The Bureau of Meteorology has backflipped on one of the more contentious elements of its controversial new $4.1 million website, announcing it will revert the default display for its rain radar.

The weather bureau has faced criticism from some users, as well as Queensland Premier David Crisafulli and federal Environment Minister Murray Watt, over the redesigned website.

The BoM's new "rain rate" radar (left) and the older "rain reflectivity" (right):

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After previously pledging to take that feedback on board and tweak the new design, acting chief executive Peter Stone announced this afternoon that the BoM has changed the default display of its new-look radar, which has been a particular target of public displeasure.

Instead of showing the "rain rate" in millimetres per hour, the radar will now go back to showing "rain reflectivity", which was what was standard on the old website.

"We've listened to your feedback, and have restored the previous radar colour scheme," Stone said.

"We will continue to assess options for further updates and improvements at the same time as pushing on with our efforts to help the community become more familiar with the new website."

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He added that further adjustments would be rolled out soon.

"More changes are in the pipeline," Stone said.

The change to the radar went live this morning, although users can choose to change the view to rain rate if they prefer.

The move comes after Watt met with Stone earlier this week to tell him to improve the site.

"I made clear my expectations that the BOM needed to consider this feedback and, where appropriate, adjust the website's settings as soon as possible," the environment minister said in a statement.

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"This includes urgent consideration of improvements to the website's functionality and usability…

"Australians deserve to have confidence in these important services."

New websites often face criticism from users who are used to the previous layout, and matters were complicated for the BoM by the fact its relaunch went live on October 22, days before severe storms hit Brisbane.

On Wednesday, Scott insisted the new site was "specifically designed to enhance access to public safety information". 

"The Bureau's forecasts and warnings are now more prominent, easily accessible and relevant to your location," he added.

However, he also acknowledged the public criticism and apologised for the challenges some users had faced.

"It's clear we need to do more to help people through the change, both by making adjustments to the website and by helping users to understand its new features," Stone said.

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The grieving dad of a Melbourne teen who was killed in a tragic cricket training accident this week says his son would be "stoked" to see the outpouring of support in the wake of his death.

Ben Austin, 17, died in hospital yesterday morning after he was hit in the neck while batting in the nets at Wally Tew Reserve in Ferntree Gully on Tuesday afternoon.

His family today returned the nets, where a tribute of flowers and cricket bats has been growing.

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"We just wanted to be where he last stood. And then the sun came through the clouds. It was beautiful, just what we needed," father Jace said.

"I thought I'd never get back there, but Benny would have wanted that because he just loved the game."

Ben's dad said the 17-year-old played cricket as much as he could.

"He used to play Friday night, Saturday, Saturday afternoon and Sunday. He loved it," he said.

"He wanted to be a boundary umpire, a PE teacher and get as high as he could with his cricket."

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Jace thanked emergency services and the Ferntree Gully Cricket Club for helping to treat Ben at the scene.

"We got another three days out of him because they helped get him back to the hospital so that we could just spend nights with him and that will be with me forever. Thank you everyone."

He urged the community not to let the tragedy deter them from playing "the great game" of cricket.

"It wasn't the game's fault, it was just a freak accident," Jace said.

"So please make sure you keep playing this great game."

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Touching tribute from nation's top cricketers

Jace said the Ferntree Gully teen would be "stoked" to see a touching tribute by Australia's top cricketers in the wake of his death.

Players from Victoria and Tasmania held a minute's silence before today's final day of play in their Sheffield Shield clash in Melbourne.

They also lined up their bats and caps against the Junction Oval's white picket fence and wore black armbands in memory of Austin, echoing the same tributes cricketers around the country made following the death of Test batter Phillip Hughes in 2014.

Black armbands were also worn by Australian and Indian players during the two sides' Women's World Cup semi-final overnight, as well as in the other two Shield matches currently under way in Brisbane and Perth.

Ben's uncle, David Anstey, sifted through a growing wall of tributes for the teenager at the nets where he spent his last moments.

"He's just the most special kid you could ever meet," Anstey said.

"He's respectful of everyone, whether it's his teammates, schoolmates, club members, old, young.

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"Just the most loving and caring kid and I think everyone who met him was impacted in some way by him."

