An enraged and heavily intoxicated doctor who killed a young woman in a high-speed crash will serve at least eight years behind bars.

Perth obstetrician Rhys Henry Stone Bellinge, 46, pleaded guilty to unlawfully killing Elizabeth Pearce, 24, while driving his supercharged Jaguar in Perth's leafy riverside suburb of Dalkeith in February 2025.

He was sentenced in the Western Australian Supreme Court today to 10 years and six months imprisonment, with parole eligibility after serving eight years and six months.

"You ruined your own life, as well as those of your victims," Justice Amanda Forrester said.

The father-of-two had been drinking rum, wine and beer at the football in the hours before the crash at 10.13pm.

He was recorded as having a blood alcohol reading of 0.183 soon after the collision – almost four times over the legal alcohol limit.

Dashcam footage played to the court recorded Bellinge yelling vitriolic profanities about his estranged wife before the crash.

"I hate you … You're a piece of shit … That is my house … You're robbing me," he said before accelerating away outside a home he previously shared with his family.

The footage shows Bellinge's car speeding down dark suburban streets and tailgating vehicles as he continues to shout vile statements at other drivers and his wife, reaching speeds in excess of 130km/h.

Seconds before the crash, Bellinge's high-revving Jaguar approaches a sweeping bend in the road, which he fails to negotiate, leading to the collision with an Uber travelling in the opposite direction.

"What a f—wit … I'm so sorry," Bellinge was recorded saying after the crash.

Pearce was a passenger in the Honda Jazz Uber struck by Bellinge's Jaguar, which was travelling at 116km/h just before the collision.

The Honda was pushed 40 metres by the impact. Pearce, who was seated in the back of the vehicle, later died in hospital from her injuries.

Outside court, her father, Andrew, said his daughter was a "beautiful young woman" whose life was full of promise.

"She was smart, she was witty, empathetic, all those good qualities of a decent human being," he said.

"She didn't deserve this at all."

Bellinge dropped his head to his knees and closed his eyes as the sentence was handed down.

The former bricklayer-turned-medico had told police his "emotions went bananas" when he drove to his former family home, and that the visit had triggered him and he was crying as he drove away.

He blamed the incident on a car turning in front of him, and the court heard he had a limited recollection of the events, although Forrester said she doubted this.

"Your car was a powerful weapon that you used an outlet for your anger while fuelled by alcohol," she said.

With Bellinge speeding and intoxicated, his Jaguar was "an unguided missile that was going to cause death or injury to someone", prosecutor Justin Whalley said.

Bellinge also pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm while under the influence of alcohol over the injuries to Uber driver Muhammad Usman.

Then aged 25, Usman suffered two broken legs and arm injuries in the late-night collision.

He attended court with the aid of a walking stick.

Bellinge, who was a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, suffered spinal injuries in the incident.

Defence lawyer David Grace said Bellinge, who has been in protective custody while on remand, had been taking powerful prescription drugs and was self-medicating with alcohol.

He was behaving "oddly" and depressed following separation from his wife.

He had also swigged from the rum bottle that police found in his car before the crash, Grace said as he summarised a medical report that pointed to Bellinge's alcohol abuse.

Bellinge, whose medical licence has been suspended, admitted reckless driving while exceeding the speed limit by 45km/h and dangerous driving in the days leading up to the crash that killed Pearce.

He was banned on Tuesday from holding a WA driver licence for five years.

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Detectives investigating the suspicious death of a woman whose body was found in an Ipswich home last Thursday believe she had been dead for two weeks before her body was found.

Katherine Sanowski, a 42-year-old woman from Springfield, did not live at the Bellbird Park home on Beryl Court where she was found but was known to the sole occupant, a 34-year-old man who was found by police nearby.

Officers had been called to the street last Thursday after reports of a disturbance around 11.30am, involving a man interfering with traffic in the street.

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Detective Inspector Michael Manago said police were treating the death as a homicide.

"We've conducted a post-mortem which has identified some suspicious elements in regard to this death and as such we're treating it as a homicide investigation," Manago said.

"Our investigations to date suggest that the deceased has been in that dwelling for approximately two weeks so dating back to early February."

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He said the pair were known to each other but not related.

"The dynamics of their relationship remain a key topic of our investigation," he said.

"We don't believe there's anyone else involved but we're keeping an open mind."

Sanowski had not been reported missing and there had been no reports of domestic violence between the pair.

Her family has been notified, Manago said, and are "quite distressed".

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The 34-year-old man is undergoing a medical assessment in hospital. He is not under arrest and is yet to speak with investigators.

Officers are appealing for anyone who witnessed anything suspicious at the property or who may have relevant CCTV to come forward.

Police also wish to speak with anyone who knew Sanowski or had any dealing with her in early February.

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Residents have been evacuated and holidaymakers are on edge after a torrential downpour triggered flash flooding in some of Bali's largest tourist areas.

Kuta, Legian and Seminyak on Bali's south-west coast have been inundated by constant rain since Saturday night, local media have reported.

