The road is expected to remain closed for some time and there are no available diversions.

A cannabis crop with an estimated value of $122,000 have been found by Queensland Police in a remote area off the state's coast.

Detectives said they found 49 mature plants surrounded by a makeshift electric fence in a national park at West Point on Magnetic Island.

An investigation has been launched to find out more about the crop which was found on May 23.

Police seeking information about from anyone who may have seen people behaving suspiciously in or around the national park at West Point.

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Manawatū Chef of the Year Grant Kitchen claimed there was no employment relationship.

A crime scene has formally been declared a week after a blaze tore through a Sydney heritage-listed building, leaving 140 people displaced and destroying the 100-year-old structure. 

It was confirmed today that the matter had officially been handed over to police, after Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) declared the seven-storey building safe to investigate.

The Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) and FRNSW were called in on Friday to coordinate the response, but are now satisfied the blaze had been properly extinguished and no longer poses a major threat to investigators.

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Engineers and experts from NSW Public Works are now working with police, the building's owners and their contractors on the demolition moving forward.

Earlier today, extra machinery was brought in to assist and it's expected that the remaining walls will be brought down to further reduction of the exclusion zone.

Once this is complete and safety assessments are conducted, "most of the residents of 30-34 and 38 Chalmers Street will be able to return to their apartments", police said.

That is expected to occur within the next few days.

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Due to "significant works" needing to be completed at 1-5 Randle Street, "it may be several weeks before the building can be re-occupied".

Two homeless people – believed to have been sleeping rough in the building around the time of the fire – remain unaccounted for following the fire, with police using cadaver dogs and forensic imaging to detect anyone who may have been killed.

Though no discoveries have so far been made.

A total of 140 people remain displaced, with emergency housing provided for those unable to stay with friends and family. 

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Drivers and pedestrians have been reminded that Chalmers Street and Randle Street between Cleveland Street and Elizabeth Street remains closed.

Four teenagers have handed themselves into police in relation to the fire.

No charges have been laid.

It is unlikely any part of the heritage building will be saved, with the owners said to be devastated a development application for a revamped five-star hotel will not go ahead.

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Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters, the investigative journalists who reported allegations of Ben Roberts-Smith's war crimes, have labelled a Federal Court Judge's decision to throw out the former SAS soldier's defamation case "justice".

"Today is a day of justice," McKenzie said outside court.

"It's a day of justice for those brave men of the SAS who stood up and told the truth about who Ben Roberts-Smith is.

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"Australia should be proud of those men in the SAS. They are the majority in the SAS and they stood up for what was right. And they have been vindicated.

McKenzie added it was a "day of some small justice" for the Afghan victims of Roberts-Smith.

Masters, meanwhile, said the judgement shouldn't be thought of as a bad day for Australian soldiers.

"I think of those soldiers who had not only physical courage but also moral courage… I'm proud that they're out there, that as journalists we can meet Australian people who are prepared to tell a difficult truth and stand up to it," he said.

Roberts-Smith had sued The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Canberra Times around allegations of five unlawful killings of Afghans the newspapers claim he either committed or was complicit in.

A Federal Court judge found allegations Roberts-Smith murdered or was complicit in the killing of four unarmed Afghans while deployed overseas were "substantially true" in a landmark defamation ruling.

In a statement released on Thursday afternoon, James Chessell, Nine's Managing Director of Publishing, and executive editor of The Age and The Herald Tory Maguire welcomed the judgment.

"Today is obviously a pivotal moment in this story and we are very pleased with the result – but it's critical to acknowledge that it goes on beyond this judgment," they said.

"We will continue to hold people involved in war crimes to account.

"The responsibility for these atrocities does not stop with Ben Roberts-Smith.

"Publishing a story of this magnitude is never easy, but high quality investigative journalism is vital to a thriving democracy.

"Nine's unequivocal backing of this reporting and our defence of it is a clear demonstration of its commitment to quality journalism."

Nine, the publisher of this website, is also the publisher of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

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Residents in uninhabitable flood-damaged homes felt it was unfair to pay rates.

The mayor says there are upcoming projects that may help protect against future flooding.

Megan Woods’ tweet likens National’s prescriptions policy to dystopian TV show.

A priceless 16th-century Italian painting that was looted by Nazi Germany during World War II and discovered in Japan has been returned to Poland, authorities in Warsaw said.

The “Madonna with Child” attributed to Alessandro Turchi, is the latest of some 600 looted artistic pieces that Poland has successfully repatriated. More than 66,000 so-called war losses remain unaccounted for. The painting was handed over during a ceremony at Poland's Embassy in Tokyo.

Culture Minister Piotr Glinski told reporters in Warsaw that the baroque painting was on the Nazis’ list of the 521 most valuable pieces of art among the tens of thousands of artworks that they looted when they occupied Poland between 1939-45.

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He said it was “not easy” to explain the history behind the looted works as well as the need for their return. But he said the “Madonna with Child” was returned following negotiations with the Japanese side and the "Mainichi Auction Inc. as well as the person who was in possession of the painting have decided to return it to Poland, without any costs".

Agata Modzelewska, head of the ministry's department for restitution of culture items, said the Polish side always stresses in negotiations that returning looted art is “the best moral and ethical gesture.”

The painting was identified by ministry experts at an auction in Tokyo in 2022. It comes from a collection of Poland's 18th-century aristocrat Stanislaw Kostka-Potocki.

In 1823, the painting was listed among artworks belonging to another Polish aristocrat, Henryk Lubomirski, in the town of Przeworsk. It was looted during the war and was sold at a New York auction in the late 1990s.

“More and more of the looted objects are appearing at auctions because the memory (of their past) has weakened and the persons who are in their possession now do not have the full knowledge or are not aware of where the artwork is coming from,” Modzelewska told The Associated Press.

Poland has for decades actively sought to repatriate art looted during the war by the Nazis and Soviet troops.

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A driver has been charged with several offences after he allegedly ran over two men with a ute while over the legal limit, killing them.

Police allege the two men, aged 36 and 41, were lying on the road when they were run over by the ute on Condie Crescent in North Nowra, on the New South Wales South Coast, at about 7pm last night.

The 27-year-old male driver allegedly returned a positive breath test following the incident.

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"Bystanders rendered first aid until NSW Ambulance paramedics arrived; however, both men died at the scene," NSW Police said in a statement.

"(The driver) was arrested and taken to Nowra Police Station, where he underwent a breath analysis, before being taken to hospital for mandatory testing."

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The North Nowra man was charged with dangerous driving occasioning death-drive manner dangerous, negligent driving (occasioning death) and driving with middle-range prescribed concentration of alcohol.

He was refused bail and is expected to appear at Nowra Local Court today.

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