One of his injured passengers needed staples to fix a hole in his head.

Tomo Mansell and two of his children worked for the same company.

"I will never forgive you," a heartbroken Michael Stewart has told the teenage killer of his 16-year-old son.

The teen will spend three years and six months in detention after a Brisbane judge handed down his sentence on Friday.

Stewart was speaking in a court about the impact of the death of son Balin during sentencing submissions for a now 19-year-old convicted of manslaughter.

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The teen, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was 17 at the time of the brawl with Balin outside the Stewarts' home on Queensland's Sunshine Coast in January last year.

There had been a significant history of animosity by the teen towards Balin, who died from a single stab wound to the heart from a steak knife with a 12-centimetre blade.

A Supreme Court jury in June acquitted the teen of murder but found him guilty of manslaughter, a charge to which he had offered to plead guilty but which was rejected by prosecutors before the trial.

Crown prosecutor Rebecca Marks argued on Friday the teenager acted with the intention to at least cause grievous bodily harm when he armed himself and drove the 5km to Balin's house.

He took the knife out of jealousy after being provoked by videos sent by his ex-girlfriend of her with Balin, Marks said.

"He was aggressive and hostile from the moment he arrived at the house."

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Defence barrister Charlotte Smith said her client expressed shock and remorse immediately after the stabbing and later offered to plead guilty to manslaughter.

He claimed during the trial he took the weapon in fear after being told Balin had a knife.

The teenager on Friday told the court he was truly sorry for all the pain he caused.

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But Balin's father said the 19-year-old had taken so much from many people because he was jealous and weak in picking up a knife that night.

"All of these lives destroyed and broken in an instant that night," Stewart told the court.

The teen had stolen Stewart's ability to sleep peacefully as he woke daily relieving the night of the stabbing of his son – who would have turned 18 next week.

"I have no peace any more."

The death had destroyed Balin's mother Kerri-Lynn, who had been a pillar of strength for the family.

"Now she is just a shell of her former self, unrecognisable," Stewart said.

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Stewart said it was insufferable seeing autopsy photos of Balin's bruised and battered body during the trial and watching the teen's "cold, callous and calculating" answers to questions.

"You might pretend to be sorry, you might pretend to be remorseful, you may struggle with what you have done but nothing will bring my son home.

"You've robbed us all. I will never forgive you. Never."

The court heard the teen who has no previous convictions had been traumatised when as a nine-year-old he found the body of his mother who had taken her own life.

Justice Elizabeth Wilson said she sentenced the teen on the basis he intended to do at least grievous bodily harm but was acting under provocation.

She handed down a sentence of seven years in detention, ordering he be required to serve half of that term behind bars.

The teen who has been in custody for 90 days since the stabbing was sentenced under the Youth Justices Act.

Sydney beekeepers are on high alert as the world's most serious threat to hives comes knocking on the city's doorstep while the Department of Primary Industries scrambles to contain its spread.

Sydney commercial beekeeper Andrew Wilson has had 300 of his hives exterminated in the past three months alone, amounting to more than half of his business gone. 

"It feels like we're on a knife edge," he told 9News.

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"Our bees are suffering dramatically from it." 

The crippling pest, known as varroa mite, weakens and kills honeybee colonies while also spreading disease, becoming detrimental to the species and the $70 million industry.

"The varroa mite attaches to the larvae and then the bee and feeds off the fat reserves of that bee," Wilson said.

The varroa mite was first detected at the Port of Newcastle in June last year and since then it has rapidly spread.

An "eradication zone" spanning from the Mid North Coast down to Sydney's north and west to Singleton in the Hunter region has been established where hives are destroyed and millions of bees are killed.

There is also an active "surveillance zone" where the movement of hives is heavily restricted extending to Beacon Hill on the Northern Beaches, Blacktown in the west and Kurrajong in the foothills of the Blue Mountains.

"We do really want to work on strong containment lines so that it doesn't push further into the Sydney basin," Shannon Mulholland from the Department of Primary Industries said.

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Wilson said the varroa mite infestation should be called a "national crisis" as the ramifications of the pest could be significant for Australian industries.

"It's not just going to affect bee keepers because if there's no pollination for food, food prices will rise and the Australian produced food industry will suffer greatly," he said.

The latest outbreak was discovered in hives at almond orchards in the NSW Riverina and along the border with Victoria. 

