The 690 square metre home sold over the long weekend, after being held by the same family for 43 years.

Job vacancies may have fallen across a range of sectors in Australia in recent months but some sectors are bucking the trend.

NRL grand final man of the match Nathan Cleary has thrown his support behind a Voice to parliament.

Shortly after the Penrith Panthers beat the Broncos in a thrilling comeback win, Indigenous leader Roy Ah-See posted a video to social media.

"No Voice, no choice. Come on Australia, vote Yes," Cleary says in the short clip, wearing a shirt reading: "we support the Uluru Statement".

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The TikTok was reposted to X (formerly known as Twitter) by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese tonight.

Cleary sent the video to Ah-See on Sunday, after the activist gave a presentation at his club three weeks earlier.

"Nathan asked after the presentation in front of the whole playing group and the Panthers staff, what he could do to highlight the issue," Ah-See told the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

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"He said, 'I'll do anything.' He said he wanted to live in a better country which was inclusive for everyone, and he felt strong about it."

The Clive Churchill Medal winner joins other high profile sports identities, including Cathy Freeman, in throwing their support behind the Voice just weeks out from the referendum.

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The referendum will be held on Saturday, October 14, when polling places will be open from 8am to 6pm. 

Early voting has already begun in some states and territories.

‘This is just a spike in an ongoing failure of critical sewage infrastructure.’

When grandfather Rob Saunders woke up on Sunday morning, he knew something wasn't right.

As bushfires burnt in Victoria's Gippsland region, the Briagolong resident started to smell smoke just after 7am.

"I wasn't too sure where the smoke was coming from, but then I walked out the door and the whole side of the bush was on fire," Saunders said.

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He ran back inside, called triple zero and woke his wife up.

The pair, who had just returned from a holiday in Thailand a week ago, faced losing their home of nine years.

"I had time to grab the cat, the dog and the clothes I'm wearing," he said.

The pair left and by 10.30am, Saunders said his phone had notified him the power had gone out at home.

"I thought, 'That's not good'," he said.

By 5.30pm, he received the bad news his home had been hit by the fire.

An hour later, he came up to survey the damage with his daughter Lily Saunders.

"I walked up the hill, didn't want to drive up the driveway and that's when we saw the bungalow was still standing," Rob said.

"We went around the corner and just … devastation.

"The rest of it is gone. Everything we've ever had."

The off-grid mudbrick home was a haven for the family, where many memories were made.

"This place is everything, this is our home, this is our getaway, our chill place," Lily said.

Saunders is urging Australians to be prepared this bushfire season and make a bushfire plan.

"Be alert, have your fire plan ready and if you've no time just get out," he said.

"I think if I'd slept in for another hour, I wouldn't be here now, I wouldn't have been able to get out.

"It was unbelievable how intense the wind was and how quickly the fire spread."

The Briagolong blaze that swallowed their home has devoured more than 5000 hectares.

Fire crews are battling to contain a 42-kilometre perimeter.

Yesterday emergency services were battling wind gusts of more than 90km.

The outbreak at Rawson is still burning, while a grassfire at Loch Sport is expected to fizzle to the sea.

However, a change is on the way, which is expected to bring new challenges for emergency services, particularly the risk of flooding across the state.

Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Christie Johnson said the fires in Gippsland were likely to see between 30mm to 50mm of rainfall combined with strong winds.

Victoria State Emergency Service operations officer Tim Wiebusch said the rain posed the risk of minor to moderate or "potentially even major flooding", and was putting crews on alert.

"Fire agencies actively working on that ahead of what is tipped to be challenging conditions for tomorrow," Country Fire Authority chief officer Jason Heffernan said.

Since Saturday firefighters have tackled 220 bush and grassfires across the state.

Campers were told to end their long weekends early as firefighters worked in the state's high country.

"We've gone out and evacuated some campers, moved them on from the camping grounds," Rawson incident controller Jonathan Wood said on Sunday.

