Ex-NRL player Jarryd Hayne allegedly cleaned blood from his hands and mouth before hopping in a waiting taxi and leaving the home of a woman he sexually assaulted, a court has heard.

The former Eels fullback is accused of forcibly performing sex acts on a woman in her NSW Hunter home on the night of the 2018 NRL grand final.

The 35-year-old's third trial on two counts of sexual intercourse without consent began in the NSW District Court on Monday.

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"Not guilty," Hayne said when the charges were read out.

He has consistently denied the alleged assault since he was charged in November 2018.

The case has drawn attention due to Hayne's high-profile as a former NRL star.

"You'll find out if you don't already know," Judge Graham Turnbull SC told prospective jurors on Monday morning.

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He reminded those selected for the jury to keep an open mind and remain impartial.

"Concentrate on the evidence in this trial … this trial alone," he said.

The jury of 14, seven men and seven women, will be whittled to 12 prior to a verdict being delivered.`

Crown prosecutor John Sfinas gave the jury a brief summary of the case against Hayne on Monday.

He told jurors they would hear Hayne and the woman he's accused of assaulting had never met before, having communicated through social media.

Hayne was in town for a bucks' weekend when he took a taxi to the woman's home in suburban Newcastle.

The taxi waited outside while Hayne allegedly assaulted the woman, as she told him "no" and "stop".

The alleged assault involving oral and digital sex lasted about 30 seconds, ending when the woman's genitals began to bleed, Sfinas said.

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The jury would hear Hayne wiped blood from his hands and mouth before leaving, and see photographs of blood in the woman's room and on her bed, Sfinas said.

Turnbull told the jury evidence from the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had already been recorded and would be played during the trial.

Hayne was a star player for the Eels in the NRL, represented NSW in State of Origin and played internationally for Australia and Fiji during his professional rugby league career.

The trial continues.

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The metaphysical multiverse comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once wrapped its hot dog fingers around Hollywood's top prize Sunday, winning best picture at the 95th Academy Awards, along with awards for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Though worlds away from Oscar bait, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's anarchic ballet of everything bagels, googly-eyed rocks and one messy tax audit emerged as an improbable Academy Awards heavyweight.

The indie hit, A24's second best-picture winner following Moonlight, won seven Oscars in all.

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The German-language WWI epic All Quiet on the Western Front — Netflix's top contender this year — took four awards as the academy heaped honours on the craft of the harrowing anti-war film.

It won for cinematography, production design, score and best international film.

Fifty years after The Godfather won at the Oscars, Everything Everywhere All at Once triumphed with a much different immigrant experience.

Its eccentric tale about a Chinese immigrant family – just the second feature by the Daniels, as the filmmaking duo is known – blended science fiction and alternate realities in the story of an ordinary woman and laundromat owner.

Everything Everywhere, released all the way back in March 2022, helped revive arthouse cinemas after two years of pandemic, racking up more than $US100 million in ticket sales.

And despite initially scant expectations of Oscar glory, Everything Everywhere All at Once toppled both blockbusters (Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Way of Water) and critical darlings (Tar, The Banshees of Inisherin).

Yeoh became the first Asian woman to best actress, taking the award for her lauded performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

The 60-year-old Malaysian-born Yeoh won her first Oscar for a performance that relied as much on her comic and dramatic chops as it did her kung fu skills.

She's the first best actress win for a non-white actress in 20 years.

"Ladies, don't let anyone ever tell you you're past your prime," said Yeoh, who received a raucous standing ovation.

In winning best director, the Daniels — both 35 years old — won for just their second and decidedly un-Oscar bait feature.

They're just the third directing pair to win the award, following Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins (West Side Story) and Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men).

Scheinert dedicated the award "to the moms of the world".

Best actor went to Brendan Fraser, culminating the former action star's return to centre stage for his physical transformation as a 600-lb. reclusive professor in The Whale.

The best-actor race had been one of the closest contests of the night, but Fraser in the end edged Austin Butler.

"So this is what the multiverse looks like," said a clearly moved Fraser, pointing to the Everything Everywhere All at Once crew.

The former child star Quan capped his own extraordinary comeback with the Oscar for best supporting actor for his performance in the indie hit Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Quan, beloved for his roles as Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Data in Goonies, had all but given up acting before being cast in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

His win, among the most expected of the night, was nevertheless one of the ceremony's most moving moments.

