An inmate is understood to have been left badly injured after after a major riot and fire ripped through Yatala Labour Prison in Adelaide yesterday.

Reports suggest officers had attempted to transport two "high-risk" inmates – men aged 23 and 31 respectively – yesterday afternoon when the pair became "unpredictable" and "dangerous".

"They were being abusive and threatening towards staff and towards the supervisor of the unit," Department for Correctional Services CEO David Brown said.

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"Their behaviour escalated to the point where they started a fire in the cell."

As a precaution, more than 150 inmates were moved to an outdoor yard, where they too started to fight.

As a result, the riot squad was called in, triggering an emergency response.

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Firefighters rushed to the scene to extinguish the blaze while paramedics treated staff suffering from smoke inhalation.

"Our members went in and potentially saved the lives of these prisoners but at great personal risk," Public Service Association assistant general secretary Natasha Brown said.

"I do not believe there was sufficient staff to be able to go and break up those fights as quickly and efficiently as they would normally be able to do."

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SA Police is conducting its own investigation, but wouldn't be drawn on whether the two prisoners would face further charges.

"Both prisoners are going to be separated when they are safe to return to our custody and they'll find themselves in G division (the jail's solitary unit)," Brown said.

The corrections boss defended his department's initial handling of the incident, in which it publicly stated no one had been hurt.

Teachers are at far greater risk of being injured in an assault or suffering a mental health condition than any other profession, according to new research.

Educators were compared to the broader workforce in an analysis by Monash University of workers' compensation claims from more than 1.5 million Australians over six years.

The research found teachers may be under-reporting their injuries, while the state with the highest number of claims was New South Wales.

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"Teachers do face really increased rates of these specific and really quite traumatic conditions," researcher Tyler Lane told 9News.

Looking at almost 85,000 claims made by teachers, the rate per thousand workers was 74 per cent higher for assault compared to other professions.

When it came to mental health conditions, it was 33 per cent higher.

Queensland teachers made 13,770 compensation claims, second behind New South Wales.

Leah Olsson from the Queensland Teachers Union said it shows why teachers are either burning out or leaving the profession.

"It goes without saying that physical and verbal abuse of teachers is not on," she said.

"We need to raise the status of our profession, and understand the responsibilities that teachers bear every single day."

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In contrast to the rest of the findings, the overall claim rate for teachers was far lower than the rest of the workforce, leading researchers to believe there is a culture in the profession of not reporting injuries.

"Rather than go through the rigmarole of lodging a claim, taking the time off, finding a substitute, building a lesson plan, you just say, 'I'll bear with it until the school holidays'," Lane said.

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The study found teachers had lower rates of injury claims than non-teachers.

However, they had higher rates of claiming for mental health conditions and assault-related injuries.

Evidence from the study suggests musculoskeletal pain, psychological distress, and student-inflicted violence-related injuries are common.

New South Wales beaches are set to be safer than ever from shark attacks this summer as a strengthened defence strategy is rolled out up and down the coast.

Experts have warned that due to the heavier than average rainfall seen this year comes a heightened risk of attacks due to the predators' preference for murky water.

But thanks to the efforts of scientists and SMART drum lines, more than 100 sharks have so far been intercepted since March – before they had a chance to pose any risk to the public.

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Every morning at dawn, crews head out to deploy the drum lines at more than 300 locations along the coast, before bringing them all back in again at dusk.

The drum lines catch sharks using a baited hook, which then notifies crews who have 30 minutes to respond, tag the animals and release them.

Since March, three great whites and 16 tiger sharks have been tagged at Bondi alone.

"We are catching large numbers of sharks so close to the beaches and yet we very, very seldomly get bites," Dr Vic Peddemors, senior shark scientist at DPI Fisheries, said.

"In part, that's thanks to SMART drum lines."

Once a shark is set free a kilometre off shore, data shows the animals tend avoid the area in future.

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Every morning at dawn, crews head out to deploy the drum lines at more than 300 locations along the coast, before bringing them all back in again at dusk.

The drum lines catch sharks using a baited hook, which then notifies crews who have 30 minutes to respond, tag the animals and release them.

Since March, three great whites and 16 tiger sharks have been tagged at Bondi alone.

"We are catching large numbers of sharks so close to the beaches and yet we very, very seldomly get bites," Dr Vic Peddemors, senior shark scientist at DPI Fisheries, said.

"In part, that's thanks to SMART drum lines."

Once a shark is set free a kilometre off shore, data shows the animals tend avoid the area in future.

A total 305 drum lines are set up at beaches across 20 local government areas spanning from Kingscliff to Pambula.

Over 30 "listening stations" across the state track the drum lines' every move.

