A pedestrian has died after they were hit by a car in Sydney's upper-north early this morning.

The incident occurred just before 7am at the intersection of Boundary Street and Wandella Avenue in Roseville.

The woman in her 70s was treated by paramedics after suffering critical injuries, but died at the scene.

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NSW Police said the driver of the Mitsubishi wagon, a man in his 50s was taken to hospital for mandatory testing.

A crime scene has been established by police.

Boundary Road at Roseville remains closed to traffic between Ferncourt Avenue and Archer Street.

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A Queensland man who went on an alleged drunken rampage while naked in Indonesia has finally returned home.

Bodhi Mani Risby-Jones was formally deported from the country after apologising for the incident, which allegedly left a fisherman with serious injuries.

The 23-year-old will make his way back home to the Sunshine Coast after landing in Melbourne this morning.

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The Queensland man was detained on Simeulue Island, a surf resort, almost six weeks ago after police accused him of going on a drunk, naked and violent rampage in the country's ultra-conservative province of Aceh.

"Of course I'm pretty emotional, so I'm going to feel bad about it," Risby-Jones said while waiting for his flight to Melbourne.

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He said the fisherman's relatives forgave him and told him that he was a part of their family now.

"I'm welcome to come back and even stay at their house whenever I want," he said.

"So, that feeling of guilt is definitely much smaller that it was originally," he said.

Risby-Jones was released from prison on Tuesday after he went through a restorative justice process, apologised for the attack and agreed to pay compensation to the fisherman.

That allowed him to avoid going to court and facing a possible charge of assault that could have landed him up to five years in prison.

His lawyer, Idris Marbawi, said the two sides agreed that Risby-Jones would pay the fisherman's family for hospital fees and a traditional peace ceremony.

The total payment was 300 million rupiah ($25,000). The fisherman underwent surgery in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital, for broken bones and an infection in his legs.

"Risby-Jones is the first foreigner to successfully resolve a case through restorative justice in Aceh province," Marbawi said.

"He deeply regretted what happened and vowed to return to Indonesia for surfing."

After his release, Risby-Jones stayed at an immigration detention centre before departing for Melbourne on Saturday evening, Marbawi said.

Footage of his release on Tuesday showed Risby-Jones being escorted by officers to a bus after hugging and saying goodbye to several prison wardens.

"It's been a long time coming and I'm feeling amazing and super happy and grateful," he said.

"Everyone has been very nice and accommodated me well. Thank you."

Violent acts by foreigners are rare in Aceh, the only province in Muslim-majority Indonesia that practices Shariah, a concession made by the central government in 2001 as part of efforts to end a decades-long war for independence.

The sale and consumption of alcohol is forbidden in Aceh, and those found drunk have been caned in public.

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It might still sound strange to say out loud, but the first King's Birthday public holiday in 70 years has arrived.

For many around Australia, the public holiday will be a chance to sleep in and unwind, with some shops operating under reduced trading hours as a result.

Here's a quick state-by-state guide of some of Australia's biggest retailers as to whether they will be open on June 12 for the King's Birthday long weekend.

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Woolworths

NSW and ACT – All stores will be open.

Victoria – All stores will be open.

Queensland and WA – All stores will be open.

SA – Rundle Mall and regional stores open (Millicent and Adelaide metropolitan stores closed)

NT – All stores will be open.

Tasmania – All stores will be open.

BIG W

NSW & ACT – All stores will be open.

Victoria – All stores will be open.

Queensland and WA – All stores will be open.

SA – Most stores are closed. Victor Harbor, Port Augusta, Renmark, Murray Bridge and Mount Gambier stores are open.

NT – All stores will be open.

Tasmania – All stores will be open.

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Coles

Queensland and WA – All stores will be open under normal trading hours.

Victoria, ACT, and Tasmania – All stores will be open under normal trading hours.

NSW – Almost all stores will have their standard trading hours.

Wynyard, Newcastle Junction, Medowie, Maroubra Junction, Eastgardens, Casula, Ingleburn, and Wattle Grove will have reduced hours.

NT – All stores will open with reduced trading hours.

SA – All stores will be closed except Port Lincoln, Port Pirie, Berri, Port Augusta, Mount Barker, Whyalla, Murray Bridge Green, Mount Gambier, Victor Harbor.

Coles Rundle Place will be open from 11am to 5pm.

LIQUORLAND

ACT – All stores will be open with reduced trading hours, which will be open from 10am to 6pm.

NSW – Reduced trading hours for all stores except the following: Toronto, Charlestown, Wyong, Long Jetty Liquor Barn, Lismore

NT – Reduced trading hours for all stores except Alice Springs and Pinelands which will be closed.

SA – Reduced trading hours for most stores.

