Accused terrorist Naveed Akram is worried his mother and siblings are at risk of physical and mental harm due to his role in the Bondi mass shooting.

The 24-year-old has asked a court to suppress the names of his family members as well as their home and work addresses as he faces dozens of charges, including terrorism offences and multiple counts of murder.

A 10-year-old girl was among 15 people killed when Naveed and his father Sajid Akram, 50, opened fire from an elevated position during Hanukkah celebrations at Bondi Beach on December 14.

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The elder Akram was killed by police after helping to carry out Australia's deadliest mass shooting since 1996's Port Arthur massacre.

On Monday, the 24-year-old's public defender, barrister Richard Wilson SC, sought suppression and non-publication orders over the identity of the alleged gunman's mother, sister and brother.

Akram did not appear from prison by audio-visual link during the hearing in Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court.

Wilson acknowledged that the identity of Akram's mother had already been published.

"Hasn't the horse bolted on that?" magistrate Greg Grogin asked.

The application was based on protecting the mental and physical safety of the family members, the court was told.

"There is… absolutely no reason why the relatives of the accused Naveed Akram should have their life put in the arena both within Sydney, NSW and… now the world," Grogin said.

An interim order preventing any publication of the three names is in place until Grogin presides over a full hearing on March 17.

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News Corp is seeking to block the proposed suppression order, sending its legal counsel Benjamin Regattieri to court to argue the publisher's case.

Regattieri called the proposed orders futile, saying that extensive publication had already occurred in Australia and internationally.

Police allege Sajid and Naveed Akram acted alone and were not living at home at the time of the shooting.

After parking near a footbridge on Campbell Parade, the men allegedly tossed three pipe bombs filled with steel ball bearings and a tennis ball bomb into the Hanukkah celebration at Archer Park before opening fire.

None of the pipe bombs detonated, despite preliminary police analysis finding they were viable.

A box-like bomb was found in the boot of the car, while two hand-painted ISIS flags were also in the vehicle.

A court suppression order allowing victims to choose if and when they go public with their story was also extended today.

The attack triggered an outpouring of grief and a suite of legal changes addressing gun ownership and extremism, as well as throwing a spotlight on rising antisemitism in Australia.

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Thinking of visiting the Twelve Apostles on Victoria's Great Ocean Road? It will soon cost you.

The Victorian government is about to impose a "tourist tax" on the iconic landmark, which attracts about two million visitors a year, in a bid to preserve it.

Just seven of the 12 original limestone landmarks remain standing.

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Australian and international visitors will be charged to enter the new $126 million Twelve Apostles Visitor Experience Centre, which is due to open by the end of the year.

"It's only fair that visitors to the region pay a small fee to visit this world-class destination so that we can maintain it for future generations," Environment Minister Steve Dimopoulos said.

"We're investing in the future of the Great Ocean Road region and making sure every single cent spent in the region stays there."

There will also be a new visitor booking system to manage numbers and parking during peak periods.

The price of entry hasn't been confirmed yet, and will be decided in consultation with local councils, businesses, and traditional owners.

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But Great Ocean Road Regional Tourism chairman Andrew Jeffers acknowledged "no one likes being charged for something that was free in the past".

"This is a fee for the visitor centre that's being proposed," he said.

"It doesn't limit their access to other parts of the Great Ocean Road. There's no fee being proposed for that."

Revenue will be collected by the Great Ocean Road Parks and Coastal Authority.

It will fund beach access and visitor facility upgrades in the area, as well as the maintenance of historic landmarks.

Jeffers said some of the money will also go towards upkeep on the recently constructed visitor centre.

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A select number of Australians will be exempt from the fee.

Local residents and members of the Eastern Maar community, who are the traditional owners in south-western Victoria, will not be charged.

This isn't the first natural landmark in Australia to impose a "tourist tax".

Entry fees also apply at major tourist locations like Kosciuszko National Park in NSW and Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in the Northern Territory.

