All sorts of extravagant boats are on display for the Sydney International Boat Show at Darling Harbour from Thursday to Sunday.

As Canada pulls the pin on hosting the Commonwealth Games in 2030 just weeks after Victoria scrapped the 2026 games, the state government has partly been blamed for throwing the future of the event into limbo.

The Canadian Commonwealth Games council pointed some blame at the Victorian government for the decision to pull out of hosting the 2030 games.

"We believe the recent decision by the Victorian government to withdraw from the 2026 Commonwealth Games was a significant factor in Alberta's decision, as well as an over-dependence on taxpayer's support for the planning and delivery of the Games," the council said yesterday.

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Director of Western Sydney Women Amanda Rose said the move from Victoria and Canada appears to be a push towards republicanism.

"It's not a coincidence that now Victoria now Canada are wanting to pull out," she told Weekend Today.

"I'm very suspicious of this."

Rose said the Commonwealth Games remain important as a representation of athletes and acts as the "precursor" for the Olympics.

"It was the second biggest competition for them to prepare for it," she said.

"I think it's quite selfish to say 'sorry, we're not doing it any more', without finding an alternative."

Coast FM's Nikki Parkinson said the Commonwealth Games is an opportunity for young people to see athletes at the top of their game.

"I really hope they can find some funding from somewhere," she said.

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Local Canadian media has reported unfeasible financials for the proposed event – similar to the cost blowouts cited by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews – is behind the decision.

Andrews was blasted for his decision to cancel the Commonwealth Games.

Commonwealth Games Australia chief executive Craig Phillips said at the time the government "had jeopardised Melbourne and Victoria's standing as a sporting capital of the world".

He added the cancellation was a disappointment to athletes, host communities and First Nations Australians.

Andrews defended the decision as the games were "not in the interest" of Victorian taxpayers.

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Thousands of people filled Manhattan's Union Square on Friday afternoon for an internet personality's hyped giveaway that got out of hand, with some in the crowd clambering on vehicles, hurling chairs and throwing punches, leaving police struggling to rein in the chaos.

Aerial TV news footage showed a surging, tightly packed crowd running through the streets, scaling structures in the park and snarling traffic.

Shouting teenagers swung objects at car windows, and some people climbed on top of a moving vehicle, falling off as it sped away.

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Others pounded on or climbed atop city buses.

By 5.30pm local time (7.30am AEST), police officers in growing numbers had regained control of much of the area, but small skirmishes were still breaking out, with young people knocking over barricades and tossing bottles and even a flower pot at officers.

Police were seen wrestling people to the ground and chasing them down the street.

The NYPD didn't immediately have information on injuries or arrests. Numerous people were in hand restraints, sitting on the sidewalks, and at least one young man led away by two officers. Police formed lines in the street to try to direct the crowd.

On his Instagram feed, the streamer Kai Cenat had an image promoting a giveaway at 4pm in the park.

Some young people leaving the park said they had come expecting to get a computer for livestreaming and a new PlayStation.

Skylark Jones, 19, and a friend came to see Cenat and try to get something from his giveaway, which they said was promoted as a chance for things like gaming consoles or a gaming chair, as well as an opportunity to see the popular streamer.

When they arrived the scene was already packed, bottles were being thrown by people in the crowd and there was a commotion even before Cenat appeared, they said.

“It was a movie,” Jones said. Police “came with riot shields, charging at people.”

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Cenat, 21, is a video creator with 6.5 million followers on the platform Twitch, where he regularly livestreams.

He also boasts 4 million subscribers on YouTube, where he posts daily life and comedy vlogs ranging from “Fake Hibachi Chef Prank!” to his most recent video, “I Rented Us Girlfriends In Japan!”

His 299 YouTube videos have amassed more than 276 million views among them. In December he was crowned streamer of the year at the 12th annual Streamy Awards.

Messages sent to his publicist, management company and an email address for business inquiries were not immediately returned.

Livestreaming on Twitch from a vehicle as the event gathered steam, Cenat displayed gift cards he planned to give away. Noting the crowd and police presence, he urged,

“Everybody who’s out there, make sure y’all safe. … We’re not gonna do nothin’ until it’s safe.”

Eventually he and an entourage got out of the vehicle and hustled through an excited crowd, crossed a street and went into the park before the stream cut out.

