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A teenager has died after he was stabbed at a social gathering at a home on the New South Wales south coast.

Police went to West Birriley Street, Bomaderry after a teenager had "suffered chest injuries" about 7pm.

The 18-year-old was taken to Shoalhaven Hospital in a critical condition but died a short time after his arrival.

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Neighbour Gage Hood said there was a bit of a gathering happening but he didn't realise anything was wrong until he saw the police cars.

"The story was someone fell on a knife but you don't fall on a knife," Hood said.

Acting inspector Ian Griffin said all of the people at the "gathering" knew each other.

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"It is a terrible set of circumstances but there is certainly nothing in our investigation that should concern the community and we will continue to try and find out what has occurred," Griffin said.

He confirmed it was a single stab wound that killed the teenager.

Police are asking anyone with information to contact Crimestoppers on 1800 333 000

Authorities have raided 35 properties across the country, on suspicion they are supplying and using illegal electronic sales suppression tools (ESST) or software to avoid paying tax.

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) and Australian Federal Police (AFP) worked in conjunction with the US and UK to coordinate a global search and seizure. 

The raids took place in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania, the ATO said in a statement.

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A significant amount of information has been gathered by investigators but no charges have been laid yet.

ATO Deputy Commissioner John Ford said the dodgy tools allowed retailers to keep a separate set of books and launder the money in one transaction.

"They conceal and transfer this income anonymously, sometimes offshore," Ford said.

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Ford said a point-of-sale system with ESST enabled may permanently delete transactions, re-sequence transactions, reduce sales values, misrepresent transactions, and consequently, produce fake records.

"So what might happen is that the customer orders a $60 steak and a $100 bottle of wine and the ESS tool then puts it through the point-of-sale system as a $10 bowl of chips and a $4 bottle of soft drink," he said.

"Adding ESST to your point-of-sale system is a deliberate and underhanded act designed purely to under-report income and avoid tax obligations."

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He warned it was only a matter of time before businesses got caught due to their global intelligence network.

It has been illegal to produce, supply, process, use or promote ESSTs in Australia since October 2018.

Globally the raids involved the collection of evidence, intelligence gathering, search warrants, notices to produce, interviews, taxation assessments, and subpoenas.

The ATO is encouraging businesses using ESS tools to come forward as they may be able to receive less penalties.

South Koreans are about to get a year or two younger, thanks to a new law passed on Thursday that aims to standardise how age is calculated in the country.

At present it's common for South Koreans to have not just one age, but three, an "international age," a "Korean age" and a "calendar age."

But to end confusion, the country's parliament has decreed that from June 2023 all official documents must use the standard "international age."

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That move, which follows a long-running debate over the issue, will bring the country into line with most of the rest of the world and cut down on legal discrepancies that arise from the use of three different systems.

In South Korea, a person's "international age" refers to the number of years since they were born, and starts at zero, the same system used in most other countries.

But when asked their age in informal settings, most South Koreans will answer with their "Korean age," which could be one or even two years older than their "international age".

Under this system, babies are considered a year old on the day they're born, with a year added every January 1.

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In some circumstances, South Koreans also use their "calendar age", a kind of mash-up between international and Korean age, which consider babies as zero years old the day they're born and adds a year to their age every January 1.

Take "Gangnam Style" singer Psy, for example.

Born on December 31, 1977, he is considered 44 by international age; 45 by calendar year age; and 46 by Korean age.

If this sounds confusing, it is, with daily life in the country often switching between the hodgepodge of different systems.

Most people use Korean age, which has its roots in China, in everyday life and social scenarios, while international age is more often used for legal and official matters, for instance, when dealing with civil laws.

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However, some laws, including those surrounding the legal ages for drinking, smoking, and military conscription, use calendar year age.

The law passed Thursday will standardise the use of international age across all "judicial and administrative areas," according to the parliament website and documents related to the bill.

"The state and local governments shall encourage citizens to use their 'international age' and conduct necessary promotion for that," it says.

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The decision is the result of years of campaigning by lawmakers fed up with the multiple systems.

"The revision is aimed at reducing unnecessary socio-economic costs because legal and social disputes as well as confusion persist due to the different ways of calculating age," Yoo Sang-bum of the ruling People Power Party told parliament, according to Reuters.

Another bill introduced by lawmaker Hwang Ju-hong in 2019 argued that apart from sowing confusion, the three methods also caused conflict by "fostering a culture of hierarchy based on age and avoiding certain months for childbirth."

A truck has allegedly rammed a car multiple times after it slowed down for roadworks in Melbourne last night.

The driver was slowing down to merge into another lane due to roadworks on the Hume Highway near O'Herns Road in Epping when it moved in front of a truck about 9.30pm.

The truck then pushed the car for about 60 metres, causing it to spin and veer off the road, into an emergency lane, Victoria Police said in a statement.

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The truck driver did not stop and drove away from the scene.

The woman driving the car was assisted by roadworkers and was not injured.

Police are calling for witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage to come forward.

