A truck and a train believed to be carrying about 100 people have collided at a Perth level crossing, sending three people to hospital, hitting nearby vehicles with flying debris and causing commuter chaos.

Aerial footage from the scene in Guildford showed the extent of the damage following the crash about 4pm (6pm AEST). 

The train's front window was smashed, the truck and trailer lying on its side and the bobcat it had been carrying metres away on the train tracks. 

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Cars were hit with debris, including a tyre that lodged on a windscreen.

Two females and a teenager were taken to separate hospitals and two toddlers and their mother were checked over at the scene but given the all clear.

9News understands about 100 people were on the train at the time and some were forced to wait an hour to get off, many of them wrapped in blankets.

Shaken passengers said they heard a high-pitched noise and the train shaking.

"He was holding on to me, and I was just like, I was scared, I was shocked," one passenger said.

Another said he was woken up and bounced off his seat.

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A significant police and emergency services presence remained into the night as a crane moved in to begin trying to remove the truck from the tracks.

The Midland line was shut down between Midland and Bassendean, causing delays on the Ellenbrook, Airport and Fremantle lines.

Replacement buses were being organised between Midland and Bassendean but long delays were expected.

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A jury has rejected claims that a superyacht operator's son was merely helping his father run errands in a botched attempt to retrieve cocaine from the hull of a cargo ship.

James Lake-Kusviandy Blee, 24, plotted with his father, James Lake Blee, and two Brazilian divers to obtain a 57-kilogram package of cocaine on May 9, 2022.

The drugs were concealed within the hull of the Arti Gr Majura, which had transported soybean meal from Argentina to the Port of Newcastle.

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Only one of the divers, Jhoni Fernandes Da Silva, returned to the surface, and police found the body of his compatriot, Bruno Borges Martins, floating in Newcastle Harbour.

Da Silva fled and has never been apprehended by police.

Blee Jr was found guilty on Wednesday of attempting to possess a commercial quantity of an unlawfully imported border-controlled drug by jurors at Sydney's Downing Centre District Court.

His bail was immediately revoked.

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A package containing 42 individual packets of cocaine was wrapped in a black tarp and found by water police washed up on nearby Kooragang Island.

NSW Police examined the packages and found it contained almost 35 kilograms of pure cocaine.

The divers were equipped with a variety of gear, including rebreathers and seabobs, to dive down 10 metres and obtain the drugs from a compartment on the cargo ship known as the sea chest, the jury heard.

Blee Jr denied knowing about the plot, telling the court that he thought he was running errands for his father.

He travelled by yacht from Darwin to Bali in Indonesia in February 2022.

Blee Sr then travelled to Dubai, where he met a man known as Irish to get details about the drug plot.

In April 2022, the father and son left Bali on a yacht bound for Darwin with the two divers.

After Martins failed to return from the dive operation in the harbour, Blee Jr bought a one-way plane ticket back to his home in the Gold Coast.

He will be sentenced on July 24.

In November 2024, James Blake Blee was sentenced to 11 years and three months' imprisonment for the offences, with parole eligibility after seven years and six months.

He pleaded guilty to importing the border-controlled drug and smuggling the two Brazilians into the country.

Blee Sr agreed to the plot in a gamble driven by financial stress after his business collapsed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the court heard in 2024.

He will be eligible for parole in November 2029.

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Prosecutors have claimed a teen accused of trying to hijack a commercial plane was politically motivated as they pushed for his case to be heard in a higher court.

The now-19-year-old is accused of bringing a firearm and a fake bomb onto an aircraft at Avalon Airport, southwest of Melbourne, in March 2025.  

About 160 passengers were on board the Jetstar plane, which was due to fly to Sydney.

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The teen, who was 17 at the time, appeared in a children's court via video link on Wednesday as prosecutors sought to have his case heard in either the county or the supreme court.

The prosecutor argued the penalties available in the children's court – a maximum sentence of a two-year supervision order – were inadequate to reflect the seriousness of the alleged crime.

"It could not be said that it would be sufficient … to protect the community," the prosecutor said.

There was an ideological or political motivation for the teen's acts, the magistrate heard, although the details of the alleged motive were not discussed in open court.

The teen's lawyer argued the purported motive was still unclear as he opposed the prosecution's uplift application and flagged a potential mental impairment defence.

The lawyer argued the teen's mental health had deteriorated in the lead-up to the alleged offending, with reports he was hearing voices and had distanced himself from others.

A psychiatrist had raised a probable delusional disorder diagnosis, and the teen already had autism spectrum disorder, anxiety and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, he said.

