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An alleged drug driver who went well over the speed limit was pulled over by police in Adelaide twice in the space of just two hours.

Police said they detected a Honda sedan travelling at 149km/h in the 100km/h zone at 11pm on Friday.

Police stopped the car and spoke with the 20-year-old driver from Enfield and asked him to take a drug test.

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The man allegedly returned a positive result to driving with cannabis in his system.

Officers said checks revealed the man had been stopped by police about two hours earlier, where he had allegedly failed a drug test and was told not to drive for 24 hours.

The man was reported for speeding and breaching his provisional licence – which he lost on the spot for six months.

His car was towed from the scene and impounded for 28 days.

The man will be summonsed to appear before the Christies Beach Magistrates Court at a later date.

Police allegedly found a small amount of cannabis inside the car, which was seized. The man was issued a cannabis expiation notice which totalled $499.

His drug-driving sample will be sent to Forensic Science SA for further analysis.

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FENZ defended its training as being “high quality”, despite the findings.

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Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has accused the prime minister of trying to gain political advantage from scathing findings of the royal commission into robodebt, the scheme created under the previous Coalition government.

Dutton, speaking after a Liberal National Party conference, slammed Anthony Albanese and Government Services Minister Bill Shorten for politicising the robodebt scandal.

It comes as the royal commission report was handed down on Friday with referrals for civil and criminal prosecution and 57 recommendations.

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Dutton slammed Shorten and Albanese for trying to make political gain from the robodebt scheme and ensuing scandal.

"I caution the glee of the prime minister and Bill Shorten at the moment. They've sought to politicise this issue from day one," he said.

Dutton honed in on Shorten as a "political animal" who has "used every opportunity to milk out whatever political advantage there is to the Labor party out of this issue".

"Bill Shorten's politicisation of this process has been documented. He has been pulled up by the speaker on a number of occasions as he has gone close to the line or crossed the line," he said.

"He's seen political advantage in this situation, there's no question about that."

But he also claimed Albanese has done the same. 

He defended the actions of the former government in relation to the robodebt scheme despite it being created and continued over four and a half years during the Coalition's tenure.

"When the problems were brought to the attention of the government at the time, the program was stopped," he said.

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Speaking earlier on Saturday, Shorten said the report's findings would lead any "self-respecting politician" to be "humiliated".

"This is their political tombstone, this is what is going to be etched on it, that a group of them abused their power," he said.

Dutton apologised to the victims of the robodebt scheme.

"I'm sorry to those people who have been adversely affected. I truly am," he said.

"In relation to those cases we saw before the royal commission and other cases in the media.

"The commission was an important process.

"They've made recommendations we'll consider those."

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On the topic of Scott Morrison and the findings of the report that he "misled" the cabinet, which the former prime minister denies, Dutton confirmed he would continue to support sitting members of his party.

"Mr Morrison has provided a response, refuting the allegations made, if there's a legal process that follows, I don't know," he said.

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"Ukraine deserves NATO membership." That was the message from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he expressed support for the war-torn country to join the military alliance.

Erdogan made the comment at a joint news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who arrived in Turkey as part of a European tour to rally support for Ukraine’s entry into the military alliance after the war with Russia comes to an end.

NATO leaders meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, next week are expected to reaffirm that Ukraine will join their alliance one day.

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“There is no doubt that Ukraine deserves NATO membership,” Erdogan told reporters.

His support for Ukraine comes as Turkey has been holding off giving its final approval to Sweden joining NATO, saying Stockholm is not effectively cracking down on Kurdish militants and other groups that Ankara views as threats to its security.

Sweden, along with Finland, abandoned its decades-long neutrality and applied to join NATO following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year.

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Turkey’s parliament ratified Finland’s membership earlier this year, after Ankara voiced satisfaction with its efforts to address Turkey’s security concerns.

Erdogan also said Turkey was working toward extending a Turkish- and UN-brokered grain deal that has paved the way for the shipment of more than 30 million tons of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea.

The deal, which helped temper rising global food prices, is set to expire on July 17. Russia has been reluctant to extend the deal, citing obstacles to its own exports of food and fertiliser.

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“We are continuing our work on the grain corridor issue. We are working to see how long we can extend it after July 17,” Erdogan said.

Zelenskyy accused Russia of obstructing the movement of ships.

“Russia behaves as if it owns the entire Black Sea, as if it is the owner here,” said Zelenskyy, making his first trip to Turkey since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Erdogan said Russian President Vladimir Putin would visit Turkey in August, when he hoped to discuss renewal of the Black Sea grain deal as well as a possible prisoner swap.

Turkey has maintained close ties with both Ukraine and Russia, using its relations with both to act as a mediator.

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"Nothing can unfortunately turn back the clock and make it as it was before the previous government systemically broke the law and caused harm but it is vindication."

That's what Government Services Minister Bill Shorten believes the royal commission report into the robodebt scandal will provide to the victims of the "crude and cruel" scheme.

On Friday, royal commissioner Catherine Holmes handed down the report that lashed the scheme as "neither fair nor legal" and was perpetuated through "venality, incompetence and cowardice".

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Shorten, who rallied for the royal commission before the Albanese government won the federal election last year, said the report is vindication for the victims who suffered the inexplicable debts and for the families of those who took their lives as a result.

