Multiple Aussie states are set to be hammered by fierce winds, rain and thunderstorms as a low pressure system batters the country's south-east.

Damaging winds are expected to cut power and bring down trees across parts of South Australia, Victoria and NSW tomorrow.

Coupled with a cold front, the weather system has already lashed SA with strong winds today as it tracks southeasterly towards western Victoria.

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"Tomorrow is going to be amongst the windiest days, if not the windiest day of the springtime," meteorologist Angus Hines said.

Strong winds are expected to intensify overnight and move into eastern parts of Victoria and NSW tomorrow.

Severe weather warnings are in place across SA, Victoria and NSW, with wind gusts reaching 90 to 110 km/h expected in some areas overnight.

Residents in the south-east of South Australia, most of Victoria and parts of south-east and eastern NSW, including the Blue Mountains and the Illawarra, are warned to brace for the brunt of the fierce conditions.

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"It will be Wednesday morning where the winds are strongest in south-west Victoria," Hines said.

"That is where we will see the potential for those gusts over 120 km/h, which is rare to see winds of that speed."

Coastal areas between Cape Otway in Victoria and Robe in South Australia are expected to receive destructive wind gusts up to 120 km/h to 130 km/h tomorrow morning.

Emergency services are warning residents to brace for damage to property, cars and power lines as destructive winds threaten to topple trees and branches.

Severe storms and heavy rain are also forecast for northern parts of Tasmania with rainfall totals up to 50 mm in parts of the state.

Conditions across the south-east part of the country are expected to stablise tomorrow evening as the system moves offshore.

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Police were contacted after two people failed to return from a crayfishing trip.

She suffered severe head trauma from the attack, which happened outside a police station.

Police in NSW have issued a warning about jet-ski safety after a string of incidents over the last two days.

Public concerns have grown after two people were injured in a jet ski crash in Sydney's south last night.

At around 5pm yesterday, Marine Police arrived at waters off Brighton Le Sands after reports that two jet skis had collided.

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Upon arrival, police were told that four people were in the water after being ejected from the vessels.

A 23-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman who were on the same jet ski were treated on the scene by paramedics.

The pair were taken to St George Hospital for treatment.

The woman sustained serious leg injuries and has undergone surgery. The man has since been discharged from hospital.

The 18-year-old woman and 22-year-old man, who were allegedly riding the second jet-ski, were uninjured.

The 18-year-old was arrested for a short period of time after attempting to leave the scene on foot. She was later released pending further inquiries.

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Police have seized both jet-skis as they commence investigations surrounding the circumstances of the crash. 

Brighton Le Sands is a frequently visited spot for jet ski riders and locals are concerned that, as summer approaches, it may become a safety hazard for swimmers.

"I wouldn't put my kids in the water while jet-skis are around, no way," one resident said.

"I would not go there, it is a lot of them and they come very close, they're scary," another added. 

"Jet-ski safety for Brighton le Sands, Georges River and Revesby is highly focused for us at the moment," said NSW Maritime Acting Executive Director, Darren Wood.

"Jet-skis are a powerful craft and it is important that people obey the rules and regulations when operating these vessels," said Superintendent Siobhan Munro from the Marine Area Command.

"We will not tolerate dangerous navigation that's putting lives and members of the public at risk.

"We know that it is only a small percentage of jet-ski users doing the wrong thing."

"They're putting lives at risk."

The incident comes a day after a 17-year-old boy was spotted by police in the same waters dangerously driving a jet-ski near swimmers.

The boy also allegedly failed to stop for police. 

His jet-ski was seized and police say charges for menacingly operating the vehicle will be laid.

"It's a whole-state problem, it's not just Brighton le Sands," Munro said.

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The man whose body was found a month ago has now been formally identified.

Emergency services were called to the scene just before 3pm.

David Seymour has likened the protest action to book-burning.

AFL star Scott Pendlebury has launched legal action against his former manager, claiming he misappropriated more than $2.1 million of his funds.

The Collingwood midfielder lodged the claim for loss and damages against Jason Sourasis in the Victorian Supreme Court on Friday but the statement of claim was released to media this week.

Court documents state Sourasis had access to Pendlebury's bank accounts, as he had been providing him financial advice and services since 2013.

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It's alleged between January 2015 and December 2023, Sourasis improperly transferred $2,148,900 from Pendlebury's investment account to accounts associated with Sourasis.

There were more than 50 transactions allegedly made in that time frame, ranging from $5000 to $305,000.

Pendlebury only became aware the funds were missing in February and he claims the transactions were not made in his interest or in good faith, the documents state.

He also alleges Sourasis has not repaid any of the money.

Pendlebury also claims he lent $300,000 to Sourasis on March 15, 2023, with the understanding it would be repaid the next day.

The agreement changed on March 22 of that year, with Pendlebury accepting it would instead be repaid in six to 12 months with interest, the documents state.

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Pendlebury alleges Sourasis has since refused to pay back the loan or any interest that has been accrued.

The footballer claims he has suffered loss and damages as a result of Sourasis' actions.

Pendlebury is seeking the return of $2,148,900 with interest, as well as an order for restitution of any traceable proceeds of the allegedly misappropriated funds.

