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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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Police have released CCTV of three people and a car as they investigate the arson of a Queensland housing commission home where a girl was allegedly tortured.

The house in Tewantin was burnt to the ground on March 29, with firefighters called to the blaze about 1.30am.

No one was home at the time of the fire, with the house's occupants having moved out since the 13-year-old girl was allegedly beaten, stabbed and humiliated in the house on March 11.

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The house's windows and doors were then boarded up after being targeted by vigilantes in the wake of the girl's alleged assault, which was filmed and uploaded to social media.

Police have also revealed an unknown group of people distributed offensive and harassing materials in mailboxes in the Tewantin area in the lead-up to the fire.

The CCTV footage police have released appears to show the three people putting fliers in letterboxes.

Police believe there may be a link between the attack, the arson and the hate mail.

Anyone with information regarding the arson or distribution of hate mail is asked to contact police.

Three girls – aged 12, 13 and 14 – were charged after the girl was allegedly held against her will, punched and stabbed in an hours-long ordeal at the home.

Police have since revealed that one of the alleged offenders, the 14-year-old, has also been charged over a second alleged attack that played out on a bus six days earlier.

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Betting companies will be forbidden from using credit cards while gambling online under a plan from the federal government.

Communications Minister Michelle Rowland and Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth announced the proposed ban today, which will apply to all Australian licensed wagering services.

It's not known when the new rule will be implemented, but legislation is set to go before parliament later this year.

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The ban will bring online gambling rules in line with existing betting services in pubs, clubs, casinos and other venues.

It won't apply to lotteries.

"It's as simple as this: people should not be betting with money they do not have," Rowland said.

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The government's figures show Australia's gambling losses per adult are among the highest in the world, reaching about $25 billion annually.

The ban will be enforced through identifying Bank Identification Numbers to block credit cards, a method used in casinos and poker machine venues.

A parliamentary inquiry is underway into online gambling and will release its recommendations later this year.

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If you've ever taken to Google to try work out how you can save money, you're not alone. Aussies all over the country are searching for cost of living relief at unprecedented rates.

A family who has lived in Australia for almost a decade but faces being sent home after their visas were refused says they fear for their lives if they are deported.

Mohon Mia, 43, fled Bangladesh in 2014 with his family after somebody tried to kidnap his wife Munia Chisty Mia, 34, and daughter Marvina.

Mia was once involved with the nation's major opposition party, which he says has made him a target, with the family also receiving death threats.

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He said he feels "safe and secure" in Australia – where the family has had two more children – but fears he'll be targeted if he returns home.

"My life will be in danger the moment I step foot in Bangladesh. I just cannot risk that for my family," Mia said.

Death threats after student past emerged

Mia said his involvement with the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) as a student led to him having to flee.

Threats began after he met a leader of the opposing Awami League, which has been in power for years, in 2011 at a university alumni event.

Even though he wasn't involved in politics anymore, he said not only were multiple threatening phone calls and death threats made to him in the next few years, somebody bribed his driver to kidnap his family.

Thankfully, they only succeeded in stealing his car.

After the nation's 2014 election, which saw more than 20 killed in protests and polling stations set on fire, he feared for their safety so much the family left Dhaka for Australia.

He said he gave up a good job at a non-profit organisation to start again.

Fresh start in Australia

The family arrived in Perth by plane on tourist visas in 2014 and lodged applications for protection visas.

People who face "well-founded fear of persecution" in their home country may be eligible for a protection visa, Home Affairs says.

"It was a relief to feel that we were not persecuted here and we could be just like any other normal family," Mia said.

However, their visas were refused in 2015.

Years of appeals, via both the Federal Court Circuit and various immigration ministers, have failed to overturn the decision.

Mia said he was told there wasn't enough evidence to grant them visas, which are earmarked for refugees.

He said they've spent around $40,000 on legal help.

Since arriving in Australia the couple have had more children: Arash, five, and Noah, 15 months, while Marvina is now 15.

They say they've always worked while living here, with Mia currently a payroll and bookkeeping officer and his wife a carer.

The family, who are involved with their local church in Perth's south-west, say they just want to stay.

Mia has now applied for ministerial intervention for the third time, this time writing to Immigration Minister Andrew Giles.

If that fails again, the family faces being forced to leave within weeks.

They have also applied for a protection visa for son Arash, which could also allow the family to stay if granted, but it hasn't been processed yet.

Country in turmoil

Human Rights Watch has raised concerns about political violence in Bangladesh, including the killing of BNP activists.

It has accused Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government of "extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests, and torture allegedly to maintain power".

It also warned of increasing attacks against political opposition members and concerns about violence and repression ahead of elections this year.

Mia says he has discovered his police records in Bangladesh list a conviction for protesting the government at a time he says he wasn't even in the country, which he says is further evidence he is in danger.

"The present government is still in power – nothing has changed," he said.

"The Awami League is effectively creating a one-party state in Bangladesh and have been in power since 2008.

"Since I fled Bangladesh in March 2014, there was another general election in December 2018 that was just as violent.

"BNP supporters and political leaders are being suppressed.

"I fear harm, including physical assault and death at the hands of the members of the Awami League."

Australia has tightened refugee rules

Experts say Australia has made it increasingly hard over the past decade to be recognised as a refugee and be granted a protection visa.

Sarah Dale, centre director and principal solicitor of the Refugee Advice and Casework Service, said immigration ministers very rarely intervene, with the Biloela family one of the few actually allowed to stay after massive media attention.

"What stories like this highlight is the Biloela family was so compelling but there are countless other families that also need that consideration and I would compel the government to also consider other cases," Dale told 9news.com.au.

"Australia needs to return to the principles established under international law in who is a refugee and who Australia needs to protect."

Giles recently met the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, at Parliament House.

