A person allegedly stabbed in the neck is in a critical condition.

It follows calls from the National and Green parties and the Reserve Bank for an inquiry.

The family of a teen killed with a screwdriver by a birthday party gatecrasher say they want his attacker to "rot in hell".

The now 18-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, faced the Supreme Court of Victoria on Monday after previously pleading guilty to the manslaughter of 17-year-old Jason Langhans.

Crown prosecutor Jane Warren told the court Langhans, an apprentice plumber and keen fisherman, was acting as a peacemaker at the gatecrashed 16th birthday party in Tooradin when he was struck in the head in March 21.

READ MORE: Aussies to vote on Voice referendum

He died three weeks later in hospital.

His attacker was 17 at the time.

Family and friends described Langhans as a "kind and caring" young man who had his life taken away in one fell swoop.

"Who takes a screwdriver to a girl's 16th birthday party?" his grandparents Cheryl and Peter said in their victim impact statement.

"We wish (his attacker) nothing but pain and suffering for the rest of his life. May he rot in hell."

His father Paul Langhans wept while telling the court how he begged for the doctors to "save my boy".

"I watched him take his first breath when he entered the world and watched him take his last," Paul Langhans said.

"My heart is shattered."

The court heard the teen, only referred to as JN, had been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and paranoid schizophrenia.

He had consumed half a bottle of vodka and smoked cannabis before attending the party uninvited, armed with a screwdriver.

He later drove that screwdriver almost 8cm into his victim's brain.

Psychiatrist Rajan Darjee told the court the teen's intoxication, coupled with his PTSD and paranoid schizophrenia was not a good mix.

READ MORE: New roadblock for Aussies heading to travel hotspot

READ MORE: Huge changes coming to your tax return this year

The court also heard of the teen's early life in Afghanistan, his arrival at Christmas Island detention centre and his poor experience at school once he moved to the mainland.

The teen was remanded in custody to be sentenced by Judge Elizabeth Hollingworth on August 24.

Readers seeking support can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or beyond blue on 1300 22 4636.

Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467.

MensLine Australia 1300 78 99 78.

Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800 (for people aged 5 to 25)

Shocking dashcam footage has captured the moment an out-of-control Tesla narrowly missed oncoming traffic on a busy Adelaide freeway.

The footage, captured on the South Eastern Freeway yesterday, shows the car nearly missing several others as it hurtled down the wrong side of the road.

Police are investigating whether the driver suffered a medical episode.

READ MORE: Judge slams emotional anguish excuse for rideshare rape

The footage, first posted to Dashcams Adelaide Facebook group, showed the seconds before the Tesla crashed into a barricade.

The force of the crash forced the car to slam straight into a family.

"I would say if we were a quarter of a second faster or didn't brake then we probably would have taken out the Tesla driver," the driver told 9News.

There are no reports of any major injuries.

Sign up here to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.

A 40-year-old man who runs a fruit and vegetable business on Sydney's north shore is among three people charged after $76 million worth of methamphetamine was allegedly found crammed into plastic pallets shipped into Australia by a crime gang based in Mexico.

The Hornsby man was the alleged Australian contact for the syndicate alongside two US men, aged 42 and 34, who allegedly arrived in Sydney in April 2023 from Fiji and the US to facilitate the importation of the drugs.

Officials say 375kg of methamphetamine from five consignments seized by the AFP and its partners in Sydney and Los Angeles between April 2022 and February 2023, were sent from Los Angeles by the syndicate.

READ MORE: Huge changes coming to your tax return this year

Police allegedly found the methamphetamine hidden inside 13 plastic pallets in Los Angeles in February.

The men were arrested at a unit in Marsden Park – where the drugs were allegedly found – and another in Newtown.

The men appeared in Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court on May 2 and have been remanded in custody to next appear on July 27.

All were charged with one count each of attempting to possess a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug.

They face 25 years in jail.

READ MORE: Teen charged with former coach's murder

AFP Detective Superintendent Kristie Cressy said shared intelligence with international law enforcement partners was crucial to the drugs bust.