The following stores will be closed: Parkholme, Greenacres, Marion, Gawler Green, Firle, Elizabeth, Parafield Gardens, St Agnes, West Lakes, Paralowie, Port Adelaide, Modbury Heights, Churchill, Athelstone, Munno Para, St Clair, Mount Barker, Payneham Drive Thru.

Tasmania – Reduced trading hours for Glebe Hill from 10am-8pm.

Victoria – Reduced trading hours for all stores except Horsham (Darlot Street) which is closed.

Kmart

Queensland and WA – All stores will operate during normal trading hours.

NSW, Victoria and Tasmania – All stores will be open but many will have reduced trading hours.

SA and NT – Stores will mostly be closed, but some will be open for reduced trading hours.

Bunnings

Bunning stores in every state and territory will be open on Monday 12 June but there will be shortened public trading hours.

Except for WA and Queensland, which doesn't celebrate the King's Birthday in June. 

Dan Murphy's

Most Dan Murphy's stores around the country will open at 10am and close between 6pm – 7 pm.

BWS

BWS stores in every state and territory will open at 10am and close between 6pm and 7pm.

Westfield

Queensland and WA – All stores will operate during normal trading hours.

NSW and ACT – All centres will open from 10am and have reduced trading hours.

SA – All Westfield shopping centres will be closed.

Victoria – All Victorian centres will trade from 10am to 5pm.

Best and Less

Queensland and WA – All stores will operate during normal trading hours.

NSW – All stores will be open (except Grafton, Gunnedah, Inverell, Lismore and Toronto.)

SA – All stores will be open except Mt Gambier.

Victoria, ACT, NT, and Tasmania – All stores open.

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It's hard to imagine not knowing another queer person in 2023 but that was the reality for Sam Watson who grew up in a small Tasmanian town.

Watson had many challenges to overcome after coming out in Ulverstone, a town which has a population of just under 12,000 people, on Tasmania's North-West Coast.

As part of Pride Month, which is being celebrated around the world in June, he wants anyone else who feels isolated to know they're not alone.

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"There is a real fear that you are the only one because when I came out, I don't think I knew another gay person," Watson told 9news.com.au.

"I was quite lucky to have very good friends and family around me… but I certainly had instances of being called names or being treated differently."

Watson said he found it "quite traumatic" to lose some of his straight male friends after he came out.

"Nothing had changed between us but they were afraid of being gay for hanging out with me, which was anything but truth."

Watson was attending a catholic school when he started identifying as gay in his early teenage years, during the same time the same sex marriage plebiscite was being debated.

Two weeks after he came out, the Archdiocese sent out a booklet to every student about why marriage equality was wrong.

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Watson's mum threw away the booklet but he found a copy to read.

"It is pretty awful. While they are not saying they are openly anti-gay, when you are 15-years-old and are just coming out, it feels like it is you against them," Watson said. 

"It certainly does not feel like they are trying to create a welcoming, supportive educational environment."

In Australia 72.3 per cent of students aged between 7-years-old and 15-years-old have been bullied, according to research from Bully Zero in 2022.

A survey of 263,075 NSW public school students last year found 27 per cent of primary children and 24 per cent of high school students said they had been bullied in the previous four weeks, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

For LGBTQI+ students the figure is higher.

Queer teenagers are being bullied at nearly double the rate of their classmates in the United States and more than 90 per cent of LGBTQI+ high school students hear homophobic language at school, according to a Western Sydney University study.

Regional issues

Watson said visibility of the queer community was one of the most important things in helping vulnerable young people to overcome bullying.

"If you grew up living in Sydney you see Mardi Gras, you see that's a normal fun event. 

"If you grew up in Ulverstone, especially up until recently, you don't see that as normalised."

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Tasmania has a history of anti-gay rallies and members of parliament making homophobic statements.

It only became legal to be gay in the state in 1997, jut three years before Watson was born.

Watson said there wasn't any visible support for queer people in the community when he was in school but now the town flies a rainbow flag at council chambers and hosts events in pride week.

"The most important thing at that early stage is visibility, so they know they are not alone, there is nothing wrong with them and that people support them.

"By doing this the council also shows people who aren't curious (about their sexuality) this is a normal part of life, that we're not aliens, and this is not something that's okay to discriminate against people for."

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He wants people in any part of Australia to know it is ok to be gay and they are not alone.

"I think people don't realise that today, in this day and age, people are still getting kicked out of home and people still will delay coming out because they don't feel that they have the resources and the support to do so.

"It is really easy to fall into a place where you think you are alone and you are the only one but that is so far from the case."

He encouraged anyone who is struggling to find other people and services in the queer community to connect with.

"The majority of people will love you for who you are and that is what we saw in the same sex marriage postal survey."

