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Mitchell Thorburn was doing what he does every day, attending a snake callout on the Gold Coast, when he saw something that stopped him in his tracks.

The handler, from Gold Coast Snake Catcher, yesterday picked up a red-bellied black snake, sighted on a property in Ormeau, when the head of a baby eastern brown snake popped out of its mouth.

Video uploaded to social media shows the forked tongue of the juvenile snake flickering.

The eastern brown was being eaten alive, tail-first.

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Thorburn told 9news.com.au he's never seen anything like it in his career.

"I was quite surprised," he said, adding the red-bellied snake was just under a metre long.

"It's the first time I've had a snake poke its head out of another.

"It's not at all surprising to see red-bellied snakes eat other snakes, but I've never picked up a venomous snake and had another snake pop out."

Both species are venomous, but the eastern brown snake is Australia's second most venomous land snake, believed responsible for the majority of snake bite fatalities.

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Thorburn went on to debunk a popular urban myth – that eastern brown snakes and red-bellied black snakes don't inhabit the same areas.

"Despite the occasional predation on each other, both species are happy to live side-by-side," he said.

"They don't compete much for food."

Despite the confronting sight he filmed, he said the reptiles' predation works both ways.

"Eastern brown snakes have been known to feed on red-bellied snakes too," he said.

"But size does matter.

"An eastern brown would take on a smaller-red bellied snake and vice versa."

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The incident comes as reptile handlers gear up for one of the busiest periods of snake season, which typically runs from September to April.

Hatchlings are starting to emerge and enter homes.

"We're getting a large numbers of callouts at that moment," he said.

"Keep your doors closed, and if you see a snake stay well away from it.

"If it's causing an issue please call a qualified snake catcher."

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Tinder has launched new safety features in response to the rise in sexual harassment and domestic violence on dating apps but there's a catch to some of the measures.

More than three million people use dating apps across Australia and the majority of those who online date have faced some form of abuse or harassment, data shows.

The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) found three in four dating app users surveyed experienced online sexual violence, harassment or aggression in the last five years. 

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The growing rate of violence on the platforms sparked the federal government and dating apps to work to implement new safety measures to tackle sexual and domestic violence on the apps and if users meet up.

Tinder has announced a series of changes to the platform to put "control" front and centre of the app.

The app is introducing new features including "incognito mode" which is a "step up from fully hiding" a profile.

Users can swipe left and right but only those they like will see them in their recommendations.

The catch – this is only available to premium members who pay to use the app.

Block profile is a feature where users can block a profile before matching so that person doesn't come up again.

"It's an easy way to avoid seeing a boss or an ex. This new feature comes in addition to Block Contacts and blocking following making a report," Tinder said.

Block contacts, which has previously been implemented, means users can go into their settings and put in which of their contacts they would rather not see or be seen by on the app.

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Long press reporting means users can tap and hold offensive messages within a chat to report them to the app.

"By simplifying this flow, Tinder hopes more members will report bad behaviour, allowing it to take appropriate action against accounts that violate the Community Guidelines," Tinder said.

Modifications to the existing "does this bother you" and "are you sure?" features will widen how hate speech, sexual exploitation and harassment are categorised within the app.

The "are you sure" in-app alert pops up before a message is sent if Tinder's artificial intelligence picks up inappropriate language – either overtly sexual or violent.

Tinder said the nudge is to make users reflect on whether it is appropriate to send the notification or not.

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Meanwhile the "does this bother you" nudge is the flipside, encouraging users to report inappropriate conversations.

"Through education and information, our goal is to make Tinder the safest place to meet new people online," Rory Kozoll from Tinder said.

Some of these changes are in line with recommendations by the AIC to make accessible and easy reporting processes and use artificial intelligence to censor abusive messages to prevent dating-app facilitated sexual violence.

The modifications come after the first roundtable between dating apps, state and federal government and domestic violence survivors was held in January to brainstorm new measures to make the highly popular platforms safer.

"We need the industry to improve their action, their transparency and their accountability," communications minister Michelle Rowland said at the time.

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Businesses are joining mortgage holders on a financial cliff as an increase in corporate collapses is anticipated following the Reserve Bank of Australia's decision to hike interest rates again by 0.25 per cent.

The central bank made the decision today to push the cash rate up by 25 basis points to 3.35 per cent in news no business or homeowner wanted to hear.

RBA governor Philip Lowe said the decision to hike interest rates for a ninth consecutive time was due to global inflation remaining high and below-average growth expected for 2022 and 2023.

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