The audience — including his Temple of Doom director, Steven Spielberg — gave Quan a standing ovation as he fought back tears.

"Mum, I just won an Oscar!" said Quan, 51, whose family fled Vietnam in the war when he was a child.

"They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I can't believe it's happening.

"This is the American dream."

Minutes later, Quan's castmate Jamie Lee Curtis won for best supporting actress.

Her win, in one of the most competitive categories this year, denied a victory for comic-book fans.

Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) would have been the first performer to win an Oscar for a Marvel movie.

It also made history for Curtis, a first-time winner who alluded to herself as "a Nepo baby" during her win at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

She's the rare Oscar winner whose parents were both Oscar nominees, something she emotionally referenced in her speech.

Tony Curtis was nominated for The Defiant Ones in 1959 and Janet Leigh was nominated in 1961 for Psycho.

Curtis thanked "hundreds" of people who put her in that position.

Though Bassett missed on supporting actress, Ruth E. Carter won for the costume design of Wakanda Forever, four years after becoming the first Black designer to win an Oscar, for Black Panther.

This one makes Carter the first Black woman to win two Oscars.

"Thank you to the Academy for recognising the superhero that is a Black woman," Carter said.

"She endures, she loves, she overcomes, she is every woman in this film."

Carter dedicated the award to her mother, who she said died last week at 101.

The Oscar winners in all 23 categories were revealed live, unlike last year, when several award presentations were prerecorded in an effort to shorten the traditionally lengthy show.

Host Jimmy Kimmel took a little over seven minutes to reference in his opening monologue before he made his first veiled reference to Will Smith's infamous slapping of Chris Rock last year.

"We have nominees from every corner of Dublin," Kimmel said.

"Five Irish actors are nominated tonight, which means the odds of another fight on stage just went way up."

Less than three minutes later, he was a little more direct: "We want you to have fun, we want you to feel safe, and most importantly, we want me to feel safe," Kimmel said.

"So we have strict policies in place. If anyone in this theatre commits an act of violence at any point in this show, you will be awarded the Oscar for Best Actor and permitted to give a 19-minute long speech."

Smith won his best actor Oscar not long after the slap.

THE NOMINEES AND WINNERS

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

"Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio" – WINNER

"Marcel the Shell With Shoes On"

"Puss in Boots: The Last Wish"

"The Sea Beast"

"Turning Red"

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Brendan Gleeson, "The Banshees of Inisherin"

Brian Tyree Henry, "Causeway"

Judd Hirsch, "The Fabelmans"

Barry Keoghan, "The Banshees of Inisherin"

Ke Huy Quan, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" – WINNER

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Angela Bassett, "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"

Hong Chau, "The Whale"

Kerry Condon, "The Banshees of Inisherin"

Jamie Lee Curtis, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" – WINNER

Stephanie Hsu, "Everything Everywhere All at Once"

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

"All That Breathes"

"All the Beauty and the Bloodshed"

"Fire of Love"

"A House Made of Splinters"

"Navalny" – WINNER

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

"An Irish Goodbye" – WINNER

"Ivalu"

"Le Pupille"

"Night Ride"

"The Red Suitcase"

CINEMATOGRAPHY

"All Quiet on the Western Front" – WINNER

"Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths"

"Elvis"

"Empire of Light"

"Tár"

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

"All Quiet on the Western Front"

"The Batman"

"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"

"Elvis"

"The Whale" – WINNER

COSTUME DESIGN

"Babylon"

"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" – WINNER

"Elvis"

"Everything Everywhere All at Once"

"Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris"

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

"All Quiet on the Western Front," Germany – WINNER

"Argentina, 1985," Argentina

"Close," Belgium

"EO," Poland

"The Quiet Girl," Ireland

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT)

"The Elephant Whisperers" – WINNER

"Haulout"

"How Do You Measure a Year?"

