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The relationship between Madelyn Train and her family Stacey, Gary and Nathaniel Train – who went on to murder two Queensland police officers and an innocent bystander – became fractured as they spiralled into a dark world of conspiracies.

A letter from Stacey to her daughter Madelyn Train, exclusively obtained by 9News ahead of an interview with Sophie Walsh, is an insight into the pair's relationship six years before the shooting.

Madelyn's father Nathaniel was married to Stacey in 1995 before the two "amicably" separated when the now-26-year-old was young.

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Stacey went on to marry Nathaniel's brother and Madelyn's uncle, Gareth, a few years later.

"Thank you for coming to visit and spending time with Gary and me. You are great company, I am so looking forward to your next visit," Stacey wrote.

The letter follows Madelyn's first visit to the Wieambilla property, 300km from Brisbane, where three innocent people would lose their lives at the hands of the Trains in December last year.

"It sounds like you're enjoying your life… and enjoy being yourself," Stacey wrote.

"That's the most important thing that any of us can hope to learn. Love always.

The letter may seem like a typical loving relationship between mother and daughter but Madelyn said it wasn't always that way.

"They often said I disappointed them, but I feel usually children are a disappointment at different points in their life," Madelyn told Nine reporter Sophie Walsh during an exclusive sit-down interview.

"I would agree that sometimes I was a disappointment."

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On December 12, 2022, Madelyn's father Nathaniel, her mother Stacey and step-father and uncle Gareth ambushed and executed two police officers and an innocent neighbour.

Prior to that day, her relationship with the family was distant when Madelyn hadn't seen them for three years and only communicated via email and text.

It all started after the trio began to spiral into wild conspiracy theories, hateful manifestos and a disillusioned view of the outside world.

Madelyn always hoped the distant and estranged relationship with her parents would change.

"I always thought that eventually, I'd be able to reconnect with my mum," she said.

"I was always hopeful that we would have a relationship where it was normal and it was getting there."

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Madelyn is unable to come to terms with what her family did that day, the people who gave her life and then took away the lives of three innocent community members.

"I can't reconcile it yet. In my own life, I just have had trauma on top of trauma, on top of trauma," she said.

"I have to unpack it one at a time."

She "hates" the legacy her parents left for her.

"They've irreparably impacted so many lives and I have more concern for anyone else, particularly the people that they murdered or they killed," she said.

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A father living with the fact he caused the death of his son on Christmas Day is again facing the prospect of prison after prosecutors challenged a community work sentence.

Christopher Browne avoided jail after admitting he was to blame for the death of two-year-old Lincoln.

The youngster was thrown from an ATV buggy and crushed while his father did doughnuts at their family property at Barnawartha North in Victoria's northeast in 2020.

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Browne was sentenced to a three-year community corrections order, with conditions for 250 hours of community work and ongoing treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.

But prosecutors say his case is no different to that of another Victorian father who was sentenced to more than three years behind bars after causing the death of his nine-year-old daughter in a buggy crash.

Browne had been deliberately doing burnouts in a vehicle notoriously unsafe for such activities, Victoria's Chief Crown Prosecutor Brendan Kissane, KC, told Victoria's Court of Appeal on Tuesday.

When sentencing Browne, county court judge Michael Cahill had taken into account that the father was suffering PTSD after the crash.

But Kissane challenged to what extent that should have enabled such vastly different sentences.

"It's trite to say any parent who is involved in the death of their child would be grief-stricken, would be suffering, or would suffer from stress and anxiety, and the distinction, if there is one, is not such to warrant the distinction in sentence," he said.

The court heard Browne's admission to dangerous driving causing death and reckless conduct endangering serious injury were double-barrelled.

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He had deliberately driven dangerously by doing the burnouts or doughnuts and had also deliberately flouted built-in safety features on the buggy by sitting on top of a clipped-in seatbelt, overriding a safety lock that would have limited the speed to 25km/h.

Lincoln had been sitting on Browne's lap, and Browne's sister was in the passenger seat of the buggy, which should only have had two people on board.

Browne's barrister, Jason Gullaci, said Browne had admitted to police that he had been trying to scare his sister, that he had been doing doughnuts, and confessed to flouting the seatbelt rules.

"He has taken full and direct responsibility for the devastating consequences of his very reckless behaviour," he said.

Browne pleaded guilty after a sentence indication, and in the five months since being sentenced has already completed more than 100 hours of the required community work.

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He and his wife, who remains his loyal supporter, learned after prosecutors filed the appeal that they are expecting another child, Gullaci said.

The couple had stillborn twin daughters before Lincoln's birth and another surviving child.

"Given that he now knows that his wife is pregnant and there's a real risk he could be imprisoned as a result of the (prosecutor's) appeal, he has significant concerns," Gullaci said.

The appeal is being decided by three judges.