Those stations send a signal to mobile devices that there are sharks swimming close by and warnings are subsequently sent to the public in real time via the Shark Smart App and on Twitter.

"All of these individual measures, together, make NSW the safest place to swim in Australia," NSW Agriculture Minister Dugald Saunders said.

But experts warn there's still a risk every time you enter the water.

"With all the rain we've been having … it's obviously a concern for potentially increases in shark bites," Peddemors said.

"Sharks are attracted to river run off.

"You can never stop every single shark bite that happens

"It doesn't matter how much time, effort, and money."

All of the added protection makes the rare chance of an attack even slimmer.

The first monarch butterflies have appeared in the mountaintop forests of central Mexico where they spend the winter, Mexico’s Environment Department said.

The first butterflies have been seen exploring the mountaintop reserves in the states of Mexico and Michoacan, apparently trying to decide where to settle this year.

The monarchs have shown up a few days late this year. Normally they arrive for the Day of the Dead observances on November 1 to 2.

Mountainside communities long associated the orange-and-black butterflies with the returning souls of the dead.

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The department said the butterflies were seen around their three largest traditional wintering grounds — Sierra Chincua, El Rosario and Cerro Pelón in Michoacan state.

The main group of butterflies is expected to arrive in the coming weeks, depending on weather conditions, the department said in a statement.

It is too early to say how big this year's annual migration from the United States and Canada will be. Those counts are usually made in January, when the butterflies have settled into clumps on the boughs of fir and pine trees.

The annual butterfly count doesn’t calculate the individual number of butterflies, but rather the number of acres they cover when they clump together.

Last year, 35 per cent more monarch butterflies arrived compared to the previous season. The rise may reflect the butterflies’ ability to adapt to more extreme bouts of heat or drought by varying the date when they leave Mexico.

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Each year, generally in March, the monarchs migrate back to the United States and Canada.

Drought, severe weather and loss of habitat north of the border – especially of the milkweed where the monarchs lay their eggs – as well as pesticide and herbicide use and climate change all pose threats to the species’ migration.

Illegal logging and loss of tree cover due to disease, drought and storms plague the reserves in Mexico.

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This year, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature added the migrating monarch butterfly to its “red list” of threatened species and categorised it as “endangered” — two steps from extinct.

The group estimates the population of monarch butterflies in North America has declined between 22 per cent and 72 per cent over 10 years, depending on the measurement method.

The monarchs' migration is the longest of any insect species known to science.

After wintering in Mexico, the butterflies fly north, breeding multiple generations along the way for thousands of miles. The offspring that reach southern Canada begin the trip back to Mexico at the end of summer.

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More than a thousand people have farewelled a young rugby league player who died while on holiday in Spain.

The funeral for Liam Hampson, 24, was held today at Dolphin Oval in Redcliffe near Brisbane.

Hampson's friends and team mates carried their mate onto the field wearing shirts with his face and number printed on them.

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Hampson died last month after falling in a nightclub in Barcelona.

The tragedy came just a few days after he'd posted online: "My life is perfect."

At the special service, his father Brett described his son as his best mate.

"His positivity was infectious and he would always take the time to make everyone feel special by listening," he said.

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Hampson's friends sat on the sidelines of a ground where he was hopeful he would soon make his NRL debut.

In the stands was coach Wayne Bennett, who had seen his potential.

Known as Hampo, he was also remembered as a loyal friend, a teacher's aide at the local high school, and a spiritual young man in the prime of his life.

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Dolphins coach Scott Murray said Hampson was a special person to be around.

"You may have had a tough day, but if Liam was in the room, everything was okay. He just had that personality that he was able to light everyone up," he said.

Friend and club captain Cameron Cullen read a special poem.

"We are all going to miss you Hampo – no doubt about that," he said.

Sri Lankan international cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka, accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Sydney, remains in custody after a failed bail bid.

The 31-year-old, who is in Australia for the T20 World Cup, was arrested at his Sydney CBD hotel in the early hours of Sunday and was refused bail by a court later in the day.

The left-handed batsman made a second application for release on Monday.

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Magistrate Robert Williams noted Gunathilaka had no criminal history, but the application for release was later refused.

Outside court, his defence lawyer Ananda Amaranath called the decision "disappointing" adding his client was considering appealing the decision to the Supreme Court.

The bail application was made in a closed court, after the police prosecutor lodged an application to suppress the facts of the case and the indictment against the 31-year-old.

The motion to suppress was opposed by Amaranath and Stephen Coombs, senior legal counsel for Nationwide News.

The pair made similar arguments – that the victim's name was already unable to be made public, and further suppression orders flew in the face of open justice.

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Williams granted an interim order closing the court on Monday – noting the court could grant an interim version of the request without considering its merits.