"They feel that the royal commission has at least heard their side of the story and it does take a little bit of weight off people's shoulders," he said.

"Really for the whole time, this scheme was in for four and a half years the old government used to say that the critics were wrong, the government was right there, was nothing untoward to see here and the old government gas-lit a nation and its citizens."

One of those victims is Queensland mum Kath Madgwick, who lost her only child Jarrad to suicide as a result of the robodebt scheme.

"To be acknowledged, it's very vindicating and it makes me feel it was worth the fight," she said on Friday.

"I think there's going to be effects from this that may last generations. I certainly feel like the effects will last me til I take my last breath."

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The report made a total of 57 recommendations to strengthen the public service, improve the Department of Social Services and Services Australia, and reinforce oversight agencies.

It also contained a sealed section – not available to the public – referring individuals for civil and criminal prosecution.

Former ministers including Scott Morrison, Stuart Robert and Alan Tudge rejected the report's findings after it was handed down.

Morrison in particular blasted the findings that he "failed" responsibility and allowed cabinet to be "misled".

Shorten said the report's findings would lead any "self-respecting politician" to be "humiliated".

"This is their political tombstone, this is what is going to be etched on it, that a group of them abused their power," he said.

"It's the right of Mr Morrison and his former ministerial colleagues to say they did nothing wrong but I actually think the facts contradict their narrative.

"A group of them have got one side but hundreds of thousands of people who were the victims of having the law been broken against them by their own government, they would beg to differ with Mr Morrison."

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Shorten was questioned as to whether compensation would fix the damage done by the scheme after at least 800 people took their lives.

But he said people want the government not to break the law again.

"The commissioner says about compensation going forward that in her opinion she thinks that general scheme would be more costs to run than the money it would pay," he said.

He added for the victims of the scheme it is rebuilding trust in the government.

"There was a pathology of unlawfulness at the heart of the Morrison and former Coalition governments which is shocking and the ends does not justify the means in politics and that's something for all of us to remember," he said.

"Government's here to help not hurt people."

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A man has been charged with murder after a fatal machete attack outside a 7-Eleven petrol station in Perth's northern suburbs.

Emergency services were called to the 7-Eleven in Landsdale on Thursday after a man was found unconscious.

It is alleged two men had a physical altercation outside the service station when a third man approached and struck a 20-year-old with a machete.

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CCTV captured a black vehicle driving into the petrol station then a man exiting the vehicle, and speeding off just 80 seconds later.

"We were on our way through 7-Eleven and there'd been a major incident, there was blood all through the car park," a witness said.

Bystanders tried to revive the victim but he died at the scene.

"He was in the sliding glass doorway and was being worked on quite aggressively," the witness said.

"His legs were covered in blood we though he'd run through the door, the door had smashed."

Police charged a 28-year-old man with one count of murder.

He will face court later today.

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Three Aussie states are in the firing line for gale-force winds with a weather system also forecast to bring rain, hail, snow and thunderstorms.

The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for parts of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia as a powerful cold front passes across Australia's south-east.

Parts of New South Wales including Wollongong, Nowra, Bowral, Batemans Bay, Katoomba and Cooma are at risk of damaging winds averaging 45 to 55km/h with gusts of up to 100km/h.

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"A vigorous westerly flow will develop over southeastern NSW from early this morning ahead of a cold front, extending over the northern ranges later this morning," the bureau said.

"Strong westerly flow will persist until late on Sunday."

The Snowy Mountains could see even stronger winds averaging 60 to 70km/h with blizzard conditions forecast above 1300m.

In Victoria, the Melbourne area, Horsham, Warrnambool, Maryborough, Ballarat, and Geelong will experience the brunt of the dangerous winds.

"Damaging winds from the west to northwest averaging 55 to 65 km/h with peaks gusts of 90 to 100 km/h are likely near the coast over southwest Victoria, and elevated terrain over the Central Ranges, Grampians, and Alpine peaks in the northeast," the bureau said.

"Blizzard conditions are also forecast for Alpine areas during Saturday."

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For Melbourne, winds will average between 45 to 55 km/h with gusts of up to 100km/h along with rain and thunderstorms.

Some of the wind gusts recorded in the state this morning included 106km/h at Mount Gellibrand and 104km/h at Fawekner Beacon.

But there is good news for South Australia with the bureau saying the worst of the strong cold front has moved through overnight but some damaging wind warnings remain.

"Damaging winds averaging 55 to 65 km/h with peak gusts of 90 to 100 km/h are likely over coastal parts of the Upper South East and Lower South East over the next few hours," the bureau said.

"Conditions are expected to continue to ease from the west during this morning, although hazardous conditions may persist through the afternoon and into the evening over the peaks and eastern slopes of the Flinders and Mount Lofty Ranges, and also about coastal parts of the southeast."

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Mount Gambier, Murray Bridge, Kingscote, Naracoorte, Bordertown and Jamestown are expected to be affected.

Neptune Island recorded a wind gust of 135km/h overnight.

The severe weather warning for Adelaide has been cancelled as the cold front moves east.

Weatherzone warned the "dangerous synoptic pattern" is forecast to bring gale force winds for Australia's south east until Sunday.

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