Brisbane's first-ever shotgun wedding venue has opened, offering couples all the fun of a Las Vegas wedding without the price tag.

The micro wedding venue called Wham Bam Thank You Sam has opened in Windsor, offering a $1900 package including a venue for up to 12 guests, a celebrant and a confetti canon.

The chapel's theme changes every few months, with the current one being Vegas-inspired.

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"We've taken the best parts that we think are popular about Vegas and made our own little version of it," celebrant Sam Capewell said

"We'll save you the 14-hour flight, you can just come here and enjoy yourself."

A legal marriage needs four weeks' notice, so couples looking for the authentic shotgun wedding experience can have an on-the-spot commitment ceremony.

They can also book the space in advance for a legally binding wedding ceremony.

"If you're a morning person, come on in, celebrate, go have a fabulous breakfast," creative lead Amey Rosenthal said.

"If you want (to get married) in the middle of the day, there's great restaurants to go and have a celebratory lunch post."

The average wedding costs Aussies anywhere between $36,000 to $51,000, according to Canstar.

A Melbourne bookkeeper who stole more than $140,000 from a family friend has been sentenced to a two-year community corrections order.

Christine Hogan pleaded guilty to stealing money from her former employer after previously denying the charges.

She was hired by Phil Nam, a family friend of almost 30 years, to look after the accounts for his business that supplied signs to real estate agencies.

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Over the course of five years, the 67-year-old Templestowe woman made several transactions into her own bank account, using the cash to pay off her credit cards and mortgage.

When Nam contacted his bank in 2017, the dodgy transactions were unearthed.

"I'd call around there for fish and chips every week," Nam said of Hogan.

"I went to their kids' weddings and christenings.

"When you lose a friend, that's pretty traumatic."

Hogan was facing a nine-month prison sentence but was given a community corrections order which included 300 hours of volunteer work.

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Judge Angela Ellis said Hogan's offending was a "gross breach of trust".

Hogan has been ordered to pay back her former boss $112,366 in four instalments, with the first to be made next month.

Hogan's family described her as a "devoted" and "loving" wife.

A former employer said she had "professional integrity" and "exceptional ethical standards".

Ellis said there was evidence that Hogan tried to cover her tracks, adding she has shown "no expression of remorse".

Alan Joyce has defended his leadership of Qantas after a year of bumper profits and surging complaints, as the group revealed it is holding an extra $100 million in unused Jetstar flight credits that hadn't previously been disclosed.

Appearing before a Senate committee on the cost of living, the outgoing CEO claimed flight prices were trending down and that his airline had the best cancellation rate of all the major airlines while admitting others, like Rex, were far better.

He also defended his pay packet and dodged questions about whether the Qantas board had raised the airline's falling reputation under his leadership.

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"This is one of the most discredited companies, as far as the ACCC on its record of complaints, and you are saying you should be rewarded in $25 million is ok," Labor Senator Tony Sheldon, a former union leader and long-time Joyce critic, put to the Qantas CEO.

"Do you not feel embarrassed? I would feel embarrassed if I was you."

Joyce replied that Sheldon's assertions were "not true", later adding Sheldon had made a "whole series of points incorrectly".

One of the major revelations of Joyce's appearance came from one of his fellow executives sitting alongside him when Jetstar CEO Steph Tully admitted the budget carrier is currently holding about $100 million in unclaimed flight credits from pandemic-related cancellations.

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The Qantas Group had not previously disclosed that $100 million figure, which is not included in the $370 million in Australian Qantas flight credits it announced last week.

It also emerged the airline has around another $50 million in overseas flight credits that are yet to be used, although it has refunded or redeemed about $3 billion in credits since the outbreak of COVID-19.

Credits are due to expire at the end of the year, when, if they're yet to be claimed or refunded, their value will be claimed by Qantas.

None of the airline's executives at Monday's hearing refused to rule out that expiration deadline.

Joyce also defended his lobbying of the federal government over Qatar Airlines' proposal to introduce 21 extra services into Australia.

The government denied the application, saying it wouldn't be in the national interest – despite experts claiming the extra flights would lower prices for Australians travelling overseas.

Joyce also claimed the extra Qatar flights wouldn't have been in the national interest and denied the extra flights would have brought down prices, claiming they are falling already.

"Qatar can add capacity through flying bigger aircraft to cities like Adelaide, Darwin," Joyce said.

"There is nothing stopping them from adding capacity to those locations."

The brothel owner funding the lifestyle of a mum allegedly killed by her boyfriend lamented to her sister that he was always the bridesmaid and never the bride.

Ricardo Barbaro is standing trial in the Victorian Supreme Court for the murder of Ellie Price, whose body was found with fatal knife wounds in the bedroom of her South Melbourne apartment in May 2020.