He said he would advise parents not to "assume" their child's sexual orientation.

"The thing that makes is hardest to come out is this assumption that as a man, you'll have a girlfriend or as a girl you'll have a boyfriend, or if you are transitioning that you are the sex that you were born.

"So if and when your child does come out, I think the most important thing to say is I love you no matter what."

If you or someone you know is struggling with bullying you can call the Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800 or visit their website here.

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday blasted his historic federal indictment as "ridiculous" and "baseless," saying in his first public appearance since the charges were unsealed that the 37 felony counts were an attack on his supporters as he tried to turn legal peril into political advantage.

Speaking at the Georgia Republican Convention, Trump cast his indictment by the Department of Justice as an attempt to hurt his chances of returning to the White House as he campaigns for a second term in office.

"They've launched one witch hunt after another to try and stop our movement, to thwart the will of the American people," Trump said, later adding, "In the end, they're not coming after me. They're coming after you."

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The strategy is a well-worn one for Trump, who remains the front-runner for the 2024 GOP nomination despite his mounting legal woes.

He planned to speak to a Republican audience in North Carolina later Saturday.

The indictment unsealed Friday charged him with 37 felony counts in connection with his hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Trump is accused of willfully defying Justice Department demands to return classified documents, enlisting aides in his efforts to hide the records and even telling his lawyers that he wanted to defy a subpoena for the materials stored at his residence.

The indictment includes allegations that he stored documents in a ballroom and bathroom at his resort, among other places.

The most serious charges carry potential prison sentences of up to 20 years each, but first-time offenders rarely get anywhere near the maximum sentence and the decision would ultimately be up to the judge.

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For all that, Trump anticipated a hero's welcome at the party conventions in Georgia and North Carolina.

"Trump is a fighter, and the kinds of people that attend these conventions love a fighter," said Jack Kingston, a former Georgia congressman who supported Trump's White House campaigns in 2016 and 2020.

Trump said his political enemies had launched "one hoax and witch hunt after another" and claimed the charges against him were politically motivated.

"The ridiculous and baseless indictment of me by the Biden administration's weaponised Department of Injustice will go down as among the most horrific abuses of power in the history of our country," Trump told Georgia Republicans.

About 100 supporters, some waving "Witch Hunt" signs, showed up to the Columbus airfield to greet Trump as he arrived.

Jan Plemmons, 66, wearing an oversize foam "Make America Great Again" hat, called the federal charges "absolutely ridiculous" and said she was ready to campaign with Trump.

To Michael Sellers, 67, it was "criminal what they're doing to him."

The indictment arrives at a time when Trump is continuing to dominate the primary race. Other candidates have largely attacked the Justice Department — rather than Trump — for the investigation.

But the indictment's breadth of allegations and scope could make it harder for Republicans to rail against these charges compared with an earlier New York criminal case that many legal analysts had derided as weak.

The federal charging document alleges that Trump not only intentionally possessed classified documents but also boastfully showed them off to visitors and aides.

The indictment is built on Trump's own words and actions as recounted to prosecutors by lawyers, close aides and other witnesses, including his professing to respect and know procedures related to the handling of classified information.

The indictment includes 31 counts that pertain to the willful retention of national defense information. The others relate to alleged conspiracy, obstruction and false statements.

Trump is due to make his first federal court appearance Tuesday in Miami.

He was charged alongside valet Walt Nauta, a personal aide whom prosecutors say moved boxes from a storage room to Trump's residence for him to review and later lied to investigators about the movement. A photograph included in the indictment shows several dozen file boxes stacked in a storage area.

The case adds to deepening legal jeopardy for Trump. In March, he was indicted in New York in a hush money scheme stemming from payouts made to a porn actor during his 2016 campaign, and he faces additional investigations in Washington and Atlanta that also could lead to criminal charges.

But among the various investigations he has faced, the documents case has long been considered the most perilous threat and the one most ripe for prosecution.

Trump's continued popularity among Republican voters is evident in how gingerly his primary rivals have treated the federal indictment.

Mike Pence, whose appearance in North Carolina marked the first shared venue with his former boss since the ex-vice president announced his own campaign this past week, condemned the "politicisation" of the Justice Department and urged Attorney General Merrick Garland "to stop hiding behind the special counsel and stand before the American people" to explain the basis for the federal investigation into Trump.

"A former president of the United States facing an unprecedented indictment by a Justice Department run by the current president of the United States and a potential political rival," Pence said to loud applause.

Pence said it was important to hear Trump's defense, "then each of us can make our own judgment. Be patient. Know that we will soon know the facts."

At the North Carolina GOP gathering Friday night, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Trump's leading GOP rival, didn't mention Trump by name but compared his situation to that of Hillary Clinton.

