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The solo mother said she meant no malice but a judge disagreed.

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Football superstar Sam Kerr will carry Australia's flag at the upcoming coronation of King Charles III.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Friday afternoon the Matildas captain, who is currently playing for her London-based club side Chelsea, will be the flagbearer for the event on May 6.

"The prime minister will join the governor-general, state governors and a number of other Australian representatives (at the coronation), including Ms Sam Kerr OAM who will be the Australian flagbearer," a statement from Albanese's office said.

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Kerr holds the record as Australia's leading international goalscorer of all time, and has finished third in voting for the Ballon d'Or – a prestigious player of the year award – in the past two years.

She was awarded an Order of Australia for her service to football in 2022.

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Kerr is one of 14 Australian representatives for the coronation, a list that includes musician Nick Cave, comedian Adam Hills, doctor and Street Side Medics founder Daniel Nour, and Victoria Cross recipient Daniel Keighran.

In addition to naming Kerr as flagbearer, Albanese announced his trip for the coronation will include a meeting with UK counterpart Rishi Sunak and a visit to the shipyard where the first of the British AUKUS submarines will be built.

"I'm honoured to represent Australia at the coronation of the King and the Queen Consort, a historic occasion," Albanese said.

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"I am proud to join a group of remarkable Australians who will also attend the coronation, showcasing our truly diverse and dynamic nation.

"This will be the third occasion that I meet with Prime Minister Sunak.

"We will discuss the Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement, which will shortly enter into force, and will deliver benefits for Australian exporters, Australian workers and our economy more broadly.

"I will meet with the highly trained and skilled workers at the Barrow-in-Furness shipyard, who will be an important part of helping Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines through AUKUS."

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Five children, aged between 12 and 14, were referred to Youth Aid and forbidden to drive

An Australian man has been arrested after allegedly going on a drunk, naked and violent rampage in Indonesia.

Bodhi Mani Risby-Jones, a 23-year-old from Noosa, was detained in the early hours of Thursday morning in the country's ultra-conservative province of Aceh.

The alleged incident left a person in hospital and prompted residents to threaten to burn the Moon Beach Resort down on the island of Simeulue, off the coast of Sumatra.

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Risby-Jones has been named as a suspect by police and faces five years in prison if he is convicted.

The province enforces Sharia law, meaning the sale and consumption of alcohol is banned.

Simeulue police chief, Senior Commissioner Jatmiko – who, like many Indonesians, goes by one name – said the victim's wife had made a report to police and four witnesses had been questioned.

Jatmiko said Risby-Jones was being detained at Simeulue police station and would face court.

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He confirmed the Queenslander would not be deported. 

An Indonesian police report stated two residents of Lantik Village were about to buy cigarettes at a stall when a "foreign citizen" appeared from a ditch and chased them.

"They accelerated their motorcycle towards a coffee shop, the perpetrator chased them while rampaging so that local residents were frightened, the perpetrator also lifted a motorbike, causing a local resident (to fall) off and (be) injured," the police report said.

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The report said Risby-Jones also hit the wall of a coffee shop.

"Perpetrator's action provoked the anger of the residents, then they chased and caught the perpetrator," the report said.

The residents brought him to a local police station.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Jatmiko said the Queenslander had been drinking from a bottle of vodka before emerging without clothes after midnight.

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Officers said a half-empty bottle was found but Risby-Jones told them he hadn't been drinking.

"He got out of his room naked. The security man attempted to stop him but got hit at the neck and fell down," Jatmiko told the Sydney Morning Herald.

"He then went on to the street and disturbed passers-by. He hit almost everyone who was on the street."

The police report said the local victim suffered injuries to his feet and received 50 stitches in hospital.

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National cabinet has endorsed $2.2 billion of "practical" measures to strengthen Medicare, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says.

Following this morning's meeting of the nation's leaders, Albanese said the federal budget next month would include multiple supports to the country's beleaguered health system.

"One of the things that we need to do is to improve primary care delivery so that it takes pressure off our public hospital systems around the country," Albanese said.

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To do this, pharmacists will be given the opportunity to deliver more health services, and GPs will be offered incentives to stay open for longer hours.

"We want to expand the nursing workforce to improve access to primary care," Albanese said.

"We will introduce MyMedicare patient ID to support wraparound care for patients, registered with their local GP through new blended payment models."

Albanese said another priority would be outreach for repeat emergency hospital visitors, in order to help people who might have underlying issues such as mental health, drug, or alcohol problems, as well as to take the pressure off emergency departments.

The budget will also include investment in digital health, and funding for multidisciplinary team-based models to include quality of care.

Albanese said the government would also invest $720 million in the NDIS to allow it to deliver better support for participants.

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"The framework is the next step and will provide an annual growth target and the total costs of the scheme of no more than eight per cent by July 1, 2026, with further moderation of growth as the scheme matures," he said.

He said the current expenditure on the NDIS was "not sustainable".

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A Sydney mother-of-two has died less than a year after she was diagnosed with a "one-in-a-million" type of blood cancer.

Melinda Kolodynski, 34, was unexpectedly diagnosed with an extremely rare case of angiosarcoma cancer back in July 2022.

She began chemotherapy in September, documenting her journey on social media with the hashtag #MELinamillion, before she was told in October that chemotherapy was no longer an option.

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Her mother, Tracey McClure, yesterday advised on a fundraising page she had created for her daughter that Melinda had passed away from the disease.

"It is with a broken heart and immense sadness that I advise that my beautiful girl lost her battle and is now resting in peace," McClure shared.

Melinda, who was known as Mel to her friends and Mim to her family, has left behind her husband David, and sons aged six and three.

McClure previously explained that her daughter's cancer was "so rare that it cannot be diagnosed properly until it has spread, and at which time the treatment is classed as palliative".

One in one million people are diagnosed with angiosarcoma in the United States, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Melinda shared online seven weeks ago that she was in hospital in palliative care.

"My scan results weren't good and it's taken me a few days to gather myself and prepare for the next chapter of this hideous disease," she wrote.

"Cancer has metastasised to my liver and is quite progressed, my oncologist talks of (prognoses) that I'm quite frankly just not willing to accept, so once again we spend a couple of days with our heads in the pillow, tears streaming down our faces but it's time to get up dust off and soldier on because there is a fight to be had and I'm not done here."

On February 27, she shared the mental anguish she was going through in battling disease.

"Cancer has robbed everything of me, it's changed me as a person," she wrote.

"I know I don't recognise me anymore, my long blonde hair is gone, replaced with a large moon steroid driven face, my ability to toilet like a normal person (too much information I know but my reality and something so easily taken for granted), my career, the mother, sister, wife, daughter, niece and friend I once was and that's to name a few. Nothing and I mean nothing is the same."

McClure described her daughter as "beautiful, caring, vivacious, warm, loving and resilient".

"Anyone who knows Melinda knows that she is a fighter who never backs down and who is a generous and caring support to anyone who needs it," she wrote.

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