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The Australian arm of French sporting goods juggernaut Decathlon has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay $1.5 million for selling products that did not comply with safety standards.

Decathlon admitted that, between January 2016 and December 2019, it supplied 432 basketball rings and backboards and 307 portable swimming pools which did not comply with the relevant Australian mandatory safety standards.

Of these, 14 models of basketball rings and five models of portable swimming pool products did not include the required safety labelling under Australian law.

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Deputy Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Delia Rickard said that Australia had specific standards for locally-sold products that protected consumers.

"Mandatory safety standards exist to reduce the risk of death and serious injury to consumers, especially children, when using these types of products," Ms Rickard said.

"By not including these important warnings, Decathlon put consumers at risk of serious harm when they were using the Decathlon swimming pools, basketball rings and backboards."

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Decathlon also admitted it supplied 341 basketball rings and backboards with user manuals that contained misleading representations that they were safe to attach to brickwork, when that was not the case.

"When the basketball rings and backboards are attached to a brick wall, the wall cannot cope with the stresses placed on them when people perform slam dunks, which could lead to serious or fatal injuries if the wall collapses," Ms Rickard said.

"It is illegal to sell products in Australia that do not comply with mandatory safety standards, and consumers have a right to expect that products they purchase will not endanger their safety, or the safety of their family and others."

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Furthermore, portable pools that were over 30 centimetres deep were sold without required warnings such as "children have drowned in portable swimming pools", "ensure active adult supervision at all times" and "pool fencing laws apply to this pool".

All products included in the Federal Court's ruling have been listed on Decathlon's product recall page.

Decathlon Australia operates five stores in Melbourne and Sydney. It is a subsidiary of Decathlon S.A in France, which operates more than 1500 stores across more than 55 countries.

9News.com.au has contacted Decathlon Australia for comment.

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A 15-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after an alleged violent home invasion that left Wallabies legend Toutai Kefu and his family with serious injuries.

A second boy, 13, was also charged with burglary for his alleged involvement in the incident at Kefu's Coorparoo home in Brisbane yesterday.

The 13-year-old was also charged with another burglary and unlawful use of a motor vehicle offence stemming from an earlier incident allegedly involving the theft of a silver Hyundai SUV at a Forest Lake address.

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Both boys faced Brisbane Children's Court today. They were refused bail and were remanded in custody.

One other 15-year-old boy from Springfield Lakes remains under police guard at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and is yet to be charged.

Yesterday, former Rugby Union star Kefu, 47, and his 21-year-old son underwent surgery for their injuries that police allege were caused by the group of intruders armed with at least a knife and a machete.

One of Kefu's daughters, who was not injured during the home invasion, took to social media to confirm her father was "recovering well" from surgery.

"Thank you to everyone for all the kind messages and support, it means the absolute world to us all."

The new charges for the 13-year-old comes as Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers last night slammed "senior police" for a lack of patrols around the suburb of Coorparoo in the leadup to the incident.

"Brisbane's inner East and inner South, the suburb of Coorparoo had no day or afternoon shifts of any police for all of Saturday and Sunday," Mr Leavers claimed.

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"And to make matters worse, when the Coorparoo Police night-shift called in sick last night before the start of the shift, they were not replaced."

While Mr Leavers did claim that a "visible policing presence" might not have stopped the burglary from occurring, he called for an apology from police.

"I'm not saying a visible policing presence as was supposed to have occurred would have stopped the vicious home invasion we saw last night however it just may have," Mr Leavers said.

"Someone owes the Kefus and all the residents that live in Coorparoo an apology for leaving them without a visible policing patrol presence on the weekend."

A police spokesperson told 9News that stations in neighbouring suburbs were able to be called for assistance to Coorparoo and stated that police were at the Kefu's street "within six minutes" of initial calls.

"While two officers from Coorparoo were unfit for duty on Sunday night, the South Brisbane District has sufficient police resources to adequately manage service delivery with officers assisting from neighbouring stations," a Queensland police spokesperson said.

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A man is on his way to Melbourne to spend the last moments with his dying mum after he was only just granted an exemption to enter Victoria.

Joseph De Petro's family have spent days trying to get him into the state, as his mum, Maria De Petro, fights for life at Heidelberg's Olivia Newton John Cancer and Wellness Research Centre.

The 75-year-old woman is being treated for a rare form of blood cancer and has been told she could have just hours to live.

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Mr De Petro caught one of the few flights from Bangkok, where he lives, to South Australia last night.

He then found himself stuck in strict hotel quarantine in Adelaide and worried the stringent border closures caused by COVID-19 were going to stop him from being able to reach his mum in time to say goodbye.