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Carina Treile, manager of Petite Optique, an eyeglass shop nearby, was forced to remain in her store after it closed because police were still clearing the scene outside.

“Usually with people giving away free stuff, it’s never like this. It's very organized,” she said.

“And here we have a very chaotic scene.”

Treile said there were some loud bangs at some point, which frightened some in the crowd.

“That was a little bit scary, especially when people started running.”

Police, some with batons, used metal barricades to push the crowd back and loudspeakers to issue a warning: “This gathering is unlawful. You are ordered to disperse.”

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Western Australian teens under 16 will soon be able to have an abortion without having to tell their parents as part of a proposed legislation shake-up.

New legislation will be introduced to the Western Australian parliament next week to allow minors to have an abortion without parental or guardian consent.

WA is currently the only jurisdiction in Australia where under 16-year-olds are required to meet a higher standard of consent for abortions than with other medical care.

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The legislation reform will recognise the concept of a "mature minor", who has the understanding and intelligence to make the decision themselves.

It will also consider circumstances where notifying a parent poses a safety risk is inappropriate or impractical.

"This is about women knowing what is best for them and having a discussion with the health practitioner," health minister Amber-Jade Sanderson said.

"That decision being between them and them alone."

Back in 1998, Western Australia became the country's first state or territory to decriminalise abortion.

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In June, parliament deliberated on a raft of abortion changes to place abortion in the Public Health Act.

Under the changes, women no longer need a referral to seek an abortion.

The gestational limit for late-term abortion will be raised from 20 to 23 weeks.

After 23 weeks, medical practitioners will be required to consult with another medical practitioner and both need to be satisfied that the circumstances are appropriate for an abortion to be performed.

It removed the ministerial panel for late gestational abortions, and will also remove the requirement for mandatory counselling.

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A woman whose remains were among discoveries that became known as the Gilgo Beach killings has been identified after 27 years, authorities said on Friday, disclosing the latest in a series of recent revelations about the long-cold case.

Known until now to the public only as “Jane Doe No. 7,” she was Karen Vergata, 34, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney told a news conference.

Her family last heard from her on Valentine’s Day in 1996, when she called her father on his birthday, according to court papers he filed in 2015 seeking to have her declared presumptively dead.

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The filing lays out years of relatives' and attorneys' efforts to find her and says Suffolk County police contacted the family as far back as 1997 about an unidentified woman's death. It was not immediately clear whether that woman was indeed Vergata, whose then-unidentified remains had been found the prior year.

Tierney credited a recent reinvestigation and new DNA sampling with finally establishing who she was. Yet much remains unclear about the investigative turns of a case that bedevilled detectives for over a decade and was beset by clashes among law enforcement agencies and changes in their leadership.

Friday's development was part of a reinvestigation that, last month, spurred the first arrest in connection with the long-unsolved string of killings of 10 people whose remains were found over a decade ago along a coastal parkway in Gilgo Beach on New York's Long Island.

But it is unclear whether Vergata's death might ever be tied to the ongoing case against Rex Heuermann, an architect who has been charged with three of the killings and named the prime suspect in a fourth.

Tierney declined to comment on “what, if any, suspects" were developed in Vergata’s death.

Some of Vergata's remains were discovered in 1996 on Fire Island. More of her bones were found in 2011 near Gilgo Beach, more than 32 kilometres west of the original location.

A woman with a “troubled lifestyle,” in the words of father Dominic Vergata, she was living in a rented room in Manhattan's then-gritty Hell's Kitchen neighbourhood.

Child-welfare officials had taken her two sons from her, and they had been adopted by a foster mother. She had not seen the young boys since 1992, but she visited her father and brother frequently, her father said in sworn statements in the court proceeding that sought to have her declared legally dead.

Karen Vergata had been arrested numerous times, according to documents in the court papers, which don't specify the charges or outcomes. Tierney said investigators believe she was working as an escort. Most of the other victims in the Gilgo Beach killings also were sex workers.

Vergata was behind bars again when she called her father for what would be the last time on February 14, 1996, seeming “very troubled,” he said.

“As the year began to progress, and no one in the family had heard from Karen, nor had been able to make contact with her, I became increasingly worried,” he added.

