A Melbourne man has been confirmed as the second Australian to die in the Turkey- Syria earthquake, as the death toll passes 23,000.

Suat Bayram, 69, was holidaying in Turkey's south when the 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit on Monday.

Bayrum's Ebru daughter said she was "devastated" in a post on Facebook.

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"We have lost our beloved father and grandfather," Ebru said.

The family was attempting to find his body from Australia.

They had been part of a vigil in Melbourne yesterday and have been calling on greater Australian government action.

"We're desperate, we're desperate to find my dad," Imren told 9News yesterday.

"He's the centre of our family. We just want him home, we just want him safe."

An Australian caught up in the catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria earlier in the week is safe and accounted for, according to Foreign Minister Penny Wong.

One other Australian man, Can Pahali, has been killed.

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It comes as rescuers pulled several people alive from the shattered remnants of buildings on Friday, some who survived more than 100 hours trapped under crushed concrete in the bitter cold after a catastrophic earthquake slammed Turkey and Syria, killing more than 22,000.

The survivors included six relatives who huddled in a small pocket under the rubble, a teenager who drank his own urine to slake his thirst, and a 4-year-old boy offered a jelly bean to calm him down as he was shimmied out.

Australian search and rescue experts have departed for the earthquake impact zones as part of a giant international aid effort.

Australia is sending 72 personnel and 22 tonnes of equipment including first aid supplies, tools, cameras, and sub-ground listening equipment to allow them to search for any possible survivors.

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A ute being driven on three wheels by an allegedly drunk driver has sped through the streets of Sydney's north.

Locals say the scraping of the car's wheel rim was "deafening", with smoke also pouring from the spot where the front left tyre was about to fall off.

The driver, believed to be in his 50s, was first reported to police, after the owner of a Toyota Prado was side-swiped at Wheeler Heights on Sydney's northern beaches just after 7pm last night.

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It continued on for two kilometres and down steep winding roads until the driver lost his tyre on Mactier Street.

He managed to park the now three-wheeler at his unit complex in Narrabeen.

The driver is believed to have driven from the Time and Tide Hotel.

But just how much he had to drink, if any, is under investigation because he'd already returned home before police were able to breath test

Detectives are now reviewing footage as they retrace the tracks of the driver, who has not been charged.

Former socialite Aja Rock’s Instagram account was hacked and her image was used.

One local, a former member of the Navy, said he hadn’t heard such a bang since serving.

China has decried the Australian government's removal of Chinese-made cameras from its buildings.

In a press conference in Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning gave a strongly worded criticism of the decision.

"We oppose erroneous practices of over-stretching the concept of national security and abusing state power to discriminate against and suppress Chinese companies," she said.

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"We hope the Australian side will provide a fair, just and non-discriminatory environment for the normal operation of Chinese companies and do more things that could contribute to mutual trust and cooperation between our two countries."

On Thursday, Defence Minister Richard Marles ordered the removal of 1000 cameras installed at government sites made by Chinese companies Hikvision and Dahua.

"We're doing an assessment of all the technology for surveillance within the defence estate and where those particular cameras are found, they'll be removed," Marles told the ABC.

"It's a significant thing that's been brought to our attention and we're going to fix it – it's obviously been there … for some time and predates us coming into office."

Marles cautioned the Australian public shouldn't overreact about the risk of sensitive data being fed to Beijing.

"It's important that it's been brought to our attention, it is prudent we do the assessment and act on it," he told 9News.

Other western countries including the US and Britain have acted to remove Chinese cameras from their government buildings due to concerns they may contain spyware.

Shadow Cyber Security Minister James Paterson said today federal government buildings were "riddled" with the Chinese cameras and ministers needed to draw up plans for their removal.

Paterson issued questions to every federal agency after the Home Affairs Department was unable to say how many of the cameras or related systems were in federal government buildings.

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"We urgently need a plan from the Albanese government to rip every one of these devices out of Australian government departments and agencies," Paterson said.

The cameras and security equipment were found in nearly every department except Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Agriculture Department.

The audit showed the Attorney-General's Department had 195 of the camera systems installed at 29 sites.

The number in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade was not revealed but it had identified at least 28 sites potentially affected.

Paterson said he was concerned about how CCTV technology made by Hikvision and Dahua had been used in China by the communist government.

"Both Hikvision and Dahua have been directly implicated in shocking human rights abuses and mass surveillance of Uyghur minorities in Xinjiang in partnership with the Chinese Communist Party," he said.

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Meanwhile, China is reportedly on the verge of restarting imports of Australian rock lobsters after trade was halted in 2020.

The rock lobster trade is expected to be worth as much as $700 million.

It comes as the first shipment of coal from Australia arrives in China after years of being frozen out.

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