Park fees at Kosciuszko National Park start from $29 per vehicle per day in the winter peak, and $17 per vehicle per day during the rest of the year.

A three-day park pass for Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is $38.

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Two Australian men will each spend more than a decade in a Bali prison after they were found guilty of the gangland-style murder of a Melbourne father in June last year.

Zivan Radmanovic, 32, died in a hail of bullets in the bathroom of a luxury villa on June 14 while on holiday with his partner, sister-in-law and her partner, Sanar Ghanim.

A Denpasar court today found Australian men Paea I Middlemore Tupou and Mevlut Coskun guilty of premeditated murder, attempted premeditated murder, and illegal possession and use of firearms.

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They were each sentenced to 16 years in Korobokan prison.

Premeditated murder carries a maximum penalty of death under Indonesian law.

Their co-accused, Sydney plumber Darcy Jenson, is still waiting on his verdict and possible sentence.

The trial heard the gunmen were sent to Bali to threaten Ghanim over a debt after being offered money by an Australian man they've refused to identify.

Police allege Jenson organised the hit and Coskun and Tupou carried out the shooting, breaking into the villa with a sledgehammer in the early hours of June 14.

Tupou has admitted to shooting Radmanovic, but claims he thought he was his friend, Sanar Ghanim – the ex-partner of gangland figure Carl Williams' stepdaughter.

Coskun testified he shot Ghanim, who survived his injuries.

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They claim they never meant to kill anyone, while Jenson says he only learnt of the crime after he was arrested.

Police claim the pair escaped on motorbikes before getting into a car with Jenson, and dumping the guns in a river.

The trio were arrested and charged after an international manhunt.

Radmanovic's widow, Jazmyn Gourdeas, who hid under bed sheets during the shooting, was flanked by the pair's 13-year-old son as she watched the sentencing from a Denpasar courtroom.

Outside court, Gourdeas' laywer, Sary Latief, said her client was disappointed with the sentence.

"They had high hopes for the judges to give higher sentences," Latief said.

"The victim's wife is speechless. Really felt like the Indonesian justice system doesn't really care."

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The Middle East has woken to fresh rounds of air and drone strikes, after Iran named a new supreme leader and the growing conflict took a significant toll on sharemarkets and pushed oil prices to fresh highs.

Dramatic photos showed Tehran being hit by air strikes, with a hit on an oil refinery lighting up the night sky.

Multiple neighbouring nations, including Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, reported hits or interceptions from missiles and drones from Iran, while Lebanon was pummelled again by Israel as the latter continued its campaign against Hezbollah.

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Meanwhile, the USA told officials and their families to leave Saudi Arabia, and a seventh US military member also died from earlier injuries.

New leader named

Iranian state TV has said Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the country's late supreme leader, has been named his successor.

The second son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had long been considered a contender to take over as supreme leader, even before an Israeli strike killed his father at the start of the war, and despite never being elected or appointed to a government position.

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Iran's powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard answers to the supreme leader, and the younger Khamenei will have the central say in war strategy.

US President Donald Trump told America's ABC he wanted a say about who comes to power once the war is over; a new leader "is not going to last long" without his approval, he said.

Oil fields attacked

Saudi Arabia's Defence Ministry said its forces destroyed four more drones that were attacking the vast Shaybah oil field.

The kingdom sharpened its warnings to Iran, telling Tehran it would be the "biggest loser" if it continues to attack Arab states, and dismissed comments by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday claiming Tehran had halted its attacks on Gulf Arab states.

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"The Iranian side has not implemented this statement in practice, neither during the Iranian president's speech nor afterwards," Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"Iran has continued its aggression based on flimsy pretexts devoid of any factual basis."

It added the Iranian attacks mean "further escalation which will have grave impact on the relations, currently and in the future".

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Attacks in Gulf states continue

Qatar's Defence Ministry reported a missile attack on the country early on Monday.