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Until she was deported from the US last year, Madolline Gourley thought she had hit upon an ideal way to travel the world affordably: house-sitting.

The 32-year-old Australian first heard about the concept of house-sitting, which involves looking after a home in exchange for free accommodation, just over five years ago and, Googling the term, clicked on the first result that came up – a UK-based website called Trusted Housesitters, which connects hosts with house- and pet-sitters internationally, including in New Zealand.

Signing up almost on the spot, the content writer and editor applied for a two-week house- and cat-sitting gig in San Francisco, landing it just a day after her Skype interview.

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She had such a good time – describing the location as great, the couple as lovely and the cat as relatively low-maintenance – that she used the site to travel internationally for the next five years, mostly in the US.

"I prefer to travel by myself, but what I like about house- and cat-sitting is that I always have a cat – or cats – to come home to at the end of each day," she said.

"It's also good in terms of being able to save hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars on accommodation costs.

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"That money can then be used to do other things you mightn't have been able to afford if you were forking out for accommodation.

"You also end up becoming friends with the people you house- and cat-sit for."

The lifestyle she had come to love came to an abrupt halt on June 30, 2022 when she was detained in Los Angeles en route to Canada for another three house-sitting gigs.

Gourley said US immigration officials were suspicious about her plans to house-sit in Canada because she had previously house-sat in the US.

"Everyone arriving at LAX has to pass through immigration and customs regardless of whether or not you're getting on a connecting flight, international or domestic, and I am of the opinion US immigration thought I wasn't going to get my connecting flights to Montreal," she said.

"For whatever reason, I think they thought I was going to stay in the US indefinitely, even though I have never overstayed my ESTA.

"And I had a return ticket to Australia departing Los Angeles on 11 September 2022."

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The US Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) is a visa-waiver programme for citizens of several countries, Australia and New Zealand included, on short visits for tourism purposes and certain business activities, but not employment.

The ESTA website says visitors may "perform or offer commercial or industrial activities as long as you are not compensated for those activities from a US source, such as a company or an employer".

Held in a detention room, Gourley said she was interrogated, patted down, photographed and fingerprinted.

"US immigration doesn't share a lot of information with you while you're in airport detention, so it was pretty stressful," she said. "I had no idea if I was going to be jailed or if I'd be taken to court, or when I'd be released.

"You're not allowed to use your phone and you don't get any of your stuff back until you're escorted to your flight gate for your return flight back home. As you'd expect, some of the officers are quite rude and abuse their powers just because they can."

Gourley was eventually told she would be deported on the next flight to Brisbane at her own cost as she had breached the conditions of the visa waiver programme.

A US Department of Homeland Security document seen by Stuff states that Gourley "admitted" she had been travelling to the US as a house- and pet-sitter since 2017 in exchange for room and board, and did not have authorisation to work in the country.

The document says she was denied entry to the country in line with section 212 of the US Immigration and Nationality Act "because she is an intending immigrant without an immigrant visa".

Gourley is barred from ever returning to the US under the visa waiver programme, making re-entry for tourism purposes very difficult, if not impossible.

The US Customs and Border Control did not respond to a request for comment by deadline, but has previously said that house-sitting breaches ESTA guidelines.

"Under the Visa Waiver Program, nonimmigrant foreign nationals visiting the United States as tourists (visitors for pleasure), engaging in unauthorized employment is not allowed," a spokesperson told Business Insider. "For example, working as a house-and-animal sitter in exchange for room and board."

Shocked to learn that foreigners require a work visa to house-sit in the US, Gourley contacted Trusted Housesitters about her experience, asking that they make it clear on their website that house-sitters require work visas in some countries as opposed to tourist visas.

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In an August email, Trusted Housesitters told Gourley that the "immigration specialists" it had consulted had "concluded that members can travel internationally to sit and that they are not in breach of any visa conditions".

A Trusted Housesitters spokesperson told Stuff that the company had been advised by immigration lawyers in both the UK and the US that its pet-sitting service does not contravene immigration guidelines as sitters are primarily travelling for leisure purposes.

"It is important, however, that people check the individual country visa and immigration guidelines before travelling as there is a risk they may be refused entry if they do not have the correct documentation in place."

The spokesperson said all members with confirmed house-sitting arrangements are sent a series of emails detailing requirements for international sitting.

They are also sent a link to letters drawn up by immigration lawyers which "help border officials understand that house-sitting is not regarded as work".

On its website, Trusted Housesitters, which charges users an annual fee of between $139 and $269, says border officials categorise house-sitting as work "on rare occasions".

In a July 2022 blog post responding to Gourley's situation the company said border officials sometimes consider the free accommodation house-sitters get as "payment in kind", but "there is very little consistency across countries and borders".

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"What happened to Madolline is extremely unfortunate and we are so sorry for her and the situation she found herself in," the post said.

While house-sitters can often get by on tourist visas, provided they aren't doing any paid work, the US isn't the only country to require them to hold a work visa.