Giles said at the time on social media the government "is committed to doing its part to build a stronger global protection and resettlement framework for displaced people".

His office did not respond to questions for comment.

While a Home Affairs spokesman said it doesn't comment on individual cases, he said ministers can intervene if they "think it is in the public interest".

"All visa applicants must meet, and continue to meet, the requirements set out in the Migration Act 1958 and the Migration Regulations 1994, including identity, health, character and security requirements," he said.

"Individuals whose requests for ministerial intervention have been unsuccessful and who have no ongoing immigration matters (are) expected to depart Australia."

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Jerry Springer, the one-time mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional families willing to bare all on weekday afternoons including brawls, obscenities and blurred images of nudity, has died at 79.

At its peak, The Jerry Springer Show was a ratings powerhouse and a US cultural pariah, synonymous with lurid drama.

Known for chair-throwing and bleep-filled arguments, the daytime talk show was a favourite American guilty pleasure over its 27-year run, at one point topping Oprah Winfrey's show.

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Springer called it "escapist entertainment," while others saw the show as contributing to a dumbing-down decline in American social values.

"Jerry's ability to connect with people was at the heart of his success in everything he tried whether that was politics, broadcasting or just joking with people on the street who wanted a photo or a word," said Jene Galvin, a family spokesperson and friend of Springer's since 1970, in a statement.

"He's irreplaceable and his loss hurts immensely, but memories of his intellect, heart and humour will live on."

Springer died peacefully at home on Thursday in suburban Chicago after a brief illness, the statement said.

On his Twitter profile, Springer jokingly declared himself as "Talk show host, ringmaster of civilisation's end".

He also often had told people, tongue in cheek, that his wish for them was "may you never be on my show".

After more than 4000 episodes, the show ended in 2018, never straying from its core salaciousness.

Some of its last episodes had such titles as Stripper Sex Turned Me Straight, Stop Pimpin' My Twin Sister, and Hooking Up With My Therapist.

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In a "Too Hot For TV" video released as his daily show neared 7 million viewers in the late 1990s, Springer offered a defence against disgust.

"Look, television does not and must not create values, it's merely a picture of all that's out there — the good, the bad, the ugly," Springer said.

"Believe this: The politicians and companies that seek to control what each of us may watch are a far greater danger to America and our treasured freedom than any of our guests ever were or could be."

He also contended that the people on his show volunteered to be subjected to whatever ridicule or humiliation awaited them.

Gerald Norman Springer was born on February 13, 1944, in a London underground railway station being used as a bomb shelter.

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His parents, Richard and Margot, were German Jews who fled to England during the Holocaust, in which other relatives were killed in Nazi gas chambers.

They arrived in the United States when their son was five and settled in the Queens borough of New York City, where Springer got his first Yankees baseball gear on his way to becoming a lifelong fan.

He studied political science at Tulane University and got a law degree from Northwestern University. He was active in politics much of his adult life, mulling a run for governor of Ohio as recently as 2017.

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He entered the arena as an aide in Robert F Kennedy's ill-fated 1968 presidential campaign. Springer, working for a Cincinnati law firm, ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1970 before being elected to city council in 1971.

In 1974 — in what The Cincinnati Enquirer reported as "an abrupt move that shook Cincinnati's political community" — Springer resigned.

He cited "very personal family considerations" but what he didn't mention was a vice probe involving prostitution.

In a subsequent admission that could have been the basis for one of his future shows, Springer said he had paid prostitutes with personal cheques.

Then 30, he had married Micki Velton the previous year. The couple had a daughter, Katie, and divorced in 1994.

Springer quickly bounced back politically, winning a council seat in 1975 and serving as mayor in 1977.

He later became a local television politics reporter with popular evening commentaries.

He and co-anchor Norma Rashid eventually helped build NBC affiliate WLWT-TV's broadcast into the Cincinnati market's top-rated news show.

Springer began his talk show in 1991 with more of a traditional format, but after he left WLWT in 1993, it got a sleazy makeover.

TV Guide ranked it No.1 on a list of "Worst Shows in the History of Television" but it was ratings gold.

It made Springer a celebrity who would go on to host a liberal radio talk show and America's Got Talent, star in a movie called Ringmaster, and compete on Dancing With the Stars.

"With all the joking I do with the show, I'm fully aware and thank God every day that my life has taken this incredible turn because of this silly show," Springer told Cincinnati Enquirer media reporter John Kiesewetter in 2011.

Well in advance of Donald Trump's political rise from reality TV stardom, Springer mulled a Senate run in 2003 that he surmised could draw on "nontraditional voters", people "who believe most politics are bull".

"I connect with a whole bunch of people who probably connect more to me right now than to a traditional politician," Springer told the AP at the time.

He opposed the war on Iraq and favoured expanding public healthcare, but ultimately did not run.

Springer also spoke often of the country he came to age five as "a beacon of light for the rest of world".

"I have no other motivation but to say I love this country," Springer said to a Democratic gathering in 2003.

Springer hosted a nationally syndicated Judge Jerry show in 2019 and continued to speak out on whatever was on his mind in a podcast, but his power to shock had dimmed in the new era of reality television and combative cable TV talk shows.

"He was lapped not only by other programs but by real life," David Bianculli, a television historian and professor at Monmouth University, said in 2018.

Despite the limits Springer's show put on his political aspirations, he embraced its legacy.

In a 2003 fundraising infomercial ahead of a possible US Senate run the following year, Springer referenced a quote by then National Review commentator Jonah Goldberg, who warned of new people brought to the polls by Springer, including "slack-jawed yokels, hicks, weirdos, pervs and whatnots".

In the informercial, Springer referred to the quote and talked about wanting to reach out to "regular folks … who weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth".

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A New Zealander is calling on immigration to change its processes.