A teenage boy has been rushed to hospital after he was allegedly stabbed outside a fast food restaurant north of Brisbane.

Police were called to a McDonald's carpark at Deception Bay around 9.30pm yesterday following reports of an assault involving a group of people.

9News understands that during the alleged fight, a teenage boy was stabbed in the face, neck and chest.

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Two McDonald's workers are believed to have then rushed to the boy's aid and provided first aid until paramedics arrived.

He was rushed to hospital in serious condition.

A witness told 9News she heard a string of swear words and shouting from the group.

"I didn't know what was going on, I thought it was a fight," she said.

Police have charged a 16-year-old boy charged with wounding and a 13-year-old with possessing a knife in a public place.

9News understands both teens are known to authorities.

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A victim of youth crime has pled with the Victorian government to tighten bail laws following a string of violent offences across the south-east. 

Joy Paul and his wife returned to their home in Frankston from a walk when three teenagers allegedly broke in and stole the keys to his brand new Hyundai Tuscan.

"They opened the door, took the key, within fraction, it's gone," he told 9News.

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Using the car's GPS, police were able to find and arrest a 17-year-old boy in Sandringham.

He was charged and, within hours, was bailed and back on the streets.

9News understands the teen has been charged and bailed dozens of times prior.

When asked whether bail laws should be tightened, Paul said "definitely".

"Kids coming out bail do the same thing again and again and again," he said.

"I just can't believe they can get away with it," Paul's son Albin added.

Premier Jacinta Allan, however, has maintained the state's youth crime crisis was being pedalled by a "small number of people engaging in dangerous, repeat behaviour".

She drew criticism from her Opposition Leader John Pesutto, who said the state government has "weakened bail laws" despite advice from his party.

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In the recent string of offences, a 14-year-old boy was reportedly bailed twice in less than 24 hours after he was charged over an alleged crime spree through the south-eastern suburbs. 

He was arrested in Rowville on Friday after police tracked an alleged stolen Audi driving at speeds of up to 150 kilometres per hour.

He allegedly boasted about his offences on social media. 

On that same day and in an unrelated matter, a 65-year-old man was left fighting for his life in hospital after he was allegedly bashed when he confronted a group of teens stealing from his car in Beaumaris.

The man was taken to hospital, where he was in stable condition, while three teens were arrested and released back into the community without charge.

Israel's military said on Saturday it had recovered the body of a 47-year-old farmer who was held hostage in Gaza, while negotiators prepared for another round of talks on Sunday on brokering a cease-fire and securing the release of the remaining hostages, six months into the war.

Israel's army said it found the body of Elad Katzir and believed he was killed in January by militants with Islamic Jihad, one of the groups that entered southern Israel in the Oct. 7 attack, killed more than 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages.

Katzir was abducted from Nir Oz, a border community that suffered some of the heaviest losses.

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The discovery renewed pressure on Israel's government for a deal to get the remaining hostages freed, and thousands gathered in Tel Aviv to call for a deal as well as early elections.

Hostages' families have long feared time is running out.

At least 36 hostages have been confirmed dead.

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About half of the original number have been released.

“He could have been saved if a deal had happened in time," Katzir’s sister Carmit said in a statement.

"Our leadership is cowardly and driven by political considerations, and that is why (a deal) did not happen.”

Israelis are divided on the approach by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government.

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A week ago, tens of thousands of Israelis thronged central Jerusalem in the largest anti-government protest since the war began.

Inside Gaza, the toll of Israel’s offensive is measured in tens of thousands of deaths and more than a million Palestinians displaced.

“We have arrived at a terrible milestone,” the UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said in a statement marking six months and noting “the immediate prospect of a shameful man-made famine.”

He called the prospect of further escalation in Gaza “unconscionable.”

Cease-fire negotiations will resume on Sunday, according to an Egyptian official and Egypt’s state-owned Al Qahera TV.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the talks.

US President Joe Biden has sent CIA Director Bill Burns to Egypt.

A Hamas delegation will arrive on Sunday to join the talks, the militant group said.

Hamas has insisted on linking a phased end to the war to any agreement releasing hostages.

It has said it will agree to release 40 as part of an initial six-week cease-fire deal that would include the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.

Hamas also seeks the return of displaced people to devastated northern Gaza and more aid.

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Israel has offered to allow 2,000 displaced Palestinians — mainly women, children and older people — to the north daily during a six-week cease-fire.

The talks come days after international condemnation of Israeli airstrikes that killed seven humanitarian workers with the World Central Kitchen charity.

The Israeli military described it as a tragic error.

Aid groups said the mistake is hardly an anomaly.

The UN says at least 190 aid workers were killed in Gaza through the end of March.

Some Israel allies now consider halting arms sales. Biden warned Netanyahu that future US support for the war depends on swift implementation of new steps to protect civilians and aid workers.

“We need security guarantees for us as humanitarians but also for the people we serve,” said Marika Guderian with the World Food Program, speaking inside Gaza.

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The killings halted aid deliveries on a crucial new sea route for aid directly to Gaza as the UN and partners warn of “imminent famine” for 1.1 million people, or half the population.

