Not only did the Greens deputy leader experience psychological trauma after a racist tweet by Pauline Hanson but minorities across Australia were also likely to be deeply affected, a judge has heard.

The One Nation leader is being sued for racial discrimination by NSW Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi over a tweet sent in September 2022.

During closing submissions on Wednesday, Senator Faruqi's barrister Saul Holt KC said the wide-ranging impacts from the post were predictable, including a "bluntly sickening" flood of tweets and emails directed to the Muslim politician.

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"That's just what Twitter is. You throw the grenade and it blows up," he told the Federal Court.

On the day Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022, Senator Faruqi tweeted that she could not mourn the passing of the leader of a "racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples".

Senator Hanson responded, saying she was appalled and disgusted with the Greens senator's comments, telling her to "pack (her) bags and piss off back to Pakistan".

Holt said his client had the right to say what she wanted to say about political matters without fear of racist attack, especially as the first Muslim in the Australian Senate.

"That warrants a greater level of protection to ensure that these impacts don't happen to her," Holt said.

"Otherwise where does the next migrant woman of colour come from to go to the Senate or stand for Parliament if this is the effect?"

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He took Justice Angus Stewart to evidence from nine individuals from varying minority groups who read Senator Hanson's tweet.

Many wondered how they were protected from racist speech as ordinary citizens if this sort of thing could also happen to an Australian senator, the court heard.

Holt argued that Senator Hanson's claims his client should just toughen up and "take it on the chin" were misconceived.

No one in any position of power whether they were the prime minister, a senator, judge, lawyer or teacher was immune to the effects of harmful or hurtful things they heard, he told the court.

"The longer we perpetuate those myths, the worse things in fact end up being because we expect people in those situations to be superhuman."

Research, including that 33.8 per cent of Muslim women told to go back to where they came from experienced very high psychological distress, was a sobering tonic to Senator Hanson's claims, Mr Holt said.

Justice Stewart noted "a tension or an irony" to the One Nation leader's arguments given that she herself had responded to a tweet in an angry, distraught and unthought-out manner.

Holt said the words of her tweet plainly targeted Senator Faruqi as a Muslim woman of colour.

This was then compounded by the history of the phrase, "Go back to where you came from" as a nationalist slogan as well as the One Nation leader's own anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim statements in the past, the court heard.

"It is a message of exclusion from someone in a position of power and that makes it much more significant," he said.

The trial continues.

A four-storey luxury mansion in Sydney's illustrious suburb Point Piper has hit the market, with its owner looking to smash the Australian record for the most expensive home ever sold.

The sprawling harbourside house is expected to sell for over $200 million, listing agent Ken Jacobs at Forbes Global Property told 9news.com.au.

If the sale meets the lofty price guide, it would eclipse the $130 million paid by Atlassian founder Scott Farquhar in 2022 for his place which is also located in Point Piper.

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Named Wingadal, the house's owner Aussie Home Loans founder John Symond listed the mansion today with hopes of spending more time overseas after the sale.

"Wingadal has been a special home for my family over the past two decades, and now I'm looking forward to spending more time travelling overseas," Symond said in a statement.

"While being an exceptional family home, we have also enjoyed hosting many important events for charities and other worthwhile causes."

"Wingadal" boasts four bedrooms alongside a separate two-bedroom apartment.

Naturally, it also features a pool, a movie theatre with 22 seats, and undercover parking for 20 cars with an eight-car garage.

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The home also makes space for two commercial kitchens and a wine cellar with capacity for 2500 bottles, the property's listing reads.

There is also an "internal entertaining area" with room for 500 people to mingle and gaze out at the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge.

The mansion was designed by architect Alec Tzannes, and sits on 2676 square metres of land, with a 98-metre stretch of Sydney Habour included.

Inside the house, an artwork is inscribed with words seller John Symond's mother once told him.

"Johnny in life think big, really, really big, and then double it again," the inscription reads.

It was Ryan Gosling's character Ken in last year's smash hit film Barbie who declared "my job, it's just … beach".

A garbageman has landed what is believed the biggest freshwater fish ever caught on a rod in the United Kingdom.

It took Darren Reitz, 34, and three men 50 minutes to reel in the gigantic 64.4kg catfish from waters at Chigborough Lakes nature reserve in Essex.

Reitz had fished for 14 hours without a single nibble on April 27, but his luck changed when he switched his bait, he told the UK Telegraph.

