Frankston serial killer Paul Denyer's application for parole has been denied.

Denyer became eligible for parole last month, after serving 30 years for the murders of three women in Melbourne in 1993.

The father of Denyer's final victim, 17-year-old Natalie Russell, said he was "relieved" to hear the news.

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"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."

Denyer was sentenced to life in prison without parole but the term was later reduced to a non-parole period of 30 years on appeal.

Denyer murdered Natalie, Elizabeth Stevens and Deborah Fream in the Frankston area.

Stevens, 18, was murdered by Denyer after she got off a bus on her way home from the library on June 11.

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On July 8, Seaford mother Fream, 22, was killed when she was ambushed by Denyer in her car.

A fortnight later, Natalie, 17, was murdered as she walked home from school.

Victorian MP David Limbrick, who was 19 when his then-girlfriend Natalie was murdered, said it was the result everyone was hoping for.

"We have been dreading this for 30 years," he said.

"This has been a traumatic process for all the family and friends, and everyone in Frankston."

Former homicide detective Charlie Bezzina believes there has been little remorse from Denyer over the decades.

"He hasn't changed. That's how he is programmed," he said.

"When we interviewed him, he said he had the urge to kill when he was 15. He will always kill.

"He's cold, callous and calculated."

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A class action has been launched over a cruise that allegedly sailed from Brisbane into the path of a category 5 cyclone in 2017.

The P&O Pacific Aria left Brisbane on May 5 that year.

"Before departure a cyclone warning had been issued for Vanuatu as had a forecast that the category 3 cyclone was heading in the direction of Noumea," Carter Capner Law director Peter Carter said.

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He claimed passengers were given no pre-boarding cancellation option for the seven-day South Pacific cruise to Noumea and Vanuatu.

The cyclone intensified to a category 4 on May 6, Carter said, and then to category 5 on May 8.

"On arrival at Noumea (New Caledonia) the ship was required to dock in the industrial port due to the high winds rather than at the cruise ship terminal," Carter said.

"Nothing was open in the city as Noumea was in lockdown for the arrival of the cyclone, and several passengers left the ship in Noumea because of the terrible sea conditions they had experienced and flew back to Brisbane."

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Carter claimed when the ship left Noumea, water was washing over the port and starboard sides of the vessel, and that deck six had been completely closed.

"This was truly a cruise from hell, with many passengers so scared they confined themselves to their cabin," Carter said.

He said passengers reported restaurant crockery thrown across the galley, meals tossed off the restaurant tables, tables and chairs being overturned, bottles of wine and spirits falling off the shelves and flying across the deck, seawater sloshing down corridors and into some cabins, and the ship listing for about an hour.

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The weather event also allegedly affected the operation of lifts while several onboard activities were cancelled.

The vessel did not stop at the intended ports of Lifou, New Caledonia and Port Vila, Vanuatu, Carter said.

The claim, filed against parent company Carnival, seeks to recover damages from P&O for "disappointment, frustration, discomfort and distress and a refund of the cruise fare paid by each passenger".

A spokesperson for P&O said that as the matter was before the courts, it would be inappropriate to comment.

9news.com.au has also contacted parent company Carnival PLC for comment.

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An amber alert warning is in place with with forecast westerly winds of 75-85km/h.

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A baby has been born with the DNA of three separate people in the UK.

In a national first, scientists combined the DNA of the child's parents with 0.1 per cent of that of another woman.

The trailblazing move is aimed at preventing children from being born with mitochondrial diseases – a devastating set of disorders that occur when structures that produce energy for a cell malfunction.

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As a result of the pioneering technique, five babies have been born across the globe.

Mitochondrial diseases are incurable, with families all over the world having reported losing multiple children to the same condition.

Death can occur after just days. 

Mitochondria are the small vessels inside nearly every cell of the human body that transform food into usable energy.

They are passed down from a baby's mother and mitochondrial donation treatment is essentially a modified form of IVF, which uses mitochondria from a healthy donor egg.

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"News that a small number of babies with donated mitochondria have now been born in the UK is the next step in what will probably remain a slow and cautious process of assessing and refining mitochondrial donation," Sarah Norcross, the director of the Progress Educational Trust said, according to the BBC.

Though the technique was pioneered in Newcastle, England, with laws introduced to allow the creation of such babies in the UK in 2015, the birth is the first of its kind in the country.

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Actor Vince Colosimo will seek counselling as he tries to put himself in the best position to pay back more than $65,000 in unpaid fines, his lawyer says.

The Underbelly star, 56, appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court today for a brief hearing over a Fines Victoria warrant against him for failing to pay more than 160 fines.

Wearing a black suit jacket, a white shirt and black-rimmed glasses, he appeared by video link in court.

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His lawyer Julia Munster said Colosimo had only recently received funding from Legal Aid for her legal representation.

She said he was arranging counselling and working hard to put himself in a better position, but needed two months to do this.

"These are significant matters, there's significant quantum involved," she said.

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The enforcement report is 68 pages long and Colosimo is facing five different fine enforcement cases, the court was told.

No lawyers for the Sheriff of Victoria, which enforces fine repayments, were in court on Wednesday.

In October last year, Colosimo was fined $2500 after being caught drug driving for a second time and lying to police about who he was.

The court was told at that time Colosimo also owed more than $65,000 for other unpaid fines.

He will return to court on July 13.

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