Last night his family was told his mum was unlikely to survive the night.

After a lot of frustration and numerous phone calls, late this afternoon the South Australian Government finally granted Mr De Petro permission to enter Victoria.

He has since boarded a flight to Melbourne and is on the way to be reunited with his family.

South Australia has closed its border to Victorians, with any non-South Australian residents who have been in Victoria barred from entering the state.

Anyone wanting to enter Victoria is also required to get a permit from the Victorian government.

NSW Police have issued a stark warning to would-be protesters after plans of a new anti-lockdown rally emerged online.

In the wake of last month's illegal protests in Sydney's CBD – where dozens were arrested, hundreds issued fines and more than 10,000 calls were made to Crime Stoppers – police have urged people to practice common sense and stay home.

"Police are aware of unauthorised protest activities planned for this weekend. Do NOT attend," a statement from NSW Police said.

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"Public safety is our first priority and you will be fined or arrested if you turn up."

Back in July, approximately 3000 unmasked protesters descended on Broadway and George St in Sydney city, chanting anti-government, anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine sentiment.

Many were arrested and fined for assaulting officers as well as police horses and damaging public property.

A number of attendees of the rally have since appeared before the courts, some just narrowly escaping jail time.

At the weekend, NSW Minister for Police David Elliott said that a huge spike in local case numbers in NSW was "too much of a coincidence" to not be linked to the protests.

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While speaking on the new powers police have been given to enforce strict lockdown measures, Mr Elliott admitted he believes the steep increase in cases across the state may be a result of the mass gathering.

"I think it is too much of a coincidence that we had a reckless gathering three weeks ago, and now these numbers just keep going (up)," he said.

"I think it is too much of a coincidence. There is no doubt in my mind at least some of these cases that we are seeing at the moment had their genesis at the protest.

"Which is why, if they try to do it again, the NSW Police, with the assistance of any other agency we need, will make sure that the response is the same."

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Since then, Mr Elliott has urged residents to comply with the new public health orders – which came into effect at 12.01am on Monday – saying that police would rather be catching criminals than handing down fines.

New Zealand will go into a snap three-day lockdown after a new local case of coronavirus was detected in Auckland, which authorities assume is the Delta variant.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed the country would move to Alert Level Four from 11.59pm tonight (local time).

Ms Ardern said it was important for the country to "go hard and go early" to defeat the Delta variant. 

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Level Four means reducing contact between people to the bare, essential minimum. 

"As we've seen overseas, particularly in Sydney, unnecessary trips outdoors can spread the virus," she said. 

The lockdown will last three days nationally at this point, though Ms Ardern said Auckland and the Coromandel Peninsula would likely be locked down for a week.

The case, a 58-year-old man, became symptomatic on Saturday and is expected to have been infectious since August 12. 

His wife has returned a negative test. 

"I want to assure New Zealand that we have planned for this eventuality," Ms Ardern said. 

"Going hard and early has worked for us before." 

The man's wife is fully vaccinated. 

There is no immediate link between this case and the New Zealand border.

"We will not be able to identify if this is a case of the Delta variant until genome sequencing comes back tomorrow," Ms Ardern said.

She did say all recent cases, except one, in New Zealand since June had been the Delta variant.

Under Alert Level Four restrictions, people can only leave the house for essential shopping, essential work, and exercise within their bubble. 

"The bubble is back," Ms Ardern said. 

For New Zealanders, "the bubble" includes people in a person's immediate household, and others who are dependent on them. 

Ms Ardern said people who were away from home in New Zealand would have a 48-hour period to relocate for the lockdown. 

"Ideally we want people to be where they need to be as soon as possible," she said. 

Ms Ardern said the ongoing outbreak in Australia has prompted an "uptick" in vaccine take-up. 

She said a 48-hour hiatus would allow health authorities to determine ways to safely administer that higher volume of jabs, including the option of drive-through vaccines. 

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said the hiatus might be over before the 48-hour mark, with a further update coming tomorrow. 

Everyone in New Zealand is asked to stay calm, be kind and play their part while more information is gathered about the case.

Last week, COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins advised New Zealand would move into a "short, sharp" alert level 4 lockdown if the highly infectious variant makes its way through the border.

"We are adjusting our response and our likely response to new more infectious variants as we seek to ensure that COVID-19 does not gain a foothold here," he said at the time.

"Our response is likely to be swift and severe in the event we would see a case emerge in the community."

The Auckland Regional Public Health unit is undertaking interviews with the case for contact tracing purposes.

The cases comes just 11 days shy of what would have been six consecutive months without a community case, with the last case of community transmission reported on February 28.

This article first appeared on Stuff.co.uk and has been reproduced with full permission.

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