Yes and No campaigners are making their final pitches to voters with less than 24 hours to go until polls open on referendum day.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was in Adelaide this morning encouraging voters to back the proposed Voice to parliament, saying creating the body to benefit First Nations peoples would cost Australians nothing.

"This is a time where Australians have that opportunity to show the generosity of spirit that I see in the Australian character where at the worst of times we always see the best of the Australian character," he said.

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"I hope we see you tomorrow. I hope we see that generosity. And I call upon my fellow Australians to vote Yes tomorrow."

Albanese is also preparing to address the nation on Saturday night.

It is not common practice for prime ministers to give a speech on referendum night, but according to the Sydney Morning Herald, Albanese will seek to "knit the country back together" after the divisive campaign.

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Polls are indicating Australians won't deliver the Yes vote Albanese has been calling for since before last year's federal election.

Opinion polls are placing support for the Voice in the low to mid-40s while more than 50 per cent of voters are planning to cast a No ballot.

But with some surveys showing up to a quarter of voters remain undecided heading into referendum day, Yes campaigners are remaining optimistic about what would be a miraculous turnaround at the polling booth.

"This is not a political issue and should never have been a political issue," Yes campaigner and former Liberal MP Pat Farmer, fresh off finishing his 14,500km run around Australia, said in Adelaide.

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"This is something that involves humid rights. It is about closing the gap.

"I have seen first-hand not only on this occasion but on the many occasions when I have travelled outback and around Australia… the need and the concerns that you would normally only ever get in overseas third-world countries.

"Australia can do better. Australia will do better. I have faith in the Australian people to vote Yes on Saturday and to change things for the better and to support future generations."

Meanwhile, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton once again called on Australians to reject the proposal due to a number of concerns including a lack of detail.

"I hope it's a No vote on the weekend because it hasn't been properly explained," he told Today.

"It's divisive. It's permanent once it goes into the Constitution and I just don't think, in their millions, Australians will support it.

"In fact, quite the opposite. I think they're angry because the detail hasn't been provided."

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Fellow No campaigner Jacinta Nampijinpa Price yesterday became one of the roughly five million Australians to have voted early when she cast her ballot in Alice Springs.

"It's not difficult to say No when it can't be demonstrated how it's supposed to make anybody's life better," Price told A Current Affair last night. 

A prolific Colombian serial killer who confessed to murdering more than 190 children during the 1990s died on Thursday in a hospital, prison authorities said. He was 66.

Luis Alfredo Garavito, nicknamed “The Beast”, confessed to having murdered children between the ages of 8 and 16 — mostly from low-income families – whom he kidnapped and abused by posing as a monk, a homeless person or a street vendor.

The National Penitentiary and Prison Institute said that Garavito died in a hospital in Valledupar, in northern Colombia, where he remained imprisoned.

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The cause of death was not immediately revealed.

Garavito was born in 1957 in the Colombian department of Quindío, and as an adult he travelled to 11 departments around the country where he abused and killed minors.

The authorities began to follow his trail when they noticed similarities in the cases of disappearances of minors in Pereira, Armenia and Tunja.

Garavito was arrested in April 1999 on an attempted rape charge, but when an investigating judge asked him if he was the killer of 114 children whose bodies were found in 59 Colombian towns beginning in 1994, Garavito admitted the crimes and begged to be forgiven.

Then he confessed to more murders, amounting to more than 190.

That same year, Garavito apologised to the families of the victims in a court hearing: “I want to ask for forgiveness for everything I did and I am going to confess. Yes, I killed them and not only those, I killed others.”

In recent years, Garavito’s release from prison was considered imminent, after serving three-fifths of his sentence. In 2021, then-president Iván Duque (2018-2022) rejected the possibility of him regaining his freedom and assured that during his government he would have to “stay in prison”.

Two men who avoided more jail time after they were twice found guilty of raping a young woman will not have their sentences changed.

Prosecutors appealed the community corrections orders handed down to Shaun Bloomfield and Luke Merryfull in April, arguing they were manifestly inadequate.

But the Victorian Court of Appeal on Friday found while the sentences were "undoubtedly very lenient", the sentencing judge did not make an error of law.

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Bloomfield and Merryfull were first found guilty in 2019 of raping the woman after a 21st birthday party in Balmoral in western Victoria.

Most of the young people at the April 2016 party had been drinking, and the woman was ready to sleep in the caravan when Bloomfield and Merryfull assaulted her.

She had trusted the men, considering them long-term friends, and repeatedly told them "no" when they advanced on her.

They took turns raping her, with Merryfull telling Bloomfield, "she's all yours now".

Bloomfield was jailed for five years and eight months after the first trial, while Merryfull was sentenced to four years and 10 months behind bars.

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Their convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal and a retrial was ordered, with both released from custody after about 19 months.

They were then convicted again in August last year, with County Court Judge David Brookes re-sentencing them in April.

Merryfull received time served with a two-year community corrections order, which included 200 hours of community service.

Bloomfield was also sentenced to time served but with a longer corrections order of three years and 300 hours of community service.

The Director of Public Prosecutions filed an appeal against their sentences but the court determined none of the grounds were made out and the appeal was dismissed.

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France's interior minister has ordered local authorities to ban all pro-Palestinian demonstrations amid a rise in antisemitic acts since Hamas attacked Israel over the weekend.

President Emmanuel Macron urged French people not to allow the war in the Middle East erupt into tensions at home.

Soon before Macron spoke in a televised address to the nation about the conflict, Paris police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse pro-Palestinian protesters who had defied a ban and demonstrated on Thursday against the Israeli government.