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At 10.30pm, Reitz felt the line pull and just under an hour later he was weighing his catch.

"My friends started panicking as it was clearly a big fish and they were telling me how I should pull it out," he told the Telegraph.

"I did it how I wanted to, and about 50 minutes later I pulled that huge catfish out of the water."

Reitz, who picked up fishing in 2017 after he was assaulted in a nightclub, said he was "over the moon" about landing the fish, which he nicknamed "Scar".

"I can't stop talking about it, you never think you will catch something like that," he said.

"And that is the joy of fishing, I guess I was just in the right place at the right time."

An earlier catfish record was set in 2000 at 28.1kg.

But soon after the British Record Fish Committee closed record keeping as it feared the practice was encouraging the illegal importation of large catfish.

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But in 2023 the records were reopened and a 58kg fish set a new benchmark.

Reitz's monster 64.4kg fish is thought to be not only the biggest catfish caught in Britain but officially the biggest of any fish caught on a rod in freshwater in the UK.

He was awarded £143 for his catch, £1 for each of the 164 pounds the fish weighed.

Reitz said he was delighted with the prize.

The men released the fish into the dark waters after it had been weighed.

The national median dwelling price is now at $779,817 after an 8.7 per cent increase around the country in the past year. But some of Australia's capitals particularly drove that upward trend.

Keegan Payne, 19, was the one who reeled in the million-dollar fish but it was his little sister who spotted a small tag on the barramundi which led to a "life-changing" jackpot.

The small rod of red plastic clipped to the spine of the barra meant Keegan landed top prize in the Northern Territory's annual Million Dollar Fish competition.

Keegan, who works two jobs and lives with his family of eight in Kimberley, said he plans to treat his family to an overseas holiday and stash the rest in the bank.

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Speaking on 2GB, the keen fisherman said he'd woken up feeling "pretty good" about his sudden change of fortune.

"It's life-changing for us," he said.

Keegan said his family celebrated by staying at a hotel last night, while he escaped from doing media interviews and went fishing instead.

Reflecting on how he became an instant millionaire, Keegan said his line was only in the Katherine River for a "couple of minutes" before the barra bit.

"We were chucking out yabby pots … and we caught a cherabin (freshwater prawn) in the pot and we chucked it on for a bit of live bait," he said.

"We waited a couple of minutes and the line started pulling."

Addyson, 11, was on the boat with Keegan and his friends and she had pointed out the unusual red thing sticking out from the 67-centimetre fish.

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Keegan agreed he was lucky Addyson had spotted the tag, but was non-committal over whether she'd be getting a slice of the prize.

He called the phone number on the tag and was told he needed to keep the fish alive.

They nearly crashed the boat racing back to the boat ramp, he said.

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Each year, competition organisers release more than 100 fish with red tags in Darwin, Katherine, Arnhem Land, Kakadu and Tiwi Islands waterways.

Some are worth $1 million while the rest are worth $10,000.

The competition has been running since 2015 but nobody had landed a million-dollar fish until Keegan struck it lucky.

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Friends say a man charged with murdering his elderly mother in their home in Perth battles mental illness.

Andre Drane, 54, is accused of murdering his mother inside the home in Perth's south.

Detectives allege Joan Drane, 78, could've been dead inside the Yangebup house for up to two days before neighbours alerted police.

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Her body was found on Monday, Western Australia police said.

Paul Schaoenfeld said Joan Drane was like a second mum to him growing up.

And Andre Drane was a good friend who battled mental demons, he said.

"She was a lovely lady always treated us with respect and everything like that, Schaoenfeld said.

"She was always there for her family always caring took us fishing and all that.

"Last time we knew he had a few troubles but doesn't everyone,"

A neighbour called police just over a week ago claiming she was crying for help.

9News has been told it was a distressing scene that police arrived to with a disturbing amount of blood.

Officers allege Joan Drane was murdered some time in the two days before she was found dead.

Neighbours called police yesterday morning after discovering blood on their driveway.

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Premier Roger Cook said it was a complex and traumatic situation.

"I'm very pleased that police are on the ground to make sure that they can reassure other members of the public in that area that they are not under any extra danger," he said.

Andre Drane appeared in Fremantle Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

He was remanded in custody and is scheduled to appear in Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court on May 29.

Crisis support is available from Lifeline on 13 11 14.

Internet users and locals have been left baffled after a video of a suspiciously large black "cat" running near Ballarat went viral.

