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Kieran Loveridge, the man convicted of manslaughter over the 2012 one-punch killing of 18-year-old Thomas Kelly, has been granted parole.

Loveridge will be released from custody later this month after a decision this morning by the NSW State Parole Authority.

Neither the state nor Kelly's parents opposed granting parole to Loveridge, while the Serious Offenders Review Council and Community Correction both supported it.

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"Every effort should be made to ensure that (Loveridge) undertakes a period of supervision well before the expiration of his sentence in an attempt to successfully re-integrate him into lawful community life," Ralph Kelly, Thomas' father, told the court today.

"For Thomas's death to mean something, it is imperative that every effort is made to ensure that a pathway is created to ensure Mr Loveridge's transition to community life is as smooth as possible."

Kelly's mother, Kathy, said the couple had been "handed a double life sentence".

Loveridge was heavily drunk when he punched Kelly in the face during a night out in Sydney on July 7, 2012, knocking the 18-year-old down and fracturing his skull when he fell backwards.

He died two days later in hospital.

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Loveridge also assaulted four other people that same night.

The incident was one of the contributing factors behind the introduction of Sydney's strict lockout laws, which were eventually removed in 2021.

He was originally sentenced to seven years and two months in prison, but that was increased to 13 years and eight months on appeal.

Of that, 10 years and six months was specifically for the manslaughter of Kelly.

He became eligible for parole last year, but it was denied by the authority, which found Loveridge's release would pose a risk to community safety.

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Today, though, it said the evidence it had been given indicates Loveridge has made "positive progress" in custody, and that it is better to release him on parole now so he has more than two years of supervision.

"There would be a substantially greater risk posed to community safety if the offender were released at a later time with a shortened period of supervision, or, worse still, at the end of his sentence without any period of supervised parole at all," it said.

Under his parole conditions, Loveridge is not allowed to drink alcohol, contact Kelly's family or his co-offenders, nor visit the City of Sydney and Shoalhaven local government areas.

He is also barred from going to the suburb of Neutral Bay, and from having any contact with bikie gangs.

The celebrity chef and founder of World Central Kitchen (WCK) has claimed Israel's military "systematically" targeted his seven aid workers, including an Australian, killed in Gaza.

Melbourne-born Lalzawmi "Zomi" Frankcom, was among the charity's workers killed in Central Gaza by an Israeli air strike this week.

Their Palestinian driver was also killed.

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The non-profit WCK said it had coordinated movements of its workers with the Israel Defence Forces but their convoy was hit as it was leaving a warehouse.

WCK chief Jose Andres told the Reuters news agency the attack had targeted the victims "systematically, car by car".

The deadly strike was not a "bad luck situation where, 'oops,' we dropped the bomb in the wrong place," said Andres.

"Even if we were not in coordination with the (Israel Defence Forces), no democratic country and no military can be targeting civilians and humanitarians."

A preliminary investigation by the Israeli military said the airstrike was due to a "misidentification".

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The family of Frankcom told The Sydney Morning Herald they backed an investigation into whether the Israeli troops responsible for her death should be charged with war crimes.

The other aid workers killed included three British citizens, a Polish citizen, and a Canadian-American dual citizen.

Their bodies were transported out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt on Wednesday ahead of their repatriation, Egypt's state-run Qahera TV reported.

Dashcam vision has shown the terrifying moment a number of cars were caught in a landslide in Taiwan during the island's recent earthquake.

The quake, Taiwan's strongest in 25 years, has so far killed nine people and injured more than 1000.

Dozens of people are feared trapped in quarries and tunnels.

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Now, dashcam vision from Hualien county, near the quake epicentre, has shown several cars caught in a landslide.

The footage was taken at the moment the quake began, 7.58am local time.

Two cars are shown travelling along a road before coming to a halt. The camera is seen shaking.

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The cars then reverse, before several large rocks crash from higher up the slope, onto the road in front of them.

Another boulder then smashes into the rear of one of the cars.

The driver with the dashcam continues to reverse as jagged rocks hurtle through the air, bouncing off the road in a series of narrow misses.

Nine people have now been confirmed dead and more than 1,000 injured.

The owner of popular fashion accessory brands Colette by Colette Hayman and The Daily Edited has entered voluntary administration.

