Exclusive: After 14 years of denied visa applications and deportation notices, the Aldeiri family got the call they had been waiting so long for this week.

Minister for Immigration Tony Burke had "intervened" in their decades-long fight to stay in Australia.

They were given an appointment at the immigration office on Wednesday and told nothing else.

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Rahma Aldeiri, 22, feared the worst.

"We didn't know what he was going to do, like, will he separate the family?" she told 9news.com.au.

"Is he just going to grant me and my sisters the permanent residency, but my parents won't get it?"

Instead, her family got the news they'd waited 14 years for.

Every single one of them – dad Sultan, mum Reem, Rahma, and her twin sisters Hareer and Mesk – had all been granted permanent residency.

Their fight was finally over.

"We were all just screaming and crying," Rahma said.

"We worked so hard this entire 14 years … it was definitely worth it, but the process could have been easier."

The Aldeiri family came to Australia from Jordan in 2011, when Rahma was eight.

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A driver has remarkably escaped serious injury after a dramatic peak-hour crash involving a van in the inner Adelaide suburb of Prospect. 

The incident occurred on Regency Road, as a driver came out of a driveway.

The impact of the collision forced the van onto its side, causing it to scrape along the road. 

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Another vehicle was forced over the median strip onto the wrong side of the road. 

Nearby tradesmen rushed to help, with one telling 9News he was preparing to pull the driver out of the van, and he was lost for words when he started to climb out of the wreckage and walk away.

"They opened the door from there and they tried to pull the man out but the man himself came out," a witness said.

The van driver was taken to hospital with a minor back injury. 

The driver of the Mazda, a woman in her 30s, has been fined for driving without proper control.

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Western Australia's new AI safety cameras have fined more than 31,000 distracted, speeding and unrestrained drivers in their first four weeks of operation.

Six camera trailers dotted across the state, as well as three fixed cameras on the Kwinana Freeway, have been operating on a cautionary basis for eight months.

That period ended on October 7, after which $13 million in fines were handed out in the next month.

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The revenue from fines is being reinvested into road safety.

"If the AI system believes there is an offense, then two humans will look at those photos and make a judgment," Road Safety Minister Reece Whitby said.

More than 12,000 motorists were caught using their mobile phones and about 10,000 drivers were snapped without a seatbelt.

"It's beyond mind-boggling why anyone would not put on a seatbelt on," Whitby said.

"For goodness sake, please, please exercise caution, be responsible."

Images of drivers eating cereal, painting their nails and using nail clippers were just some of the offences caught on camera.

One driver was seen using her phone while her passenger steered the car.

Most shocking of all, a truck driver was snapped driving at 100km/h with no seatbelt, with a mobile phone in one hand and a clipboard-shaped object in the other.

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"People are normalising the car as an extension of their home, when you see some of these activities," University of Western Australia Professor Teresa Senserrick said.

Authorities hope the cameras can help change driver behaviour as the state approaches its worst year of road fatalities in almost a decade.

Academics at the WA Centre for Road Safety Research at UWA hope a new high-tech driving simulator can help prove just how dangerous these distractions can be.

"It's usually fractions of seconds that are the difference between either being able to avoid a crash or at least being in a low-impact crash," Senserrick said.

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Reality TV star Matt Wright has been given a 10-month jail sentence for attempting to pervert the course of justice following a fatal helicopter crash.

The 47-year-old was sentenced by Acting Justice Alan Blow in the Supreme Court in Darwin today.

The Outback Wrangler star lost his best mate and co-star Chris "Willow" Wilson in the February 2022 crash that left pilot Sebastian Robinson a paraplegic.

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It happened during a crocodile-egg collecting trip in Arnhem Land while Wilson was slung on a line below a chopper to drop onto nests in remote swampland.

Wright was accused of lying to crash investigators about the amount of fuel in the machine, of trying to get Robinson to falsify flying hours and of asking a friend to "torch" the helicopter's maintenance release.