Ben's cricket coach Josh Henry remembered the teenager as a "perfect kid".

"Ben was a beautiful boy. He was so loving, caring, polite. He'd do anything for anyone," he said.

"We all love him and miss him dearly."

Austin was also remembered as a talented Australian rules footballer and "emerging star" in the Victorian umpiring scene.

"It is a shock to everyone to lose such a young, vibrant person in these tragic circumstances," Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) chief executive Jason Reddick said yesterday.

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"On behalf of the entire VAFA community, we send our deepest condolences to Ben's parents, Tracey and Jace, who is also a much-loved figure around community footy, plus Ben's brothers Cooper and Zach, along with all who knew and loved Ben."

Cricket authorities have pledged to do everything possible to support Austin's family and friends following his death.

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"Cricket is a sport that brings people together, communities together," Cricket Australia chair Mike Baird said yesterday.

"It's also one that feels very deeply in incidents such as we've seen.

"It's hard to put words on it, what we want to say is we're doing everything we can to support the family, the club and all those impacted by this tragic news.

"Clearly there are things we have to learn from this, but right now we're concerned about the family and trying to support them in every way."

Another tribute is expected to be held for Austin at tonight's T20 international between Australia and India at the MCG.

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Prince Andrew will be stripped of his "prince" title and move out of the Royal Lodge, Buckingham Palace has announced.

The process to officially remove the 65-year-old's remaining royal titles is now underway and he will be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.

You can read the full statement from the palace below.

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It is the latest move from the palace, weeks after it was announced Andrew would no longer use his Duke of York title following renewed scrutiny on his ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Andrew will leave the Royal Lodge and move to Sandringham, in Norfolk, one of two privately owned residences by King Charles.

His two daughters, Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice, will retain their titles, as they are the daughters of the son of a Sovereign, in line with King George V's Letters Patent of 1917.

Andrew has always strenuously denied the allegations made against him.

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The family of Virginia Giuffre, the woman who alleged Andrew had sex with her several times when she was a teenager – a claim Andrew has strenuously denied – released a statement in support of the prince being stripped of his titles.

"Today, an ordinary American girl from an ordinary American family, brought down a British prince with her truth and extraordinary courage," Giuffre's brother Skye Roberts and sister-in-law Amanda told the BBC.

"Virginia Roberts Giuffre, our sister, a child when she was sexually assaulted by Andrew, never stopped fighting for accountability for what had happened to her and to countless other survivors like her.

"Today, she declares victory. We, her family, along with her survivor sisters, continue Virginia's battle and will not rest until the same accountability applies to all of the abusers and abettors connected to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell."

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Giuffre died by suicide in April this year at her home in Western Australia.

Her posthumous memoir Nobody's Girl, which detailed a series of allegations against Andrew and New York financier Jeffrey Epstein, was published last week.

Andrew's new home will be one of the properties at Sandringham, the Norfolk estate where the royals traditionally celebrate Christmas.

It is understood his future accommodation will be privately funded by King Charles.

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Read the full statement from Buckingham Palace

His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew.

Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.

His lease on Royal Lodge has, to date, provided him with legal protection to continue in residence.

Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation.

These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.

Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse."

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A court case against Canberra Raiders player Josh Papalii has been dropped after a judge found police had abused legal processes by using an encrypted messaging app to discuss proceedings.

The 33-year-old was fighting three charges after an alleged incident at the Gungahlin Raiders Club last year, including intimidating police and refusing to leave a licensed venue.

But at an ACT Magistrates Court hearing on Friday, Chief Magistrate Lorraine Walker permanently stayed the case, meaning it will be dropped indefinitely, after finding police undermined the integrity of the prosecution by discussing the proceedings in a Signal chat.

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Police alleged Papalii was behaving aggressively towards staff after being asked to leave the leagues club in Canberra's north during the early hours of September 16, 2024, after a night of drinking.

After police were called to the venue, he allegedly became verbally abusive and threatening towards officers and refused to leave the premises.

Papalii pleaded not guilty to the charges.

But the case was delayed when Papalii's lawyers discovered the existence of the private group chat on messaging service Signal, which included the officer who was the alleged victim of the alleged intimidation, as well as investigating officers.

