The council said it had deployed additional resources to help deter any similar offending.

The man accused of killing a woman while she was walking her dog on a beach in 2018 won't be extradited to Queensland today due to "logistical issues".

Rajwinder Singh landed in Melbourne about midday after being extradited from India to face charges over Toyah Cordingley's alleged murder.

Victoria Police said the 24-year-old's family were "delighted but overwhelmed" when they advised there was not a solid timeline for Singh's transfer to Cairns after a Melbourne magistrate authorised the move.

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"There are a number of logistical issues being worked through, when we get the notification there will be a broader publication," Victoria Police Detective Acting Superintendent Kevin Goan said.

The 24-year-old's father found her body in the dunes of Wangetti beach, north of Cairns, in October 2018, a day after she vanished while walking her dog.

Queensland Police had travelled to India to track down the former nurse who left the country after Cordingley's death.

"Our primary focus has always been ensuring justice for Toyah, her family and friends without compromising the investigation," Queensland Police Detective Inspector Sonia Smith said today.

"We have been determined to find answers for Toyah's family and the work of all involved has been meticulous since that terrible day in October, 2018.

"It has been a long journey."

Singh is expected to fight the charges against him.

He consented to his extradition to Cairns.

Goan said there is still a "lengthy process ahead".

"There is a sense of relief that we have him in Australia, the extradition proceeding has transpired, and in the coming days he will be charged before a Queensland courts and that judicial process will take a course of action," he said.

The 38-year-old is an Australian citizen and has a wife and children here.

Police had been searching for him for years, issuing numerous appeals that included vision of him boarding a flight after Cordingley's death.

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He was found in India in November after a $1 million reward was put up for him.

The reward has not been cleared by police.

Police said it would be considered fully "following due diligence".

During extradition hearings, Singh said he wanted to return to Australia to fight the charges.

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A University of NSW student activist missed Mardi Gras because of strict bail conditions imposed on a fine-only offence, a court has heard.

Cherish Kuehlmann was prohibited from entering within two kilometres of Sydney's Town Hall following a midnight arrest by NSW Police in front of her Eastlakes apartment in February.

The 23-year-old was charged with aggravated entering of closed lands, that carries a maximum $5500 fine, following a student-organised housing crisis rally.

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Defence lawyer Sidnie Sarang told the Downing Centre Local Court the bail conditions are onerous for a fine only offence.

"It hampers her entire livelihood," Sarang said on

"She's already missed the Mardi Gras parade. I am already worried about what she will miss out on this year."

The bail conditions have been in place for two weeks, Kuehlmann said outside court.

Magistrate Clare Farnan dispensed with her bail on Wednesday.

"I would not consider a fine-only offence to be a serious offence," the magistrate said.

Kuehlmann had no criminal history and therefore, no history of breaching bail, Farnan added.

"She can continue to engage with activism, which is her democratic right," she said.

Kuehlmann, a UNSW student council education officer, was the only person to be arrested at the rally.

University students occupied the foyer of the Martin Place Commonwealth Bank and the curtilage of the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Police approached Kuehlmann and a University of Sydney education officer asking for their personal details.

Kuehlmann said outside court that she was singled out because she was leading chants and speakers on the megaphone.

"NSW Police wanted to set the precedent that they can restrict students from attending and organising further protests," Kuehlmann told reporters.

"They're always trying to wind our rights back."

Contingencies from different Sydney student unions protested outside Downing Centre while Kuehlmann was in her bail hearing.

An online petition in support of her garnered over 1000 signatures, Kuehlmann said.

"I'm glad that the magistrate can say that it actually was intended to limit my right to protest and my freedom of political expression," she said.

"Not very often is there justice in the justice system but today was a victory."

The matter will return to court on October 25.

Farnan noted that Kuehlmann intends to plead not guilty.

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With more lunar missions than ever on the horizon, the European Space Agency wants to give the moon its own time zone.

This week, the agency said space organisations around the world are considering how best to keep time on the moon. The idea came up during a meeting in the Netherlands late last year, with participants agreeing on the urgent need to establish “a common lunar reference time," said the space agency's Pietro Giordano, a navigation system engineer.

"A joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this," Giordano said in a statement.

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For now, a moon mission runs on the time of the country that is operating the spacecraft. European space officials said an internationally accepted lunar time zone would make it easier for everyone, especially as more countries and even private companies aim for the moon and NASA gets set to send astronauts there.

NASA had to grapple with the time question while designing and building the International Space Station, fast approaching the 25th anniversary of the launch of its first piece.

While the space station doesn't have its own time zone, it runs on Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC, which is meticulously based on atomic clocks. That helps to split the time difference between NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, and the other partnering space programs in Russia, Japan and Europe.

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The international team looking into lunar time is debating whether a single organisation should set and maintain time on the moon, according to the European Space Agency.

There are also technical issues to consider.

Clocks run faster on the moon than on Earth, gaining about 56 microseconds each day, the space agency said. Further complicating matters, ticking occurs differently on the lunar surface than in lunar orbit.

Perhaps most importantly, lunar time will have to be practical for astronauts there, noted the space agency's Bernhard Hufenbach. NASA is shooting for its first flight to the moon with astronauts in more than a half-century in 2024, with a lunar landing as early as 2025.

“This will be quite a challenge" with each day lasting as long as 29.5 Earth days, Hufenbach said in a statement. "But having established a working time system for the moon, we can go on to do the same for other planetary destinations.”