It's alleged Barbaro, who has pleaded not guilty, killed her in the early hours of April 29 after a violent altercation.

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But his trial has instead focused on Price's wealthy benefactor, Mark Gray.

Barbaro's barrister Rishi Nathwani has accused Gray of being obsessed with Price and wanting to marry her.

But Gray says that's not true.

Text messages shown to jurors on Monday reveal that almost immediately after meeting Price, Gray bought her a ring that to him signalled she was the one.

"They would signal we were together, but I don't think she really understood the significance of why I bought them for her," he wrote to Price's sister Danielle Price, a month after Ellie's death.

Later he said he knew she was the one from the very beginning.

"When I got her the ring she asked me what it was for," he messaged Price.

"I almost said 'it's your engagement ring' but it was in the first month so would have looked silly."

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Gray denied he wanted to marry Price, but later claimed while it was "the dream" it would never happen because she had a borderline personality disorder and her mental health would prevent their relationship leaving the friend zone.

Texts also reveal he was hurt and upset when, despite everything he gave her, she continued to bring home other men, including Barbaro.

"Imagine getting all that given to you and then going to look and find someone else," he wrote to Danielle Price.

"First it was Sam and then it was this guy (Barbaro) – I was always the brides made (sic) and never the bride."

Gray rejected suggestions his denials about wanting to marry Price were rubbish.

"At times she was nasty and evil – is that someone you'd want to marry?" he asked.

"It never happened because she was a very sick person."

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Gray had earlier been asked about texts he sent claiming his lawyer had seen a statement made by "that scumbag" Barbaro.

"Ellie sold me down the river. According to his statement, they were very much in love and planning a long-term future together, so she told him a lot," he said.

But Gray said repeated references to "his statement" were just his own musings about what Barbaro might have said.

Nathwani said Barbaro had made "no such statement, not that sort".

A resident has had a lucky escape after an unattended truck ploughed into her home in Melbourne's south-east this morning.

The vehicle crashed through a wall and into the bedroom of a property on Russell Street in Mount Evelyn about 11.15am.

Resident Linda Cooke was folding washing in her room only 15 seconds before the truck crashed through her wall.

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9News understands the truck driver was at a property across the road unloading skip bins when his truck started rolling back.

Cooke's son, Cameron, said he was in "disbelief".

"I just got a phone call from Mum. She was distressed, she couldn't make heads or tails of it," he told 9News.

"She said a truck came in through her bedroom. It's pretty scary."

The local council building surveyor has been called to the scene to assess the site, while investigations into the incident continue.

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A Senate inquiry into the cancellation of the 2026 Commonwealth Games has started in Melbourne.

Top sporting officials along with representatives from Ernst and Young (EY), the consulting firm which carried out the costings for the Games, have appeared before the committee this morning.

The inquiry was originally set up by a Senate committee to assess Australia's preparedness to host future Commonwealth, Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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The Games were slated to be held from March 17-29 in 2026, across Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat, Gippsland and Shepparton.

Work had started formally in September last year, with pre-tender processes commencing in March this year.

Premier Daniel Andrews made the announcement to cancel the Games on July 18, saying the cost of hosting had blown out by billions.

He was also asked to appear today, but declined.

EY partners Dean Yates and Leigh Walker were grilled when they fronted the federal inquiry.

Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie led the questioning and quizzed the pair on whether they helped create the economic impact analysis as part of the event's business case.

Both Yates and Walker told the inquiry EY had confidentiality obligations regarding the disclose of its business case, saying they were unable to provide information that isn't already in the public domain.

Liberal Senator Sarah Henderson continued to probe the pair, pointing to a figure in the business case – which stated the federal government would give the state government $205 million to $215 million for the Games.

"Did the assumption have any basis of fact?" Henderson asked.

"You are the one preparing the business case, don't you scrutinise the assumptions to be given?

"Do you ask the question 'was this a committed amount' or 'on what basis are we assuming that we will receive $205 million as a worst case and $215 million as a best case from the federal government?'

"You just take that as face value. You don't query it, you don't question it?"

Walker replied that they were unable to answer the question, "as it might reveal information that's part of cabinet in-confidence".

"Oh, that's just rubbish… That is just an absolute cop-out," Henderson said.

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Commonwealth Games Australia chief executive Craig Phillips also fronted the inquiry, where he claimed there was no attempt made to change the state government's mind to cancel the Games.

"It was clear by the premier's announcement on the day, that (it) didn't seem to be an option on the table," Phillips told the inquiry.

President of the Games Ben Houston also spoke but shared little on the $380 million of settlement with the state government.

"When it was announced in April last year, the 2026 home games was universally acknowledged as an accelerator for Brisbane 2032 Games and we remain committed to that outcome," Houston said.

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