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Cronulla RSL has granted its first honorary membership to a four-legged veteran as Anzac Day draws near.

Former military dog Manic, a 10-year-old Belgian malinois, served in Iraq in 2016 and in the counter-terrorism team from 2018 to 2020.

The dog is now in retirement and spends it with his fellow veterans at the local RSL at Cronulla. 

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"He comes to dawn service every year, and then after dawn service, he comes back to the club and spends the whole morning here with us," former soldier and Cronulla RSL member Cory Rinaldi said.

"I think they need to be looked after by the Department of Veteran Affairs just like anyone who's served in the military."

The RSL club loved the Belgian Malinois so much that it made him an honourary member, and even gave him his own badge.

"That gives him access across the full club, he's our first honorary four-legged member," Rinaldi said.

Manic was found in a pound and was recruited by the Australian Defence Force.

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The man had a fall inside the rest home and died two weeks later.

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A man's predatory and disgraceful behaviour that resulted in the deaths of two Indigenous teens was not properly investigated, in part due to racial bias among police at the time, a coroner has found.

Mona Lisa Smith, 16, a Murrawarri and Kunja girl, and Jacinta Rose "Cindy" Smith, 15, a Wangkumara girl, died in the early hours of December 6, 1987.

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The vehicle they were travelling in rolled on the Mitchell Highway, between Bourke and Enngonia in outback NSW.

At the wheel of the vehicle was then-40-year-old Alexander Grant, who had picked the girls up after offering them a lift home.

But instead of taking them there, he "plied" them with alcohol before taking them out onto the highway, a coronial inquiry concluded on Tuesday.

Following the crash, in which the girls suffered catastrophic internal injuries, evidence suggested a mostly uninjured Grant "horrifyingly" sexually interfered with an already dead Cindy.

In delivering the findings 36 years after the girl's deaths, NSW State Coroner Teresa O'Sullivan said their families had been vindicated in pushing for answers despite being repeatedly dismissed.

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The initial police investigation suffered from "very serious deficiencies" impacting the likelihood of any future criminal conviction, including failing to collect key evidence from the crime scene, O'Sullivan concluded.

Investigators initially believed Grant's account that Mona had been the one driving his Toyota 4WD ute, despite the vehicle having a manual transmission – which her family told police she did not know how to use.

Grant, who died in 2017, was acquitted of driving-related offences relating to the incident during a 1990 criminal trial.

A further charge of indecently interfering with a corpse was dropped before the trial due to difficulties with establishing the timing of Cindy's death based on the obtained evidence.

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In a statement to the inquiry, Mona's mother June Smith said the family received no support during or after the criminal trial.

"The trial wasn't explained," she said.

"We didn't even know why he got acquitted. It didn't feel fair or right.

"It felt like the police were the judge, the jury and the prosecutor."

O'Sullivan accepted acute tensions existed between law enforcement and the Aboriginal community at the time and that racial bias had impacted the investigation into the girls' deaths.

"The uncomfortable truth, to my mind, is that had two white teenage girls died in the same circumstances, I cannot conceive of there being such a manifestly deficient police investigation into the circumstances of their deaths," the coroner said.

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She added it was clear during the initial police investigation that the girl's families were not dealt with in an appropriate or respectful manner.

Among several recommendations, O'Sullivan said police should receive training about the cultural perspectives and ongoing impact of colonisation on Aboriginal people today.

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The federal government could improve housing affordability and save the budget up to $60 billion in one fell swoop, according to senators Jacqui Lambie and David Pocock.

The crossbenchers are pushing for the government to overhaul the generous tax concessions provided to property investors through capital gains discounts and negative gearing.

The call comes after new modelling from the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), commissioned by the two senators, found reducing those concessions could save the federal budget between $15.6 and $59.9 billion over the next 10 years, while also leading to a drop in house prices.

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Pocock said that extra funding could be directed into increasing Australia's housing supply.

"The housing crisis is so widespread and so severe we need governments pulling every available lever to increase housing supply and affordability," he said.

"Tax reform on its own won't solve the housing crisis but it can be a powerful tool to drive new supply and should be on the table for sensible debate."

The PBO modelling examined five different options for winding back the tax concessions, all of which included so-called "grandfathering" provisions – that is, exemptions for existing property investors from the changes.

It found housing supply would improve and prices drop as a result of overhauling negative gearing and capital gains.

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"Immediately after the policy start date, investor housing demand would be likely to fall, reflecting that potential property investors would have brought forward their purchases or would otherwise switch their investment towards other assets," the PBO wrote in its analysis.

"Property prices would decline, while other asset prices, such as those of Australian shares, would increase.

"Over time, asset prices would be expected to return to their baseline growth levels, although there would likely be a permanent level shift in asset holding."

The Greens have also called for capital gains and negative gearing overhauls to address the housing crisis, but both the opposition and government have stood against it.

Some have attributed Labor's reluctance to change the tax breaks to its defeat at the 2019 election, when it adopted a policy of changing negative gearing before slumping to a shock loss.

Lambie, however, said the government should be open to the "sensible" changes. 

"I think most Australians would agree that we need to fix the housing crisis and negative gearing is part of the problem," she said.

"But protecting the mum and dad investors and retirees who have invested in housing must also be part of the solution.

"Because this Labor government got their arses kicked in the 2019 election, they won't talk about fixing negative gearing.

"Senator Pocock and I have done the work and I hope the treasurer and the prime minister will be brave and take this opportunity to consider these sensible reforms."

A pilot's seat will become the main focus for aviation lawyers representing passengers on board a LATAM flight that plunged into a mid-air emergency between Sydney and Auckland last month.

At least 50 people were injured and 12 hospitalised when the 787 Dreamliner dropped abruptly mid-flight on March 11 sending passengers slamming into the ceiling.

A preliminary report into the incident by the Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics of Chile determined "the seat on the left side of the cockpit, with the captain in position, began an involuntary movement forward".

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Aviation lawyer and director of Carter Capner Law, Peter Carter, is leading an investigation into the history of the cockpit's seat switch controls.

Carter will also probe warnings about the seat switch issued by Boeing in 2017 and shortly before the March accident.

He said photos provided in the report depict "a significant difference" in the resting position of the seat switch covers on the seats of both the pilot and first officer.

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"While the cover on the back of the first-officer's seat sits flush with the seat back, the cover to the pilot's seat switch does not," Carter said.

The report did not directly comment on the seating positions and said investigations are ongoing.

However, Carter said the incomplete closure of the pilot's seat switch cover at resting position left open the possibility that the switch may have been activated when the cover was inadvertently depressed, thus explaining the involuntary movement.

He said further questions still need to be answered including what part maintenance and crew conduct played and how the seat movement so violently affected the aircraft's cruise.

"What measures were in place to prevent that happening?" Carter added.

"These are all questions that are important to discovering the cause of the accident and we must wait and see."

The report ascertained neither weather nor turbulence contributed to the uncontrolled dive.

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