Queensland Police have busted a major drug ring operating a cannabis farm in the Fraser Coast hinterland. 

Police raided the farm in the tiny town of Gungaloon, which has a population of 33 people and is surrounded by state forest, last week, seizing $60 million worth of drugs.

Detectives found more than 11,000 cannabis plants at the grow farm and 515 kilograms of dried cannabis bud.

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Police arrested 10 people at the farm, as well as another man who attempted to flee but was tracked down nearby by the police dog squad. 

Seven more people were arrested in subsequent raids across Brisbane, Moreton, Sunshine Coast and Logan.

Detective Inspector Brad Phelps from the Drug and Serious Crime group said the drug bust had disrupted a major criminal syndicate.

"It will be alleged that the Gungaloon farm has been operational for approximately 18 months and was producing several hundred kilograms of cannabis per week," he said.

"We've seized a significant quantity of drugs, plants, cash, assets and equipment as a result of these raids.

"The reality is that these dangerous drugs were destined for sale to some of the most vulnerable people within our state and beyond. 

"Now they're out of the market, and those allegedly responsible will be brought to justice."

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Around $521,000 in cash, 90 kilograms of cannabis, 245 grams of cocaine, 350 grams of ice, and 126 grams of MDMA were also seized by detectives in raids connected to the operation.

Among those arrested was a 22-year-old Boronia Heights man, who has been charged with a raft of drug offences including trafficking, supply and possession.

He has been remanded in custody and is expected to reappear at Richlands Magistrates Court in February.

A 43-year-old Inala man has also been charged with various drug offences including drug trafficking, production and supply.

He has been remanded in custody and is expected to reappear at Richlands Magistrates Court on November 10.

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The Israeli military's focus on hospitals in Gaza is growing more intense as its campaign to eliminate Hamas from the enclave enters a sixth week.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) invited news media to visit a medical centre for children yesterday, where a spokesperson alleged parts of the basement had been a Hamas "command and control centre" and may have been used to hold hostages.

Reporters embedded with the IDF were shown guns and explosives in one room located beneath Al-Rantisi children's hospital, which IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari termed an "armoury."

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He also pointed to a chair with a rope next to it and a piece of women's clothing, which he said would be tested for DNA, and a makeshift toilet.

Israel has repeatedly claimed that Hamas locates its operational bases in tunnels under hospitals and other civilian infrastructure.

The access provided by the IDF provided was an effort to back up those assertions, which are denied by Hamas, as well as health officials and hospitals in Gaza.

Concerns are mounting that hospitals are now being targeted for military action.

Searing images and accounts from civilians inside continue to emerge and as doctors warn they cannot evacuate their most vulnerable patients.

Mohammed Zarqout, who has responsibility for all of Gaza's hospitals, said the basement at Al Rantisi had been used as a shelter for women and children – not to store Hamas weaponry and hold hostages.

It was also the location of the pharmacy and some of the hospital's administrative offices before rainwater made it "impossible" to use, he said.

Zarqout also said medical staff had been forced to leave the hospital by Israeli soldiers, and had been unable to take all the patients with them when they left.

The IDF is also working to determine if there is a connection between an apparent nearby tunnel entrance and the rooms under the hospital.

Reporters were shown a shaft, about 200 metres away from Al-Rantisi, which Hagari claimed was located next to a Hamas commander's house and also a school.

Wires leading into the shaft provided power to the tunnel from solar panels fixed onto the roof of the Hamas commander's house, he also said.

"We [put] a robot inside the tunnel and the robot saw a massive door, a door that is in the direction of the hospital," Hagari said.

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Zarquot said "the tunnel they claim to be a Hamas tunnel is actually an electrical wire assembly point. We raised the wires to prevent any electrical shocks caused by floods."

Reporters witnessed huge amounts of destruction on their way through Gaza with the Israeli military as they were taken to Al-Rantisi hospital.

Countless houses, tall apartment blocks, hotels and villas had been destroyed. Bullet and shell holes were visible everywhere and firefights were ongoing.