Experts are advising adults to appoint a "water watcher" when supervising children after an increase in child drownings in New South Wales this year.

Forty seven children have gone to The Children's Hospital at Westmead and Sydney Children's Hospital in Randwick following near-drowning incidents so far in 2022.

Last year there were a total of 49 presentations to both hospitals.

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Trauma Surgeon Dr SV Soundappan said the increase in child drownings was concerning.

"Children are naturally curious around water, however they don't understand the dangers it can pose," Soundappan said.

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"Active adult supervision is vital when children are in or around any body of water.

"For young children, this means a responsible adult being in the water and within arm's reach."

Designating a "water watcher" to supervise children can ensure there is clear communication about who is watching children between parents and carers.

NSW Ambulance Inspector Andrew McAlpine said about 30 Triple Zero (000) calls were made week each week over summer for water related accidents.

"This makes it one of the busiest periods for NSW Ambulance, with nearly half of all yearly calls outs for drowning and water related incidents occurring in December to February," McAlpine said.

"Knowing CPR and how to respond in case of an emergency can be the difference between life and death.

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"The quick actions of bystanders and loved ones can help save lives and reduce serious or long-term injuries before medical professionals arrive on the scene", he said.

"It is most often a family member who finds the child in a drowning incident, so every parent and carer needs to know the lifesaving skills of CPR.

"Any attempt at CPR is better than no attempt."

Drowning is one of the leading causes of death and injury in children aged five or younger.

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Now proven by science, massive rogue waves were once just marine folklore.

For centuries sailors swapped terrifying stories of ships mysteriously vanishing, sunk by giant walls of water that seemed to appear from nowhere.

Some believe a rogue wave killed three lighthouse keepers who in 1900 disappeared from the Flannan Isles, a group of remote, rocky islands in Scotland's Outer Hebrides.

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The trio, so one theory goes, were freakishly swept to their deaths off their tiny island.

When scheduled replacement lighthouse keeper Joseph Moore ventured ashore, he found the lighthouse empty, the clocks stopped and a half-eaten meal on the table.

It remains an enduring mystery.

Only a few rogue waves, defined by scientists as waves which are greater than twice the size of surrounding waves, have been observed directly.

But wave buoys have allowed scientists to document the ocean freaks, which strike fear into the heart of all seafarers.

"In some cases, there's nobody left to tell the story," Peter van Duyn, a master mariner, told 9news.com.au, speaking about the "certainty" of the existence of rogue waves, and the shift from fable to fact.

Van Duyn, a former captain of tankers and cargo ships, has encountered gigantic swells around the globe, from Cape Horn to the notorious Drake Passage near Antarctica.

He said no one will likely ever know if the cruise ship Viking Polaris was hit by a rogue wave or just very big swell when a passenger was killed while returning to Argentina from a scenic journey to Antarctica.

The American woman died after she was hit by panes of falling glass which were smashed in as the ship was swamped by an unusually large wave.

"Normally a ship will just ride through everything," Van Duyn said.

"The bow might disappear under a lot of water but slowly it does come up.

"That's what you hope anyway, and it usually happens."

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The proliferation of glass windows spread around cruise ships makes the vessels more vulnerable to wave damage than hulking tankers and container vessels, he said.

"This glass can be pushed in by a massive wall of water."

In the middle of raging seas, Van Duyn said it's challenging for sailors to differentiate between a rogue wave and just a very big swell.

"From the ship, the bridge is usually quite high above the water, so to accurately measure wave height is quite difficult.

"And it's usually happening in a storm, so you've got other things to worry about."

Rogue waves are unexpected, so a captain will have little warning and no time to change course or react.

Van Duyn was captaining a 300-metre-long, 300,000-tonne tanker off the southeast coast of South Africa, a passage notorious for "very big waves and troughs", when his vessel was smashed by an immense wave and began to take on water.

"We don't know whether it was a rogue wave or not," he said.

"That particular area is known for it, rogue waves or very steep waves."

From the ship's bridge, a captain can see the bow of a long tanker actually bend as it crests over colossal beasts of the ocean, Van Duyn said.

"But if it flexes too much the hull can crack."

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The first rogue wave recorded, known as The Draupner Wave, was measured in 1995 off the coast of Norway at 25.6m, with surrounding waves approximately 12m.

That wave struck an oil drilling platform, and defied all previous scientific models.

In 2020, a rogue wave 17.6m tall was recorded off the coast of Vancouver Island, breaking the record for proportionality at three times the size of surrounding waves.

Scientists have also established that devastating rogue waves can sweep through the ocean, underneath the water's surface.

Some researchers believe an Indonesia submarine which sunk in the Bali-Lombok strait last year may have been hit by a wave up to 100m high, travelling within the ocean.

"Internal rogue waves are cousins of surface waves – their shapes differ," Dr Adrian Ankiewicz, from Australian National University, said at the time.

"They … move more slowly, at walking pace, and have much higher amplitudes, sometimes over 100 metres," he said.

A 2020 study has predicted wave heights will increase because of climate change.