Bushfires can be fast-moving, for the latest information visit the Vic Emergency website here.

Legacy medals were presented to New Zealand representative rowers in Whanganui.

A 65-year-old grandmother has been left seriously injured after she was allegedly deliberately driven into in a carpark in Melbourne's inner suburbs.

Minnie Votsis was driving her Holden Captiva in a carpark on Epsom Road in Ascot Vale last week when a man driving a white Hyundai Getz allegedly crashed into her car.

After both drivers got out of their cars to share details, the male driver refused to hand over his licence, Votsis' son Davod told 9News.

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The man allegedly then got back into his car and reversed into Votsis before fleeing the scene.

"When she turned around she tried to call the police, he sort of, got hit back in his car and (allegedly) hit her," Davod Votsis said.

"It's horrible.

"The fact that he was able to do it and, and just drive away from it just terrifies us all."

Police have been told its believed he deliberately reversed into her.

The incident unfolded in front of dozens of shoppers, including Rezz Kimies.

"She dropped to the floor, it was very bad," he said.

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Votsis was rushed to hospital, where she remained for a week, unable to recall what happened.

Witnesses told police the driver fled the scene before allegedly running a red light.

Police are investigating the alleged incident and believe the male driver of the Hyundai Getz had false registration plates.

Chris Dawson is spending the rest of his life in jail for the murder of his wife and preying on a former student, but for four decades, he was a free man.

Dawson, now 77, was found guilty of killing his wife Lynette so he could pursue a relationship with a schoolgirl, known legally as "JC".

Now, a new book detailing the story of his two victims will shed fresh light on one of the country's most notorious cases and the years-long fight to bring him to justice.

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Its author, Rebecca Hazel, was working as a lawyer at a women's refuge in Sydney when she discovered her colleague and friend was in fact the girl at the centre of the tangled relationship.

Dawson and JC married and had a child but separated in 1990.

Lynette had disappeared in 1982, but it would not be until 2022 that her husband was found guilty of her murder.

"I didn't go looking for this story, it kind of just came to me and I thought it was important I had to tell it," Hazel told NBN News.

"When I first heard about the story it had been 25 years since Lynette disappeared, and I could see the damage, the trauma it had caused, and so I wanted to honour those women."

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For ten years, Hazel researched and investigated JC's and Lynette's story – work that culminated in a new book, The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and His Wife.

"It gives that backstory – it tells us who they are, how this happened to them, what it's done – I think it gives them dignity in life. 

"It's a story about domestic violence. It's a story about a murder."

Hazel worked closely with Lynette's sister Pat and her brother Greg in Newcastle at a critical time in the investigation.

"We were at the stage where we were thinking – we've been going at this for so long, nothing's come to fruition," Greg Simms, Lynette's brother, said.

"Okay, Rebecca comes in, we think, 'Ok, we'll give it one more chance' and we went from there."

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Merilyn Simms, Lynette's sister-in-law, said she believed Hazel simply wanted the two women's stories told.

"That was her aim, we felt," she said.

In the four decades since Lynette's disappearance, there were three separate police investigations and two coronial inquests along with Hedley Thomas's now famous podcast – The Teacher's Pet – which played a major part in Dawson ultimately being charged in 2018.

In August last year Dawson, was found guilty of Lynette's murder and later jailed for 24 years. 

But his latest downfall came just weeks ago when he received a three-year prison term for carnal knowledge over his relationship with the schoolgirl.

"She truly is a victim in our eyes in this case," Merilyn Simms said of JC.

"I'm sure she needs to get on with her life and try and leave it behind if she can. Never forget it – it's always there, but we're all getting older, and we all need to look forward rather than looking back."

The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and His Wife is out now.

Ian and Danielle Kennedy are trying to stop the termination of their NZ Post contract.

Mayor Brown says 1.6-hectare land purchase was ‘a difficult decision’ amid budget crunch.