Prosecutors sought a jail term for Wright but his defence lawyers wanted a non-custodial sentence and are pursuing an appeal against his guilty verdicts.

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In court today, Acting Justice Blow sentenced Wright to 10 months in prison, suspended after he serves five months.

He was given a $5000 fine on the charge of lying to police.

Wright bowed to the judge before he was led away.

The maximum penalty for attempting to pervert the course of justice is 15 years' jail.

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On August 29 a jury found Wright guilty on the first two counts but could not reach agreement on the third torching accusation.

Prosecutors alleged Wright was worried investigators would learn his choppers' flying-hour meters were regularly disconnected to extend hours beyond official thresholds, with paperwork falsified to match.

The prosecution did not allege Wright caused the chopper crash, the death of Wilson, or Robinson's injuries.

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Harbour master Grant Nalder said there was no safety risk to anyone aboard.

A new proposal from the US Food and Drug administration would allow sunscreens in the US to include an active ingredient already commonly used in Australia, Europe, and parts of Asia.

Bemotrizinol is a chemical that provides broad-spectrum protection against both ultraviolet A and B rays. It "has low levels of absorption through the skin into the body, and rarely causes skin irritation," the FDA said in a news release today.

The FDA regulates the safety and effectiveness of sunscreens. New products can be brought to market through an over-the-counter drug review process that sets conditions about how and when they are "generally recognised as safe and effective" for their intended use. Identifying and assessing active ingredients is a key part of the GRASE framework.

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DSM Nutritional Products LLC, with headquarters in both Switzerland and the Netherlands, has submitted a request that the FDA add bemotrizinol as a new active ingredient permitted for use in sunscreens in the US, the FDA said.

The FDA has opened the request to public comments and will conduct a safety and effectiveness assessment under the GRASE framework before determining whether to issue a final order to add bemotrizinol to the active ingredient list for sunscreens.

"Bemotrizinol would be a welcome addition to the current array of effective sunscreen active ingredients already available to American consumers" Dr Karen Murry, acting director of the Office of Nonprescription Drugs, said in a statement.

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The majority of skin cancers are caused by too much exposure to ultraviolet radiation, which comes from the sun as well as tanning beds or sun lamps.

Staying in the shade and wearing UV-protective clothing, hats and sunglasses can all reduce exposure, but sunscreens, chemical or mineral, are also important tools to protect skin.

Chemical sunscreens – such as avobenzone, oxybenzone, octocrylene, ecamsule, homosalate, octisalate and octinoxate – bind to the top layer of skin and transform UV rays into heat that disperses. Mineral sunscreens, such as zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, form a protective barrier between the skin and the sun.

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Former political staffer Brittany Higgins has been bankrupted by her former boss, bringing the former politician one step closer to discovering where the former staffer's $2.4 million compensation payout went.

Ex-Liberal senator Linda Reynolds launched bankruptcy proceedings in October against Higgins after she successfully sued her for defamation.

Federal Court judge Michael Feutrill today made orders to sequestrate Higgins' estate under the Bankruptcy Act after a series of minor setbacks and technical difficulties that slowed the process.

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The date of the act of bankruptcy was backdated to October 8.

"(The estate will) be handed over to the trustee of the bankruptcy who will take control of her affairs and deal with the creditors in due course," Reynolds' lawyer Rachel Ross told reporters outside the court in Perth.

Reynolds' high-profile defamation victory over Higgins concerned a series of social media posts the former defence minister believed damaged her reputation.

Reynolds was awarded damages of $315,000 plus $26,109 interest after Western Australia's Supreme Court in August found some of the posts were defamatory.

Higgins was also ordered to pay 80 per cent of her former boss' legal costs, which are estimated to be more than $1 million.

Reynolds' lawyer, Martin Bennett, previously said the bankruptcy would allow Reynolds to find out how much of Higgins' commonwealth settlement remained as she attempted to recoup her legal costs for the defamation case.