Meanwhile, fire broke out at an oil facility in the United Arab Emirates following an attack in Fujairah, one of the UAE's seven emirates, authorities said.

The fire in the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone was extinguished, they said.

An Iranian drone attack also hit a residential area in Bahrain and wounded 32 Bahraini civilians, including children as young as two years old, authorities said.

The attacks occurred in Sitra Island close to energy infrastructure, the National Communication Centre said.

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In Lebanon, videos also show a fire at Beirut's Ramada hotel and damage to an apartment at the hotel after an Israeli attack.

The Israeli military also said it had destroyed the headquarters of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' air force.

US State Department also issued an order for non-emergency staff and families to leave Saudi Arabia.

The expected order was formally issued on the same day the US military announced an American service member has died of injuries sustained during an Iranian attack on the kingdom.

Family members of Australian officials posted to the United Arab Emirates have been ordered to leave due to the deteriorating security situation.

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'We set the terms' says Hegseth

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an interview saying Trump will set "the terms of surrender" with Iran.

He didn't reveal what those terms might be.

Asked on CBS' 60 Minutes what to elaborate, Hegseth said, "It means we're fightin' to win. It means we set the terms.

"We'll know when they're not capable of fighting. There'll be a point where they'll have no choice but to do that," he said.

Hegseth said the nation is still investigating a strike on an Iranian school that killed at least 168 children.

"We're still investigating, and that's where I'll leave it today," he said.

– with CNN, Associated Press

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A former Liberal MP may face a second child abuse trial after a jury cleared him of some but not all charges related to a 13-year-old boy.

Rory Amon was found not guilty of four counts of child rape, two counts of attempted child rape and two counts of indecent assault of a child today after three days of deliberations.

However, jurors sitting in the NSW Supreme Court trial could not reach a verdict for further charges of rape and indecent assault of a child.

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The deadlocked jury was discharged.

Amon kept his eyes downcast and maintained a blank expression as the jurors found him not guilty of eight charges.

He was later seen stepping from the dock with a large grin, hugging his barrister.

The 36-year-old had pleaded not guilty to all charges and denied any criminal conduct.

Amon admitted meeting the teen once for sex in 2017 but denied claims of a second meeting soon after.

He testified he held an honest and reasonable belief that the teen was over the age of 16.

The pair met online on an adults-only website.

The trial was told that the boy inflated his age when signing up to the gay hook-up app and again while talking with Amon.

Amon, then 27 and aspiring for a life in politics, and the boy moved their discussion to Snapchat, where explicit messages and images were sent, before meeting in person.

The jury heard Amon turned up to the teen's apartment block, wearing a tracksuit and ugg boots, before the pair moved to a small, dirty bathroom under the building.

Amon had seen the teen in explicit photos, under street lights and then in the lit bathroom before the light was turned off, the Crown argued.

That would have made it obvious to Amon that the youth was under 16, the jury was told.

"He told me he was 17 and nothing I saw changed that belief," Amon testified.

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Arrested in August 2024, Amon pleaded not guilty to five counts of having sexual intercourse with a child, two counts of attempted sexual intercourse with a child and indecent assault charges.

Eight of the charges related to the boy's claims of a second meeting with Amon in the car park bathroom in July 2017.

Jurors were told the boy told friends, his mother, a school counsellor and his psychologist about the incident soon afterwards.

He made a formal complaint to police five years later.

The two briefly reconnected on Grindr in 2022 when Amon sent him more images, including one wearing his volunteer firefighters uniform.

At the time he first contacted the youth in 2017, Amon was working full-time for federal Mackellar MP Jason Falinski.

He would go on to serve two terms on Northern Beaches Council before being elected as the Liberal MP for the state seat of Pittwater in 2023.

The charges killed Amon's fledgling career in state politics, forcing his expulsion from the Liberal Party and his resignation after his election in March 2023.

His exit also had implications for the state Liberals, which lost the formerly safe seat to a teal independent at the subsequent by-election.

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