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The family learned she had never tried to reclaim bail money she had posted for a friend before February 1996, a police officer who frequently saw her around her neighbourhood had not caught sight of her since then, and she'd missed a March 1996 court date, the father's court filing said.

Tierney said Friday that no missing persons report was filed when Vergata disappeared. But her father had said he tried to file a missing persons report with the New York Police Department in 1996 but was told he could not. A message seeking comment was left with the NYPD.

The family heard the next year, from a Suffolk County detective, that an unidentified woman's body had been found, the father said. He said relatives gave DNA samples but were told they did not match.

Over the ensuing years, the family and attorneys canvassed law enforcement and social services agencies in the New York metropolitan area and hired a private investigator, according to the court filing. Yet they turned up no sign of her.

The investigator, Jacqueline Buda-Moss, declined Friday to detail her search for Vergata but said she "determined that there were no records that she was still alive.”

Vergata's father died in December, according to an obituary.

A new investigative task force, formed last year to investigate the Gilgo Beach killings, developed a DNA profile of the woman whom investigators called Jane Doe No. 7, Tierney said. Then the FBI used genetic genealogy techniques to identify her tentatively as Vergata and used a relative’s DNA to cement the identification in October, he said.

“It’s important that we remember and honor not only Ms. Vergata but all the victims on Gilgo Beach,” the prosecutor said. He declined to answer any questions at the news conference.

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Tierney said authorities held off releasing Vergata's name while contacting her relatives and furthering their investigation, which led last month to Heuermann’s arrest in the deaths of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Lynn Costello.

Prosecutors say they also are working to charge him with the death of a fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, but they have not yet done so.

Heuermann has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyer says the 59-year-old denies killing anyone.

Authorities have said he is unlikely to be responsible for all the deaths.

The case first drew headlines in 2010, when police began searching for a missing woman named Shannan Gilbert near Gilgo Beach. Instead, they discovered 10 sets of remains of other people, including eight women, one man and a toddler.

Gilbert’s body was found in December 2011 in a marsh about five kilometres from the other 10 sets of remains. Investigators have found she drowned accidentally; her relatives have long disputed that determination.

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Hundreds of teenage boy and girl scouts have fallen ill at a global event in South Korea as a sweltering heat wave sweeps the country, angering some parents who have called for the 12-day event to be cancelled.

Nearly 40,000 participants – mostly high schoolers – have travelled from 155 different countries to attend the event, a week-long festival featuring cultural performances and outdoor activities, according to Kim Hyun-sook, the chairman of the jamboree's Organising Committee and the Minister of Gender Equality and Family.

Their visit came as South Korea recorded consistently high temperatures up to 35°C, triggering nationwide heat wave warnings and posing a major headache for jamboree organisers.

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On Thursday alone, 1,486 people visited the on-site hospital at the World Scout Jamboree, held in Saemangeum, a few hours south of Seoul, according to Kim.

Of the people who visited the hospital, 250 reported skin rashes, 138 had heat-related illness, and 386 had bug bites, Kim added – but none were in a critical condition, said an official from the Jeonbuk Fire Service.

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The development prompted the UK Scouts Association to announce that roughly 4,000 UK scouts and volunteers attending the jamboree would leave the event and move to hotels in the capital, Seoul.

"We will start moving our people to hotel accommodation over the next two days. As we are the largest contingent, our hope is that this helps alleviate the pressure on the site overall," the organisation said in a statement Friday.

UK scouts also acknowledged that while the decision may serve as "disappointment for some," it will endeavour to "continue the Jamboree experience" in the capital of Seoul, working with Korean authorities "on a programme of activities."

As more children fell ill, worried parents and observers from around the world flooded the event's social media pages with frantic questions, angry reprimands for organisers, and demands for the event to end – with messages written in various languages.

One commenter wrote that their son had spent the night at the jamboree sleeping on the ground because there were no tents, cots or other gear available.

"My wallet paid a hearty price for this chaos," they wrote.

One writing in Spanish said their daughter was attending the event and had reported there was "no food, no way to protect them from the sun".

CNN has reached out to jamboree organisers for a response to the parents' comments.

Photos from the site show participants gathering at a water supply zone to cool themselves off, and resting in shaded areas.

