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Convicted baby killer Keli Lane granted day release

Convicted baby killer Keli Lane has been granted day release from prison to support her long-term partner, who has launched an unfair dismissal claim against his former employer.

Lane, 51, has been seen on special supervised day release from maximum security Silverwater jail with her boyfriend Patrick Cogan.

Cogan taught at St Pius X College at Chatswood on Sydney's Lower North Shore for decades before being fired in 2025 after allegedly using his work email to engage with the media about Lane's case.

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Keli Lane, 51, has been seen on special supervised day release from maximum security Silverwater jail with her boyfriend Patrick Cogan.

He lodged a dispute with the Fair Work Commission over his termination.

Lane was found guilty in 2010 of murdering her newborn daughter Tegan in 1996 and was sentenced to a non-parole period of 13 years and five months.

The former champion water polo player has always maintained her innocence while being transferred between some of the toughest jails across NSW.

She was denied parole in 2024 over the state's no body, no parole law.

Tegan's remains have never been found.

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Keli Lane, 51, has been seen on special supervised day release from maximum security Silverwater jail with her boyfriend Patrick Cogan.Keli Lane. (AAP)

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"In circumstances where Tegan's body has never been found, the offender's case in respect of release to parole, has been determined solely by reference to s 135A of the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999, which incorporates the 'no body, no parole' laws," the NSW State Parole Authority said.

"The Authority is not satisfied that the offender has co-operated satisfactorily in police investigations, or other actions, to identify the location of Tegan."

Her prison term is due to finish in December 2028.

Lane tried to appeal her conviction after being found guilty in 2010, however that appeal was dismissed.

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Unlikely product in millions of Aussie garages could be fuelling superbugs

An unlikely product sitting in millions of Australian families' cupboards and garages could be helping fuel a rise in superbugs, concerning new research suggests.

Antimicrobial resistance is estimated to be responsible for between 1.1 million and 1.4 million deaths worldwide annually.

In October, the World Health Organisation (WHO) again sounded the alarm on the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals around the world.

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Electron microscope image shows rod-shaped Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria

The WHO found antibiotic resistance rose in more than 40 per cent of antibiotic-pathogen combinations it monitored in the five years to 2023.

"Antimicrobial resistance is outpacing advances in modern medicine, threatening the health of families worldwide," WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said of the findings.

It's long been thought that overuse of antibiotics was the key driver of bacteria evolving to resist the antibiotics, but research published in Frontiers today suggests that a common weedkiller can have the same effect.

Glyphosate is a common ingredient in many weedkillers, with about 500 products containing it registered by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA).

Its use by both home gardeners and Australian farmers has become ubiquitous over the past 40 years.

Now, new research suggests it is driving antimicrobial resistance in soil bacteria as a side-effect of developing resistance to the weedkiller itself.

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A team of microbiologists in Argentina collected 68 bacterial strains from soil collected near Buenos Aires, near farmland where glyphosate is commonly used, with strains found in local hospitals.

The strains were each found to be resistant to between one and 16 of the antibiotics tested.

Crucially, all hospital strains were also found to be highly resistant to glyphosate and glyphosate-based weedkillers.

"This means that if these bacteria enter the environment through untreated wastewater from hospitals, they could go on to thrive in agricultural areas where glyphosate is used," said one of the study authors, Dr Camila Knecht.

It's not the first time the impacts of glyphosate have sparked controversy.

It is known to harm arthropods, in particular bees, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified it as a probable human carcinogen.

In Australia, a class action by 800 Australian non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients failed to conclusively prove that glyphosate causes cancer.

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