The UK, for example, considers house-sitting as work, even when unpaid, and therefore requires house-sitters to apply for a work visa unless they are looking after the home of a family member or friend.

If Gourley had made it to Canada, it's possible she may have been questioned about her plans there.

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) pointed Stuff to the Canadian government website, which defines work as any activity that you are paid to do, you would usually be paid to do, or would be a valuable work experience for a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.

Asked if house-sitting would be considered work, the spokesperson said they "cannot speculate on certain outcomes, as each traveller presents themselves to a border services officer under a different set of circumstances, with varying levels of information available…

"Admissibility of all travellers is decided based on the information made available at the time of entry and travellers must have documentation that provides details of the reason for their travel and any other information that may be relevant."

Gourley spent the festive season house- and cat-sitting around Australia, finding gigs on a local website, and is now back in Brisbane, where she plans to stay for a few months before resuming her travels.

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In the meantime, she's pushing for Trusted Housesitters, which says it has more than 144,000 members, to amend the information on visas on its website.

"If their website advised me I needed a work visa to house- and pet-sit in countries like the United States, I may have thought twice about signing up," she said.

"Would-be members aren't informed about the risks before they hand over their credit card details, and the visa and immigration information Trusted Housesitters does have isn't easily findable."

Whether you're choosing to commemorate Australia Day this year or not, many Aussies will be looking to see what the weather will be like for the upcoming public holiday.

While some cities are expecting a warm and sunny day, residents in other cities might not get the same beach weather luxury.

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Here is what Weatherzone is forecasting for each capital city on Thursday.

Sydney

The harbour city is forecast to be 31 degrees, partly cloudy with a medium chance of showers in the afternoon and evening. There is also a chance of a thunderstorm also in the afternoon and evening, which could be severe in the outer suburbs.

Melbourne

The city known for its four season in one day will be 22 degrees and partly cloudy with winds up to 30 kilometres per hour during the day.

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Brisbane

The sunshine state capital will be a mostly sunny 33 degrees, with a slight chance of a shower. There is a a chance of a thunderstorm in the afternoon and even

Perth

In the west, Perth will be a sunny 31 degrees, with winds up to 35 kilometres throughout the day.

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Adelaide

The city of churches will be 30 degrees and mostly sunny.

Hobart

Tasmania's capital will be 21 degrees and partly cloudy with a slight chance of a shower. Winds could reach up to 25 kilometres in the morning but will become light in the evening.

Darwin

The Northern Territory capital will be 32 degrees and cloudy. There will be a high chance of showers, most likely in the late morning and afternoon and a chance of a thunderstorm.

As the setting sun slips below the horizon three words ring out over the churning ocean: "There he is".

The shrieks of joy, immortalised in a now-viral TikTok video, were uttered by a Florida family desperately searching for their son, who had been lost at sea.

Dylan Gartenmayer, 21, was free-diving near Key West on Thursday with two friends, when the powerful Gulf Stream current swept him out into the deep.

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Gartenmayer later revealed he wanted "one last dive" as his friends watched on the boat above; that's when disaster struck.

He was diving to a depth of 10-metres when the current briefly dragged him to about 45-metres, forcing him to hold his breath for two minutes.

When he surfaced, he was more than a kilometre from the boat.

Bobbing in the ocean, the 21-year-old was left to fend for himself for several hours.

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Gartenmayer said once he surfaced, he swam about a kilometre-and-a-half, aided by bamboo he found drifting in the water.

He found a channel marker and could see the Coast Guard in the distance, searching for him by land and sea.

Thinking fast he tied two of the mooring buoys together to form a makeshift raft, but that formed another risk.

It started attracting bait, which in turn attracted the attention of reef sharks.

"I just seen a reef shark swam past me," Gartenmayer said on video uploaded to social media.

"I had a bunch of bait start blowing up around, I could see mackerel skyrocketing.

"I was watching the sun drop pretty quickly".

He didn't know it then, but his family had mobilised their own search, using the boat he had been swept away from.

"We had the coordinates that were given to us, but he obviously wasn't on those," his mother Tabitha told NBC 6.

"Joel (a friend) looks to the right and he sees the buoys."

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Gartenmayer was so focused on the Coast Guard, who was conducting grid searches in the distance, he didn't realise his family and friends had come to the rescue.

"I was facing to the west looking at the Coast Guard, and I could hear a boat humming up behind me," Gartenmayer said.

"My mum took my dive gear. She just started hugging, crying."

The Coast Guard credited Gartenmayer's act of tying the mooring balls together with saving his life.

"Sunset, weather conditions and Dylan's outfit were playing against us in this case, but his foresight to lash mooring balls together to make him a bigger target in the water was smart," Search and Rescue Mission Coordinator, Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Tatum said.

As for Gartenmayer the incident hasn't turned him off the ocean, and he's planning a dive in the near future.

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