It is believed the car is located on the Northcote offramp.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese emphasised his commitment to convincing Australians to vote Yes in the Voice to parliament referendum while presenting at the country's biggest First Nations festival.

Albanese was met with loud applause as he delivered his keynote speech at the Garma Festival in Arnhem Land, where he told the crowd, "We can convince our fellow Australians to vote Yes" in the upcoming referendum.

"We can get this done together and we can get this done now, this year. Because if not ask, who? And if not now, when?" he said.

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"In this decisive moment, each of us holds an equal responsibility, and each of us has an equal opportunity. Yes, we can make history together."

An animated Albanese urged Australians to work to get others to vote in favour of the Constitutional change.

"We know that most Australians have never got out their Constitution as bedside reading, and that's why the campaign is there to be won – because what will decide that referendum is those conversations: the respectful, genuine conversations Australians have with one another, engaging as neighbours, colleagues and friends."

Albanese said his government would work to make it clear to Australians what voting 'no' would mean ahead of the referendum.

"It is more of the same. Not only rejecting the opportunity to do better, but accepting that what we have is somehow good enough," he said.

"An eight-year gap in life expectancy in the land of the fair go. The suicide rate twice as high in the lucky country. Shocking rates of disease in a nation with some of the world's best healthcare."

Earlier, Albanese told Weekend Today if Australians choose to vote no in the referendum because they don't understand the significance of the campaign, there will be no change.

"I think Australians will ask themselves, how would I feel if it was the case that if I had a daughter in childbirth, she was more likely to have issues if she was Indigenous than if she was non-Indigenous?" he said.

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"If I had a son, a teenage son, he is more likely to go to jail than to go to university.

"These are the sort of issues that we need to deal with."

Albanese said the Voice to parliament will lift all Australians up and close the gap for better outcomes across sectors from health to education.

He said the question that will be asked in the referendum is a simple one as Australia is the only country not to constitutionally recognise their First Peoples.

"When we look at all of the former colonies there's only one that stands out as not giving acknowledgement to First Peoples," he said.

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"And that is all it does, is recognise Indigenous Australians in our nation's founding document.

"This place wasn't empty in 1788."

He pointed out that the Voice won't only include constitutional recognition but will include an advisory body – although it will have no funding, program or veto responsibilities – the parliament will be encouraged to listen to First Nations people.

The prime minister is yet to confirm the date the referendum will be held, with speculation it will be October 14, saying it will be held in the last quarter of the year.

"I'll be announcing in coming weeks what the date is," he said.

It comes after the prime minister gave an impassioned plea at Garma Festival yesterday – a year after he revealed the government would hold a referendum on the Voice to parliament.

"There's been some suggestion that this is not the right time," Albanese said.

"I say, 122 years after Federation, half a century after the referendum in which Indigenous Australians were counted, more than a decade after extensive processes were established… if not now, when?"

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A Queensland man was fishing on K'gari Island but when something took the bait, he was shocked to pull the enormous catch out of the water.

Ryan Selvey was fishing with his friends on K'gari Island two weeks ago when something took hold of his fishing line.

He told 9news.com.au it was a bucket list goal to catch a shark but had no idea this would be the day he did.

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"I paddled a bait out on the surfboard around 250 to 300 metres and dropped it," he said.

A little while later Selvey felt a tug on his line and as soon as he set the drag he knew it was a big catch.

"It's the most drag I've ever put on a fish," he said.

With the help of his mates, they pulled the enormous tiger shark into knee-deep water.

"I was pretty stoked," he said.

"It's the happiest I've been with a fish in all my life.

"It was a team effort and all the boys were stoked and overjoyed."

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Selvey said the shark weighed about 400 kg and was more than three metres in length.

"It was missing tip of tail looked like a mating scar or an old attack where another shark had bitten it off," he added.

The group kept the shark in knee-deep water for about 90 seconds before dragging it back out to the ocean when it swam away "strongly".

"Heaps of people stopped to watch, there were lots of cheers," he said.

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A significant proportion of Australian homes are so inefficient to heat and cool that they are hurting our health, our household budgets, and our chance of reaching our net-zero by 2050 emissions target, a new report warns.

The report led by RMIT University found most of Australia's 10 million existing homes have poor energy and thermal performance, particularly those built prior to the introduction of energy efficiency standards in 2003, and retrofitting them could be tricky and expensive.

According to lead author Professor Priya Rajagopalan, home buyers are usually more interested in the cost, aesthetics and location of a home, rather than how well it's insulated or whether the windows are double-glazed, and it's costing us.

"Heating and cooling represent up to 50 per cent of energy used," Rajagopalan said.

"A poorly constructed building shell uses more energy to keep people warm or cool, which leads to an increase in carbon emissions and expensive power bills."

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Improvements may be costly initially but have a significant impact on a home's thermal efficiency.

They include:

• Installing high-performance windows
• Sealing gaps around windows and doors
• Installing curtains and blinds
• Using ceiling fans
• Insulating ceilings, walls and floors

"We need to make sure the public know thermally efficient homes have significant health, wellbeing and social benefits, as they are not talked about enough," Rajagopalan said.

More than 80 per cent of Australian homes fell below the World Health Organisation's guideline of 18C on average for the whole of winter last year, according to research published earlier this year.

Rajagopalan wants to see government roll out an affordable thermal performance assessment program and streamline the process for homeowners wherever possible.

"If somebody wants to do installation of solar there is a lot of information out there", she said.

"People will come to your home, give you a quote, give you advice on where to look for funding and if there are any finance options from state and federal governments and even apply on behalf of the householder.

"In retrofitting there is some information but the reliability and accuracy of the information varies and can be confusing for the household."

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In the last federal budget, the government allocated $1 billion to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to provide low-cost loans to more than 110,000 homeowners to make energy efficiency upgrades.

The program is still in development.

Meanwhile, renters and those in social housing are at an even greater disadvantage.

Recently introduced minimum standards for rental homes in Victoria and the ACT, although a step in the right direction, are far from best practice in comparison to countries like France which has made it illegal to lease properties with the worst thermal performance.

"Effective policies that improve the thermal performance of over three million rental accommodations across Australia can contribute to easing the deepening housing crisis and help towards improving the quality of life of residents, majority of which are lower income population," she said.

New homes may not necessarily be as energy efficient as you would assume either.

While new building standards specify a seven-star energy efficiency rating, some states have been slow to implement the regulations and no one is checking that the final build actually produces the thermal efficiency promised on paper, Rajagopalan warned.

"The designers rely on energy rating tools or software to make sure that the designs are energy efficient and meet the minimum standards but often what is designed in the software doesn't translate into the real setting.

"It may be that the design specification may not be completely followed when the builders or the contractors are actually selecting the products and putting them together, and there could be small gaps within or around insulation, gaps around other wall penetrations and there could be air leakage due to unsealed doors and windows.

"And after the construct, nobody is actually doing a performance verification, and that's the real issue for new builds.

"We need to make builders and trades responsible for their build."

If we can find a way to improve the energy efficiency of our homes, our other home, Earth, will benefit too.

"If we just follow the business as usual, net-zero by 2050 is not going to happen and there should be an accelerated uptake with stringent policies for moving forward, targeting all aspects."

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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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