The humanitarian group Oxfam says people in northern Gaza are surviving on an average of 245 calories a day.

In Jabaliya, a refugee camp near Gaza City, families scrounged in the rubble for mallow leaves to make a thin broth to break the daily Ramadan fast.

“Life has become miserable. They (daughters) tell me, ‘Father, you are feeding us mallow, mallow, mallow every day. We want to eat fish, chicken, canned food. We are craving eggs, or anything,’” said Wael Attar.

They shelter in a school as part of the 1.7 million people displaced in Gaza.

Israel has promised to open more border crossings into Gaza and increase the flow of aid.

The UN says that in March, 85 per cent of trucks with food aid were denied or impeded.

The death toll from the war in Gaza is 33,137, the territory's Health Ministry said.

Its toll doesn't differentiate between civilians and combatants, but it has said women and children make up the majority of the dead.

The ministry said the bodies of 46 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes had been brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours — the lowest daily tally in months.

Israel blames Hamas for civilian deaths in Gaza, accusing it of operating in residential communities and public areas like hospitals.

The U N said it finally gained access to Gaza's largest hospital, Shifa, following a dayslong Israeli raid and found what the head of the World Health Organization called “an empty shell,” with most buildings destroyed.

The WHO said numerous shallow graves, and many partially buried bodies, were found just outside the emergency department after the Israeli siege.

The destruction of Shifa and the main hospital in southern Gaza, Nasser, “has broken the backbone of the already ailing health system,” the WHO said.

Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah now holds more than half of the territory's 2.3 million people, and Israel's vow to carry out a ground offensive there has caused weeks of dread and warnings even from Israel's top ally, the United States.

Emergency services have rescued hundreds of stranded residents from flooded waters as communities begin recovering from record-breaking downpours in parts of New South Wales.

Friday's torrential rain prompted evacuations and emergency warnings across Sydney's Northern Beaches, Sydney's south west and Illawarra areas as rivers flooded and Warragamba Dam spilled.

The federal government today declared the event a disaster. 

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In the 24 hours to 5am today, SES responded to 1877 including 146 flood rescues.

Of those was an elderly man was stranded for several hours on the roof of his car near Richmond after being caught by rising floodwaters.

Two others also escaped injury when their car skidded off a flooded road at Freemans Reach last night.

The driver managed to get out as SES crews and police helped the passenger.

Despite conditions easing and floodwaters continuing to fall, residents who were evacuated have been told access to their homes may still be weeks away.

"All my clothes, all my work equipment, so my computer, my mobile phone that I need for work. And the cat's at home, not been fed since Friday," Megalong Valley man Daniel Marsh said.

Windsor is still experiencing moderate flooding while Penrith, North Richmond, Sackville and Putty Road are seeing minor floods.

The swollen Hawkesbury, Nepean and Colo Rivers will begin to fall today and are expected to continue dropping tomorrow, the Bureau of Meteorology said.

In his latest update delivered from Windsor, Emergency Services Minister Jihad Dib said 5000 emergency volunteers have so far performed 200 rescues.

"It's fairly blue skies behind me, but that doesn't mean that the water danger is over, that the threat of flood is over," he said at a press conference today.

"There's a thing called the blue sky flood, where all of the water that feeds into from the tributaries, into the local catchment areas basically comes together."

This week's flooding was the area's eighth flood in 18 months.

Local Member for Macquarie Susan Templeman said it was a tough time for the community, especially their farmers who have suffered over the past few years from flood events.

"Their lands are completely inundated and they have only just recovered from a series of floods over the last few years to be getting a really good crop. And now that work is all underwater," she said.

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NSW SES are out across Sydney's south-west today to take advantage of easing conditions and begin damage assessments and recovery efforts.

Workers have already completed assessments in the Sydney Northern Beaches and Illawarra regions, with 20 properties destroyed and six non-habitable in Illawarra.

Evacuation orders still in place will be lifted for residents to return to their homes and begin recovery efforts after volunteers assess flood-affected areas, NSW SES Commissioner Carlene York said. 

"There's still a lot of roads cut and there's still a lot of danger out there and that obviously will worsen as the night comes, not with the rain, but with the ability to see what's on the road and to be able to assess the danger," she said.

"Again, telling the community not to drive through flood waters, we've had way too many rescues required to go and assist people to get out of those flood waters, and there's been a lot of vision about people being on the roofs of their cars and some really dangerous situations."

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The disaster declaration announced today gives eligible residents affected by the floods access to grants to restore essential household items and undertake repairs to their home.

The package includes funding for local councils to assist with cleanup costs, emergency accommodation and small cash payments to purchase essential items for flood-affected residents

Local government areas eligible for the funding include the Blue Mountains, Camden, Hawkesbury, Kiama, Liverpool, Penrith, Shellharbour, Shoalhaven, Sutherland, Upper Lachlan, Wingecarribee, Wollondilly and Wollongong.

There are 23 emergency alerts active across Sydney.

A Watch and Act warning is currently in place for flash flooding occurring in northern parts of Coffs Harbour, including low-lying communities at North Boambee.

