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There was no hint of danger when surfer Brett Connellan stepped into the water seven years ago, on one fateful evening in Kiama on New South Wales' south coast.

Connellan's paddle in the ocean off Bombo Beach would almost end up costing his life, when a shark came out of nowhere and chomped down on his leg.

"A lot of people ask me – did you see it coming?" Connellan said on Weekend Today.

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"Could you see the fin coming through the water? I say sharks are incredibly good at what they do. I didn't see it coming.

"For how quick the moment was, it was also so slow," he added.

The Aussie surfer is telling his extraordinary story of survival and recovery in a gripping new documentary on Stan called  'Attacking Life'.

The documentary recounts the frantic scenes after the savage attack, when Connellan's friend Joel Trist brought him to shore on his surfboard. 

Trist's now-wife Agie, a nurse, used the leg rope from his surfboard as a tourniquet to stop his blood loss.

"There was a lot of luck on the beach and that extended to the recovery having the right people around me the whole way through," Connellan said.

"It's a bit unknown when you lose three-quarter of your left quad and we didn't know what the long- term effects would be." 

Connellan was told he may never walk again after suffering critical injuries to his leg.

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Surgeons operating on Connellan used his lateral muscle to cover his exposed bone, ensuring he would not need an amputation.

With grit and determination, Connellan slowly defied the odds, re-learning to walk with his injuries. Incredibly, he is now back in the water.

Connellan said his love of surfing made it inevitable that he would return to the ocean.

"For me, the harder thing about going back in the water was an unknown of what I was going to surf like," he said.

"Surfing was a big part of my life and I didn't know what that end goal was going to look like and what that would mean for me.

"It's not something that you can give up. It's not to much about chasing the dream of becoming about chasing the dream of becoming a professional surfer, I do it more because I love it now."

Connellan said he hoped his documentary, which has been three years in the making, will help inspire others to overcome challenges in their own lives.

"For me, I am just a regular person that something irregular happened to," he said.

"We will have our own version of a shark attack and I want to say if my story can get people to look at their own experiences in a different way and they can use themselves as an inspiration when they encounter a hurdle in life, that would be the goal for me." 

Nine Entertainment Co (the publisher of this website) owns and operates the streaming service Stan.

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Jenny Singe was left feeling "distressed" after receiving Facebook messages from her late husband, who died two years ago.

She said her husband's account had become active earlier this year, when hackers began messaging friends and family and posting on her husband's timeline.

"It's quite disturbing really," Singe told 9news.com.au.

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Singe, from central Victoria, said the posts mostly included advertisements.

"My husband died almost two years ago and I am still grieving," she said.

"I keep getting Facebook messages from (the hackers) and the first time was very distressing."

Facebook had been incredibly "unhelpful" after being contacted them to get the account taken down, Singe said.

"I have been through enough with losing my husband and now they were asking me to prove that he was dead," she said.

"Facebook wanted me to provide them with all these details including his death certificate and all these other additional things.

"Yet the hackers can continue on their merry way.

"I just thought, 'Why do I have to do all these things when I have done nothing wrong?'

"It's just not good enough."

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Protocols are in place for Facebook profiles of deceased people, however they must be either set up by the account holder prior to their death or a family member must submit a death certificate online to the company.

Family members can also memorialise an account which will prevent anyone from logging into it and will keep it visible on Facebook – however, it must be applied for with evidence.

A Meta spokesperson told 9news.com.au that the matter was being investigated.

"We extend our heartfelt condolences to Jenny Singe for her loss. Meta is committed to protecting our community from hackers and the distress they cause, and the matter is being investigated," the spokesperson said.

"If we are made aware that a person has passed away, our policy is to memorialise the account, which means friends and family can still access and share memories, but no one can log into it.

"Facebook users also have the option to appoint a legacy contact to look after their profile in the event they pass away."

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Women experiencing high-risk pregnancies could soon benefit from technology.

A new tiny device is set to run rings around traditional ultrasounds, making the process much easier for both doctors and expectant mums to monitor the fetus.

Researchers have unveiled a wearable device that can monitor a baby's heart rate, all from the comfort of the mother's home.

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"Its a sticker, like a band aid it goes on a tummy and a disc attaches to that sticker and then it wirelessly transmits the fetal heartbeat to either a smartphone or computer," researcher Dr Fiona Brownfoot told Nine News.