"We do say this case presents an unusual combination of difficulties for a jury to decide this case impartially," the lawyer said.

The defence also rejected claims that the teen started planning the alleged hijacking in October 2024, after prosecutors claimed the teen made multiple online searches for Syrian airports and the shooting down of military aircraft.

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"It's plain through his internet history he had an interest in aviation," the lawyer said.

The defence lawyer argued the teen's case should remain in the children's court, where a magistrate could fairly and impartially decide on the facts.

Given the teen's mental conditions, the lawyer argued the children's court also had the scope to hand down an appropriate sentence.

But the prosecutor argued the case should be uplifted and decided by a jury, noting a judge could give directions to avoid any prejudice.

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"Directions will not prevent a jury properly instructed from performing their task in an objective and unbiased manner," the prosecutor said.

The magistrate told the teen he would need some time to consider all of the material before making a decision.

The case is due to return to a children's court in June.

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Diversions are in place and the road may stay closed for several hours.

A controversial weapons exposition will return to Melbourne in two years' time, despite the last event sparking some of the city's largest and most violent protests in decades.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan confirmed today that the state would host the 2028 Land Forces Expo in a move she said would "strengthen Victoria's international reputation".

This year's event, scheduled for October, was moved to Perth following the violence sparked by the last event at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, which included arrests and claims of police overreach.

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The expo is designed to showcase weapons and defence capabilities as well as medical technologies and humanitarian assistance systems, aimed at both domestic and overseas customers.

The last expo in September 2024 saw chaotic scenes on the streets of Melbourne as thousands of anti-war demonstrators marched in protest at the expo.

Twenty-seven police officers were injured and 42 people arrested on the first day of protests.

Police were called in from New South Wales to assist Victorian officers, with around a 1000-strong force attending to control the crowds.

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Protesters were accused of throwing projectiles like rocks, suspected human faeces, horse manure and balloons carrying unknown liquids at officers.

"We are backing the economic opportunities created by Victoria's defence industry and the 29,000 jobs it supports," said the state's Minister for Defence Industry Colin Brooks in a statement.

The Greens have slammed the decision, calling the Labor government "out of touch".

"They moved Land Forces to Perth in an election year to avoid scrutiny and mass protests just before an election but are happy to keep dealing in war and weapons in plain sight once the election is done and dusted," Greens spokesperson for Peace and Disarmament Gabrielle de Vietri said.

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He might be off the hook in court, but firebrand MP Mark Latham is still copping accusations of lying and character assassination from his former partner.

Nathalie Matthews, 38, applied for an apprehended violence order against Latham after accusing him of sustained emotional and physical abuse.

But she withdrew the private application by consent before a three-day hearing was set to begin.

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Latham's lawyer, Zali Burrows, told reporters outside Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court it was a good result for her client, who was excused from attending.

"The application has been withdrawn and dismissed," she said.

Latham has repeatedly denied his ex-partner's allegations and has not been charged with criminal wrongdoing.

The NSW upper house independent claimed the apprehended violence order application was withdrawn as far back as seven months ago, but was finally proved right on Wednesday.

"I was due in the Sydney Local Court tomorrow for the latest instalment in the private AVO application against me," he said in October.

"But it has now been delisted and the application withdrawn … that's the end of that."

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However, his dirty laundry with Matthews was aired in NSW Parliament after he made allegations about her relationship with the billionaire founder of WiseTech Global, Richard White.

In turn, Matthews tabled a citizen's right of reply in the upper house.

She claimed Latham made a series of false and defamatory statements about her while protected by parliamentary privilege during a speech on November 12.

The MP accused Matthews of being in a "pay-for-sex" relationship with White and benefiting from insider trading tips, which she denied.

"This statement is false and defamatory … Mr White never gave me insider information," Matthews wrote.

A win in court is a welcome change for Latham, who has suffered a series of high-profile losses.

In April, he was hit with a $100,000 fine by the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal after it ruled an obscene tweet directed at fellow MP Alex Greenwich constituted sexual harassment.

The Federal Court previously ruled the same tweet was defamatory and ordered Latham to pay $140,000 in legal costs.

The controversial politician has served as a right-wing independent MP since 2023, when a falling out with Senator Pauline Hanson led to his departure as One Nation NSW leader.

He led the populist party's return to state politics in 2019, 15 years after his failed attempt to lead Labor to a federal election victory.

After losing to incumbent Prime Minister John Howard in 2004, Latham resigned from federal parliament and was later ejected from the Labor Party.

He has been embroiled in several scandals during the past year, including taking photos of female MPs without their knowledge, for which he apologised.

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