The national cabinet also backed the introduction of legislation to ban the creation and distribution of deepfake pornography.

The Stop It At The Start campaign will also enter a new phase from mid-June until May 2025.

This will include "counter-influencing campaigns" in online spaces flush with violent and misogynistic content, Albanese said.

Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said governments around the world were grappling with how to keep online spaces safe.

"I think the other important point to note is that as a society, we do need to do more and this is a role not only for government, not only for regulators and civil society, but also for the platforms themselves," she said.

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"And part of this is putting the emphasis on the platforms to enforce their existing terms of service and where they are not doing that, to examine what are the measures governments can take."

The government will also undertake classification reforms with states and territories, which Albanese said would examine options to reduce exposure to violent pornography.

Rowland said the classification scheme was well-designed, but hadn't kept up with the digital era.

"I am pleased that this is one of the items that was discussed at national cabinet because we do need that agreement in order to move this forward," she said.

The reporting date of the review of the Online Safety Act has been brought forward by a year, to this August, "to ensure we're keeping up with emerging online threats and harms", Albanese said.

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Albanese said that violence against women was a "national crisis".

"It's an issue for all of us to work together in the national interest to deal with what is a scourge of violence against women that is having a real impact out there, with one every four days a woman losing their life at the hand of a domestic or former domestic partner," he said.

Longer-term priorities include strengthening accountability and consequences for perpetrators, including early intervention with high-risk perpetrators and serial offenders, and better support for victim-survivors.

Prevention work through "targeted, evidence-based approaches" will also be a focus, according to a statement.

The government will also maintain a focus on missing and murdered First Nations women and children, and the impact of domestic and family violence in First Nations communities.

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State and territory governments will examine how to achieve greater uniformity and effectiveness across the justice system for violent offenders, with a further national cabinet meeting set for the next quarter.

"What I heard from the premiers and chief ministers, is the commitment to best practice, to examine what works, and they will work in a coordinated way to look at how they can deal with issues like our laws," Albanese said.

"That will require, obviously, some individual legislation across the jurisdictions, so that will, if you like, take place by states and territories with the Commonwealth essentially playing a role in bringing people together, bringing together jurisdictions."

Asked whether a national offenders register had been considered, Albanese said shared data had been discussed, and that everybody was keen on "progressing" the idea.

"We are conscious of the fact that our society is more mobile than it has ever been, people live in different states, they travel around," he said.

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Melbourne Football Club has been accused of using oppressive tactics to elect preferred candidates to its board and "squeeze" independent candidates from canvassing votes.

The AFL club faced the first day of a Federal Court trial in Melbourne today, after legal action was brought by businessman Peter Lawrence.

The former board candidate has accused the Demons of engaging in oppressive conduct towards candidates who are not already aligned with its board.

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Lawrence, who unsuccessfully ran as one of eight candidates during a board election in December, wants the club's electoral rules to be changed.

This includes an overhaul of a current ban, which prevents candidates from making disparaging comments publicly against the club and the board.

"The prohibition on electioneering is oppressive," Lawrence's barrister James Peters KC told the court.

"There's a pattern of squeezing candidates, who are non-board preferred, from canvassing votes and pushing issues they regard as important."

He said board candidates were also not given access to a register of members, until Lawrence took the issue to the Supreme Court where a judge ruled in his favour.

"Not only are they restricting what you could say but they were restricting the approach to members during the election," the barrister said.

Peters said, prior to 2020, there were no board elections held at the club.

Once elected, board members serve for a three-year term.

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The Demons' barrister Michael Borsky KC said the current board has helped the club go from "strength to strength" in the four years since Lawrence had tried to get elected.

"The club is well run, and successful on and off the field," he told the court.

He said the club's directors had changed some of its election rules in recent years.

"The directors were seeking in good faith to balance various legitimate interests and competing interests of the club and its members," Borsky said.

"Those interests included creating a level playing field, so not favouring wealthy candidates who might be able to afford what would otherwise be expensive campaigns.

"And avoiding an inflammatory public campaign which could damage the standing of the club."

He said Melbourne's membership had been consulted on changes to the rules and "no one supported unlimited electioneering".

"The vast majority of members consulted do not want a contested election in the media," Borsky said.

The trial before Justice David O'Callaghan continues.

An alleged terrorism conspirator who claimed to be mates with another teenager accused of stabbing a bishop during a live-streamed sermon will spend at least one more night in custody before learning whether he is granted bail.

The 15-year-old, who cannot be named, was already in custody when he was charged on Friday with conspiring to engage in an act in preparation for, or planning, a terrorist act.

He had earlier been arrested after allegedly throwing a wooden plank towards a worker at a bottle shop, Parramatta Children's Court was told on Wednesday.

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The boy's lawyer Ahmed Dib tendered a bundle of documents including an affidavit from the boy's mother, school report cards, and a psychological report.

The material showed the boy had a history of behavioural issues, lacked confidence and had low self-esteem, Dib said as he argued exceptional circumstances should secure the teen's release.

But prosecutor Rebekah Rodger said that was to be expected.

"A young person with behavioural issues facing a terrorism accusation is not exceptional, it is rather the norm," she said.

The boy had been involved in an encrypted chat group titled "Plans" where he talked about targeting Jewish people, Rodger said.

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The boys were not just talking and knew people who had acted on threats, she said.

"I know the bloke who done it, he's my mate," the boy wrote in relation to the April 15 stabbing attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at Wakeley in western Sydney, Rodger told the court.

Dib told the court the boy put on a macho performance in messages about performing an attack and was not the monster prosecutors sought to paint him as.

The boy had been in possession of a kitchen knife when he threw a wooden plank at a bottle shop employee, but did not pull out the knife, before the group left, he said.

"He could have acted as a monster, he did not," Dib said.

"He does not pull that knife out at any point, on footage captured by CCTV.

"Instead he throws a plank that is alleged to have narrowly missed this person and then left the scene," Dib said.

Two hand-drawn ISIS flags were found in the boy's bedroom when police raided the family's home in April.

A knife and a tomahawk were found in the garage, which Dib said were for chopping branches.

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"There's no direct point, it's one of those curved knives for that purpose," he said.

Magistrate James Viney was unimpressed by an unclear statement of alleged facts, signed only by the Joint Counter-Terrorism Team as a collective.

The lack of an author who could clarify things to the court was not satisfactory, particularly when dealing with a 15-year-old in custody, he said.

"If a set of facts is going to be presented in such a serious matter, there should be someone as the author," he said.

An affidavit explaining how electronic monitoring for the boy would work if he is released came late on Wednesday.

Rodger sought an adjournment to respond to the new evidence.

A senior AFP officer may also give evidence to resolve an issue relating to the location of the boy's passport when the matter returns to court on Thursday morning.

The 15-year-old leaned on his fist for much of the hearing as he watched on from custody via videolink, as his parents sat in court.

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Two people have died and two others have been hospitalised after a three-vehicle crash in a major Brisbane tunnel.

The crash occurred in the northbound Legacy Way tunnel at Mount Coot-tha about 3.11pm, causing long delays during peak hour.

A Queensland Ambulance spokesperson confirmed two people died at the scene.

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The spokesperson said a woman was in a critical condition with chest injuries and had been transported to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.

Another patient has been transported to the same hospital in a stable condition with head injuries.

"The northbound tunnel remains closed and is expected to remain so for some time," Queensland Police said in a statement.

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The eastbound lanes of the tunnel are also closed.

QLD Traffic warned drivers planning to use the tunnel in either direction should expect "long delays" or find an alternative route.

More to come.

No one has been injured and police say those involved appear to know each other.