Some punters speculate the animal is merely an oversized feral cat, while others claim it could be a black panther.

The video was first posted to a Facebook page called "Gold Coins & Relics Australia".

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The video shows a black feline moving through a field, in slow motion.

In the background are several large grain silos.

Some commenters speculated that the image might be the creation of AI.

Other punters referenced urban legends of having seen other big cats around Australia, including the fabled "Penrith Panther", sometimes said to have been seen around New South Wales.

More than half of Australia's most vulnerable people have been forced to skip meals, while others have turned to dumpster diving because they cannot afford to buy food, new research shows.

A Salvation Army survey of 1500 Australians, who accessed the charity's services over a 12-month period, found 63 per cent of them had skipped meals and 45 per cent had to choose between paying for housing or buying food. 

The research, released today in conjunction with the launch of the Salvation Army's annual Red Shield Appeal, also found over a quarter of respondents were forced to eat expired or spoiled food, while 1 in 20 had to eat food from rubbish bins.

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Salvation Army major Warren Elliott said the numbers were shocking.

"To hear that one in 20 of our respondents are eating food being pulled out of bins, that's quite alarming," Elliott said.

"That came as a real shock to me."

The new research comes amid a cost-of-living crisis, with grocery prices rising by 33 per cent over the past three years.

At the same time, rental prices have reached record highs. 

Domain's rental report, released earlier this month, shows the price of advertised rental units rose 12.9 per cent in Sydney, 14.6 per cent in Melbourne, 18 per cent in Brisbane and a whopping 22.2 per cent in Perth over the last year

Elliott said the charity was regularly seeing families that were having to make tough choices, with demand for the Salvation Army's services increasing by about 15 per cent in the past year.

A 33-year-old mother who took part in the survey said she often skipped meals so she could buy her kids what they needed.

"(I'm) having to constantly borrow money off friends due to not being able to buy essentials," the mum said. 

"I'm having to go days without eating so my kids can eat, cancelling specialist appointments that are a requirement for my health due to the cost of living."

Another mother said she also needed to borrow money to survive.

"Each week I am behind," the mum said.

"Some weeks I have not paid my rent so I can provide for my kids and medical scans they have needed. It causes so much stress living on the edge."

The charity has also seen a 35 per cent increase in the number of women and children seeking help after being impacted by violence, according to separate figures sent to potential donors by the Salvation Army this week.

Elliott said there was also an increase in the number of families coming seeking help.

"A lot of them are working, so it's not necessarily the people on pensions," he said.

Older women were also one of the fastest growing groups in Australia needing help, Elliott said.

"These are often single older women, who may have been through a later-in-life divorce or have lost a partner and are really struggling.

"We're seeing growing numbers of older, single women across the board."

Donations to the Salvation Army's 60th Red Shield Appeal can be made by visiting salvationarmy.org.au or calling 13 SALVOS. You can also donate at any Salvos Store.

King Charles has made his first public-facing engagement since his cancer diagnosis in February.

In a symbolic appearance on Tuesday morning (about 8.10pm AEST) His Majesty arrived at Macmillan Cancer Centre at the University College Hospital wearing a blue pinstripe suit with a blue shirt.

The 75-year-old monarch was joined by wife Queen Camilla on the outing, with the couple sporting huge smiles and waving at crowds outside the London hospital.

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Their Majesties will meet with clinicians, patients and families of patients during the visit, which is sure to be something they can relate to on many levels as their daughter-in-law Kate also undergoes treatment for an unspecified cancer.

The visit also coincides with King Charles' first day as patron of Cancer Research UK.

As the Prince of Wales, Charles became patron of Macmillan Cancer Support in 1997, a role he still holds to this day.

Similarly, Queen Camilla, as Duchess of Cornwall, took up the role as president of cancer support charity Maggie in 2008, which she remains as today.

King Charles stepped back from public appearances as he began his treatment for an unspecified cancer earlier this year, though the monarch continued with state business within the walls of Buckingham Palace.

While His Majesty's treatment remains ongoing, doctors were happy with the progress and gave the green light for Charles to return to public-facing duties last week.

Buckingham Palace warned that the upcoming summer schedule would not be a full one and each engagement – including the King's Birthday parade, known as Trooping the Colour, and events such as Royal Ascot – would be undertaken on a case-by-case basis.

There is also a state visit to the UK by the Emperor and Empress of Japan in late June, which the King is hoping to be hosting.