The order will be reconsidered on Wednesday.

The cricketer has been charged with four counts of sexual intercourse without consent.

He spent a night in custody in at Surry Hills Police Station before appearing in handcuffs and a grey T-shirt via video link at the Downing Centre Local Court on Monday.

"Yes sir," he told the court when asked if his video link was working.

Gunathilaka travelled to Australia with Sri Lanka's T20 World Cup team but only played in the team's first game, a loss against Namibia, before being ruled out of the competition with a hamstring tear.

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The Sri Lankan man had been holding up well in police custody, his lawyer told media outside court.

"He has the full support of the Sri Lankan High Commissioner and the Sri Lankan Cricket Board. So he is okay," Amaranath said.

Sri Lanka bowed out of the T20 tournament on Saturday night after losing their final match to England.

He has played nearly 100 T20 and one-day internationals for Sri Lanka as well as a handful of tests.

Hundreds of climate protesters blocked private jets from leaving Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Saturday in a demonstration on the eve of the COP27 UN climate meeting in Egypt.

Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion protesters sat around private jets to prevent them leaving and others rode bicycles around the planes.

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Dewi Zloch of Greenpeace Netherlands said the activists want "fewer flights, more trains and a ban on unnecessary short-haul flights and private jets."

Military police said they arrested a number of protesters for being on the airport's grounds without authorisation.

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Responding Friday to an open letter from Greenpeace, Schiphol's new CEO Ruud Sondag said the airport is targeting "emissions-free airports by 2030 and net climate-neutral aviation by 2050. And we have an duty to lead the way in that," but conceded it needed to happen faster.

More than 120 world leaders will attend this year's U.N. climate talks at the Red Sea coastal resort of Sharm el-Sheikh starting Sunday.

Thorny issues up for discussion at the November 6-18 talks, including further cutting greenhouse gas emissions and boosting financial aid for poor countries struggling with the impacts of climate change.

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Abbey Forrest longed to be a mother. She and her partner Inderpal Sohal wanted four children.

They were parents for 19 days before their lives and that of their baby girl Ivy were cruelly taken.

"Their last breaths will haunt me to my dying days," Elizabeth Forrest said.

She lost half her family in December 2020, when Jenny Hayes set fire to a Point Cook townhouse.

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Forrest, 19, and Sohal, 28, were asleep upstairs with baby Ivy in their newly rented townhouse and could not escape the deliberately lit blaze. They died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Forrest still calls her daughter's phone, knowing she won't answer.

Sometimes she pretends the young couple have taken their daughter to visit Sohal's family in India, something they had planned.

"I know it's not true but on the hard days it's easier to comprehend than what really happened," she told Victoria's Supreme Court on Monday.

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Sohal's sister Harpreet Sekhon couldn't bear to tell her children the family had died, and recalled her young son seeing a photo of them in a newspaper.

"He innocently asked if they were famous," she told the court.

"They just know they are with the angels, watching over them."

Her father died four months after the family's deaths, but he died in spirit on the day of the fire, Sekhon said.

Hayes was furious about a sexual encounter ending badly when she set fire to the townhouse just before 2am on December 2.

The downstairs bedroom was free to be used by one of Sohal's friends, who had hired Hayes, a sex worker.

Services were provided by Hayes and paid for by the friend, but there was a dispute and the friend left.

Hayes claimed she was raped by the man and he had taken money from her handbag, sending him a series of angry texts, including telling him she would set fire to his house.

She set fire to the bed and took photos as the room caught alight. The blaze quickly spread and even as she drove away, she took another picture.

"I'm so sick of people thinking they can do this s*** to me and nothing happens to them," she sent in a text.

"So I took what he had."

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Sohal, who was born and raised in India, had been living with the Forrest family in Geelong during Melbourne's COVID-19 lockdowns.

Forrest, an aspiring paramedic, fell pregnant during her gap year. She longed to be a mother, Forrest said.

Ivy's arrival marked the beginning of family life together.

Her father Alan paid tribute to Forrest's cheekiness and competitive spirit, revealing he sobs through Sunday family dinners without her.

"There is no getting over it, no closure. Our hearts are broken forever," he said.

Neighbours reported hearing Sohal crying out for help after the fire started, and one said her partner saw Forrest screaming and banging against a window, trying to escape.

Despite attempts to get into the home, they could not be saved.

Hayes pleaded guilty to three charges of arson causing death.

"It was only a little flame on the bed," she told police after her arrest.

"I provided him with a service … I f***ing started burning his mattress because he took my money."

Hayes said she didn't know there was anyone else in the house, but prosecutors say Sohal's friend told her she had to be quiet because his friends were sleeping upstairs.

The hearing is continuing.

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In an emergency, call 000.

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