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Higgins apologised to Reynolds after the former defence minister emerged victorious from the duo's high-profile five-week defamation trial.

Justice Paul Tottle found Higgins' social media posts carried an array of imputations.

They included that Reynolds engaged in a campaign of harassment against Higgins, mishandled her rape allegation and engaged in questionable conduct during Bruce Lehrmann's aborted criminal trial for rape.

The 360-page judgment made factual findings about the events involving Reynolds and Higgins, including her alleged 2019 rape and the events in the years after it.

Higgins made 26 false or misleading statements in media interviews after her alleged sexual assault, the judgment said.

She alleges former co-worker Lehrmann raped her in the senator's ministerial suite.

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A Federal Court judge overseeing a defamation case launched by Lehrmann against Network Ten found Higgins was, on the balance of probabilities, raped by her former co-worker in the office.

Lehrmann has lost an appeal against that finding but has flagged taking the case to the High Court.

He denies the rape allegation, and his criminal trial was derailed by juror misconduct.

Higgins' husband, David Sharaz, was also served with a bankruptcy notice by Reynolds and is expected to declare bankruptcy.

He was also found to have defamed the former politician and was ordered to pay $85,000 in damages plus interest and costs.

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Melbourne motorists will finally reap the rewards of the long-awaited West Gate Tunnel project, after a decade plagued by scandal, project delays and cost blowouts.

The $10.2 billion project promises to get more than 9000 trucks off local roads and save drivers up to 20 minutes on travel time when it opens on Sunday.

Built as a partnership between the state government and toll company Transurban, the twin tunnels will give drivers an alternative to the West Gate Bridge when they need to cross the Yarra River.

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The tunnel runs from the West Gate Freeway through to Yarraville, which then connects to a new bridge over the Maribyrnong River.

Project director Scott Hodder said it was "three significant projects all wrapped into one".

"The scale of this project is immense …this is the biggest of its type at the moment in Australia," he said.

In addition to the tunnel itself, the project features a widening of the West Gate Freeway from eight lanes to 12 lanes and an elevated road above Footscray Road.

It also features a 2.5km cycling path and new connections to Wurundjeri Way.

Drivers can choose entry and exit points at Footscray Road, Dynon Road, Citylink and Wurundjeri Way.

The tunnel, which will be a toll road until at least 2045, is expected to rake in billions of dollars from drivers on CityLink.

Drivers will pay a toll rate between $2.05 and $10.47 depending on the time of the day they use the road, which exits they use and what type of vehicle they're driving.

Drivers will pay more during peak hours from 7am to 9am on weekdays, in a bid to discourage congestion.

The trip prices will also increase from January 1.

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The project cost taxpayers $5 billion more than it should have and is being delivered at least three years late.

It was pitched to Victorians by former premier Daniel Andrews in the lead up to the 2014 election.

Six months later, the project was reannounced with a $5.5 billion price tag.

Victoria's then premier said Transurban would pay for two-thirds of that and asked the Commonwealth to fund the rest.

They said no in 2016, but Labor signed the deal in 2017 with an inflated $6.7 billion cost.

In 2019, Victoria's Parliamentary Budget Office estimated the deal would net Transurban an additional $37 billion dollars in tolls – mostly from CityLink.

Later that year, it was revealed Treasurer Tim Pallas had shares in Transurban at the time he signed the deal.

Construction grounded to a halt in 2019 after toxic chemicals were found.

Work restarted two years later, but only after Victorians chipped in another $2 billion to help cover a $4 billion blowout.

The project will be open from the morning of Sunday December 14.

Tolls will be waved for motorists on the tunnel on weekends throughout January to celebrates its launch.

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Matthew Daniel Gregory admitted to making fake profiles to share the abuse material.

Heavy rain is forecast for the South Island’s West Coast on Monday.