National authorities are also getting involved, with President Yoon Suk Yeol ordering an "unlimited supply" of large air-conditioned buses and refrigerator trucks to the campsite on Monday. He also ordered organisers to improve the quality of food provided and to "immediately resolve" issues occurring from the site, according to the presidential office.

In a news release on Friday, event organisers said they were working with the Red Cross to accommodate those with heat-related symptoms. The military is also helping to set up shade shelters, and improving the floors of leafy vine tunnels where participants have been hiding from the heat.

The jamboree is also ramping up its medical staff, pest control personnel, the number of portable toilets and food supplies. The number of cleaning staff – previously just 70 for the entire 40,000-person site – has been increased to more than 500, organisers said.

Kim, the minister and jamboree organising chairman, said about 130 cooling buses will be deployed to the site on Friday, and an additional 10 refrigerator trucks would be dispatched soon. Each scout will be given five bottles of cold water each day, as well as cooling masks, hats, sunscreen, ice packs and salt pills, she added.

The fire service has been operating the on-site hospital, with about 200 fire department personnel deployed every day to the event site. They're planning to increase that number for the upcoming culture event day on Sunday when attendance is expected to increase.

Organisers have also adjusted scheduled events, suspending activities requiring "significant physical activities" and replacing them with indoor programs, they said.

However, organisers suggested they would not heed public calls to cancel the jamboree, and would "ensure the safe and stable operation of this event until its conclusion".

The heat wave picked up in late July, with 19 reported deaths from heat-related illnesses since May 20, and 1,520 reporting heat-related illnesses, according to the country's disease control and prevention agency.

The deaths far exceed those over the same period last year, when six people died from heat-related illnesses, the agency said.

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Hundreds of residents of a suburb in Melbourne's north have gathered to protest against the closure of its post office, while thousands have signed an online petition.

Actor Ian Smith, who played Harold Bishop on the popular television series Neighbours, was among those who gathered outside Glenroy post office this morning to call for the 136-year-old Australia Post branch to remain open.

He told 9News he thought the decision to permanently close the branch in three weeks was "so wrong".

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The protesters have argued the post office should stay open as Glenroy has a high population of people who do not use the internet, speak a language other than English, and over the age of 80.

Many seniors told 9News they relied on the outlet to do their banking and pay their bills.

"We pay most of our bills through the post office," 89-year-old Ken Hills said.

"It's easier."

He said he couldn't believe the "ridiculous" decision to close the office.

An online petition has gained almost 2300 signatures. 

Australia Post has said customer visits at Glenroy Post Shop have fallen by around one-third, with the outlet consistently trading at a loss over the past five years.

Surrounding suburbs of Broadmeadows, Airport West, Pascoe Vale, and Coburg all have Australia Post outlets.

The Mitcham branch in Melbourne's east will also close next week, while Hampton's post office shut its doors in April.

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The decision stated lawyers should not have fewer rights to free speech than anyone else.

A second man hospitalised with a gunshot injury remains in a stable condition at Auckland.

A school minibus has rolled over in a crash in NSW's Hawkesbury region.

The bus was carrying six children when it collided with a dark grey ute and was overturned near the intersection of Windsor Street and West Market Street in Richmond about 3.20pm.

None of the children have serious injuries.

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9News understands the six children had been picked up from their primary school just after 3pm and were being transported to their after school care at Little Sparkles Early Learning Centre in Agnes Banks.

"All the children managed to get out of the bus unassisted," NSW Police said in a statement.

"A number of the children suffered minor cuts and scratches and are being treated on scene by NSW Ambulance paramedics."

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Police said the driver was taken to hospital for mandatory testing.

"Road diversions are in place and West Market Street remains closed to traffic."

The daycare centre said the bus was fitted with seatbelts.

NSW Ambulance spokesperson Rebecca Tulk said the passengers were extremely lucky.

"It's a timely reminder that we all wear seatbelts whenever we're travelling in a vehicle," Tulk said.

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Susan, who witnessed the crash, told 2GB's Chris O'Keefe that the children appeared shaken but were not injured.

"The children I can see are sort of school-aged children, probably primary school-aged," Susan said.

She said the traffic seemed to be flowing well as it was only impacting one small section of the main street in Richmond.

The ute was taken away on a tow truck for examination.

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