Two cheeky dogs have been found after a wild five-week adventure in South Australia's Murraylands saw them face the elements and battle kangaroos.

Rupert and Finni often go wandering in their backyard.

It usually starts with one going next door to fetch the other and ends with them biting off more than they can chew, such as taking on kangaroos.

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But things took a different turn in March when Ben Dunbar's attempts to find the dogs went unanswered by his next door neighbour, Chris Scanlon.

"I found him passed away in the paddock, and hence that's why the dogs had run away and disappeared," Dunbar said of Chris' shock death.

Signs and searches for the lost dogs didn't bring the pets any closer to home.

Hope wore thin as the weeks drew on, until a Facebook post pointed Dunbar to a nearby but largely empty island on the River Murray.

This prompted one final three-hour search in a dinghy and on foot.

"Then just out of the blue, Rupert just popped out of nowhere, I was nearly in tears," Dunbar recalled.

Both dogs were there – starving and a little withdrawn but alive. Finni was covered in the unmistakable signs of kangaroo warfare but home at last.

In these parts of the state, devices that pick up signals for trackers to send a location are few and far between.

Even if they did work, Rupert somehow found a way to lose two collars during the adventure anyway.

"It's been a bit of a bizarre five weeks to be honest with finding Chris and both of the dogs missing, there's kind of been a bit of an emptiness," Dunbar said.

With the passing of Chris, Finni will now stay with his son, Cody, in Mannum, almost 40 kilometres away.

But the distance won't keep them apart for long.

"Looking at him it just reminds me of the good times that he had with my dad and I had with my dad and all the family," Scanlon said.

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Thousands of West Australian drivers have successfully appealed artificial intelligence-based camera infringements, wiping $2.2 million in fines.

But as pressure mounts to press pause on the controversial cameras, the government says it's going to roll out even more.

Over the past six months more than 54,000 infringements have been issued to WA drivers for incorrectly wearing a seatbelt or not wearing one at all.

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The acts have been caught by AI cameras, with new data revealing nearly $10 million in fines have been issued since they officially launched in October.

Perth father Steven Shaw is one of those fined.

Over a two-month period, between December and January, his passenger was caught four times by AI cameras improperly wearing her seatbelt on the freeway.

"When you're driving 100[km/h] down the freeway, there's no safe way you can safely monitor a passenger's seatbelt location without potentially causing an accident," Shaw told 9News.

But, as the driver, he was hit with more than $2000 in fines and 20 demerits, starting a four-month battle and putting his livelihood at stake.

"There was two or three weeks where I didn't know if I'd lost my licence, I was in limbo and my wife driving much of the time," Shaw said.

Shaw challenged his infringements, with the Department of Transport withdrawing all but the first one, which he'll contest in court.

The father is one of 2800 drivers who've successfully appealed their infringement notices, wiping $2.2 million in fines.

"AI cameras in my opinion are not suitable for this form of infringement, they are for speeding and phones," Shaw said.

WA Premier Roger Cook said it's not the AI cameras' fault but that the driver gets clocked multiple times in a short window.

"People are often getting penalised once, twice or three times before they're even aware that a fine has been raised in their name," Cook said.

Despite the AI camera backlash, the WA government plans to roll out even more within the next six months.

The opposition says the government needs to iron out the issues before launching more.

"The government haven't gotten it right," Opposition Leader Basil Zempilas said.

"It needs to be tweaked and they need to get it right before more fines are issued."

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Woolworths has denied corporate watchdog claims it tricked Australians with fake discounts, saying the regulator has misrepresented what drives prices at the shelf.

In the Federal Court on Tuesday, the supermarket giant denied temporarily hiking prices on hundreds of items before reducing them by a lesser degree to hide increases from consumers.

Price increases sometimes fell below suppliers' recommendations and occurred against a backdrop of rising inflation after the COVID-19 pandemic, Woolworths' legal team argued.

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"Woolworths was facing significant cost price increases from a large number of suppliers across their full range of products," Robert Yezerski SC said.

"To suggest … Woolworths is engaged in an activity that is involved for them manufacturing prices to then show a drop, we say, just totally misrepresents the true nature of the commercial negotiation."

Woolworths' defence argued the inflationary impacts – which hit grocery items harder than other products and services in the period in question between late-2021 and mid-2023 – were relatively uniform across competitors Coles and Aldi.