Marquee Retail Group said it aims to keep all 60 stores open while in voluntary administration and has no plans to cuts its 400 workforce.

It would be "business as usual", the company said as it continued to operate, with the aim of securing a sale of the businesses.

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MRG said the company had suffered a decline in sales from October 2023 to March 2024, due to higher interest rates and inflation.

It also said ongoing debt with the Australian Taxation Office had impacted its performance.

Insolvency firm Mackay Goodwin has been appointed to manage the company's administration.

In December 2022, Colette by Colette Hayman bought The Daily Edited, also known as tde.

The Daily Edited is best known for monogrammed leather goods such as handbags and phone cases and had shops in Sydney as well as in the US and Singapore.

Marquee Retail Group chairman Bernie Brookes said: "Our decision today is about securing the future of the Marquee Retail Group and its employees, while emerging on the other side of voluntary administration.

"We hope to work with all parties to ensure an outcome, either with a sale or a deed of company arrangement recommended in time by the administrator."

"The board of directors regret that these events have come to pass and acknowledge all the group's employees for their hard work and contribution," said Brookes.

Playwright Christopher Durang, renowned for his satirical and offbeat comedy, has died aged 75.

The strongest earthquake in a quarter-century rocked Taiwan during the morning rush hour on Wednesday, killing nine people, sending others scrambling out the windows of damaged buildings and halting train service throughout the island. A tsunami warning was triggered but later lifted.

The quake, which also injured hundreds, was centred off the coast of rural, mountainous Hualien County, where some buildings leaned at severe angles, their ground floors crushed. Just more than 150 kilometres away in the capital of Taipei, tiles fell from older buildings, and schools evacuated their students to sports fields, equipping them with yellow safety helmets. Some children covered themselves with textbooks to guard against falling objects as aftershocks continued.

Television images showed neighbours and rescue workers lifting residents, including a toddler, through windows and onto the street, after doors fused shut in the shaking. All appeared mobile, in shock but without serious injuries.

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Taiwan is regularly jolted by quakes and its population is among the best prepared for them, but authorities said they had expected a relatively mild earthquake and accordingly did not send out alerts. The eventual temblor was strong enough to scare even people who are used to such shaking.

"I've grown accustomed to [earthquakes]. But today was the first time I was scared to tears by an earthquake," said Hsien-hsuen Keng, a resident who lives in a fifth-floor apartment in Taipei. "I was awakened by the earthquake. I had never felt such intense shaking before."

Nine people died in the quake, which struck just before 8am, according to Taiwan's national fire agency. The local United Daily News reported that three were hikers killed in rockslides in Taroko National Park, which is in Hualien, and that a van driver died in the same area when boulders hit the vehicle.

Another 934 people were injured. Meanwhile, authorities said they had lost contact with 50 people in minibuses in the national park after the quake downed phone networks. Another six people were trapped in a coal mine, where a rescue was underway.

The quake and aftershocks also caused 24 landslides and damage to 35 roads, bridges and tunnels.

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Taiwan's earthquake monitoring agency said the quake was 7.2 magnitude while the US Geological Survey put it at 7.4. It struck about 18 kilometres off of Hualien, on Taiwan's east coast, and was about 35 kilometres deep. Multiple aftershocks followed.

The national legislature, a converted school built before World War II, and sections of the main airport in Taoyuan, just south of Taipei, also saw minor damage.

Traffic along the east coast was at a virtual standstill after the earthquake, with landslides and falling debris hitting tunnels and highways. Train service was suspended across the island of 23 million people, with some tracks twisted by the stress of the quake, as was subway service in Taipei, where sections of a newly constructed elevated line split apart but did not collapse.

The initial panic after the earthquake quickly faded on the island, which prepares for such events with drills at schools and notices issued via public media and mobile phone. Stephen Gao, a seismologist and professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology, said Taiwan's readiness is among the most advanced in the world, also featuring strict building codes and a world-class seismological network.

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By noon, the metro station in the busy northern Taipei suburb of Beitou was again buzzing with people commuting to jobs and people arriving to visit the hot springs or travel the mountain paths at the base of an extinct volcano.