"The relationship the AFP shares with its international law enforcement partners was crucial to obtaining and analysing the intelligence that directly resulted in the seizure of 375kg of illicit drugs around the world," Cressy said.

"The arrest of three people here in Australia and their connection to a wider Mexican-based cartel gives us valuable insight into the operations of organised crime groups and will help us and our partners create a hostile environment for them to operate in."

Sign up here to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.

Land-dwellers have been given a glimpse at one of the most rare and bizarre sharks lurking in the depths after fishermen trawled the seas off Taiwan.

An 800kg goblin shark was brought to the surface last week in Yilan, off the north-east coast.

It's the largest ever caught in the country's waters, but the surprises didn't stop there. 

READ MORE: Huge changes coming to your tax return this year

The female specimen was found to be heavily pregnant and had six pups inside her.

The specimen will be displayed at Taiwan Ocean Artistic Museum.

"The shark was almost purchased by a restaurant," staff wrote in a Facebook post.

"After fighting for it, the Taiwan Ocean Artistic Museum bought it as a future marine education resource."

READ MORE: Man vanishes after walk through Queensland park

The museum went on to explain the "rare prehistoric" species has rarely been observed by humans, calling it a "living fossil".

"Only two 'goblin sharks' have been caught in Mexico recently," it said.

"This species has translucent skin, pink body and evil fangs.

"Because the head is shaped like a goblin, it is called 'goblin shark.'"

The strange-looking creature is typically found near the sea floor, at depths of 1200 metres.

"In Australia, it is known from off New South Wales, Tasmania and possibly from off South Australia," the Australian Museum said, adding the species is known for its bizarre eating habits.

"When feeding, the goblin shark extends its jaws forward faster than any other species of shark."

READ MORE: Teen charged with former coach's murder

The species' prey items include bony fishes, squids and crustaceans.

Goblin sharks pose no danger to humans.

Sign up here to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.

Australians will vote on an Indigenous Voice to parliament this year after a bill legislating the referendum passed the Senate this morning.

The bill was passed 52-19, after a number of emotive speeches both for and against the Voice.

Ultimately, the bill to establish the referendum was supported not just by the Labor government but also by the Liberal-led opposition, although Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is opposed to the Voice itself.

READ MORE: Huge changes coming to your tax return this year

The referendum will ask Australians whether an advisory body for Indigenous Australia should be established in the constitution.

The body will not have any legislative power nor any veto over laws passed by the parliament but can offer advice on issues that affect Indigenous communities.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the referendum was years in the making and would give Australians the chance to create history.

"I say to my fellow Australians – parliaments pass laws, but it is people that make history. This is your time, your chance, your opportunity to be a part of making history. It will be a moment of national unity, a chance to make our nation even greater," Albanese said.

"This change isn't about detracting from the 122 years of our democracy.

"As the solicitor-general in his written advice says clearly – it enhances that system."

Albanese did not announce a date for the referendum but has said it will take place in the last quarter of this year.

Like a federal election, the date needs to be announced with at least 33 days' notice.

READ MORE: Teen charged with former coach's murder

https://twitter.com/AlboMP/status/1670601062196338689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Albanese said the campaign would be difficult, but he believed the referendum would ultimately be successful.

Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney said today was a pivotal day.

"Today this Senate has passed the Constitution Alteration Bill without amendment. This is the final hurdle to holding a referendum later this year on constitutional recognition through a Voice," Burney said.

"It's on. We are one step closer to … finally recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in our nation's founding document.

"One step closer to giving a voice to the needs and aspirations of Indigenous Australians. One step closer to unifying Australia and making a great country even greater."

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the Australian people could be confident the changes proposed in the referendum were constitutionally sound.

"No harm can come from this referendum, only good," Dreyfus said.

"The parliament has done its job and now it is up to the Australian people to take the opportunity offered by the Uluru Statement from the Heart in 2017, an opportunity for our nation to do better, to come together and to walk towards a better future."

READ MORE: Man vanishes after walk through Queensland park

The bill in the Senate went to a rare third reading, during which a number of Senators spoke on the Voice.

Northern Territory Labor Senator Malarndirri McCarthy said a vote for the Voice was also for a "better future".