Expectant mums could even apply it themselves at home, removing the need to go to hospital because a clinician can monitor the baby from afar.

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"It can pick up baby's heart rate without needing to adjust the sensors at all," Dr Emerson Keenan told Nine News.

New mum Jennifer Burgess says the device would have made her pregnancy journey less stressful.

Her baby, Lily Rose arrived early, at 33 weeks, after a complicated pregnancy.

Burgess needed to go to hospital for ultrasound monitoring twice a week after being admitted to hospital at 24 weeks with "quite heavy bleeding".

These sessions were often long and uncomfortable.

"The day before Lily was born I was strapped down for seven hours continuously," Burgess told Nine News.

Researchers have been developing the technology for six years.

Their goal is to change a "devastating" statistic, with one in 140 pregnancies ending in a stillbirth.

The device has just received funding from the University of Melbourne to take it to the next stage of clinical trials, with hopes it will be ready for patient use in two years.

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A young Gold Coast woman has been charged after she allegedly assaulted a bus driver and an elderly woman.

The 22-year-old was confronted after refusing to pay her fare after boarding a bus on The Esplanade in Paradise Point on Friday afternoon.

Police say the woman spat on the 51-year-old driver before punching him in the face and arms.

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When an 85-year-old woman, also from Paradise Point, tried to intervene, she too was allegedly assaulted.

The driver removed the woman from the bus, and other members of the public "assisted in holding her" until police arrived.

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The woman from Hollywell has been charged with one count each of serious assault (person over 60), assaults occasioning bodily harm, and fare evasion.

She was granted bail and is due to appear in Southport Magistrates Court next month.

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Residents in Burketown have been told to evacuate as floods compromise sewerage systems and cut off the Queensland town's power supply.

Police are encouraging residents to leave the small outback town, about 430 kilometres from Mount Isa, as it experiences record-breaking flooding, with warnings in place along the Nicholson, Gregory and Leichhardt Rivers.

"Sewerage to the town has been compromised and power to the town will be cut off today," Queensland Police said in a statement.

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"Police are strongly urging all remaining residents to leave the community of Burketown as soon as possible."

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services also issued an emergency alert for the town, warning residents that today is their last chance to evacuate.

Parts of Queensland's north-west received between 200mm and 500mm of rain this week to set up the floods.

The peak of the Albert River at Burketown has exceeded the previous 2011 flood record of 6.78 metres in the town with a population of 238 people.

The north-west flooding comes as tropical low moves across the state's north-west, which is expected to bring heavy rain and storms for the state's south on both Saturday and Sunday.

Up to 70mm of rain is expected to fall in Gold Coast and Brisbane, with slightly less expected to fall on the Sunshine Coast today.

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Brisbane City Council has put out an alert for residents to be wary of potential flash flooding.

"This tropical moisture is now spreading further south and will fuel wet and stormy weather over parts of a large area of western, central and southern Queensland this weekend, including the state's south-east," Weatherzone said.

"There is still some model uncertainty regarding how the weekend's weather will play out in the state's south-east.

"At this stage, Saturday is more likely to feature rain than storms in Brisbane and Sunday has a better chance of severe thunderstorm activity.

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"However, storms are possible in Brisbane on both Saturday and Sunday, so be sure to stay up to date with the latest warnings across the weekend."

Across the rest of the country, Sydney is expecting a top of 30 degrees, Melbourne 23, Brisbane, 26, Perth 31, Adelaide 26, Hobart 22, Canberra 27 and Darwin 33.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set to unveil details of Australia's pending deal to buy nuclear submarines from the US and UK early next week after flagging an increase to defence spending.

It comes following reports in Nine newspapers saying some of the extra spending for the project will be confirmed in the weeks leading up to May's federal budget

Albanese is on his way to the US, where it is expected more detail will be given for the AUKUS arrangement. 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.

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"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."

His predecessor, Scott Morrison, said earlier this week that defence spending needs to go as high as 2.5 per cent of GDP in the wake of the deal.

LNP Senator Matt Canavan told Today the submarine deal was a "positive development".

"The former Coalition Government kick-started this with the decision to acquire nuclear subs," Canavan said.

"The issue always was going to be how long it was going to take for us to get them

"Good for our country's defence especially given increasing risks in the region."

On the shopping list is the Virginia-class submarine built in the US, which Australia is reportedly set to buy up to five of in the 2030s.

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.

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