Days of intensive fighting near hospitals in the enclave in recent days have lead to what medical personnel still working there describe as siege-like conditions.

While hospitals are protected in times of war under international humanitarian law, that protection may be compromised if they are believed to be sites of military activity.

The World Health Organisation has recorded at least 137 attacks on health facilities in Gaza, which it said resulted in 521 deaths and 686 injuries.

One of Australia's top doctors has rejected calls for the return of a mask mandate as COVID-19 hospitalisations rise across the country.

Dr Nick Coatsworth told Today it was important to remember that vaccination and booster shots remained a strong defence against COVID-19.

It follows media reports that Queensland doctors were calling for the return of the mandate at public gatherings and in hospitals, GP surgeries.

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"The Australian Medical Association has quoted 245 hospitalisations of COVID-19 with this (current) wave in Queensland, but there are over a million admissions to Queensland hospitals every year," he said.

"The suggestion that this is a wave is probably incorrect.

"We don't need to go back to masks."

Dr Coatsworth said although there was a slight rise in hospitalisations, the number of intensive care admissions had dropped.

"Let's reassure the public that vaccination works," he said.

"COVID-19 is now a milder disease because of what we call herd immunity, we have all been exposed to it.

"There are other ways to manage the hospital pressures. In Canberra, we use virtual care clinics and hospital in the homes and frankly I was on shift yesterday and we had not a single patient with COVID-19 in our acute medical unit."

Individual health services are able to create their own guidelines to whether staff or visitors should be wearing a mask.

Matt LeBlanc has paid tribute to his friend Matthew Perry.

The Friends star posted on Instagram a series of photos of himself and Perry in character, as well as a photo of the cast in a group hug, in honour of the actor who died last month at the age of 54.

"Matthew it is with a heavy heart I say goodbye," LeBlanc wrote in the caption on the post, set to the song "Rainbow Connection."

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"The times we had together are honestly among the favorite times of my life.

"It was an honor to share the stage with you and to call you my friend.

"I will always smile when I think of you and I'll never forget you. Never."

The pair became close in their ten seasons on Friends, with LeBlanc portraying good-natured Joey Tribbiani and Perry as the sarcastic and affable Chandler Bing on the hit NBC series.

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True to the comedy that brought the men together and made them both superstars, LeBlanc ended his words with humour.

"Spread your wings and fly brother you're finally free. Much love," LeBlanc wrote.

"And I guess you're keeping the 20 bucks you owe me."

The cast was known to be incredibly close not just on the show, but also off.

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In a joint statement released after Perry's death, LeBlanc, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow and David Schwimmer wrote, "We are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew. We were more than just cast mates. We are a family."

"There is so much to say, but right now we're going to take a moment to grieve and process this unfathomable loss," the statement went on to read.

"In time we will say more, as and when we are able. For now, our thoughts and our love are with Matty's family, his friends, and everyone who loved him around the world."

A former lawyer for Donald Trump claimed the US ex-president planned to stay in the White House after losing the 2020 election, in a video obtained by US ABC News.

The video showed Jenna Ellis, a former attorney aligned with the Trump campaign, speaking with investigators in the Georgia election subversion case.

She related a conversation she had with Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, after Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

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"He said to me, in a kind of excited tone, 'Well, we don't care and we're not going to leave,'" Ellis said.

"He said, 'well, the boss', meaning President Trump, and everybody understood 'the boss' – that's what we all called him – he said, 'the boss is not going to leave under any circumstances, we are just going to stay in power'.

"And I said, 'well, it doesn't quite work that way, you realise,' and he said, 'we don't care'."

Other videos from former pro-Trump attorneys Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro as well as Atlanta-based bail bondsman Scott Hall, were also released.

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Information was revealed to prosecutors by Powell, Chesebro and Hall, according to the Washington Post, which reported Chesebro said in his statement that he briefed Trump at a White House meeting "on election challenges in Arizona and summarised a memo in which he offered advice on assembling alternate slates of electors in key battlegrounds to cast ballots for Trump despite Biden's victories in those states."

