A DNA breakthrough revealing a new suspect in the cold case killing of former AC/DC manager in Sydney has been made during the inquiry into LGBTIQ hate crimes.

Musician Crispin Dye was bashed in a suspected gay hate crime near Taylor Square in Darlinghurst on December 23, 1993.

The 41-year-old died in hospital two days later on Christmas Day.

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Dye managed AC/DC in the 1980s and Rose Tattoo before releasing his own album a year before his death.

Thirty years after his murder, the Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ hate crimes examining killings between 1970 and 2010 sent Dye's jeans and shirts for forensic testing.

The inquiry found NSW Police examined the clothing at the time but never sent it for forensic testing.

Inside one of the shirt's pockets, the inquiry found a post-it note – containing a handwritten name and phone number on it – which was not formally recorded as an exhibit nor was it sent for forensic testing.

The inquiry also found a thick white piece of paper with a name on it in the clothing.

"It is clear that the NSW police force had not previously been aware of the existence of these papers," the counsel assisting submission to the inquiry said.

"The Inquiry has found no reference to these items in any material produced by the NSWPF, and the NSWPF has conceded that it was not previously aware of these items."

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The inquiry also found a blood stain on Dye's jean pocket which was matched with DNA found at a crime scene in Sydney's west in 2002.

It revealed a new person of interest who was charged with bashing a tourist in Kings Cross in 1994.

The suspect has since died.

But counsel assisting said it is not possible to draw any conclusion about what this suspect's role, "if any", played in Dye's murder.

Counsel assisting in the inquiry called it "regrettable" Dye's clothing hadn't been forensically tested to find this link earlier.

"The failure of NSW Police to arrange for the testing of Mr Dye's clothing at the time of the original investigation or any time thereafter is of particular concern," counsel assisting Meg O'Brien said.

The inquiry also identified a Sydney woman who said she knew who the killer was but was never interviewed by police, she died in 2020.

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Dye's family has called the situation "very disappointing".

"The police should have done their job, followed due diligence and that was very frustrating," cousin Lisa said

Dye's friend Richard Cobden said the flaws in the investigation are "heartbreaking".

"He was the gentlest possible soul," he said.

"It's heart-breaking, really heartbreaking that there could have been some progress only three years ago."

NSW MPs Mark Latham and Rod Roberts have resigned as members of One Nation, following Pauline Hanson's takeover of the NSW branch.

The pair will remain in the upper house as independents.

Latham tabled a letter under parliamentary privilege, sent to special minister of state John Graham, alleging the party had tried to funnel money away from the NSW Electoral Commission.

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Speaking in parliament today, Latham said: "Following the recent Queensland One Nation takeover of the NSW branch, I cannot remain as a One Nation MP due to past attempts of defrauding NSW electoral funds and the appointment of a new state executive orchestrated to repeat these rorts."

The NSW government has referred the allegations to the NSW Electoral Commission.

One Nation have rejected the allegations, with state director Amit Batish saying they would welcome any independent investigation.

"We are a transparent and accountable political party. We have always worked co-operatively and constructively with the NSW Electoral Commission. This will continue to be the case."

Earlier this month, Latham was pushed out as One Nation's NSW leader, a move that had angered the firebrand MP.

He accused One Nation leader Pauline Hanson of spearheading the "bizarre" takeover without consultation.

Hanson said One Nation needed change after a 14 per cent drop in the party's vote in the March 2023 state election.

Indigenous television presenter Stan Grant has accepted a new job to help improve integrity in media and combat misinformation after stepping away permanently from the ABC and his role as the host of Q+A.

Grant, a Wiradjuri man, stood down from the program in May citing "relentless" racial abuse that escalated amid the public broadcaster's coverage of King Charles III's coronation.

Today, Monash University announced the journalist's appointment as the inaugural Director of the Constructive Institute Asia Pacific in the Faculty of Arts.

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"Located at Aarhus University in Denmark, the Constructive Institute's central mission is to change global news culture to foster healthier democracies," the university said in a statement.

"Based within Monash University's School of Media, Film and Journalism, Professor Grant will amplify this mission in the Asia Pacific region, leading projects and debates that embrace global solutions, nuance and dialogue to newsroom cultures."

Grant said he was "incredibly excited" to improve how the media approached "misinformation and disinformation".

"It aligns with my values and draws on my 40 years in journalism, as well as my commitment to doing public interest journalism better in a way that serves the public at a time when the stakes couldn't be higher for our country and for the world," he said.

Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Professor Katie Stevenson said there was no better candidate and expressed excitement over the "rich experience and knowledge" Grant would draw on in the role.

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When announcing his initial departure from Q+A, Grant wrote an emotive first-person piece on the ABC website.

"Since the King's coronation, I have seen people in the media lie and distort my words," Grant wrote.

"They have tried to depict me as hate-filled. They have accused me of maligning Australia.

"Nothing could be further from the truth. My ancestors would not allow me to be filled with hate.

"Racism is a crime. Racism is violence. And I have had enough."

He has now quit the ABC entirely to accept the new role.

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If former President Donald Trump was facing the booking process that newly charged criminal defendants in Fulton County typically experience, he might find himself lingering for hours at the Rice Street jail waiting for his fingerprints and mug shot to be taken.

Even by the standards of local jails, the Fulton County jail on Rice Street has a reputation for troubled conditions for inmates.

Last month, the US Justice Department launched a civil rights investigation into living conditions, access to health care, violence against detainees and possible discrimination against those with psychiatric disabilities.

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But the treatment that defendants receive when being booked and processed on criminal charges in Fulton County varies drastically, case by case.

The system gives discretion to prosecutors, the magistrate judges who often preside over the first court appearances and the superior court judges who have been assigned the underlying case.

Trump is expected to turn himself in next Thursday or Friday, according to a senior law enforcement official.

While officials have vowed to treat Trump and his associates as they would any defendant, that is likely impossible due the security precautions required for a former president and the high-profile nature of some of his co-defendants.

"We're in uncharted waters at this point," Chris Timmons, a former prosecutor and now a law partner at Knowles Gallant Timmons in Atlanta, told CNN.

"We haven't had a former United States president or anyone with Secret Service protection booked into the Fulton County jail."

Trump's team has already been in contact with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office and conversations are expected to continue early next week about the conditions of his appearance and the logistics of his surrender.

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Other defendants have also engaged with the district attorney, sources told CNN.

Willis gave Trump and his co-defendants in the case, which alleges they engaged in racketeering scheme and other crimes in their efforts to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results, until August 25 to turn themselves in voluntarily.

That nearly two-week window for self-surrender has given the defendants time for planning and for potential outreach to prosecutors to discuss how the process will work.

'We've got mugshots ready for you'

Attorneys for defendants in the Trump case are expected to negotiate with the district attorney's office to agree to terms of release and bond for their clients – known as a consent bond – before they turn themselves in at the jail in Fulton County.

Many of those discussions are expected to take place in person next week, according to people familiar with the matter.

Defendants have an incentive to settle the bond question before they turn themselves in.

If they surrender at the jail without a bond agreement in place – which has to be approved by a Fulton County Superior Court judge – they will be held in custody, attorneys familiar with the process said.

The jail is open 24/7 for Trump and his allies to turn themselves in and Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat is among the officials publicly insisting Trump and his associates will face the same processing steps as any other defendant.

"Unless someone tells me differently, we are following our normal practices," Labat told reporters earlier this month.

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"It doesn't matter your status. We've got mug shots ready for you."

Normally, those taken into custody are thoroughly searched by a jail deputy.

In the past, though, some high-profiled defendants who have voluntarily surrendered were not subjected to that thorough body search, a person familiar with the process told CNN.

Defendants also typically undergo a medical screening and receive a pre-trial consultation to determine whether they can sign out on their own recognisance, although it's not clear whether those same steps would be taken with Trump and other high-profile defendants.

For an average defendant, the booking process can take hours, much of which can be spent waiting around for their turn to be booked.

"In this particular case, you're dealing with VIPs," Timmons said.

"Having them there is kind of a pain."

For Trump and other prominent defendants, the process will likely move much more swiftly.

Some may coordinate with the sheriff's office before they arrive to try to expedite the process.

And in Trump's case, the Secret Service would likely coordinate with the sheriff's office ahead of Trump's arrival.

"If everybody's there and ready to do their job, it probably takes three minutes to get a set of fingerprints," Timmons said.

"It could be 15 minutes total to get them in and out."

In a typical case in Fulton County where police make an arrest, the person arrested is booked into jail and must appear before a magistrate judge within 72 hours.

That won't be the case for the defendants in this racketeering case.

Since they have already been indicted and will likely have negotiated bond, they most likely won't have an initial court appearance, attorneys told CNN.

The judge that considers the bond agreement, likely Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee who was assigned to the case, has to consider four factors when deciding whether to approve the bond agreements, attorneys told CNN.