Police are not prohibited from using encrypted messaging services like Signal to communicate in the ACT, although other jurisdictions do not allow it.

Defence barrister Steven Boland asked Walker to issue a permanent stay of the proceedings, meaning the case would be dropped indefinitely.

Boland argued the officers' use of the Signal chat to discuss the case, which was set to automatically delete messages after one week, constituted an abuse of process and would bring the administration of justice into disrepute.

As messages relating to the case could have been automatically deleted, it meant the prosecution's duty to disclose evidence about the proceedings could not be met.

The conduct was "sufficient to bring the administration of justice into disrepute and erode public confidence in it", the defence submitted.

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The prosecution argued there was no evidence of messages in the group chat detailing information that would have materially changed the course of the proceedings.

There was thus no evidence that by not keeping a record of the messages, it would have been materially unfair to the defence, prosecutors argued, calling for a lesser remedy than a permanent stay to be applied.

The chief magistrate said while there was clear evidence that Signal was used by the investigating police to communicate about the investigation, the defence was unable to establish the deletion of the messages left them at a practical disadvantage.

But the unknown remains unknowable, she said, and the "cavalier" use of Signal by the officers raised the spectre that additional communication that was unfair to the prosecution may have occurred.

"Allowing the prosecution to proceed … is an irremediable affront to the integrity of the process," she told the court.

"A permanent stay of the prosecution is granted."

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CCTV vision has captured the moment residents and neighbours tackled a suspected drunk driver to the ground after a car ploughed into a home in Melbourne's south-east.

Vision shows the blue Holden station wagon lose control about 11.30pm last night and hit a car parked in a driveway on Breamlea Way in Cranbourne West.

The force of the smash pushed the parked car through the garage of the family home, destroying a brick pillar and causing significant damage to the house's structure, as well as the vehicle.

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A family of three were inside the home at the time, but thankfully weren't injured.

Resident Janet Adams described waking to the sound of an explosion before opening the front door to see "a plume of dust and smoke" outside the home.

"We're so fortunate that none of us were injured. The house is broken but that can be fixed," she said.

Police allege the driver of the Holden attempted to flee the scene but was restrained by residents until officers arrived.

"[We] all came running out, he was climbing out of the car, stumbling around, went back, got his cans and then tried to take off to the corner where everybody sort of jumped on him, pinned him down," neighbour Ebony Hall said.

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"He was still drinking, yeah, blood coming out of his mouth, like pinned to the floor, but he still wanted to drink, he wanted to smoke, he just wouldn't wouldn't stop," resident Dylan Visscher said.

"There were probably three cans littered across the driveway."

The alleged driver, a 27-year-old Cranbourne man, was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

An investigation into the crash is ongoing.

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ANZ has warned investors to brace for a more than $1.1 billion blow to its bottom line when it releases its half-year updates in a little over a week.

The big four bank announced this morning its second-half profit for 2025 will be impacted by several "significant items", totalling a combined $1.109 billion after tax.

A large proportion of that is associated with the decision taken last month to slash 4500 jobs – 1000 of which were contractors, while the remaining 3500 were full-time employees.

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ANZ said the cost of those redundancies will hit $585 million, although it drops to $414 million once tax is taken into account.

When it announced the job cuts, ANZ said customer-facing frontline roles would only see a limited impact, and chief executive Nuno Matos insisted the move was necessary to ensure the bank's future success.

"We are operating in a rapidly evolving and highly competitive banking environment," he said at the time.

"As we continue our strategic review, we are eliminating duplication and complexity, stopping work that doesn't support our priorities, and sharpening our focus on improving our non-financial risk management practices across the bank."

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Also included in ANZ's $1.1 billion blow is $271 million in fines and costs for years of unconscionable conduct, including failing to respond to customer hardship notices and making misleading statements about interest rates.

The bank agreed to pay a record $240 million fine for the conduct after it was sued by financial watchdog ASIC.

The Federal Court still needs to approve that fine, and ANZ said this morning it had also accrued $31 million in costs related to the matter.

Following this morning's announcement, ANZ's share price fell by a little over half a per cent to $36.65, although that's still far higher than the roughly $33 it was trading at before September's job cuts were revealed.

The bank will post its half-year earnings on November 10.

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