A man has died after falling onto the tracks at Sydney's Central Railway Station.

The man who was on a mobility scooter was pulled from the tracks by staff at the busy CBD train station after falling from platform 18 about 2.30pm on Wednesday.

He was taken to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Camperdown, where he died, NSW Police said.

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There was not a train on the platform or nearby at the time of the incident, and train services were halted, Transport for NSW told 9News.

All lines resumed at 3.23pm but passengers have been warned to expect major delays as police investigate.

"Passengers can expect flow on delays for T1 North Shore and Western Line, T9 Northern Line, T8 Airport line, T2 Inner West & Leppington line and T3 Bankstown line," Sydney Trains said.

"We remind commuters to be vigilant while on platforms."

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A husband and wife have been spared jail time for their role in directing a childcare subsidy fraud syndicate.

The pair apologised to the country they defrauded before they were allowed to walk out of Sydney's Downing Centre District Court on Wednesday afternoon.

Judge Jane Culver sentenced Alee Farmann and Lubna Hashimy to imprisonment but granted the couple a three-year recognisance release order.

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Farmann was to serve 33 months imprisonment and his wife was to serve three years for directing a fraud syndicate through company Red Roses Family Day Care Pty Ltd.

The couple instead will be required to maintain good behaviour for three years under community corrections supervision.

The daycare company was used to defraud the federal government's childcare subsidy scheme from 2018 to 2019.

At least $89,000 worth of claims were made by Hashimy and $79,000 by Farmann.

"Not a single cent has been recovered," Judge Culver told the court.

Farmann, 53, was the sole owner of the company and had directed staff to bring and photograph children at care locations to legitimise company records.

The Georges Hall man instructed two educators on how to evade detection during periods of intensified government scrutiny, even going so far as to terminate then reinstate one staff member to avoid suspicion.

Hashimy, 44, instructed staff members on how to fill out timesheets and submissions to the Department of Education.

She also signed off on the fraudulent claims made to the department.

In one instance, one Red Roses educator made subsidy claims for regular morning sessions of care for Hashimy's children.

The children never attended the educator's home for care and were instead collected then delivered to school, the court heard.

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Hashimy knew educators were not entitled to claim a subsidy for driving children but continued to repeatedly submit via Red Roses claims for sessions of care.

Culver acknowledged full-time custody for the couple would be difficult for their mental and physical health.

Farmann fled to Australia in 1999 by boat following deteriorating conditions for Iraqi expats in Iran after the Gulf War.

He apologised to Australia in a letter to the court.

"I've let the principles of my country down," he wrote.

Hashimy left Iraq due to her mother being of Iranian background, moving to Sydney in 2006 on a partner visa.

"I apologise to the Australian people. This is a shameful event in my life that will stain my heart," Hashimy wrote in a letter to the court.

The judge also acknowledged imprisonment would challenge caretaking of their children.

The couple's daughter, 23, wrote a letter to the court, outlining the impact media reports of the court proceedings had on her two younger siblings.

"We began to feel racially attacked," the daughter wrote.

"As for my younger brother, boys from his school began to recognise his name… and to harass him about it."

Culver agreed imprisonment was the only appropriate sentence, but it did not necessarily have to be conducted in full custody.

Imprisonment within the community would be more suitable for the offences, she said.

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An anti-corruption watchdog will hand down its long-awaited findings into former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian next week.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) report, two and a half years in the making, will be released at 9am next Thursday.

"The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) will furnish its Operation Keppel investigation report, concerning the then member of Parliament for Wagga Wagga, the then premier, and others, to the Presiding Officers at the NSW Parliament on Thursday, 29 June 2023 at 9am," ICAC said in a statement today.

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The ICAC inquiry examined whether Berejiklian had breached public trust while she was in a secret relationship with former Wagga Wagga MP Daryl Maguire.

The relationship was revealed publicly for the first time during questioning at the ICAC hearings. 

Berejiklian announced her shock resignation as premier in October 2021 after it emerged she was under investigation.

She has strongly denied any wrongdoing.

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Maguire had been forced to quit NSW parliament in July 2018 after a corruption inquiry scrutinised his property deals.

The report's release has been delayed twice, once in October last year and again in January, due to the "complex matters of law and fact".

The findings have been made after two public inquiries over 30 days of hearings, more than 2800 pages of transcript, 516 exhibits containing 10,600 pages and 957 pages of submissions.

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Crews searching for the missing Titan submersible have heard banging sounds, according to the US Coast Guard, who confirmed that Canadian P-3 aircraft detected underwater noises in the search area.

Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) were relocated in an attempt to explore the origin of the noises, the coast guard said, but those searches "yielded negative results".

The ROVs will continue to search areas where bangs were heard every 30 minutes on Tuesday (local time), and then again four hours later.