"The Martha Mitchell Effect"

"Stranger at the Gate"

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

"The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" – WINNER

"The Flying Sailor"

"Ice Merchants"

"My Year of Dicks"

"An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It"

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PRODUCTION DESIGN

"All Quiet on the Western Front" – WINNER

"Avatar: The Way of Water"

"Babylon"

"Elvis"

"The Fabelmans"

ORIGINAL SCORE

"All Quiet on the Western Front" – WINNER

"Babylon"

"The Banshees of Inisherin"

"Everything Everywhere All at Once"

"The Fabelmans"

VISUAL EFFECTS

"All Quiet on the Western Front"

"Avatar: The Way of Water" – WINNER

"The Batman"

"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"

"Top Gun: Maverick"

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

"The Banshees of Inisherin"

"Everything Everywhere All at Once" – WINNER

"The Fabelmans"

"Tár"

"Triangle of Sadness"

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

"All Quiet on the Western Front"

"Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery"

"Living"

"Top Gun: Maverick"

"Women Talking" – WINNER

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND

"All Quiet on the Western Front"

"Avatar: The Way of Water"

"The Batman"

"Elvis"

"Top Gun: Maverick" – WINNER

ORIGINAL SONG

"Applause" from "Tell It like a Woman"

"Hold My Hand" from "Top Gun: Maverick"

"Lift Me Up" from "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"

"Naatu Naatu" from "RRR" – WINNER

"This Is A Life" from "Everything Everywhere All at Once"

FILM EDITING

"The Banshees of Inisherin"

"Elvis"

"Everything Everywhere All at Once" – WINNER

"Tár"

"Top Gun: Maverick"

DIRECTOR

Martin McDonagh, "The Banshees of Inisherin"

Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" – WINNER

Steven Spielberg, "The Fabelmans"

Todd Field, "Tár"

Ruben Ostlund, "Triangle of Sadness"

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Austin Butler, "Elvis"

Colin Farrell, "The Banshees of Inisherin"

Brendan Fraser, "The Whale" – WINNER

Paul Mescal, "Aftersun"

Bill Nighy, "Living"

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Cate Blanchett, "Tár"

Ana de Armas, "Blonde"

Andrea Riseborough, "To Leslie"

Michelle Williams, "The Fabelmans"

Michelle Yeoh, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" – WINNER

BEST PICTURE

"All Quiet on the Western Front"

"Avatar: The Way of Water"

"The Banshees of Inisherin"

"Elvis"

"Everything Everywhere All at Once" – WINNER

"The Fabelmans"

"Tár"

"Top Gun: Maverick"

"Triangle of Sadness"

"Women Talking"

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As A-listers face off to take home a win on Hollywood's night of nights, stars have gradually started to make their way to the Oscars red carpet.

A man will front court in Central Western New South Wales today after he was charged with murder.

He has been charged with murder after another man died north of Parkes yesterday.

Emergency services were called to a home on Boori Street, Peak Hill, north of the town, just after 11am yesterday, after concerns were raised for the welfare of the occupant.

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Police and paramedics found the body of a man inside the property.

He is yet to be formally identified.

A crime scene has been established, which is being forensically examined.

Detectives have established Strike Force Hattersley to investigate the circumstances surrounding the man's death, which is being treated as suspicious.

Following inquiries, a man – aged 38 – was arrested at Peak Hill police station yesterday where he was charged with murder.

He was refused bail and is due to appear at Parkes Local Court today.

Investigations are continuing.

South African rapper Costa Titch died suddenly this weekend, his family said on Instagram, hours after performing at a music festival.

The musician, whose real name is Constantinos Tsobanoglou, was 28.

Footage circulating on social media appeared to show Tsobanoglou fall over on stage before being lifted up by someone beside him. Tsobanoglou then gets up for several seconds before apparently collapsing.

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"It is with deep pain that we find ourselves having to acknowledge his passing at this time," Tsobanoglou's family said in a post on his Instagram. "We are thankful for those emergency responders and all those present in his last hours."

The statement did not mention a cause of death.

The festival where he was performing, Ultra South Africa, said it was "devastated" by the young rapper's death.

"Costa was a galvanising voice amongst South Africa's amapiano scene – a talented rapper, dancer, singer, songwriter, collaborator and friend to the festival," the statement read.

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Tsobanoglou was a growing sensation in South Africa and one of the biggest stars of amapiano, a style of music characterised by deep house, log-drum driven basslines and soulful piano melodies.

His rap style combines South Africa's culture, style and indigenous languages with international rap sub-genres like trap music, which originated in Atlanta's thriving hip hop scene.