Powell, who was known for pushing some of the more fringe legal theories after the election, told prosecutors in her videotaped statement that if Trump named her special counsel to look into election irregularities, as she wanted him to do, "she would have sought to seize election equipment and would have used the military to do so if necessary."

Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis has renewed a motion for a protective order of discovery materials and said that the "release of these confidential video recordings is clearly intended to intimidate witnesses in this case" by subjecting them to "harassment and threats prior to trial."

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Included in the motion by prosecutors was an apparent admission via email from one of Trump's co-defendants.

"It was Harrison Floyd's team," Todd Harding, Floyd's attorney, said in an email thread with the DA's office, apparently acknowledging they leaked the videos. The email chain includes current and former defense attorneys on the case.

In a subsequent email, Harding called the prior email admission "a typo."

The Fulton County district attorney's office did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment about the emergency protective order or leaked videos.

Cybercrimes have surged in Australia, with online attacks averaging out to one every six minutes.

The latest annual threat report from the Australian Signals Directorate has outlined some alarming facts about the new wave of cyber attacks against individuals and businesses.

About 94,000 cybercrimes were reported to law enforcement agencies in the past year, up 23 per cent since the year before.

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The ASD reported that calls to its hotline have increased by 32 per cent.

And the cost of such crimes to Australian businesses has climbed by 14 per cent.

The most common cybercrimes targeting individuals include identity fraud, online banking fraud, and online shopping fraud.

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For businesses, one of the most common attacks is compromised emails, which involves tricking people into sending money or giving away company information.

More than 2000 victims suffered a loss of nearly $40,000 as a result of these scams.

The ASD pointed to China as the major culprit behind the surge of cybercrimes, saying foreign actors don't just want to target governments for state secrets, but also to gain access to sensitive business information.

Hackers linked to Russia have also been identified as targeting Australia.

Two more people have made complaints to the BBC about Russell Brand's time at the broadcaster, bringing the total number of five, according to the man reviewing the fallen star's behaviour and the network's response to it.

In an update to the review on Tuesday, the BBC confirmed two people made complaints while Brand was working on 6 Music and Radio 2 from 2006 to 2008 and a third came forward about a widely reported incident in Los Angeles after he left.

The UK's national broadcaster announced the review after British media outlets The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4's Dispatches published a joint investigation in which four women alleged Brand sexually assaulted them in separate instances between 2006 and 2013.

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Another woman alleges Brand sexually assaulted her in a Los Angeles office bathroom in 2008 before talking about it immediately after on air.

Brand has vehemently denied all the allegations.

BBC director of editorial complaints and reviews Peter Johnston, who is running the process, said another two complainants had come forward since he began his investigation.

He said the review was "in no way complete" but it appeared the former star faced no disciplinary action before his departure in 2008.

"The passage of time means this is not a straightforward task – for example, the BBC did not maintain a centralised record of staff complaints regarding bullying and harassment (including sexual harassment) at the time," he said.

"We have established that some complaints and concerns were raised. It would not be appropriate for me to reach any conclusions until I am satisfied all lines of enquiry have been exhausted. 

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"In particular, we are concerned to ensure that anyone who has relevant information has the opportunity to speak to us."

Johnston said the LA allegation was formally reported to the BBC in 2019 but he was looking into what was known about it within the broadcaster before that point and what was broadcast at the time.

Regarding the claim Brand used BBC cars to pick up a 16-year-old girl from school, Johnston said car booking records were no longer available "due to the passage of time".

Despite accounts Brand had access to the cars, Johnston said no one spoken to so far recalled driving the actor.

He also released audience complaint figures relating to the star, revealing 62 complaints in 2006, 317 in 2007 and 225 in 2008, excluding the thousands made over the segment that forced him out of the broadcaster, involving lewd messages left on an actor's answering machine.

A book-keeper driving around in a $160,000 Porsche was wilfully blind to the fact stolen taxpayer funds paid for the sports car, a court has heard.