"Is there a different standard for a Democratic secretary of state versus a former Republican president?" DeSantis asked.

"I think there needs to be one standard of justice in this country. … At the end of the day, we will once and for all end the weaponisation of government under my administration."

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Kari Lake, a Trump loyalist who lost the governor's race in Arizona last year, used her speech to Georgia Republicans on Friday night to repeat Trump's false claims of a rigged 2020 election and she suggested that the indictment was another way to deny him the presidency.

"He's doing so well in the polls that they decided they can't stop him. So what do they do? They indict him on completely bogus charges," Lake said. "The illegitimate Biden administration wants to lock our beloved President Trump for more than 200 years. Wow."

Among the declared Republican contenders, only Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has explicitly called for Trump to end his candidacy.

Hutchinson did not mention Trump in remarks at a Georgia convention breakfast Saturday, but told reporters afterward that the Republican Party "should not lose its soul" in defending Trump and said the evidence so far suggested that the former president treated national secrets "like entertainment tools."

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There's a very small percentage of humans on this earth that love to vacuum, so for the majority of us, a robot helper is a godsend. 

Robot vacuums, window cleaners, lawn mowers, pool cleaners – you name it, there's probably a robot to help you with your every need. Robotic vacuums and mops are the standout and the technology behind them is evolving rapidly.

Robot vacuums with cameras have become increasingly popular, as they offer additional features such as mapping capabilities and smart navigation. But as technology advances, we have to question how safe and secure these products are.

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Last month, Dyson launched their first robot vacuum, the Dyson 360 Vis Nav, which offers a 360-degree camera that can be accessed at any time through the Dyson app.

Whether you're in front or behind, to the left or right of the robot – it can see your every move.

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Ecovacs Deebot X1 OMNI also has camera capabilities, with the camera doubling as home security and also utilising the camera for object detection. These luxury home robots retails for about $2500.

But how secure are robot vacuums with cameras attached?

If a camera following you around isn't your cup of tea, there are some great options out there, such as the HOBOT LEGEE D8.

The LEGEE D8 opts to skip the camera, lowering the security risk, yet still offers smart home cleaning at a more affordable price point. The LEGEE D8 starts at around $800.

How safe is my data while using robots with cameras?

Vacuums equipped with cameras can capture images or videos of your home, that's a no-brainer. This of course can raise privacy concerns, as you may be uncomfortable with the idea of a device collecting visual data within your living space.

Everyone investing in a robot vacuum, or robot device in general, should consider how data is captured, stored and transmitted. The best way to know how your robot manufacturer is looking after your data is to check their privacy policy and terms of service. 

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Any device with a camera and internet connectivity can be vulnerable to hacking attempts.

While reputable manufacturers strive to implement security measures, it's crucial to choose a robot vacuum from a trusted brand that invests in cybersecurity and regularly releases firmware updates to address potential vulnerabilities.

If privacy and security are your main concerns, choosing a robot vacuum without a camera can provide peace of mind.

Cameraless models rely on other sensors, such as infrared or laser sensors, to navigate and map your home. These vacuums can still effectively clean your floors without capturing visual data.

Most of these big companies invest millions in cyber security.

Sure, none of them can 100 per cent guarantee your privacy and data is secure, but there are a few things you can do to ease your mind. 

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How can I secure my network?

It's not just the products themselves that offer a potential security risk, you need to make sure your own home network is secure and you have security measures in place to prevent unauthorised access.

Regardless of whether your robot vacuum has a camera, you can take steps to enhance the security of your smart home devices.

These include regularly updating the firmware of your robot, using a strong and unique password for your robot's app or control panel, and ensuring your Wi-Fi network is secure with a strong password and encryption.

You can also choose which data you want to share through various apps, you can see which apps are tracking your phone's activity by heading to your device's privacy settings.

On iPhone, you can ask apps not to track you and select which ones have access to your data. You may want to share your data in some circumstances, such as location-based apps (banking, takeaway food).

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What benefits do I get from a robot vacuum with a camera? 

A camera-equipped robot vacuum can provide advanced features such as mapping, improved navigation, object detection, remote monitoring, and customised cleaning preferences. 

These benefits contribute to a more efficient and tailored cleaning experience, making your robot vacuum an even more valuable and convenient tool for maintaining a clean home.

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Choosing between a robot vacuum with a camera or without one ultimately depends on your personal preferences and risk tolerance regarding privacy and security. While manufacturers invest in cybersecurity, no solution is 100 per cent foolproof. 

By considering reputable brands, securing your home network, and making informed decisions about data sharing, you can strike a balance between the convenience of robot vacuums and the need to protect your privacy and security in the smart home era.

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