Police were alerted to an incident on Ngongotahā Rd, near Taui St, about 7.10pm.

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A father has narrowly avoided jail after he was caught driving up to 200km/h in an 80 zone on a Sydney motorway after a drinking session.

Accountant Patrick Zhou was handed a nine-month suspended jail term, fined $1330 and is disqualified from driving for two years after he pled guilty to six charges including dangerous driving.

The Hurstville father was caught driving his Mercedes at the excessive speed through the M4 tunnel on Homebush Bay Drive in December.

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NSW Police said the 27-year-old smelt strongly of alcohol and failed to do a breath test seven times.

Zhou resisted his arrest then gave a fake name and address to police.

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His barrister Matt Fordham told the court "it was breathtaking stupidity".

A magistrate told Zhou he could have killed someone and he was lucky to be appearing before a local court instead of the coroner's court.

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A jury has found three people, including the son of a former Australian Taxation Office official, guilty of tax fraud for their part in a scheme which netted over $105 million.

On Tuesday, after seven weeks of deliberations, jurors found Adam Michael Cranston, Dev Menon and Jason Cornell Onley guilty for their role in the Plutus Payroll scheme.

Cranston, Menon and Onley are on trial in the NSW Supreme Court, each facing two charges of conspiring to cause a loss to the Commonwealth and conspiring to deal with the proceeds of crime worth more than $1 million.

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The jury is still considering their verdicts for two other co-accused, Cranston's sister Lauren Cranston and Patrick Willmott, over their alleged roles.

In the trial, which lasted for almost nine months, jurors were told that the financial services group withheld tax from the ATO using a number of second-tier companies.

These fraudulently obtained amounts funded lavish lifestyles featuring fast cars, planes and real estate.

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Adam Cranston would use his father Michael Cranston, who was deputy commissioner of the ATO at the time, to find out whether the tax office knew about their scheme, the jury heard.

The five accused denied their guilt, variously pointing the blame at each other and saying they thought the company Plutus, which was named after the Greek god of abundance and wealth, was a legitimate enterprise.

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Emergency services responded to the crash about 4.15pm near Richardson Terrace.

Workers responsible for refuelling Qantas planes at Melbourne Airport are set to strike for 24 hours on Wednesday as they seek a meeting with the airline and their employer, Rivet, amid an industrial dispute over pay and conditions.

However, Qantas said the strike won't have any impact on travellers, and said customers don't need to change their airport plans.

"Our operations team has done a great job of putting workarounds in place and at this stage we're not expecting any material impact to our flights on Wednesday," the airport said in a statement.

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According to Qantas, those workarounds include flying a spare plane to Sydney with its maximum fuel load and using it to refuel other aircraft there, and carrying extra fuel on flights into Melbourne.

The airline contracts ExxonMobil to provide fuel for Melbourne Airport flights, which in turn subcontracts refuelling to Rivet.

However, the Transport Workers Union (TWU) said Qantas has the sway to impact the industrial negotiations, and called on the airline to meet with Rivet and workers amid the dispute.

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"Qantas has enjoyed a $1 billion half-year profit while workers refuelling Qantas planes have not received a pay increase for nearly three years," the letter from TWU acting branch secretary Mem Suleyman to Andrew David, Qantas' CEO of domestic and international, read.

"As Rivet's major client, accounting for at least 60 per cent of the work, Qantas has the ability and responsibility to dictate through its contracts with labour providers that workers refuelling its planes are receiving fair pay and safe working conditions.

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"We are writing to call on you to urgently meet with Rivet and the elected worker bargaining committee to ensure workers receive a fair package that will ease their increasing workloads, including manageable rosters and certainty over hours, as well as fair provisions for overtime and being called in on a day off."

The refuellers' strike will begin at 4am on Wednesday and, according to the TWU, will mainly impact Qantas, freight airlines Australia Air Express and DHL, and some international carriers.

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