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The coast guard said data from the P-3 aircraft has been shared with US Navy experts for further analysis which will be considered in future search plans.

News of a potential major development began to circulate this afternoon after an internal government memo detailed sonar devices had been deployed because of the reports of "banging".

A later report also suggested more sounds had been heard after the first round of noises, though those reports were not described as "banging."

A Canadian P3 aircraft also located a white rectangular object in the water, according to a memo update, but another ship set to investigate was diverted to help research the acoustic feedback instead.

OceanGate said they had no information to share on this when reached for comment, according to reports.

In a letter posted on social media, a private US exploration group called the Explorers Club said "signs of life" should breathe fresh optimism into the frantic search effort, appearing to reference reports of banging.

"We have much greater confidence that there is cause for hope, based on data from the field — we understand that likely signs of life have been detected at the site," the letter written by club president Richard Garriot said.

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Two of those on the missing submersible – billionaire businessman Hamish Harding and French underwater adventurer Paul-Henri Nargeolet – are members of the club. 

Rescuers in a remote area of the Atlantic Ocean are racing to find the missing submersible, which was carrying five people on a mission to the wreckage of the Titanic.

The carbon-fibre submersible, named the Titan, part of a mission by OceanGate Expeditions, carried a pilot, a renowned British adventurer, two members of an iconic Pakistani business family and a Titanic expert.

Authorities reported the vessel overdue on Sunday night about 700km south of St John's, in the Canadian province of Newfoundland.

Every passing minute puts the Titan's crew at greater risk.

There is only around 24 hours of oxygen left in the vessel.

Search efforts have "not yielded any results", Captain Jamie Frederick of the First Coast Guard District Response Department said during a press conference today.

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Journalist David Pogue, who travelled to the Titanic aboard the Titan last year, said the vehicle uses two communication systems: text messages that go back and forth to a surface ship and safety pings that are emitted every 15 minutes to indicate that the sub is still working.

Both of those systems stopped about an hour and 45 minutes after the Titan submerged.

"There are only two things that could mean. Either they lost all power or the ship developed a hull breach and it imploded instantly. Both of those are devastatingly hopeless," Pogue told CBC on Tuesday.

Experts said the rescuers face steep challenges.

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Alistair Greig, a professor of marine engineering at University College London, said submersibles typically have a drop weight, which is "a mass they can release in the case of an emergency to bring them up to the surface using buoyancy".

"If there was a power failure and/or communication failure, this might have happened, and the submersible would then be bobbing about on the surface waiting to be found," Greig said.

Another scenario is a leak in the pressure hull, in which case the prognosis is not good, he said.

"If it has gone down to the seabed and can't get back up under its own power, options are very limited," Greig said.

"While the submersible might still be intact, if it is beyond the continental shelf, there are very few vessels that can get that deep, and certainly not divers."

Even if they could go that deep, he doubts rescuers could attach to the submersible.

By Tuesday morning, an area totalling about 26,000 square kilometres had been searched.

The Canadian research icebreaker Polar Prince, which was supporting the Titan, reportedly lost contact with the vessel about an hour and 45 minutes after it submerged.

The Polar Prince was to continue to do surface searches throughout the night and a Canadian Boeing P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft will resume their surface and subsurface search in the morning, the US Coast Guard said on Twitter.

Two US Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft also have conducted overflights.

The Canadian military also dropped sonar buoys to listen for any possible sounds from the Titan.

Ship-tracking satellite data from MarineTraffic.com showed the Polar Prince some 690 kilometres south-east of St John's on Tuesday morning.

The Bahamas-flagged cable layer Deep Energy was nearby as well, likely assisting in the surface search.

In an earlier email to the AP, Concannon said officials were working to get a remotely operated vehicle that can reach a depth of 6 kilometres to the site as soon as possible.

OceanGate's expeditions to the Titanic wreck site include archaeologists and marine biologists.

The company also brings people who pay to come along, known as "mission specialists."

They take turns operating sonar equipment and performing other tasks in the five-person submersible.

OceanGate said its focus was on those aboard and their families.

"We are deeply thankful for the extensive assistance we have received from several government agencies and deep sea companies in our efforts to reestablish contact with the submersible," it said in a statement.

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who was also on the missing submersible, told The Associated Press in June 2021 that each dive would typically include a pilot, a researcher and three mission specialists.

He said the mission specialists would operate sonar equipment and cameras as well as handle communications and possibly drive the Titan.

"We have a text messaging system — actually two of them," he said.

"So, someone will be on communication, typing messages back and forth.

"And then everybody, conditions permitting, will get to drive the sub.

"So, assuming that the visibility is pretty good and the currents aren't bad, and we're not next to the wreck, they'll have a chance to drive the sub."