Tsobanoglou was born in Nelspruit in northeastern South Africa and had already had a successful career in dance before becoming a rapper.

Tsobanoglou's song "Big Flexa" made him a star across Africa after it became successful on TikTok. The rapper had recently partnered with a music label started by Senegalese-American musician Akon, who was featured featured on a remix of "Big Flexa."

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has arrived in the United States ahead of a special meeting regarding Australia's pending deal to buy nuclear submarines from the US and UK.

Albanese landed in San Diego this morning in what is his first official visit to the US as prime minister.

He is set to meet with President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday to chart the next step in Australia's nuclear-powered submarine program.

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Navy personnel from Australia will go to sea with the US fleet in July and be pioneers for the launch of the submarine deal.

US congressman and head of Washington's "AUKUS caucus" Joe Courtney has hinted at what is to come.

"There will be more rotations of US and UK subs in and out of Australia," he said.

"There's no question the time is now to speed that up.

"It's going to be good for the alliance and good for rebalancing the strategic environment in the Indo-Pacific.

"It will be historic for Australia to have the highest ability to protect itself."

9News' US correspondent Jonathan Kearsley said eyes around the world will be on the three leaders.

"This is Anthony Albanese's first trip to the United States, but it is significant because when he joins US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in around about 48 hours time or so, they will be charting the next path in Australia's nuclear-powered submarine program," he told Weekend Today.

"Amid that, there are reports the US could sell Virginia-class submarines, at least three to Australia, but here in the US, there have been concerns around that.

"The US Navy is already behind on its Navy ship-building program, so there are questions around how many submarines for Australia could be fitted into that calendar."

Centre for Strategic and International Studies senior adviser Dr Charles Edel reiterated that workforce shortages were already causing the US to fall behind on its own shipbuilding programs.

"The US has a requirement that it produce two attack-class nuclear submarines per year and we haven't even been hitting two per year," he said.

There is expected to be a job boom in South Australia to build the submarines but not until the 2030s.

The Australian Navy will in the next week begin a huge recruitment drive hoping to train hundreds of submariners to man the fleet.

The AUKUS alliance was set up in 2021 to counter China's rise and aggressiveness in the region, with the US and United Kingdom agreeing to provide Australia with the capability to deploy nuclear-powered submarines.

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The total cost of the deal to Australia is estimated at $100 billion, and the prime minister indicated defence spending is likely to go up as a result.

"I said consistently that we will need a minimum of 2 per cent of GDP, but I expect that defence spending will increase," he said in India yesterday.

"We need to make sure that we invest more in our defence. 

"You don't just pluck a figure out in order to get a headline in a newspaper. We'll invest in what is needed."

Leaked details of the deal indicate the American government could allow Australia to buy up to five Virginia-class submarines.

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Also sought is the Astute Class submarine from the UK. Those subs are still being designed and aren't expected to enter service until the 2040s, but Australia is set to receive eight of them.

Eighteen months ago, the AUKUS deal caused a major diplomatic row with France after Australia decided to dump its submarine program with the country in favour of the triple alliance.

Since then, Biden and French president Emmanuel Macron have discussed the "Indo-Pacific region and shared efforts to address challenges posed by Beijing".

Edel said this was to avoid another diplomatic row.

"You can read a lot into that this is deliberately being pre-briefed ahead of time so we don't have the same reaction we did on the initial reaction," he said. 

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A Victorian toddler has been hospitalised after she was allegedly left in a daycare bus for up to five hours.

Alyza, three, is regularly picked up from her Shepparton home by bus and taken to Lulla's Children and Family Centre about three kilometres away.

On Friday, Alyza's dad, Braiden, put her on the bus outside their home at 9.15am and said goodbye.

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Just after 3pm the family received a call to say Alyza was being rushed to hospital by ambulance.

The family alleged the daycare centre told them a staff member had discovered Alyza in the bus some time that afternoon.

"She still would have been strapped into the car seat," Alyza's mum, Skye Seadon, said.

"When they pulled her out of the kindy bus they stripped her off and put her in the shower."

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Alyza was treated for dehydration and kept overnight in Goulburn Valley Hospital.

"When I arrived at the hospital her temperature was 38.4 degrees or something like that," Seadon said.