The earthquake was felt in Shanghai and several provinces along China's southeastern coast, according to Chinese media. China and Taiwan are about 160 kilometres apart.

The Japan Meteorological Agency said a tsunami of 30 centimetres was detected on the coast of Yonaguni island about 15 minutes after the quake struck. Smaller waves were measured in Ishigaki and Miyako islands. All alerts in the region had been lifted by Wednesday afternoon.

Taiwan lies along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," the line of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean where most of the world's earthquakes occur.

Hualien was last struck by a deadly quake in 2018 that killed 17 people and brought down a historic hotel. Taiwan's worst quake in recent years struck on September 21, 1999, with a magnitude of 7.7, causing 2400 deaths, injuring around 100,000 and destroying thousands of buildings.

The economic fallout from the quake has yet to be calculated, but Taiwan is the leading manufacturer of the world's most sophisticated computer chips and other high-technology items that are highly sensitive to seismic events. Parts of the electricity grid were shut down, possibly leading to disruptions in the supply chain and financial losses.

Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC, which supplies semiconductors to companies such as Apple, said it evacuated employees from some of its factories in Hsinchu, southwest of Taipei. Hsinchu authorities said water and electricity supplies for all the factories in the city's science park were functioning as normal.

The Taiwan stock exchange opened as usual on Wednesday, with the index wavering between losses and gains.

A man has been seriously injured after thieves stole his ute and ran him over in his Port Kennedy driveway in Perth this morning.

Andy McCall, a 59-year-old father, was attempting to stop the three bandits when he was mowed down and left for dead.

"Found a good friend and neighbour Andy face flat in the cul-de-sac," McCall's neighbour Alan Atkinson told 9News.

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The robbers broke into his Montpellier Mews home just before 6am to steal his keys for this white Isuzu D-Max ute.

"One of the neighbours has come out and tried to get the passenger out but been unsuccessful," Atkinson said.

The trio sped off, captured by security cameras making their getaway.

McCall was taken to Royal Perth's trauma unit with fractured ribs, a possible spine fracture, and fluid on his lungs.

"I'm disgusted by that action," Police Commissioner Col Blanch said.

"I know we've got a person, a homeowner, in hospital dealing with some serious injuries because of actions of absolute criminals."

The violent robbery is another blow for McCall who lost his wife to cancer last year.

And not long before that, the family home was also broken into.

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McCall's distraught daughter today was consoled by neighbours as the 59-year-old faces at least a week in hospital.

"He's a great guy, would do anything for you," Atkinson said.

This afternoon the ute was found abandoned on a bush track off Chalk Hill Road in Medina but the three thugs remain on the run.

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Vulnerable Australians will be able to access a new type of flu vaccine for free this year, after it was added to the National Immunisation Program (NIP).

The cell-based vaccine, Flucelvax Quad, is grown in mammal cells, rather than in chicken eggs like most others, and is designed to match the virus strains likely to circulate in the upcoming flu season.

While it was approved for use in 2021, this will be the first year it will be available to eligible Australians for free under the NIP.

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The decision to add it to the NIP also means Australians with an egg allergy will be able to receive a flu shot without paying out of their own pocket.

The vaccine is now available for Australians aged between five and 64 who are most vulnerable to the flu.

Those eligible include pregnant women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and patients with co-existing medical conditions like cardiac disease, immunocompromising conditions, chronic respiratory and neurological conditions and metabolic disorders like diabetes.

Infectious diseases expert Professor Robert Booy said the vaccine is a welcome addition to the NIP.

"Seasonal circulation of influenza is expected to continue, which means vulnerable groups remain at high risk of infection and potentially life-threatening complications," Booy said.

"Being able to offer a cell-based influenza vaccine to vulnerable patients on the NIP gives GPs, and now pharmacists, an important option for protection against the virus, which ultimately enables more Australians to be prepared for flu season."

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"Research indicates that 50 per cent of Australians consider flu to be very serious and people can die from it.

"Yet in 2023, only about 25 per cent of the population aged five to 64 years were vaccinated against influenza.

"With coverage like that, there's certainly a strong chance that many vulnerable Australians are not getting vaccinated against influenza."

Flucelvax Quad, made by local pharmaceutical company CSL Seqirus, is the only cell-based influenza vaccine in Australia.