Floodwaters between 30 to 70 centimetres have been recorded across south-western Bali, as well as the beachside town of Sanur in the south-east, according to community reports on Disaster Map Bali.

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An alert is active for Kuta and Denpasar warning of extreme weather that could bring flash flooding, landslides and fallen trees.

Social media footage shows knee-deep waters consuming streets in Kuta, while residents in Legian were evacuated on emergency dinghies.

Another video shows a snake, which appears to be metres in length, gliding through floodwaters.

Legian local Rick told 9News a river burst its banks early this morning, sending water cascading through the main streets.

"The last three days the rain has been coming down constantly. The last 24 hours it did start to increase in intensity," Rick said.

"Some of the locals I've been talking to say this is the worst flooding they've seen in 15 years.

"The waters are up to waist deep and I've seen people being boated out."

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Indonesia is in its monsoon season, which typically runs from November to April.

The flooding has impacted the same areas ravaged by deadly flooding in September last year.

Rick, who runs social media page HeyRickBali, left the area during last year's floods.

He plans to stick around this time, to update tourists who may be planning to visit the holiday hotspot in the next week.

"The main tourist areas where people visit, where the hotels are, some have flooded, but a lot are OK," he said.

In Denpasar, a large tree crashed to the ground in an outdoor dining area at restaurant Shotgun Social, causing damage to parts of the building and the outdoor area.

"Because of the recent weather, one of our large trees fell before we opened that day," the business wrote in a post to Instagram.

"We are incredibly thankful it happened before opening hours and that no one was hurt."

The restaurant has reopened.

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There are no travel warnings in place for Australians for Bali, according to the Smart Traveller website.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has been contacted for comment.

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The deal includes a $15,000 allowance for managing new curriculum changes.

Residents across Victoria are warned not to be fooled by clearing skies, with more wet weather to follow a fast-moving storm that battered the state earlier today.

Storms passed over the city this afternoon, causing flash flooding and power outages for more than 7000 homes, but intense rainfall is still impacting large parts of the state.

A severe thunderstorm warning was earlier issued for Melbourne's northern, eastern and southern suburbs – stretching as far as South Gippsland – this afternoon and residents in multiple suburbs were warned to stay inside.

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"Very dangerous" storms swept across Greensborough, Camberwell, Preston and Resevoir in Melbourne at 2.50pm and the wild weather has travelled south and south-east.

Across the state, 171 calls for help have so far been issued, including 60 for building damage, 50 for flooding and nearly 30 calls for reports of trees down.

Heidelberg and Reservoir in Melbourne's north are the epicentres of those assistance calls according to the State Control Centre, with 24 SES units deployed to Heidelberg.

Nearby suburbs including Preston, Coburg and Craigieburn, were earlier issued with an emergency warning from Vic Emergency.

Up north, residents in Mildura, Swan Hill, Ouyen, Kerang, Walpeup, Robinvale, Birchip and surrounding suburbs have been told to stay informed as the storms move inland across Victoria this evening.

Those across most of Gippsland, from Drouin in West Gippsland to Bairnsdale and Lakes Entrance in the East have also been warned to stay indoors tonight.

While the worst of the storms have passed over Melbourne, another band of rain could bear down on the state later this evening.

"We're going to see multiple rounds of showers and storms right across the state," Bureau of Meteorology's Dean Narramore said.

"We're seeing more heavy thunderstorms develop to the west of Swan Hill, through Sea Lake and then to the north of Bendigo and that's what's gonna move south in the coming hours.

Storm cells from the north and south could converge over Melbourne and trigger minor flash flooding later tonight, Narramore said.

"All that rain in the northern areas could approach the Melbourne area in the evening and overnight."

Parts of the Wimmera and Mallee, specifically north of Bendigo up towards Ouyen, as well as East Gippsland will also be in the firing line.

Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Daniel Hayes told ABC Radio Melbourne that some areas were soaked with one milimetre per minute of rainfall during the worst of the storm this afternoon..

"We have seen a few places that have been coming close to that one millimetre per minute," Hayes said.

Gisborne, located north-west of Melbourne, was smashed by 32.2mm of rain in the one hour until 2.24pm.

Nearby Spring Hill was inundated with 38.4mm in just over an hour before 2pm.

More than 7000 residents were without power across the city at around 4pm. That dropped to 3000 by 6pm.

The Dudley Street overpass in West Melbourne flooded as the skies opened and a rain bomb was unleashed on the Victorian capital.

Two cars became submerged as they drove through the area, with the flash-flooding seemingly coming out of nowhere.

The water subsided quickly and nobody was hurt.

The bridge at York Street in South Melbourne has been closed due to flooding.

Melbourne Airport in the city's northern fringes was also battered by rain, with a large blanket of fog also spreading over the tarmac.

Lightning was recorded just eight kilometres from the airfield, causing delays for some due to land on the tarmac.

A Virgin Australia flight from Hobart due to arrive at 2.15pm was diverted and headed back to Tasmania.

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Conditions are expected to move through eastern parts of Victoria and potentially south-eastern parts of NSW tomorrow.