"It was very, very high."

Seadon said she had been contacted by the childcare centre's director but was yet to receive a sufficient explanation as to exactly what occurred.

"I know there's a clipboard there and I'm pretty sure the kids do get marked off when they get picked up," she said.

"I don't know but it does need to be explained."

9News has contacted the centre but has not received a formal response.

Alyza just clams up when asked about what happened, her parents claim, and is struggling to sleep after the incident.

"Little bit of issues with her sleep but hopefully we can get through that," Seadon said.

The family is still trying to fathom how the little girl was allegedly forgotten and left inside the bus for up to five hours.

"I just keep thinking to myself like how can you leave a kid in a kindy bus? How do you forget that?" Seadon said.

Victoria Police has confirmed it is investigating a report of a child being left on a vehicle at a facility in Shepparton on Friday.

Three men in black wetsuits were spearfishing near Forster on the NSW Mid North Coast when another dark shape came up underneath them.

It was a big shark, and despite being armed, the fishers made a very hasty exit.

The predator slid directly underneath them.

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One of the men lost a flipper in the sudden scramble but gamely turned back, retrieved his fin and escaped.

Swimmers were cleared from the water after the shark was spotted via drone flying above.

Emily Howman, who was controlling the device, said she was worried to see the shark swim towards the people.

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"I couldn't even warn them," she said.

"It was abject fear that something bad would happen and all I'd be able to do was watch."

The shark didn't seem interested in the swimmers or fishers and glided away.

A 19-year-old man is now due to appear in court this week.

A report has revealed a national decline in the amount of bulk billing doctors and a rise in out-of-pocket costs amid the cost of living crisis.

Online healthcare directory Cleanbill analysed 416 general practitioner clinics across Australia between 2018 and 2022.

It found there was a decline in national bulk billing rates with 63 clinics opting out by the end of last year.

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Four years ago, 46 per cent of the GPs bulk billed – effectively meaning the government pays the patients' bills- but that figure has dropped down to just 31 per cent.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) said Medicare rebates haven't kept up with the cost of running a practice leading to the lack of bulk billing services and higher out-of-pocket costs for patients.

"They have just reached a tipping point where they can't stretch that dollar further and we really need government to take ownership of that problem and provide adequate support for the medicare funding patients deserve," AMA vice president Dr Daniel McMuller said.

This report looked at a standard 15-minute consultation for an adult during normal business hours rather than all bulk billing services provided by a GP.

Here is how capital cities fared.

Brisbane

Brisbane saw the largest decrease in bulk billing rates in all of the capital cities, dropping by 58 per cent.

It also revealed prices have gone up in Queensland more than any other state.

Average out-of-pocket costs across all clinics surveyed increased by $3.58 for a standard 15-minute consultation

But Brisbane patients saw the biggest jump in cost, rising from $38.94 four years ago to an average of $44 last year – a rise of 13 per cent.

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Adelaide

In Adelaide, bulk billing numbers fell by 45 per cent.

Of the clinics tracked, the northern suburbs saw big falls in bulk billing rates.

Paralowie and Salisbury fell by 40 per cent and Elizabeth was down by 33 per cent.

Towards the city it was even more dire as Adelaide's CBD saw a plunge of more than 65 per cent and Prospect down 50 per cent.

Average out-of-pocket costs for Adelaide residents were charged eight per cent more for their consultations.

Sydney

Sydney's GPs recorded a 29 per cent decrease in bulk billing services.

Of the clinics tracked, Penrith recorded the bulk billing rate fall by 27.3 per cent while in Burwood it dropped by 22 per cent and in Campbelltown by 14.3 per cent.

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In the city, Barangaroo plunged by 63.6 per cent and Darlinghurst and Surry Hills dropped by 66.7 per cent.

In terms of out-of-pocket cost increases, Sydney recorded a 3.4 per cent rise.

Melbourne

Of the 103 medical practices surveyed in Melbourne, the report found there were 12 fewer bulk billing clinics at the end of the four-year period.

The average out-of-pocket cost increased by more than $5.

Perth

The proportion of bulk billing clinics in Perth fell to 32 per cent.

Meanwhile, the out-of-pocket cost for a standard doctor's appointment in Perth rose by 6.3 per cent to $42.40.

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