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A motorcyclist has died and three others have been injured after a collision on a highway north of Melbourne.

Members of the God's Squad Christian Motorcycle Club were on a run southbound on the Hume Highway in Wandong when the crash occurred just after 1pm.

Other members of the club blocked the highway to stop cars getting through while emergency services rushed to the scene.

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One rider, who is yet to be formally identified, died at the scene.

Three other riders involved in the crash have been taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The exact circumstances surrounding the incident are yet to be determined.

The southbound lanes of the Hume Freeway between Wandong and Wallan is expected to be closed for some time.

Anyone who witnessed the collision, has dashcam footage or information is urged to contact police.

Human remains found on a vacant block in South Australia have been confirmed as missing person Geoffrey McLean.

Detective Inspector Brett Featherby confirmed the 55-year-old father's body had been found in Salisbury South on Monday and his identity was confirmed through DNA testing.

"When Geoffrey's body had been located, it had been dismembered, it was located in a wheelie bin," Featherby said.

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"We've only recovered his torso. We're firmly focused on recovering the rest of his remains.

"Evidence suggests persons or a person was in the process of burying those remains and may have been disturbed."

Featherby said the person or persons involved in the alleged murder were either burying the body or had left his remains.

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Featherby confirmed before McLean went missing on August 29 he had been the subject of four separate attacks, including being attacked by a person with acid, being struck with a log splitter, having his car set alight and having a bucket of acid thrown at him.

He has asked anyone with information to come forward about the alleged murder.

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Elon Musk has completed his $US44 billion ($68 billion) deal to buy Twitter, a source familiar with the deal told CNN.

Musk fired CEO Parag Agrawal and two other executives, according to two people familiar with the decision.

The deal's closing removes a cloud of uncertainty that has hung over Twitter's business, employees and shareholders for much of the year.

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After initially agreeing to buy the company in April, Musk spent months attempting to get out of the deal, first citing concerns about the number of bots on the platform and later allegations raised by a company whistleblower.

But Musk's takeover, and the immediate firings of some of its top executives, now raises a host of new questions for the future of the social media platform, and the many corners of society impacted by it.

Musk has said he plans to rethink Twitter's content moderation policies in service of a more maximalist approach to "free speech".

The billionaire has also said he disagrees with Twitter's practice of permanent bans for those who repeatedly violate its rules, raising the possibility that a number of previously banned users could reemerge on the platform.

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Perhaps most immediately, many will be watching to see how soon Musk could let former US president Donald Trump back on the platform, as he has previously said he would do.

In taking those steps, Musk could single handedly upend the media and political ecosystem, reshape public discourse online and disrupt the nascent sphere of conservative-leaning social media properties that emerged largely in response to grievances about bans and restrictions on Twitter and other mainstream services.

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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese "crossed the line" during a heated exchange in Federal Parliament's Question TIme with a Coalition MP.

Dutton was speaking to Today this morning after the PM was accused of bullying Michelle Landry yesterday when he answered her question in what the Opposition claims was an aggressive tone.

The exchange started when Landry asked the Prime Minister about funding for a project in her regional Queensland electorate of Capricornia.

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Dutton told the Today show this morning he thought Albanese had bullied her and the PM should apologise.

"I think it's evidenced by the fact that Michelle left the chamber essentially in tears and distraught," he said.

"I am sure it wasn't intentional. Because the fact is it conveyed … what Labor would otherwise refer to in (former Coalition prime minister) Tony Abbott's days, a misogynistic approach."

Dutton said he thought Albanese's assertive tone had not been deliberate.

"But I think an apology to Michelle is warranted because I think his approach, frankly, was completely over the top … he just really crossed a line yesterday."

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But Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles defended Albanese.

He said the remarks had been directed at Queensland MP Dutton when the Opposition Leader interjected and attempted to correct the pronunciation of Yeppoon, a coastal town in Landry's electorate.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives yesterday said the Prime Minister's behaviour did not constitute bullying.

The Prime Minister contacted Landry after the exchange in Parliament.

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