Christopher James Guillan helped since-jailed fraudster Adam Cranston lavishly spend taxpayer funds stolen through Plutus Payroll.

The 36-year-old pleaded guilty in June to dealing with criminal proceeds from the tax fraud and money-laundering conspiracy.

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Christopher Guillan had been used but he was not a victim, the prosecutor said.

Plutus and its web of second-tier companies, directed on paper by vulnerable dupes, were used to siphon off funds destined for the tax office to the tune of $105 million before the fraud was exposed in May 2017.

Guillan helped find a dummy director for Plutus in March 2017 and collected consultancy fees as he advised how to wind the company up in a doomed bid to avoid detection.

He netted more than $155,000 for himself while dealing with almost $2.5 million in proceeds, prosecutor Jane Paingakulam said on Tuesday.

Guillan's guilty pleas came as a trial approached in the NSW District Court, months after five others linked to the scheme were found guilty by a Supreme Court jury.

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His barrister Paul Coady told the court the 36-year-old was manipulated and was paid a salary, not a commission, working on a company that had a legitimate face, albeit a deceptive one.

"The public facade that was put on Plutus Payroll by the main conspirators had the effect of not only deceiving its customers and the ATO … but people who came within Cranston's orbit and were useful to him," Coady said.

Holding a business degree, expertise in book-keeping and control over a pre-existing company set up for lawful purposes made Guillan very attractive to the conspirators, he added.

Paingakulam said there was no doubt Guillan had been used but she reminded the court he was not a victim.

"It really was wilful blindness that prevented the offender seeing what he was involved in before it was spelled out to him," she said.

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Guillan's company, G&T Holdings, was used to purchase assets on behalf of Cranston, but the company had no other business activities or income, the court heard.

Adam Cranston was jailed for at least a decade in August.

When Guillan needed more money he just called Cranston's younger sister Lauren, Paingakulam said.

Acquisitions included a plane, a boat, motorbikes, a caravan and a number of cars ranging from luxury vehicles to a racing car and a truck to transport it.

Cranston had a fondness for Porsches, once arguing with his sister when she wanted to buy a Hyundai instead, their trial heard.

Paingakulam said Guillan also had daily use of a $160,000 Porsche and she asked the court to account for that as part of his overall derived benefit.

Five people, including Adam and Lauren Cranston, were jailed earlier this year following a marathon trial.

Adam Cranston was jailed for at least a decade in August alongside co-conspirator Jason Onley.

Judge Warwick Hunt adjourned to Wednesday to consider Guillan's sentence.

An axe-wielding man who smashed dozens of vehicles from three separate car dealerships across Melbourne reportedly caused $100,000 worth of damage.

Police are trying to work out what motivated the man to "brazenly" smash dozens of cars with an axe in the south-eastern suburb of Glen Waverley on November 2.

The offender was caught on CCTV using the axe at several car dealerships along Springvale Road.

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Police said 20 luxury vehicles were damaged between 6am and 8am.

The man then ran from the scene.

The damage included smashed windscreens, as well as a number of bumped-up panels, bonnets and fenders.

Andrew Moschini from Waverley BMW said it was a really disappointing crime.

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"In the middle of the night, nothing better to do, it's really frustrating that someone could do such a thing," he told 9News.

"Lucky it wasn't in business hours with customers around or employees."

Prior to the attack on the BMW dealership, the man targeted a Mazda dealership less than 2km down the road.

"I was dumbfounded when I found out," Mark Barratt from Garry and Warren Smith Mazda said.

"We really can't see the sense in it, or the purpose and don't know the reason."

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Victoria Police officer Senior Constable Bassett said the offender appeared to be "methodical" in his actions.

"It's quite brazen, it's not something that we want occurring in the community," he said.

"We don't want people walking around with axes.

"He appears to be quite methodical but for what motivated him – we are trying to establish that."

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The offender is described as being about 175cm tall with black curly hair.

He was wearing a tan hoodie and pants with slide shoes.

Anyone with information, dashcam or CCTV footage should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential online report.