Wilson warns the spread is becoming uncontrollable and the industry is at risk as more hives in NSW succumb to the pest.

"Which is going to further make eradication difficult, if not impossible," he said.

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Before the Newcastle discovery last year, Australia was one of the few countries in the world still varroa-free.

If NSW cannot stop the invasion, beehives from Queensland to South Australia will inevitably be infested.

Varroa arrived in New Zealand in 2000 and within a decade had swept across the length and breadth of the country.

Winter? What winter?

Australia has just sweated through its warmest winter on record with a national mean temperature that was 1.53 degrees above the long-term average for the country as a whole.

The Bureau of Meteorology's Seasonal Summary for winter 2023 revealed that maximums across Australia were 1.85 degrees above average, while minimums were 1.21 degrees above average.

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The map above shows just how warm the winter of 2023 was compared to normal.

The orange areas show that parts of all eight states and territories were the warmest on record.

Eastern Australia had a particularly warm winter, with the map showing how Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Hobart were all in the warmest-on-record zone.

It was also extremely warm across the Australian Alps, which helps explain the relatively poor ski season in the mainland alpine resorts.

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The chart below shows how the 2023 winter average maximum temperatures compare to the last 113 years of records.

It has now been 26 years since winter maximum temps across Australia were below the long-term average, in a clear signal of the warming trend in the nation's climate.

Meanwhile, the "coolest" state in relation to average in winter 2023 was Western Australia, but even it was warmer than usual, with mean temps 0.89 degrees above average.

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Here's a rundown of temperature anomalies in your state in the winter of 2012:

• Australia as a whole: +1.53 degrees above average (warmest on record)
• Queensland: +2.32 degrees (warmest on record)
• South Australia: +1.75 degrees (2nd-warmest on record)
• New South Wales: +1.72 degrees (warmest on record)
• Northern Territory: +1.53 degrees (7th-warmest on record)
• Tasmania: 1.30 degrees (warmest on record)
• Victoria: 1.12 degrees (2nd-warmest on record)
• Western Australia: 0.89 degrees (9th-warmest on record)

Note that the ACT is not covered in that list, as there are not enough weather stations to generate a meaningful average across the territory.

But Canberra itself was 1.3 degrees above average, making its winter the second-warmest on record.

Meanwhile, the BoM has predicted a drier and warmer-than-average spring for Australia's east coast.

"We are looking at an above average bushfire risk this season … for large areas of NSW and South-East Queensland," BoM meteorologist Hugh McDowell said.

"With three wet years, we have seen some significant vegetation growth for large areas of NSW and Queensland."

He said the country was still on El Niño alert, meaning there was a 70 per cent chance of it developing.

A man died after an assault early Friday morning at Richardston’s Restuarant and Bar.

Danny and Roberto Jaz may be deported from New Zealand after their lengthy prison time.

A number of Paw Patrol-branded kids' snacks have been recalled in the United Kingdom because their packaging contained the address of a website "not suitable" for children.

Budget supermarket Lidl was forced to issue that rather embarrassing urgent recall after the URL on the packaging was "compromised".

Local media reported customers complained to the grocery chain about the link, which led to a pornographic website.

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Lidl apologised, said it would offer a full refund to anyone who had bought the products, and advised customers against viewing the explicit content.

"We have been made aware that the URL of the supplier which is featured on the back of the packaging has been compromised and is being directed to a site that is not suitable for child consumption," it said.

"We recommend that customers refrain from viewing the URL and return this product to the nearest store where a full refund will be given.

"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your cooperation. "

The UK products affected are five-packs of Paw Patrol all butter mini biscotti, choc chip mini biscotti, raspberry-flavoured yummy bake bars, and apple-flavoured yummy bake bars.

“Another five minutes and it could have been our game but not today.”

Police will examine missing persons files in a bid to identify suspected human remains found at a popular Far North Queensland tourist spot last week.

The remains were found by a tourist at Mossman Gorge, 20km north of Port Douglas, on August 22.

Police divers searched the area and found more suspected human bones on August 28 and 29.

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Police said forensic testing is underway to establish the origin of the remains.

"The comprehensive search has concluded and no further remains have been located," a spokesperson said.

The discovery was made months after a 54-year-old woman went missing from the Mossman River in January.