Rush called the Titan's technology "very cutting edge" and said it was developed with the help of NASA and Boeing and a number of aerospace manufacturers.

"This is the only submersible — crude submersible — that's made of carbon fibre and titanium; the largest carbon fibre structure that we know of. It's 5-inch-thick carbon fibre, three-and-a-quarter inch thick titanium," Rush said.

Authorities have yet to formally identify those on board, though some names have been confirmed.

British businessman Harding, who lives in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, was one of the mission specialists, according to Action Aviation, a company for which Harding serves as chairman.

Harding is a billionaire adventurer who holds three Guinness World Records, including the longest duration at full ocean depth by a crewed vessel.

In March 2021, he and ocean explorer Victor Vescovo dived to the lowest depth of the Mariana Trench. In June 2022, he went into space on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.

Also on board were Pakistani nationals Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, according to a family statement sent to the AP.

The Dawoods belong to one of Pakistan's most prominent families.

Their eponymous firm invests across the country in agriculture, industries and the health sector.

French explorer and Titanic expert Nargeolet also was on board, according to David Gallo, a senior adviser for strategic initiatives and special projects at RMS Titanic.

Gallo identified Nargeolet, a friend who has led multiple expeditions to the Titanic, on Tuesday during an interview with CNN.

According to the company's website, Rush became the youngest jet transport-rated pilot in the world in 1981, aged 19.

The expedition was OceanGate's third annual voyage to chronicle the deterioration of Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sank in 1912, killing all but about 700 of the roughly 2200 passengers and crew.

Since the wreckage's discovery in 1985, it has been slowly succumbing to metal-eating bacteria.

Some have predicted the ship could vanish in a matter of decades as holes yawn in the hull and sections disintegrate.

OceanGate's website had described the "mission support fee" for the 2023 expedition as $US250,000 ($360,000) a person.

In a May 2021 court filing, OceanGate said the Titan had an "unparalleled safety feature" that assesses the integrity of the hull throughout every dive.

The submersible is capable of diving four kilometres "with a comfortable safety margin," OceanGate said in the court filing.

It weighs about 9000 kilograms in the air, but is ballasted to be neutrally buoyant once it reaches the seafloor, the company said.

During its expedition in 2022, OceanGate reported that the submersible had a battery issue on its first dive, and had to be manually attached to its lifting platform, according to a November court filing.

More missions, however, followed.

OceanGate has described the submersible as a "state-of-the-art vessel" that "is lighter, more spacious and more comfortable than any other deep-diving submersible exploring the ocean today".

But the custom-built, titanium-domed Titan represented a risk.

Recalling his own trip aboard the Titan, Pogue said the vessel got turned around looking for the Titanic.

"There's no GPS underwater, so the surface ship is supposed to guide the sub to the shipwreck by sending text messages," Pogue said.

"But on this dive, communications somehow broke down.

"The sub never found the wreck."

Timeline: How the expedition unfolded

Friday, June 16

• The Polar Prince departs St John's, Newfoundland, with the submersible Titan on board

Sunday, June 18

• The Polar Prince reaches the submersible launch site
• One hour and 45 minutes later communications with Titan are lost
• The vessel is reported overdue at 9.13pm local time (12.13pm Monday AEST)
• A rescue mission is launched involving the US Coast Guard and Canadian Coast Guard

Monday, June 19

• Rear Admiral John Mauger of the US Coast Guard says the submersible has between 70 and 96 hours of oxygen left
• It's confirmed the submersible had the full complement of five people on board

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National auto repair retailer mycar Tyre and Auto has paid a $1 million penalty after it sent 1.7 million emails and texts, which did not have a working unsubscribe button.

Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) said the company paid $1,047,000 for the text and emails it sent between January and August last year, which did not comply with spam laws.

The retailer sent 1.45 million messages without the unsubscribe button, 276,000 emails where people had to provide vehicle registration details to opt out of receiving further messages and almost 5000 messages to customers who had already asked to unsubscribe.

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ACMA Chair Nerida O'Loughlin said the inability to easily opt out of receiving mycar's commercial messaging let to significant levels of consumer frustration.

"In one campaign mycar sent more than 1 million text messages that didn't have an unsubscribe function," O'Loughlin said.

"This is unacceptable, especially from a well-established national retailer.

"The action taken by the ACMA on this matter, as well as our recent action against the Commonwealth Bank, sends a strong message that we will continue to hold businesses to account for spam breaches."

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She said ACMA would conduct an independent review of its e-marketing procedures to implement improvements.

"mycar must also provide regular compliance reports to the ACMA and train its staff on Australia's spam laws."

Marketing messages have required an unsubscribe message since 2003.

Businesses have paid $11 million in penalties for breaching spam and telemarketing laws in the past 18 months, including a penalty of over $3.55 million paid by the Commonwealth Bank in June.

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