"'Yes' for First Nations people to be able to make decisions in terms of advising the Parliament and the executive, as to decisions made about them so they can have input into that," she said.

"In fact, this whole debate, we have seen with research polling across the country that majority of First Nations people want this to happen."

Shadow Indigenous Affairs Minister Jacinta Price said it was a "dangerous and costly" proposal which would divide Australians.

Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe said the Voice was a "powerless advisory body" that would not advance the cause of Indigenous sovereignty in Australia.

Sign up here to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.

It was a big win for New Zealand dad Andrew Ryan when he saw his son lick a jet plane lolly for the first time.

The success was during one of his many attempts to encourage Mitchell to play with food. It was the only time he has seen his six-year-old son bring food to his mouth.

The next day, Mitchell would not touch food again.

The six-year-old is autistic, non-verbal and has a rare condition called Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (Arfid). He drinks Pediasure, a nutritional supplement for children, but does not consume any other food or drinks, including water.

READ MORE: Huge changes coming to your tax return this year

"I could try and give him a chocolate sundae, which any kid would love, and he won't want to go near it. … I would give him any food in the world to eat, I wouldn't care what it was," Ryan said. As well as not eating, Mitchell will scream and run away from food.

The family, who live in Greater Wellington region, have tried everything, Ryan said. Arfid was only recognised as a disorder in 2013 and finding help in New Zealand has been "horrendously challenging".

Andrew and wife Isobel took out their Kiwisavers and moved to Wellington when Mitchell was diagnosed with autism four years ago. They lived with family while they paid for $60,000 worth of therapy for Mitchell.

The therapies did not help the young boy to eat. The couple have now taken out a mortgage and moved to a lifestyle block in Masterton, in the hope that there will be enough space to build Mitchell his own house nearby when he becomes an adult.

At first they tried force-feeding him, which was "horrible" and "like torturing him", Ryan said. Then, running out of ideas, they tried not feeding him until he wanted to eat. Mitchell would still not eat.

"I realised he would just starve. It wouldn't matter how hungry he is, he won't do it. You can see that he almost wants to but there's something that prevents him from doing it."

With guidance from doctors, the parents realised this was the "wrong way to go" and could make food more traumatic for Mitchell.

They have since tried to make food more play-based and fun for Mitchell, leading to their success in seeing him lick a jet plane lolly which he thought was a toy.

Visits to doctors can be frustrating. Ryan recalls a doctor saying: "Oh, my kid's a fussy eater too."

He thought: "Are you kidding? We can't get this kid to eat anything and he's six. He's eaten nothing in his life, apart from yoghurt when he was a baby … even then he would hate it and throw it up."

Their biggest fear is regression. Sometimes Mitchell's development seems to go backwards – when he was four he spoke for the first time, but the next day was back to not speaking. Likewise, the day after playing with the jet plane lollies he would not touch them.

Regression could happen with drinking Pediasure too. The risk is that if he developed an aversion and stopped drinking it, he would need to be fed through a tube into his stomach. That could be dangerous, because with his autism he is likely to pull the tube out.

People have told them to wait and Mitchell might eventually learn to eat, but Ryan said they've waited long enough.

"I'd held off to try and see if it would happen, and I held off because I was also really concerned about Mitchell's privacy … It's really scary for me to put his photo out there and say he's autistic."

The best support for Mitchell is at a clinic in Graz, Austria called NoTube, which has courses for families with food therapies to help children learn to eat. The Ryans had a video interview with therapists, who have a 90% success rate at treating Arfid and were confident they could get Mitchell to eat.

The therapy to help Mitchell eat could also help him speak, by encouraging him to use his mouth muscles with chewing motions.

The Ryans are trying to raise $50,000 to go to NoTube for a two-week course.

"I'm trying not to get my hopes up. On paper you look at it and you go, 'This could work. This could change his life.' If there was any place ever that could do it these are the people," Ryan said.

This article was reproduced with permission from Stuff.

The Singleton Roosters football club has expressed its grief and heartbreak in the wake of the Hunter Valley wedding bus crash, which took the lives of several members and injured others.

