A toothache is enough to make anyone snappy, but with Elvis the crocodile, fixing a sore jaw is a downright dangerous endeavour.

Dental technicians at the Australian Reptile Park were given the task of fixing the smile on their crocodile after he had a tooth break through his bottom jaw.

The issue had been going on a while for the crocodile, who had not been captured since he arrived at the reptile park in 2007.

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Operations manager Billy Collett said the situation was "really unusual".

"We have got the vets in and we have got the x-ray machines ready to go so basically we are just going to catch him and x-ray him and see what we can do," Collett said.

"Obviously Elvis is a pretty dangerous animal so we have had to do some pretty intense training with the staff."

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Much like the late rock singer, Elvis put on a strong performance for onlookers but after a few struggles, he was securely captured by staff.

"We have done the X-rays and they have revealed several problem teeth that needed to come out straight away," Collett said.

It took two hours for the dentist to remove the tooth from the 4.75-metre apex predator.

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"This is something we definitely don't do every day, catching Elvis, so while we have got him we are doing everything.

"The whole process was absolutely textbook, I am so proud of the team, it went so well for Elvis."

Meanwhile at Wildlife Sydney Zoo, three freshwater crocodiles are switching their tropical Cairns life for Darling Harbour views.

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An investigation has identified the suspected weed at the centre of a spinach recall across Australia.

Riviera Farms and Victoria Health have confirmed the spinach was contaminated with a weed called thornapple, known by the scientific name of datura stramonium.

"The investigations have not identified any other potential chemical, herbicide or other type of contaminant," a Riviera Farms spokesperson said.

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"No other Riviera Farms produce have been impacted by this weed."

The company said neighbouring crops of spinach are in the process of being destroyed as a precautionary measure.

"Riviera Farms is continuing to conduct our own independent audit of the farm and weed which will inform our application to obtain recertification and recommence production."

Dozens of people have sought medical attention after consuming a toxic and potentially "hallucinogenic" spinach product in New South Wales and Victoria.

The discovery triggered recalls of several spinach varieties across Australia.

More information about thornapple can be found on the NSW Department of Primary Industries website.

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It was meant to be a night of fun and celebration at Rosebud Beach for Sally Liu and her three other friends.

But it soon turned into a nightmare, after they were pushed into the cold and treacherous waters of Port Phillip Bay by a gust of wind, while on blow-up paddleboards on Monday night.

The group spent more than seven hours clinging onto the two paddleboards before "miraculously" finding land on a small island on the opposite side of the bay.

"I was just thinking, how can we survive?" Liu said.

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Liu said they just wanted to have "some fun on the beach" while celebrating the completion of their VCE studies.

"When the sun was going down and it was getting darker and we couldn't see the beach. We (were thinking) this isn't good," she said.

"We were in the middle of the ocean. We couldn't see anything.

"I was thinking, do I have to stay one night on the paddleboard and how can we survive?"

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Together with Rong Shi, Shirui Zheng and Lee Li, the group bound the boards together on one end to make sure they stayed together. 

Liu said they spent the night supporting each other to make sure no one fell asleep.

"Each one of us at night were feeling sleepy but we knew we (couldn't) sleep or close our eyes," she said.

"We were yelling and then we tried to hit our friends and to get them awake. The four of us hugged each other."

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From his hospital bed, Li told the ABC that they could see helicopters trying to search for them while floating in the water. 

"We just saw some helicopters trying to search for us and that gave us some hope to stay alive," he said.

"It was very horrible. We were trying to figure out some ways to save our life."

But soon they were pushed in the direction of Swan Island, near Queenscliff about 2am. 

"We put our foot down under the water to see if we could stand (when we saw the island)," Liu said. 

"We tried to stand and touch the ground and we could. It was really exciting because we knew if we found land, we would survive." 

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The group found a shelter under a hunt before they were spotted on the island by security. 

For Rong Shi's father Jack, it was an incredible relief to hear the news of the teens safety.

"We are still digesting what happened, it's a Christmas miracle, so we are just so grateful for this," he said outside Geelong Hospital on Tuesday.

"They were very cold and exhausted and hungry. But these these kids are very, brave so they are all in this together."

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The group feel "very, very lucky to be alive", according to Liu.

"The thing is like, I must enjoy my life. It's really not easy to yeah, it's like my second life, I think I'm really lucky," she said.

"It's like everyone give us the opportunity to have the second life so you're not going to waste any time."

Hillsong founder Brian Houston believes he did the "right thing" not going to police after his father told him he had molested an underage boy three decades earlier.

Houston maintains it was the victim's explicit wish not for the incident to be made public or for there to be an investigation by authorities.

"What I was committed to was (the victim's) wishes, not betraying him and his wishes," Houston told a court hearing on Wednesday.

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"I believe we did the right thing, that I personally did the right thing."

Frank Houston admitted abusing the boy at a home in Sydney's Coogee in 1970, which he confessed to his son in 1999.

Houston pleaded not guilty to a charge of concealing the crime until his father's death in 2004.

After learning about the crime, Houston informed a meeting of the church's national executive who banned Frank Houston from preaching, however no effort was made to tell the police or broader public.

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The court heard earlier this week that $12,000 was also paid to the victim as a form of informal compensation, however, Houston stressed the money was not paid to keep the victim quiet or prevent him from going to the police in the future.

Under cross-examination on Wednesday, Houston was grilled about the contents of a sermon he gave to hundreds of worshippers at the Hillsong Church Hills Campus in 2002.

Crown prosecutor Gareth Harrison put to Houston he had "sanitised" his father's deeds to protect the church from scandal, which he denied.

Houston told the congregation he had confronted his father about the accusations which led to "certain confessions" about "issues", according to a transcript of the sermon read in part to Downing Centre Local Court.

"You haven't said what the confessions were. You haven't even said what the issues are," Harrison said.

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"It's true that I didn't talk about the specifics of exactly what Frank had done to the whole congregation," Houston replied.

During the 2002 sermon, Houston also stated: "My dad, he loves God. He still loves God. He's still in the word."

Harrison suggested: "What you were really saying was 'despite this part of his life that got out of hand, he's still a good man'."

Houston said it was "not necessarily" his intention of conveying that to the congregation.

It was suggested by Harrison that Houston had chosen the words of the sermon carefully in order to disguise the truth.

"Here you are… telling your congregation that someone had called the church and made a very serious moral accusation against your father," Harrison said.

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"You're trying to fool them into thinking this was a serious allegation, but not an allegation about child sexual assault."

"I never tried to fool the congregation," Houston said.

Earlier this week, Houston told the court how difficult it was for him to talk about his father's crimes and how he struggled for years to use the word "pedophile" to describe him.

"I found it tremendously difficult every time I had to tell the story again," Houston explained.

The hearing will resume in June.

Enquiries are ongoing and further arrests may be made, police say.