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A Byron Bay cafe manager who has lived in Australia for more than a decade is set to be deported next week after her request for Immigration Minister Andrew Giles to intervene in her visa case was rejected.

The local community in northern NSW has thrown its support behind Belinda Checkley, 36, with almost 20,000 people signing a petition calling on the minister to allow the English national to stay.

After fighting to remain in the country for years, Checkley said her life imploded in December when she received an email from the Department of Home Affairs informing her she did not meet the criteria for a ministerial intervention.

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"I was sobbing, because it was just like my whole world had ended," she said.

"I've worked so hard for 11 years to build my life here. I've given everything to this country, paying taxes and working in an industry that is desperate for staff."

Checkley and her partner, who is Australian, now face having to move overseas and start their lives from scratch when her temporary bridging visa expires on Tuesday.

The cafe worker said she felt like she had fallen through the cracks of a flawed immigration system. 

Decade-long struggle

After originally coming to Australia on a working holiday visa in 2012, which included a three-month stint of farm work, Checkley studied hospitality management.

From there, Checkley found a job at a Byron Bay cafe, where her employers supported her application for a regional sponsorship visa, with a path to permanent residency.

Checkley waited almost two years before, in 2018, she was told her visa application had been rejected.

She said she later found out the migration lawyer who had filed her application on her behalf did not do the paperwork properly.

Not willing to give up, Checkley found a new lawyer and lodged an appeal with the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT).

While she was waiting for a decision on her appeal, Checkley suffered a personal tragedy, with her then-partner taking his own life.

"It was just horrific and I went through the heaviest grief," Checkley said. 

Checkley said the support she received from friends and the local community during her devastating ordeal confirmed to her that this was her home.

Just as she was trying to work through her grief, Checkley had another setback with her visa in 2020, when her employers at the cafe where she had worked for five years decided to sell the business.

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"This simple transfer of ownership led to the immediate cancellation of my sponsorship and visa," she said.

However, in 2021, an AAT member offered Checkley a ray of hope, when he made a decision to put forward her case to the Department of Home Affairs with a view that it could hold grounds for a ministerial intervention.

This hope was crushed when – in December – the department ruled Checkley's case should not be considered by the minister as it did not meet the criteria needed.

Checkley said she had made enormous personal, emotional and financial sacrifices to stay in Australia, including spending $60,000 on lawyers and visa applications.

"It really weighs heavy on you, this burden of uncertainty of living your life in this country. Everything's here – your friends, who are now your family, your home," she said.

Deportation threat amid skills shortage

Checkley said the decision to deport her did not make sense as she knew how desperately cafe owners were struggling for staff.

"In Byron Bay, we have had restaurants and cafes that are unable to open because of staff shortages, they're having to shut in the evenings and only opening during the day because they haven't got enough night staff, or vice versa," she said.

"Everyone's constantly advertising and yes, people are starting to come back into Australia now, so we have resumes coming in from backpackers, but they don't have the skill set that I have." 

In August last year, the Federal Government announced it was increasing the country's skilled migration intake to 200,000 in a bid to combat worker shortages brought on by the pandemic.

Data released in October by industry jobs platform Barcats Australia, suggested an extra 200,000 workers were needed to fill positions in the hospitality industry alone.

Checkley said she knew her employers had reluctantly advertised her position, but were yet to find anyone suitable to fill it.

Three year re-entry ban

Checkley has since found love with an Australian partner. However, she said her lawyer had advised her that the previous rejection of her regional sponsorship visa meant she would need to travel overseas to apply for a partner visa.

She is also facing an exclusion period preventing her from returning to Australia for three years.

Checkley said her only hope now was for the minister to personally consider her case and decide to act.

A spokesperson for Giles said the minister was unable to comment on individual cases, citing privacy concerns.

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Exclusive: A mother and aunt allegedly live streaming the "appalling" made-to-order sexual abuse of three very young children have been arrested in Colombia following a tip-off from Australian investigators.

Officers inside the crack Queensland Police unit Task Force Argos contacted Interpol in December after they found a video allegedly depicting child sexual abuse on the darknet.

The video was uploaded to an Interpol database, where special investigators from around the world analysed it in forensic detail, searching for clues that might indicate where the alleged abuse was taking place.

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One month later, agents from the FBI told Interpol they had established the possible identity of one of the offenders, pinning their likely location as Colombia.

Interpol's special crimes against children unit confirmed the FBI's theory, uncovering a number of clues and developing victim identification reports for Colombian police.

Colombian police then confirmed the location and identity of the children and the two alleged offenders.

Police allege the mother and aunt had been using various platforms to produce and sell made-to-order, live sexual abuse video material for an international ring of paedophiles.

Colombian authorities last week raided the home and rescued the three children, who are now receiving medical and psychological care.

"This appalling case shows that live streaming child sexual exploitation is not confined to any region, it is global, and as in this case, usually involving very young children," Interpol's Jürgen Stock said.

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Stock said Colombian investigators were analysing a number of seized devices, to identify any other victims and hunt down people who were "ordering and facilitating the horrific abuse from behind their screens".

Queensland Police today confirmed to 9news.com.au that detectives from Argos, the world-renowned child abuse unit, had discovered the original video.

"Argos investigators are online every day, across a range of platforms, targeting offenders attempting to exploit children and analysing digital media to identify and rescue children across the globe," a Queensland Police spokesperson said.

The unit's investigative expertise has resulted in the rescue of many children from abuse and offenders being brought to justice worldwide.

In the past three months, Argos detectives have played a critical role in tracking down producers of child abuse material in Mexico, Spain and France.

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