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Australian and Timor Leste defence soldiers were injured when a Bushmaster vehicle crashed in the Northern Territory, the third military accident on Australian soil in just over a month.

NT Police said officers received a call about a single-vehicle crash involving a military vehicle in Howard Springs, about 30km south-east of Darwin, about 9pm on Wednesday.

The Department of Defence confirmed an Australian Army Protected Mobility Vehicle, also known as a Bushmaster, was involved in the crash.

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Seven soldiers were taken to Royal Darwin Hospital for treatment for non-life-threatening injuries, paramedics said.

"The soldiers were from the Australian Army and the Timor Leste Defence Force," Defence said in a statement.

"Defence's chief concern is for the safety and wellbeing of our soldiers."

It's understood four of the soldiers have since been discharged, including two Australians and two Timor Leste personnel.

"The matter is under investigation by Department of Defence and police will assist with enquiries where required," police added.

It comes as three US marines were killed when an Osprey aircraft crashed on one of the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory on August 27.

Four Australian military personnel were also killed when an MRH-90 Taipan helicopter crashed near Hamilton Island in Queensland on July 28.

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Deliberately infecting yourself with intestinal worms bought online doesn't sound like something anyone would ever want to do.

But this is the risky and extreme length some sufferers of irritable bowel syndrome and celiac disease are going to, experts say.

Online natural health stores, including some based in Australia, are selling "doses" of intestinal worms, also known as helminths.

The worms are shipped out as eggs or larvae from around $50, plus postage.

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The worms are advertised as a form of "probiotic self-treatment" to improve gut health and treat food allergies and intolerances.

The practice, which can involve the use of hookworms, was first revealed by Australian Doctor last week.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has now issued a warning to Australians conducting the do-it-yourself treatment with worms, telling 9news.com.au in a statement it could make them even more unwell.

"Deliberate infection with hookworm is not safe and may be accompanied by significant side effects requiring cessation or medical treatment," a TGA spokesperson said.

"The TGA advises that this type of therapy should only be considered after consultation with and supervision by a medical practitioner."

The use of helminths has not been approved by the TGA for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome or celiac disease.

Selling unapproved therapeutic goods to the public was also illegal, unless an exemption applied, the TGA spokesperson said.

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Associate Professor Severine Navarro is a researcher at QMIR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane.

Navarro is developing a promising drug for treating allergic asthma, inflammatory bowel diseases and celiac disease with proteins that have been isolated from hookworms.

While some studies had been done showing "live worm therapy" could potentially be beneficial for some sufferers of inflammatory diseases, the scientific results were not clear cut, Navarro said.

Even so, Navarro said she had noticed a trend, among celiac patients in particular, towards self-infecting with live worms.

"I've been involved in several clinical trials and that's how I found out that some people are actually privately self-infecting, and that it was becoming extremely popular," she said.

"It's a movement that comes from patients who really find very little relief from the treatments that are offered, particularly for celiac disease, because it's all about avoidance but you can't really fully avoid accidental exposure, especially when you're trying to maintain a normal social life."

Swallowing worm eggs or larvae naturally had an "ick factor", Navarrro said, so people who self-infected often wore a patch on their arm, and the larvae then burrowed through the skin.

Navarro said self-infecting with live worms could come with unintended side effects. 

"Some of the patients can get some gastrointestinal discomfort during the different stages of infection," she said. 

"We have also seen patients with atopic dermatitis usually have flare ups.

"Unless your treatments are followed by a GP, I think it would be a bit dangerous to do it on your own."

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A Gold Coast councillor accused of murdering his stepfather will be released on bail with a $250,000 surety.

City of Gold Coast Division 7 councillor Ryan Donald Bayldon-Lumsden, 30, has been charged with murdering Robert Lumsden, 58, at the family's Arundel home about 3pm on August 23.

Bayldon-Lumsden was not present in the Brisbane Supreme Court on Thursday for his bail application hearing, which lasted nearly two hours.

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Defence barrister Craig Eberhardt KC said his client had been subject to an ongoing abusive and controlling relationship with his stepfather and an argument between the two had escalated.

"This is an offence committed against an appalling background and significant history of domestic violence," Eberhardt said.

He said Lumsden tripped and fell after Bayldon-Lumsden responded to being threatened and prodded in the chest by pushing his stepfather back.

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Eberhardt said Bayldon-Lumsden feared his stepfather would grab a kitchen knife and kill him, so he placed both arms around his neck and applied a chokehold with the intent of rendering him unconscious.

Lumsden instead turned purple and was unable to be revived.

Eberhardt said Bayldon-Lumsden intended to plead not guilty on the grounds of self-defence or preservation of life in an abusive domestic relationship and that he was not a flight risk.

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The prosecution objected to bail on the grounds that Lumsden's autopsy showed extended and significant force had been applied to his neck, resulting in a broken bone and burst blood vessels in his eyes.

The crown prosecutor pointed to Bayldon-Lumsden's Google searches made two days before the incident that showed him researching manslaughter and the possibility of avoiding jail.

Bayldon-Lumsden was elected to the City of Gold Coast council in 2020, representing the council's inner northern suburbs.

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Qantas Airways has been accused of breaking consumer law by allegedly advertising tickets for thousands of cancelled flights and failing to tell customers about ticket cancellations.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleged today that the airline sold online tickets for more than 8000 flights scheduled to leave between May and July last year, even after it had cancelled them.

The consumer watchdog also claimed Qantas failed to inform ticket holders about the cancellation of more than 10,000 flights during the same period.

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The ACCC brought the Federal Court action after an extensive investigation.

