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The former-boyfriend of a German backpacker has arrived in Sydney after being extradited to face charges over her death.

Tobias Moran, formerly known as Tobias Suckfuell, had been travelling around Australia with Simone Strobel in 2005 before her body was found under palm fronds less than 100 metres from the Lismore caravan park where she was last seen at six days earlier.

The 25-year-old school teacher had allegedly been suffocated with a pillow or plastic bag.

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Moran was arrested in Perth yesterday in relation Strobel's death.

NSW Police applied for his extradition to face charges linked to Strobel's death but are yet to formally disclose the nature of his charges.

Strobel's alleged murder has remained unsolved despite the establishment of a strike force and the NSW government offering a $1 million reward in 2020.

Her family expressed shock yesterday after learning of the arrest.

"We cannot believe it," Strobels' father Gustl told German media.

Strobel had been on a night out with Moran and friends when she was last seen at the Lismore Tourist Caravan Park on February 11, 2005.

Her body was found six days later, at a sports ground less than 100 metres from the caravan park.

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Authorities in Germany also offered a reward in 2014 of €10,000 to German and Australian residents with any information about Strobel's death.

A 23-month-old Queensland toddler died from COVID-19, just two weeks before her second birthday and days before the arrival of a baby brother.

Ruby Grace Edwards died on Sunday at Queensland Children's Hospital in Brisbane after the COVID-19 virus triggered a rare autoimmune condition, which caused her immune system to attack her brain.

Ruby's father Steven Edwards, who is also battling COVID-19, has shared the family's grief, urging all parents to "hug their children a little bit tighter tonight".

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"It feels like the world is falling apart for us right now, as we prepare for the arrival of our son this Friday," he wrote on Facebook.

"This is supposed to be such a happy time where our family would become complete but is now so broken."

Edwards said he's overwhelmed by feelings of "deep sadness, anger, disbelief, denial, guilt, shame and regret".

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"We, all of us, need to love and support each other through this unimaginably tough time," he said.

"If you have children of your own, please hug them a little bit tighter tonight."

An online fundraiser set up for the family has so far raised over $17,500.

Queensland Health confirmed the child's death last night.

Ruby is the youngest COVID-19 patient fatality in Queensland.

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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has revealed the state's hospitalisation rate will likely peak at 1660 patients during the incoming COVID-19 wave, close to 50 per cent more severe than the previous one.

Health experts initially forecast a peak of 1000 Queenslanders hospitalised during the current wave, but the latest modelling shows that number is an underestimation.

"The peak is expected to be in late August, thankfully it does not predict an increase of patients in intensive care," Palaszczuk said.

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"This is very serious and I want Queenslanders to take it seriously."

Queensland's Australian Medical Association President, Dr Maria Boulton, said the Government was warned about the wave but didn't prepare.

"I cannot tell you how many times I've met with them and asked for more resources for those on the frontline," she said.

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Queenslanders have been urged to get PCR tests instead.

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The husband of vanished fraudster Melissa Caddick told the corporate regulator ASIC he was penniless and without an income, an affidavit published online today has revealed.

The affidavit was submitted on December 8, 2020, about a month after Caddick vanished from her eastern Sydney home.

Anthony Koletti said he had been employed as a part-time hairdresser until the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic "in or about late March 2020".

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"At that time, (Caddick), who was the primary bread winner in our family, and I had a discussion and agreed that, in order to reduce the health risk to the family, I would cease working and remain at home and attend to household duties, child care, and facilitating after school appointments," Koletti said in the affidavit.

"As a result, I currently do not earn an income."

Koletti said Caddick had maintained the family and covered all living expenses, and asked ASIC to make arrangements to allow the family to continue to pay those expenses from Caddick's seized assets.

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"I am concerned that, if the immediate living expenses that would otherwise be paid by (Caddick) are not paid, (child's name redacted) will not be able to return to his current school to commence his year 10 studies, insurance and security will not be able to be maintained in relation to (Caddick's) assets, the basic utilities attached to the Dover Height property may not be paid and may be cut off, and basic health and food requirements will be jeopardised," he said.

Along with the affidavit, Koletti also submitted bank statements and a screenshot of his only bank account, showing a balance of just $1.95.

Caddick disappeared from the family's home in Dover Heights in November 2020, just hours after the property had been raided by ASIC investigators.

In February last year, her partial remains – a foot still inside an Asics shoe – were discovered in Bournda National Park near Tathra by teenagers on a camping trip about 400 kilometres from Sydney.

An inquest into her presumed death is due to begin later this year.

Last month, Koletti dropped a claim for $30 million of Caddick's proceeds of crime.

He was evicted from the Dover Heights home in May.

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