Exclusive: The mother of missing schoolgirl Bung Siriboon is living out her final days after a two-year battle with cancer.

The family has given 9News permission to publish the health update of Vannida, who was diagnosed with primary central nervous system lymphoma in 2024.

She has undergone multiple rounds of chemo but is now in palliative care.

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Those closest to the family say she may only have days to live and it's feared she may never know what happened to Bung.

"These could be her final days, you'd think someone would say something now to help a grieving mum," Bung's best friend from high school Dyamai Hillard said.

Hillard has started a GoFundMe page to help Fred, Vannida and Bung's sister Pang during this difficult time.

"Some answers would change everything, I think it would give Nid the closure and the space to pass on without that pain," she said.

"And Fred, hopefully to heal a bit better because how do you go thorugh life missing your daughter and losing our wife, watching her pass away slowly?"

Bung's stepfather, Fred Pattison, has also lost his niece and mother recently.

"The support for GoFundMe could even just ease a little bit of the burden so he could be present," Hillard said.

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"[It] could go towards a number of things, but most importantly help him be able to pay for her funeral."

Siriyakorn "Bung" Siriboon vanished while walking to school in 2011.

She left her Elsie Street home in Boronia about 8.30am on June 2, 2011.

She was seen by a neighbour a short time later in Elsie Street, walking towards Albert Avenue.

Bung did not arrive at school that day and has not been seen or heard from since. Investigators continue to hold grave fears for her safety.

This year marks 15 years since the schoolgirl vanished without a trace.

There is still a $1 million reward for anyone who has information.

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Rahul Gautum will testify that he never asked the woman to stay the night.

He said he didn’t realise he hurt anyone until the news reported a “champagne shanking”.

Crisis talks between Sussan Ley and David Littleproud are yet to resurrect the Coalition, despite an olive branch offer from the Liberals floating the opportunity of a party reunion.

The Nationals Leader today confirmed his party had received a written offer from Sussan Ley and the Liberals to resolve the party split, after their partnership was unceremoniously slashed earlier this month.

In "constructive conversations" with Littleproud last night, Ley said she was willing to realign with the Nationals, if three senators who crossed the floor on hate speech laws are suspended from shadow cabinet for six months.

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The Liberals' offer is also dependent on an agreement that neither individual party room can override shadow cabinet decisions, after Bridget McKenzie, Ross Cadell and Susan McDonald broke ranks to vote against the hate speech bill in the Senate

The senators were later dumped, leading the entire Nationals frontbench, including Littleproud, to quit in protest

Littleproud said the Nationals intend to "take our time to consider the details" of Ley's proposition.

"The Nationals are united in our endeavours to reset the Coalition, but we won't be providing updates on any negotiations through the media," he said.

"It's important we take the time to get the settings right."

If negotiations between the two embittered parties reach an agreement, the Coalition could re-form this week.

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But Littleproud is so far keeping tight-lipped on the future of the alliance, noting his party room "remains focused on the issues that matter to Australians, including protecting our rights and freedoms."

Members of both parties congregated at St Paul's Canberra church this morning for a traditional service to mark the beginning of the parliamentary year.

Nationals MPs there seemed to believe that a Hail Mary would be needed to soothe the rift between the parties.

"That's where we need divine intervention," LNP MP Scott Buchholz said.

"I'll be praying for that, that's exactly what I'll be praying for," Nationals MP Michael McCormack said of a Coalition reunion.

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“There must have been either wilful blindness or recklessness involved,” the judge said.

The RBA has effectively said it had no choice in making its dreaded decision.

But hospital staff said Zain Taikato Fox’s injuries weren’t consistent with their story.

Melbourne's Lord Mayor has described a poster of the accused Bondi shooter in the style of a popular street artist as "just sick".

A picture of alleged gunman Naveed Akram with the caption "Aussie" has been plastered in multiple locations in Melbourne's CBD.

The poster was designed in the same style as famous street artist Peter Drew's "Aussie" series and has been spotted in over 40 places in the city.

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Lord Mayor Nick Reece said Drew's iconic posters are a celebration of Australia's national identity and multiculturalism and decried the copycat posters as "absolutely abhorrent".

"His posters are a good example of the role contemporary street art can play in politics as a means of social activism," Reece said in a statement.

"For Drew's work to be hijacked and appropriated into images of hatred and division is absolutely abhorrent.

"To use the image of the Bondi shooter is just sick. Families are still grieving, the community is still grieving.

"There is no possible universe in which this can be seen as an artistic response to the original series."

Reece said his team has worked around the clock to remove the posters.

Racist and hateful material will be removed in Melbourne within one hour of being reported under a new city policy, the mayor added.

"Our approach is 'whatever it takes': we are not going to tolerate hateful, racist material on the streets of our city, for even one hour," Reece said.

Executive Council of Australian Jewry president Daniel Aghion told The Age the posters are a "devastating and disrespectful" blow to the victims of the Bondi attack.

"The Bondi terrorists will fade into history and their names will be forgotten," Aghion said.

"The people who will be remembered are the victims, the survivors, and the heroes who rushed in to help. They represent the true Aussie spirit."

Fifteen innocent people were killed and dozens more were injured when two gunmen opened fire from a footbridge overlooking the park in Bondi on December 14.

Akram has been charged with 59 offences.

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The incident occurred outside Bar 20 on King St in Melbourne’s CBD on Friday night.

Several states across Australia's south-east will be on alert tomorrow as hot and windy conditions trigger increased fire danger after the driest January in 19 years.

Firefighters in South Australia will be on alert in parts of the west coast, Yorke Peninsula and the Mount Lofty Ranges where there is extreme fire danger tomorrow.

"The Mount Lofty Ranges takes in the Fleurieu Peninsula, where we saw a signficant fire start last night," Bureau of Meteorology meteorologist Christie Johnson said.

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"We also have some of these high fire danger areas that are very close to the threshold for extreme fire danger and that includes regions such as the Murraylands and the upper south-east."

Parts of Victoria will also be under an extreme fire danger rating tomorrow.

"Over in Victoria, extreme fire danger mostly through central parts, particularly the Central District and this includes area, and also the North Central District.

"We also have some other districts that are very close to the threshold for extreme, including the Wimmera and the West and South Gippsland District."

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There will be high fire danger across Tasmania tomorrow, except for in the north-west.

"However our latest modelling suggests it could actually be even worse than this tomorrow and we're now expecting high fire danger right across the state, reaching extreme fire danger through the east coast and the Midlands district."

The fire danger comes as south-eastern Australia recorded its driest January since 2009.

Weatherzone reports it was also the region's second driest start to the year since 1965, with January rainfall down by 23.14mm, when averaged across all official weather stations in the region.

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