The key to determining the case would be the duration prices were temporarily elevated, Justice Michael O'Bryan said.

"One tends to think … if the price establishment period was three months, we wouldn't be here," O'Bryan said.

"If it was always one week, the case might not be fought.

"We're somewhere in the middle, and that's what makes this case rather difficult."

But the ACCC's legal team alleged Woolworths used misleading tactics in its discount campaign.

"The subtle magic of the 'prices dropped' message that draws the consumer in is to say that the new stable price is lower than the old stable price," ACCC silk Michael Hodge earlier told the court.

The ACCC launched the joint action in 2024 against Woolworths and Coles, alleging the supermarket giants broke consumer law using fake discounts to mislead customers.

The reduced prices were often the same or higher than the original shelf prices and therefore deliberately misled consumers, the competition watchdog claims.

Woolworths dropped the marketing campaign after the ACCC brought legal action against it.

Coles made its defence in February but the court's final judgment will be withheld until both supermarket juggernauts have presented their cases.

The commission alleges the conduct involved 266 products sold by Woolworths at different times across 20 months between late 2021 and mid-2023, impacting tens of millions of sales by itself and Coles.

The product list was pared down to 12 agreed items to be scrutinised in court, including a family pack of Tim Tam biscuits, Carman's classic fruit and nut muesli bars and Sakata rice crackers.

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The watchdog is not suggesting Coles and Woolworths colluded or engaged in anti-competitive behaviour as part of the alleged misleading conduct.

In a statement to AAP, Woolworths said it fundamentally disagreed with the claims and at no stage misled or deceived its customers.

"Following COVID, there was a period of extraordinary inflation, and we were acutely aware that customers expected Woolworths to provide value wherever possible," a spokesman said.

"Inflation also put pressure on our suppliers' costs, and we worked with them to reduce the inflationary impact on customers through our 'prices dropped' program."

Australia's supermarket sector has come under heavy scrutiny after cost pressures borne by the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to multiple inquiries.

One such probe found Australian supermarkets to be some of the world's most profitable, with margins expanding in the years after the pandemic.

The case resumes on Wednesday, for the second of a scheduled eight-session hearing.

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A Melbourne shop owner has described how he tackled an accused thief to the ground during an alleged Pokémon card theft.

CCTV footage shows two men enter The Final Boss Collectables in Ravenhall, in Melbourne's west, about 8.30pm yesterday.

Inside the shop, store owner Phillip Dang showed the pair folders of valuable cards, eventually pulling out a sealed Van Gogh Pikachu card worth $1500.

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"They were asking like really weird questions that a lot of real collectors probably wouldn't ask," store owner Phillip Dang said.

After failing to distract Dang, one of the men allegedly pinched the card from in front of him, fumbling it momentarily before the pair made a run for it.

"I was like, am I actually getting robbed? Are they really doing this right now?" Dang said.

Dang and several other staff members gave chase and one of the alleged offenders was tackled to the ground by Dang, who apprehended him until police arrived.

"He was just begging me to let him go. He was just saying 'please, I'll never do it again'," Dang said.

The second man managed to flee, police allege.

Police seized a knife from the first man but do not believe it was used during the alleged theft.

"We looked and we saw a machete in his pocket, it had a leather cover over it," Dang said.

"I was staring at it like, that could have gone right through me."

The 23-year-old Tarneit man was charged with theft from a shop and possessing a controlled weapon.

He was bailed to appear before Sunshine Magistrates' Court on July 30.

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Despite scouring the area, police couldn't find the second ma. 

They are working to identify him.

The rare Pikachu card remains outstanding.

"In retrospect, I kind of made a mistake with the card I picked to try and bait them out. It was a pretty expensive card," Dang said.

While Dang valued the card at $1500, another identical card is currently sitting at $5000 as part of an online auction. 

The store owner says his shop is just the latest to be targeted for the valuable collector's items.

He's been forced to bolster the store's security to protect his staff.

"They didn't come here to be threatened or potentially witness a theft, have to chase someone down, that's not their job, it's not my bloody job but I'll do it," he said.

Anyone who can assist in identifying the man, with footage or with further information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or anonymously atwww.crimestoppersvic.com.au

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