The judge has to determine the defendant is not a flight risk, is not likely to commit other felonies pending trial, does not present a danger to the community and is not likely to intimidate witnesses or take other steps to interfere with the case.

It's possible Trump and his alleged co-conspirators won't even have to show up at court for an arraignment.

McAfee could choose to arraign the defendants virtually or he could allow them to waive their arraignments altogether.

If he does the latter, it's unclear when the public might see Trump and his co-defendants in a Georgia courtroom for the first time.

Gerald Griggs, the head of the Georgia NAACP, which has been scrutinising the poor conditions of the Fulton County jail, said he understood, given the security concerns, why the former president would get treatment that would spare him from spending time in custody with the general population of the jail.

For Trump's co-defendants, Griggs said, "everybody else should be treated exactly the same".

"It just underscores the injustice that could possibly happen to everyone else, if there is any favoritism or preferential treatment that is given to these individuals for how they turn themselves and are expedited out," Griggs said.

Custody at Fulton County Jail

The Justice Department last month launched a civil rights investigation into the jail, which has been the site of multiple deaths on the premises.

US Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke pointed to the death last year of LaShawn Thompson, whose family has blamed unsanitary conditions, including a bed bug and lice infestation, as contributing to his death.

"Those circumstances were far from isolated," Clarke said in announcing the investigation last month.

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"Following Mr Thompson's death, evidence emerged that the mental health unit where he died was infested with insects and that the majority of people living in that unit were malnourished and not receiving basic care."

Three jail officials stepped down earlier this year, after a preliminary investigation into Thompson's death.

Labat has sought more than in $2 billion in county funding to build a new jail and has acknowledged the difficulties in meeting safety and health standards in the current facility, which, from the day that it opened, was not large enough to accommodate the population that comes through it.

The sheriff said he was not surprised by the announcement.

In fact, he says he welcomes it.

"We welcome another audit, another opportunity for people to come by and help us get it right," Labat told CNN.

"We don't discriminate. Our goal is to maintain our focus on care and custody, maintain our focus on that."

When police raided the home of British nurse Lucy Letby, they discovered a haunting green post-it note tucked inside the pages of her personal diary.

It proved to be a damning clue which pointed to the hideous crimes carried out by Letby against helpless babies inside the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.

Underneath a title of "Not Good Enough" on the note, Letby scrawled all kinds of phrases and words, including: "I don't deserve to live. I killed them on purpose because I'm not good enough to care for them. I am a horrible evil person."

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During her trial, where the 33-year-old was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others, the prosecutor framed the note as "literally a confession".

Other disturbing messages on the note read: "I AM EVIL, I DID THIS. There are no words. I am an awful person – I pay every day for that. I can't breathe. I can't focus. Kill myself right now. Overwhelming fear/panic. I'll never have children or marry. I'll never know what it's like to have a family. NO HOPE."

Letby's diary, which hid the chilling note, was childlike in design and appearance.

Its colour palette was all soft pastels, shades of blues and pinks.

A knitted soft toy puppy dog – the kind you might find in a cot, nestled in against the body of a sleeping child – was the cover's hero.

The brown-eyed, floppy-eared dog is holding a simple flower.

The words "Have a lovely year!" were printed across the top of the ring bound 2016 diary.

The truth was, because of Letby's sustained evil actions inside the neonatal unit where she worked, crushed families were suffering a living hell.

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Beginning in 2015, the Countess of Chester Hospital saw a significant rise in the number of babies who were dying or suffering serious catastrophic collapses.

It wasn't clear yet, but Letby was the common denominator.

She had secretly attacked 13 babies on the neonatal ward at the Countess of Chester hospital between 2015 and 2016.

"In her hands, innocuous substances like air, milk, fluids – or medication like insulin – would become lethal," Pascale Jones of Britain's Crown Prosecution Service would later say in court, after investigators pieced the horrible puzzle together.

"She perverted her learning and weaponised her craft to inflict harm, grief and death."

Letby's sick intention was to kill the babies while duping her colleagues into believing there was a natural cause of death.

With the successful conviction of Letby, where parents gave harrowing testimony of mysteriously losing their newborns in the neonatal unit, attention is turning on hospital's procedures and management, and their potential culpability in the murders.

Consultants had raised their concerns over the increased mortality rate of patients under Letby's care, but they were initially dismissed by the hospital's management.

In September 2016, Letby filed a grievance against her employers after she was relocated away from the hospital's neonatal ward.