He has also made a claim for the $300,000 loan with interest at the rate of 50 per cent a year, calculated from March 22, 2023.

Sourasis has been approached for comment, as have Pendlebury's manager and legal representatives.

Pendlebury has played 425 games for the Collingwood Football Club, including two premierships in 2010 and 2023.

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A man has been charged with murder as police search for the body of a man who was last seen near Toowoomba in Queensland more than two weeks ago.

Detectives charged 45-year-old Crows Nest man Shaun Smoothy with the murder of 48-year-old Paul Woods yesterday.

Woods' disappearance was first reported to police on Tuesday, October 14.

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However, Detective Inspector Ryan Harmer said he may have come into trouble a week earlier.

"We've been unable to establish any proof of life from Paul on the fifth," Harmer said.

"We've spoken to witnesses who have led us to believe that this is obviously a homicide investigation."

Police have since established crime scenes at Woods' home in Hampton, as well as Smoothy's property in Cressbrook Creek.

The dog squad, police divers and the SES were called in to assist with the search of the large rural property today where police allege Woods was killed and his body dismembered.

"At the end of the day, the forensic examination is in its early stages, so we still have a number of days yet to be able to search that property thoroughly," Harmer said.

Smoothy is understood to be a house re-stumper and avid hunter.

Police say they believe the two men knew each other.

"We believe that they know each other, we are still trying to investigate the relationship," Harmer said.

Police say Woods was last seen more than two weeks ago, riding an unregistered blue and white Yamaha 450 motorbike on Saturday afternoon, October 5, between the Hampton and Cressbrook Creek area.

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The motorbike remains missing.

Anyone with information or CCTV or dashcam of the motorbike in the Hampton, Crows Nest and Cressbrook Creek areas between October 5 and 6 is urged to contact police.

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A glitch at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centre in the US left millions around the world unable to access half the internet, but how exactly did it cause the widespread disruption?

AWS recorded "increased error rates" yesterday evening that continued for more than 15 hours, affecting some of the most popular social media platforms, websites and online services.

It has been described as the largest disruption since the CrowdStrike outage of 2024.

As services return to normal, here is everything we know about what caused yesterday's mammoth shutdown.

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What is Amazon Web Services?

Let's start at basics.

AWS is a subsidiary of billionaire Jeff Bezos' Amazon and the world's most broadly adopted cloud service — a way of storing files and applications over the internet rather than on physical devices.

It provides power, storage and databases to companies, universities and governments.

"We offer the greatest choice of innovative cloud capabilities and expertise, on the most extensive global infrastructure with industry-leading security, reliability, and performance," AWS says on its website. 

AWS controls more than 41 per cent of the global market, with Microsoft and Google as the next biggest competitiors.

With some of the world's largest companies relying on the service, it's no surprise that a glitch would cripple half the internet. 

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What is the current status of the AWS outage? 

Amazon said it first began seeing errors to AWS services about 5.50pm AEDT yesterday.

Three hours later, the underlying issue was located and crews saw "significant signs of recovery".

Amazon later said it was still experiencing "significant API errors and connectivity issues across multiple services" and began investigating the "root cause".

About 9am today, all AWS services returned to normal and the operation issue has been marked as resolved.

What caused the AWS outage?

AWS' DynamoDB is a database that hosts information for companies, including customer data.

This was failing to work because of an error to the domain name system (DNS) at its data centre in northern Virginia — one of the most important cloud hubs in the world.

DNS is the service that translates internet addresses into machine-readable IP addresses that connects browsers and apps with websites and online services.

Essentially, it acts as a phonebook, connecting devices to servers.

Any errors can disrupt the translation process and, therefore, interrupt the connection.

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What websites and apps were down because of the outage?

DownDetector, a website that tracks online outages, recorded more than 11 million reports to hundreds of services.

Social media and chat platforms Snapchat, Reddit, Signal and Whatsapp were affected.

Users reported outages to Disney+, 9Now, Hinge, Tinder, Coinbase, Robinhood, Life360, Tidal, EA Games, Roblox, Fortnite, Venmo, Xero Canva, Slack, Zoom, and Duolingo.

Starbucks, DoorDash and Lyft confirmed briefly seeing issues.

Amazon's own website, PrimeVideo and Alexa also faced problems.

In the United Kingdom, Lloyds Bank, the Bank of Scotland, Vodafone and BT were impacted.

Yesterday's outage is a prime example of the warnings experts have been raising for years about the potentially dire consequences of allowing a handful of companies to dominate major internet operations. 

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Has this happened in the past?

The last time there was a disruption of this magnitude was in 2024.

A faulty software update by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike impacted devices running Microsoft's Windows, which caused issues to airports, hospitals, banks and other services across the world.

This is also not the first time there has been an outage related to Amazon’s key services.

Many popular internet services and publishers were down after a brief outage in 2023.

AWS’s longest outage in recent history affected companies, from airline reservations and auto dealerships to payment apps and video streaming services, for more than five hours in late 2021.

Other major outages happened in 2017 and 2020.

— With Associated Press 

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