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''Let us not bring ideological adventures here (to France) by imitation or by projection,″ Macron pleaded.

"Let us not add national fractures … to international fractures.

''Let us stay united.″

With several French-Israeli citizens believed held hostage by Hamas, Macron pledged that France would protect its Jewish citizens and be ''ruthless toward all those who bear hate″, and noted concerns about hostility toward France's Muslims too.

Fighting in the Middle East in the past has led to tensions in France, which is estimated to have the world's third-largest Jewish population after Israel and the US, and the largest Muslim population in Western Europe.

Macron said that 13 French citizens in Israel have been killed in the current fighting, with 17 people missing, many believed held hostage by Hamas.

The Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation Thursday into the killings and suspected kidnappings.

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The French government has reported 24 arrests for more than 100 antisemitic acts in France since Hamas attacked Israel on Saturday, including verbal abuse, people caught with knives near Jewish schools and synagogues and a drone equipped with a camera spotted over a Jewish cultural centre.

More than 2000 cases of antisemitic speech have been reported to an online watchdog force.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin sent a directive to local prefects on Thursday, seen by The Associated Press, calling for a further tightening of security around Jewish schools, synagogues and other sites.

It said pro-Palestinian demonstrations should be banned and those who defy bans should be arrested, ''because they are susceptible to disrupt public order".

Pro-Palestinian associations decried the move.

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The National Collective for a Fair and Lasting Peace between Palestinians and Israelis said it ''denounces this threat to freedom of expression,'' and pledged to continue holding actions to support the Palestinian people.

At the banned Paris protest on Thursday, protesters draped Palestinian flags around their shoulders, and ''Free Palestine'' was sprayed on the monument underpinning Republic Plaza in eastern Paris.

Many chanted "We are all Palestinians.''

Earlier this week, thousands of people marched in Paris in support of Israel, and the Eiffel Tower was lit up with a Star of David and the blue and white of the Israeli flag.

Other European cities have seen pro-Palestinian demonstrations in recent days as well as pro-Israeli gatherings.

Denouncing Hamas as a terrorist group, Macron called for peace efforts that would ensure both Israel's security and a Palestinian state.

''Those who confuse the Palestinian cause with justifying terrorism are committing a moral, political and strategic error,″ he said.

Macron also sought to address the concerns of French-Israeli families whose loved ones have disappeared and are believed kidnapped or killed by Hamas.

Struggling to speak as they sobbed or choked back tears, family members of missing French citizens pleaded Thursday at a news conference in Tel Aviv for help from Macron.

''We will do everything so that these hostages, regardless of their nationality, are freed,″ Macron said.

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna announced she would travel to the region on Sunday. France's government organized an evacuation flight Thursday to bring French citizens in Israel to Paris, and other flights are planned in the coming days.

The family of Israeli woman Moran Yanai is pleading for her safe return, after the 40-year-old was kidnapped fleeing an under-siege music festival in the country's south.

The jewellery designer had been invited to set up a retail stand at the Supernova Festival in southern Israel, which was stormed in a terrifying surprise attack by Hamas militants on Saturday.

More than 260 bodies have reportedly been recovered from the site outside Kibbutz Re'im.

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Yanai's brother-in-law, former Underbelly actor Dan Mor, spoke to 9News from Tel Aviv, detailing how the family lost contact with her as she tried to flee.

"In the morning, around 7am she rang her father, saying that they're being shot at … And then I think at 8.30am she spoke to her mum, saying that they're hiding, they're being shot at," he said.

"Then we lost contact."

In a race for information as to Yanai's whereabouts and safety, the family reached out to authorities, and scoured social media.

Several hours later they were alerted to a video posted on an anonymous TikTok account, showing the 40-year-old begging for her life as militants are heard shouting.

This is the last her family heard from the woman they describe as a "peace-seeking loving artist" and a "pure soul".

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They are channelling their anguish by calling on help from world leaders, in the hope she is brought home safely.

"I don't lose faith, we have faith. That's what I'm speaking to you," Mor said.

Mor is a dual-Australian citizen and would be eligible to apply for a government-backed repatriation flight, however he said he fears his family would not be safe in his old hometown of Sydney, where local leaders have condemned 'abhorrent' scenes of anti-Semitism.

"It's a nightmare that we have to wake up from," he said.

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If you've been dreaming of buying a holiday home with waterfront views in Queensland, this could be the deal for you. 

Marketed as a once-in-a-lifetime bargain, apartments on island resort Couran Cove are being sold for prices as low as $50,000 but they do come with a catch.

The resort is closed and there is no power, water, gas or sewerage and no timeline for any of it to be switched back on.

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A body corporate dispute led to the resort being completely cut off in June.

As a result, many residents and holidaymakers decided to sell up, leading to the record-low prices.

Critton Astras from Astras and Bond Estate Agents said buyers won't be able to find similar fully- urnished, freehold property on the water for "such a low price".

"From studios, one bedrooms, two-0bedroom lodges, three bedrooms, some great eco cabins out in the forest and you've got the villas," he said.

"Anything ranging from say $50,000 all the way through to $300,000."

While buyers are taking a risk, one resident said for him it was worth taking the chance.

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"My wife and I came here a few years ago when it was sort of open, we sort of always loved the place and obviously it's a great time to buy now," unit owner Justin Daly said.

Daly is currently using generators and solar panels to keep the lights on and said he is remaining optimistic about the future. 

"People here are amazing," he said.

"They care about the place and I really think that it'll be what it was before."

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