Motorists and commuters are warned to drive safely, allow extra travel time and be alert to allow extra travel time and stay alert for hazards. These hazards could include fallen trees, debris, damaged power lines and localised flash flooding.

"If severe weather is impacting your area, consider delaying travel where possible and staying indoors until conditions improve. Never drive through floodwater," VICSES chief officer of operations Alistair Drayton said.

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Victoria already had a taste of the extreme weather on Sunday, with parts of the state battered by up to 40 millimetres of rain in the 24 hours to 9am yesterday.

There was localised flash flooding in the Wodonga area, sparking 90 calls for assistance from VICSES.

All up, SES volunteers responded to about 250 requests for assistance across the state between midday on Sunday and 10am yesterday.

"Thank you to the dedicated volunteers who worked throughout last night to assist impacted communities and remain ready to respond as further storms approach this week," Drayton said.

Sydney will also face the possibility of heavy rain from tomorrow afternoon.

What was set to be a record-breaking dry summer across swaths of inland Australia has ended dramatically, with a torrential downpour bringing widespread flooding in the final days of summer.

Before last weekend, much of inland Australia had not seen any rainfall for two to three months.

An area the size of Greenland is on flood watch, from the top of the Northern Territory, into Queensland, NSW and down into agricultural regions of South Australia.

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Two men have been charged after hundreds of thousands of dollars of cannabis was found in the back of a car in southern NSW.

The men were busted yesterday morning allegedly with 147 kilograms of the drug in the boot after they were pulled over by police in Goulburn.

Police searched the car as part of a roadside test and said they found 13 duffle bags filled with cannabis.

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Police allege the drugs are worth about $750,000.

The two men, a 26-year-old and a 31-year-old, were charged with supply of a prohibited drug greater than or equal to a large commercial quantity.

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They were refused bail to appear in court today, where bail was formally refused.

The pair will appear in Goulburn Local Court on April 15.

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Three people have been rushed to hospital after a truck veered off the road and ploughed through a fence into a front yard in Melbourne's south-east.

The gas tanker lost control on the Princes Highway in Carnegie around 12.30pm, according to police.

It crashed into several cars and power poles before coming to rest in the front yard of a house, narrowly avoiding the home.

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"Took out a powerline on the way, saw this blue flash, had no idea what it was. It was crazy," witness Martin Hallcroft said.

"Then I just heard metal on metal. Next thing I know we're all outside and our car is a crumpled heap."

Nobody was inside the home at the time.

"We had to ensure that everybody in the homes adjacent to the property stayed within their home," Fire Rescue Victoria firefighter Peter Quinn said.

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The circumstances surrounding the crash are unclear at this stage.

Advanced Life Support (ALS) and Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance (MICA) paramedics attended the scene.

The truck driver, a 44-year-old Kilsyth man, and his male passenger were transported to hospital for observation.

The driver of one of the vehicles involved, a 50-year-old female, was also transported to hospital in a stable condition with minor injuries.

Anyone who witnessed the crash, has dashcam or CCTV footage or anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or online at www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has downplayed concerns about AI's energy cost, arguing it takes a lot of energy to train a human too.

Altman, who appeared at a Q&A session hosted by newspaper The Indian Express this week, pushed back on the comparisons between humans and artificial intelligence.

"One of the things that is always unfair in this comparison is that people talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model relative to how much it takes for a human to do an inference query," he said.

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"But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human.

"It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart. 

"Not only that, it took the very widespread evolution of the 100 billion people that have ever lived and learned not to get eaten by predators and learned how to figure out science and whatever, to produce you.

"Then you took whatever you took."

According to US research, a single ChatGPT query consumes nearly 10 times as much energy as a typical Google search, while it takes about half a litre of water to process 20 to 50 queries.

Generative AI models need massive computational power to train and run them.

Data centres, which contain buildings full of computer servers, churn through huge amounts of electricity all over the globe.

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Data centres consumed about 460 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2022 alone, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

All of Australia consumed less than 300TWh that same year.

Altman argued concerns about water usage were "totally fake" but conceded "we used to do evaporative cooling in data centres".

"Now that we don't do that," he said.

"You see these things on the internet where [a post says] 'don't use ChatGPT, it's 17 gallons of water for each query' or whatever.

"This is completely untrue, totally insane, no connection to reality.

"What is fair though is the energy consumption, not per query, but in total because the world is now using so much AI.

"It is real and we need to move towards nuclear or wind and solar very quickly."

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‘Gentle giant’ Sefo Leger, 59, was stabbed within minutes of getting on the bus.

A man from New Zealand has been charged after authorities allegedly found several examples of extremist material on his phone.

The man, 24, arrived in Perth yesterday on a flight from overseas, where border force officers found several videos on his phone.

The videos, which were allegedly found on the internet, allegedly showed violent killings linked to different ideologies and homemade explosives.

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A house in Perth's CBD was searched, where police seized a computer.

It is not known if any alleged extremist material was found on it, though investigations on his phone and computer are still being carried out.

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The man was charged with one count of possessing or controlling violent extremist material, which carries a maximum sentence of five years' imprisonment.

He will face Perth Magistrates Court today.

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