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Following an urgent meeting of national cabinet today, the federal government has announced a range of measures to combat Australia's gendered violence crisis.

Headlining the announcement was $925 million in funding to help people flee abusive relationships, but there was also a suite of measures to combat the spread of toxic attitudes towards women online.

This is what we know about those programs.

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Banning deep-fake pornography

One of the main policies to come out of the national cabinet meeting was the criminalisation of deep-fake pornography.

The new laws will be introduced by the federal government. Under them, both creating and sharing deep-fake pornography will be illegal, although the specific penalties have not been announced.

"When I have spoken to parents around the country, they expressed their concern about the exposure of young boys and young men to violent videos and imagery online," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.

"We will introduce legislation to ban the creation and distribution of deep-fake pornography," he added.

"Sharing sexually explicit material using technology like artificial intelligence will be subject to serious criminal penalties."

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Online age verification

The government is also committing $6.5 million in the upcoming federal budget to test out online age assurance (or age verification) technology.

The tech verifies and estimates the age of an internet user to prevent them from accessing inappropriate material online.

"The pilot will identify available age-assurance products and assess their efficacy including in relation to privacy and security," Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said.

"The outcomes of this pilot will support the eSafety Commissioner's ongoing regulatory work to implement codes or standards under the Online Safety Act to reduce children's exposure to inappropriate content and that includes online pornography.… (and) other types of content that are unsuitable for minors to see such as detailed and graphic portrayals of real violence."

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Classification reforms

In a related move, the government also touted its ongoing reform of Australia's classification scheme – the program that includes the ratings given to films and TV shows.

"There's growing certain about the role of violent online pornography in normalising gendered violence within the Australian community," Rowland said.

"In response to these concerns, the government is undertaking a long overdue classification review with states and territories which will examine options to reduce exposure to violent pornography."

The classification scheme includes the ratings given to the likes of films and TV shows, but Rowland says it wasn't designed for the digital world.

"Australians by and large trust the classification scheme," she said.

"The problem is that it is out of date… predominantly designed for a time when we went to the movies to watch films, we purchased books, you might have purchased videogames from a store in a physical context."

This isn't a new reform though – the government began seeking public consultation on the classifications scheme in early April. 

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Advertising campaign

A new stage of the federal government's Stop It At The Start campaign against violence against women will go live midway through next month and will run for about a year.

"This new phase will include a counter-influencing campaign in online spaces where violent and misogynistic content thrives to directly challenge the material in the spaces that it's being viewed," Albanese said.

"I know as a parent of two young boys that there is a lot of stuff that I'm not aware of and don't know and don't understand what they might be influenced by or be challenged about on the online world," Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth said.

"So we do know that we need a conversation about this, we do know that we need to give parents the support and resources to have those conversations, and we do need to counter this violent online material."

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Anti-doxxing laws

The government has committed to introduce laws banning the malicious release of someone's private information online – otherwise known as doxxing – in August.

It opened public consultation on the matter in March after hundreds of Australian Jewish creatives had their details leaked online amid discussions about the Israel-Hamas war, but doxxing has long affected women impacted by domestic violence.

Albanese and Rowland also both touted the government's previously announced decision to bring forward the review of the Online Safety Act by a year.

A report into that legislation is due to be handed down in October, Rowland announced in February.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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