The SES said heavy rain overnight led Coffs Creek and Newport Creek to rise quickly sparking flash flooding across roads, bridges, causeways and parks.

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The Bureau of Meteorology said although rainfall has eased across parts of NSW the weather system has caused flooding in the state's catchments.

"Flood producing rainfall is no longer expected across NSW," the Bureau said in an update this morning.

"The inland and coastal trough which brought heavy rainfall has moved southward and will move into the Tasman Sea on Sunday."

Low-lying parts of Freemans Reach, parts of Cattai, northern part of Pitt Town, Ebenezer, Pitt Town Bottoms were added to the growing list of emergency warnings just before 2am.

Parts of Sackville were among the first to be evacuated, ordered to leave by 10.30pm on Saturday night, while parts of Richmond Lowlands were given until midnight.

Residents in low-lying parts of Freemans reach were told to be out by 1am and parts of Agnes Banks, North of Bligh Park and Angus all had till 2am.

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South-east Queensland set for drenching

The Bureau is warning the south-east Queensland region to prepare for isolated heavy falls, possibly between 50 or 60mm.

A total of 100 millimetres could fall across Logan, the Scenic Rim, and the Gold Coast today.

Heavy falls from a storm system had been mostly isolated to Queensland's north-west but there are fears risk of flooding could intensify if the system combines with a coastal trough.

There is a major flooding warning still in place for the Warrego River in Charleville, which peaked at 7.6 metres.

Flood gates protected Charleville from the worst of the flooding although roads in and out of the town remain flooded.

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A plane load of asylum seekers has just touched down in Nauru after evading authorities to land in crocodile-filled waters north of Broome in WA.

The group, reported to be from China, is the third arrival in six months.

A Nauru Airlines flight believed to be carrying some of the latest group of asylum seekers to make it to Australia, was seen at Amberley Air base west of Brisbane.

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The group of 15 arrived at the remote Truscott airbase in northern WA, and 14 are reported to be in custody.

But WA police spent a day searching for a 15th man and late this afternoon confirmed he had been found alive.

He is receiving medical treatment at Truscott airbase, Superintendent Mark Longman said.

Dozens of officers were involved in the search, around crocodile infested terrain.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said: "People smugglers will always change their methods to make sure they can ply their dangerous trade. 

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"We will use all avenues at our disposal to make sure that the borders are protected.

"We have a very large coastline – what is clear though is unauthorised arrivals won't be settled in Australia."

The men aboard the flight will be processed and sent to Nauru, following the path of 39 men that were discovered near the Kimberley coast in February.

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Labor senator James Paterson called it: "Another day, another boat, another Labor failure."

Senator Anne Ruston also criticised the government.

"Well when you weaken your border policy the boats will start coming and that's exactly what's happened already," Ruston said.

An asbestos contamination in Melbourne's west has widened to four parks as the state's Environmental Protection Authority is accused of contradicting itself.

Three more sites have tested positive to asbestos in Altona North, hours after the EPA declared asbestos-contaminated mulch discovered at a playground in Spotswood on Thursday was an "isolated" find.

Since Victoria's first asbestos discovery this week, neither Hobsons Bay Council nor the EPA have agreed to an on-camera interview.

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Williamstown MP Melissa Horne, however, said both parties are busy proactively working together to identify asbestos and investigate.

"The crucial concern remains. How many more parks could be contaminated with asbestos," she said.

"And the big question the community wants answered is: 'Where has this dodgy mulch come from?'"

Horne could not answer how many suppliers supply to different councils.

Local mum Alison Gibbons said the asbestos discovery was worrying and condemned the local council for its use of dangerous materials. 

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"For her health and my health, my babies, it's very worrying," she told 9News. 

"They need to be using better quality materials." 

Meanwhile, experts have warned that the industry is largely unregulated.

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"Everyone's trying to save a dollar and wherever they can buy materials for a reduced rate and put it into their project. They'll be doing it," managing director of GMA Group Steve Marett said.

"Anyone can buy an excavator and start processing this material and selling it as second hand recycled mulch."

Asbestos has also been found in multiple parks in Sydney.

Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden has asked Fenz to prove it needs the increase.

When crews arrived the shed, which measures about 15m by 9m, the fire was ‘well ablaze’.

Police said the home’s facade was perforated by multiple bullets during the incident.

A fire that tore through a unit complex in Sydney's inner east and left three people hospitalised with serious burns is believed to have been deliberately lit.

Emergency services were called to an apartment at a Devonshire Street complex in Surry Hills about 3.30am today after a fire broke out on the second floor.

Three people were outside the unit trying to put out the flames when firefighters arrived to extinguish the blaze before it could spread to surrounding units, police said.

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The trio were treated at the scene by paramedics for serious burns and taken to different hospitals, where they currently remain.

Acting Superintendent Gretchen Atkins said police believe the fire was deliberately lit but are unsure how it was started. 

"At this point in time, we believe the fire was deliberately lit," she said.

"We're really seeking information, appealing to witnesses, anyone who was in the area for CCTV or dashcam footage."

Crime scene investigators are still combing through the unit as investigations remain ongoing.

Anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers

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