"As a result, we have commenced these proceedings alleging that Qantas continued selling tickets for thousands of cancelled flights, likely affecting the travel plans of tens of thousands of people," ACCC chairwoman Gina Cass-Gottlieb said.

Qantas cancelled almost one in four flights between May and July last year, and scrapped about 15,000 out of 66,000 domestic and international flights in its schedule, ACCC investigators claim.

The carrier did not notify existing ticketholders that their flights had been cancelled for an average of about 18 days, and in some cases for up to 48 days, the ACCC claimed.

It also alleged that Qantas did not update its 'Manage Booking' web page for ticketholders to display the cancellation.

The ACCC said the cancelled domestic and international flights included departures from airports at Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

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They included popular international destinations such as Los Angeles, Bali and Singapore.

In one example from the ACCC probe, Qantas sold 21 tickets for flight QF73 from Sydney to San Francisco scheduled to depart on July 28 this year after it had cancelled the flight, with the last ticket being sold 40 days after cancellation.

Airlines can cancel flights at short notice due unforeseeable reasons, such as bad weather. They can also be cancelled can due to factors that are within the control of an airline.

"However, this case does not involve any alleged breach in relation to the actual cancellation of flights, but rather relates to Qantas' conduct after it had cancelled the flights," the ACCC said.

Qantas said it was taking the allegations seriously.

"We have a longstanding approach to managing cancellations for flights, with a focus on providing customers with rebooking options or refunds. It's a process that is consistent with common practice at many other airlines," the airline said in a statement.

Qantas said the period examined by the ACCC between May and July last year was a period of "unprecedented upheaval" for the entire airline industry.

"All airlines were experiencing well-publicised issues from a very challenging restart, with ongoing border uncertainty, industry wide staff shortages and fleet availability causing a lot of disruption."

It said it will examine the details of the allegations and respond to them in full in court.

A thrift enthusiast purchased a $US4 ($6) painting from an op shop, only to discover it was a famous artwork last year

The woman even jokingly stated the painting might be legit after she bought it in 2017, as it seemed to bear the signature of the renowned American painter N.C Wyeth.

Now the painting is expected to fetch over $US250,000 ($385,000) when it goes up for auction in September.

The artwork was found at a Savers thrift store in New Hampshire, Machester US, according to specialists at Bonhams Skinner auction house. It was leaning against a wall among other posters and prints.

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After the woman bought the painting, she took the piece home and tried to research it, but came up short. She hung it on her bedroom wall for years before putting it into storage. 

She recently rediscovered the artwork in May and posted about it on a Facebook page called "Things found in Walls," where users can post photos of things they have found in their backyard or home.

An influx of comments claiming the painting was real led the woman to contact former art curator Lauren Lewis.

The Wyeth family have produced dozens of famous painting. N.C Wyeth is the patriarch and the most well-known of the family.

Lewis said after seeing the piece she was "99 per cent certain it was authentic," she told The Boston Globe. 

"While it certainly had some small scratches and it could use a surface clean, it was in remarkable condition considering none of us had any idea of its journey over the last 80 years," she said. 

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The artwork was produced by Wyeth in 1939 as one of four works featured in a book titled Romona by Helen Hunt Jason. The book was published as a later edition of the original 1884 version.

Only one other work from the collection has been recovered, according to Bonhams Skinner.

The work depicts a young woman facing her foster mother, with a religious statue between them. 

Publishing company Little, Brown and Company may have passed the work on to the original owner's estate after passing away, according to experts at Bonhams Skinner.

The record auction price for a Wyther family painting was set last year, with Andrew Wyeth's 1980 painting titled Day Dream selling for a whopping $23.2 million at Christie's Auction House in New York. 

Human remains found in NSW grassland have been identified as those of murder victim Samah Baker.

Baker's on-and-off partner, James Hachem, was last year found guilty of her January 2019 murder.

He was sentenced to 24 years in jail in May this year.

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On July 28 this year, a woman found human remains in grassland about 100m south of the Windellama Overpass in Goulburn.

Police this morning confirmed that those remains had now been identified as those of Baker.

In a statement, the Baker family said the pain of Samah's death continues as each development in the case occurred.

"The news of her remains being discovered four and a half years later isn't a neat resolution, but it does offer a small measure of what we've been longing for all this time," the Baker family said.

"Each development in the case feels like a reopening of our barely healed wounds, reminding us of the harsh reality of our loss.

"Even though what remains of Samah has been found, it feels like losing her all over again."

The full statement can be read below.

Sydney woman Baker, 30, was in a tumultuous and sometimes violent relationship with Hachem, 37, since they had first met at work in 2015.

She ended the relationship with Hachem on multiple occasions, eventually finding a new partner in December 2018.

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The court was told Hachem waited outside her apartment in his car and spied on Baker while she was on a date, becoming enraged when he witnessed the pair kissing in the early hours of January 4.

He then concocted a story about his parents being involved in a car accident in order to lure Baker out of her apartment before killing her.

He later went to Bunnings and bought various items including a double sheet, gloves, cleaning products and a digging trowel, before driving to isolated areas in rural NSW.

Baker's body had not been found at the time of Hachem's sentencing.

Statement on behalf of Samah Baker's family

On Friday 4 January 2019, Samah was taken away from us in the cruellest way.

In the years that followed, our grief has been compounded by the fact that we have not been able to have a funeral or lay her to rest.

We never got to say goodbye to her or tell her we loved her for the last time.

The news of her remains being discovered four and a half years later isn't a neat resolution, but it does offer a small measure of what we've been longing for all this time.

Each development in the case feels like a reopening of our barely healed wounds, reminding us of the harsh reality of our loss.

Even though what remains of Samah has been found, it feels like losing her all over again.

We ask for privacy in dealing with our grief.

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