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She was put back on clerical duties after two male triplets died and a baby boy collapsed on three days in a row in June 2016.

Later that year, she was notified of the allegations against her by the Royal College of Nursing union, but the complaint was later resolved in her favour.

In a dark twist, doctors were asked to formally apologise to Letby in writing.

She was scheduled to return to the neonatal department in March 2017, but mercifully her return never happened.

Instead, the hospital trust contacted the police, who opened an investigation.

In 2018 and 2019, Letby was arrested twice by police in connection with their inquiry.

She was arrested again in November 2020.

During their investigation, police found records Letby had taken home from the hospital on babies who had collapsed.

Detectives learned Letby had performed thousands of searches online for information about the parents after the killings.

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Letby attacked babies by injecting intravenous lines with air, poisoning some with insulin and force-feeding others milk.

After killing them, she sometimes sobbed in grief, made keepsakes for parents and bathed the little bodies and dressed them for burial.

The victims, who were given anonymity and listed only by letters, such as Child A and Child B, died in the neonatal unit.

"I don't think we will ever get over the fact that our daughter was tortured till she had no fight left in her and everything she went through over her short life was deliberately done by someone who was supposed to protect her and help her come home where she belonged," the mother of a girl identified as Child I said in a statement read in court.

The judge said no one but Letby knows what drove her, though some parents ventured theories: she wanted to play god; she needed attention, drama and sympathy in her life; or she wanted to be remembered.

The parents of several of the babies that survived Letby's assaults said their children now require around-the-clock care.

Today, Letby was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

She was handed a whole life order by Manchester Crown Court, meaning she will never be released.

Letby refused to appear in the dock, prompting calls for laws to be changed so that defendants must attend their sentencing hearings.

Explaining why he decided Letby must spend the rest of her life in prison, Justice James Goss called it "a cruel, calculated and cynical campaign of child murder involving the smallest and most vulnerable of children".

Goss addressed Letby as if she was in court during the sentencing.

He ordered his remarks and the victim impact statements read in court earlier in the day to be handed to the convicted serial killer.

"There was a deep malevolence bordering on sadism," he said.

"During the course of this trial you have coldly denied any responsibility for your wrongdoing. You have no remorse. There are no mitigating factors."

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A potential strike by workers at a liquified natural gas (LNG) plant in Western Australia has triggered a spike in European gas prices.

Benchmark wholesale gas prices for the European Union and UK rose about 10 per cent on Monday, Bloomberg reports.

The Offshore Alliance union, representing workers from the Australian Workers' Union and the Maritime Union of Australia, at the North West Shelf operations in WA, could down tools by September 2 if no pay deal is achieved.

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There are concerns that industrial action at Woodside Energy Group's North West Shelf facility would disrupt LNG exports from Australia.

Workers at two other offshore LNG plants, Gorgon and Wheatstone, run by Chevron, are also voting on strikes, with results due on Thursday.

Collectively, the three facilities represent about 10 per cent of the global LNG supply.

Australia, Qatar and the US are the leading producers of LNG.

World gas prices jumped after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and the Kremlin cut supplies to Europe.

It triggered a race by European nations to find new sources of the commodity, ramping up imports of pipeline gas from Norway and of LNG, mostly from the United States and Qatar.

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Europe's success in filling the gap left by Moscow has helped pull natural gas prices down from a record high of about $US331 ($515) per megawatt hour hit last August.

Some analysts believe strikes at the WA facilities would lead to a surge in global demand and higher prices.

Any reduction in Australian exports to Asia could force customers from that region to look for alternative supplies in Qatar, where they would compete with European buyers.

A Chevron spokesperson said earlier this month it was continuing to engage with employees.

Woodside told Reuters it had engaged constructively in the bargaining process with unions.

– With CNN

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Renters are overlooking mould issues as they desperately bid to get a lease amid Australia's rental crisis, a new study has revealed.

One in 10 renters who undertook a national Finder survey in May said they had accepting a property having a mould issue to try to secure a home.

A further 14 per cent of the 441 Aussies who took the survey said they had compromised on bidding for properties without a laundry or an aircon and 11 per cent said they had opted for a place with loud neighbours.

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Finder's home loans expert Richard Whitten said the number of renters living in 'below par' conditions was frightening.

"Tenants are having to lower their standards and accept some really unpleasant living situations," he said.

"Thousands are stuck in rentals which would be considered hazardous purely because there aren't enough properties available to rent in their area."