Addressing reporters at Rose Point Park, where team members train and play matches, president Dylan Hixon said the club had been left devastated by the tragic crash on June 11, which killed 10 people in one of the worst road accidents in recent history.

The club has found itself at the centre of the tragedy: bride and groom Mitchell Gaffney and Maddy Edsell were members of the Singleton men's and women's teams.

READ MORE: Man vanishes after walk through Queensland park

Among the wedding guests killed from the club were Nadine McBride and her daughter Kyah, Kane Symons, married couple Lynan and Andrew Scott, and Tori Cowburn.

"Our community has experienced unfathomable heartache, distress and sadness," Hixon said.

"The club extends its deepest sympathies to the families who have lost loved ones. while our thoughts are with everyone close to each person involved, including those who have passed away and suffered injuries. 

"Our first priority and focus is on supporting the families, friends and those from our wider club community who have been affected by this unspeakable tragedy." 

Hixon thanked those who were part of a collective outpouring of support in the wake of the tragedy and asked the media for privacy to allow everyone to grieve.

"We appreciate there's a significant media and public interest in this tragedy and those involved and we asked for the privacy of our community to be respected as we collectively grieve and process this enormous loss," Hixon said.

Hixon said members would be leaning on each other for support during the tough time ahead.

Bus driver Brett Button, 58, has been released on bail after being charged with serious driving offences in relation to the crash.

Sign up here to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.

Agony inflicted by Frankston serial killer Paul Denyer has been cruelly stoked by his attempts to win parole, say survivors who want a new law passed to block him from being freed early.

Denyer's application for parole is "sickening" and simply opens up old scars that will never properly heal, said a friend of Natalie Russell, a schoolgirl just 17 when she was murdered.

The convicted serial killer has insisted he is now reformed and is no longer a danger to society, a claim Natalie's friend Karen scoffs at.

READ MORE: Huge changes coming to your tax return this year

"It's pretty sickening and just awful for all of us that are left," Karen told Today, reflecting on Denyer's recently rejected parole bid.

"I don't know how you could claim to be not a danger to society when you've killed three women.

"Like, how is that possible?"

In 1993, Denyer, now 51, was sentenced to three life sentences after pleading guilty to the murders of Russell, Elizabeth Stevens, 18, and 22-year-old mother Deborah Fream.

Victoria's parliament is now reviewing legislation that would stop Denyer's legal right to ever again apply for parole.

Denyer was sentenced to life in prison without parole, but this was later appealed and reduced to a non-parole period of 30 years, meaning he was eligible for release last month.

That bid was rejected.

READ MORE: Man vanishes after walk through Queensland park

Premier Daniel Andrews is opposed to the bill, which has been supported by the Liberals and Nationals.

Andrews has remarked it would be highly unusual for parliament to create laws that specifically target a single person.

Natalie's friend Karen said it was "important" parliament passed new legislation to "fix" the Denyer problem.

But the odds of that appear stacked.

Labor has an overwhelming majority in the lower house, so the bill would require crossbench support to pass.

"We really just can't keep going through this," she said.

"Something needs to happen.

"We don't want to keep seeing his face on the news or keep having to talk about it."

In the winter of 1993, Denyer brought terror to Frankston, a suburb in Melbourne's south-east and gateway to the Mornington Peninsula.

From hundreds of suspects, Denyer stood out.

He denied killing the women but eventually confessed after 1500 questions from police.

Elizabeth was Denyer's first victim, killed on June 11 after leaving a bus on her way home from the library.

READ MORE: Teen charged with former coach's murder

One month later, young mother Fream was ambushed by Denyer.

She had left her 12-day-old son at home with a friend when she popped out to buy some milk for an omelette dinner.

Fream never made it home.

Like Elizabeth, she was later found strangled and badly slashed.

Then, a fortnight later, Natalie was murdered as she walked home from school, taking her usual shortcut between two golf courses.

Denyer had dragged her into nearby scrub and killed her.

When Denyer's parole application was rejected in May, Natalie's father said he was relieved.

"This is the best news we have had in 30-odd years," he said.

"It's a relief too.

"We were getting to the point where we thought it was a 50-50 chance that he might get parole."

Sign up here to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.