The survey has come after research by CoreLogic last month found that 90 per cent of house and unit markets across Australia saw an increase in rents in the last financial year.

The median rent for all houses and units across the country is up 11.5 per cent on last year, at $617 a week, according to CoreLogic's most recent Quarterly Rental Review.

Units in Sydney have been the hardest hit by the rental crisis, with their average rent having gone up 18.8 per cent since last year.

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Ukraine has claimed it destroyed a Russian long-range supersonic bomber in a drone strike.

The Ukrainian military claimed it destroyed the TU-22M3 strategic bomber at the Soltsy airbase in Novgorod Oblast, northwestern Russia, about 650km from the border with Ukraine.

Social media images showed the aircraft engulfed in a fierce fire at the military base.

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The Russian defence ministry said in a statement a plane was damaged during a drone attack.

The attack occurred on Saturday and was carried out by "a copter-type UAV," the ministry said, using an acronym for unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones.

The drone was spotted by an observation post at the airfield and shot with small arms, the Russian officials said.

"A fire broke out in the aircraft parking lot, which was quickly extinguished by fire brigades," the statement added.

The defence ministry said there were no casualties as a result of the attack.

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Tropical Storm Hilary drenched Southern California from the coast to the desert resort city of Palm Springs and inland mountains, forcing rescuers to pull several people from swollen rivers.

By early Monday, remnants of the storm that first brought soaking rains to Mexico's arid Baja California peninsula and the border city of Tijuana, threatened Nevada and as far north as Oregon and Idaho with flooding.

Southern Californians were battling flooded roads, mudslides and downed trees.

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"Thank God my family is OK," Maura Taura said after a three-story-tall tree crashed down on her daughter's two cars but missed the family's house in the Sun Valley area of Los Angeles.

Hilary is just the latest major weather or climate disaster to wreak havoc across the US, Canada and Mexico. Hawaii's island of Maui is still reeling from a blaze that killed more than 100 people and ravaged the historic town of Lahaina, making it the deadliest US wildfire in more than a century. Firefighters in Canada are battling that nation's worst fire season on record.

Southern California got another surprise Sunday afternoon as an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 hit near Ojai, about 130 kilometres northwest of downtown Los Angeles, according to the US Geological Survey. It was felt widely and was followed by smaller aftershocks. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injury, according to a dispatcher with the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

Tropical Storm Hilary first made landfall in Baja California on Sunday in a sparsely populated area about 250 kilometres south of Ensenada. One person drowned. It then moved through mudslide-prone Tijuana, threatening the improvised homes that cling to hillsides just south of the US border.

The first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, Hilary dropped more than half an average year's worth of rain on some areas, including Palm Springs, which saw more than 8 centimetres of rain by Sunday evening.

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In September 1939, a tropical storm that roared into California ripped apart train tracks, tore houses from their foundations and capsized many boats, killing nearly 100 people on land and at sea.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami downgraded Hilary to a post-tropical storm in its early Monday advisory, but warned that "continued life-threatening and locally catastrophic flooding" was expected over portions of the southwestern US on Monday. All coastal warnings were discontinued.

Forecasters warned of dangerous flash floods across Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, and fire officials rescued 13 people from knee-deep water in a homeless encampment along the rising San Diego River. Meanwhile, rain and debris washed out some roadways and people left their cars stranded in standing water. Crews pumped floodwaters out of the emergency room at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage.

Sunday was the wettest day on record in San Diego, with 4.6 centimetres, the NWS said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. The previous record was on August 17, 1977, when 4.5 centimetres of rain fell in the area post-Hurricane Doreen.

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The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest school system, said all campuses would be closed on Monday, along with other districts across the region. San Diego schools postponed the first day of classes from Monday to Tuesday.

The Palm Springs Police Department said in a statement Sunday that 911 lines were down and that in the event of an emergency, residents should text 911 or reach out to the nearest police or fire station.

As skies were clearing Monday in California, the National Weather Service warned of flooding underway in the Mount Charleston area west of Las Vegas. Forecasters said the threat for flooding in states farther north on Monday was highest across much of southeastern Oregon into the west-central mountains of Idaho "with record breaking precipitation" forecast for Monday morning.

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center, meanwhile, were watching a disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico that now has an 80 per cent chance of developing into a tropical disturbance or tropical storm before reaching the western Gulf coastline on Tuesday. Forecasters urged people along the coast in northern Mexico and Texas to monitor the system, adding that tropical storm watches or warnings may be issued later Monday.