New Zealand Food Safety is working to ‘establish how the issue arose’.

Victoria's opposition leader Brad Battin claims he will not give judges the option to bail certain offenders as part of his pledge to crack down on crime.

Despite Jacinta Allan's Labor government tightening bail laws and introducing a ban on machetes, knife crime is continuing in Victoria, with the latest incident seeing a teenager stabbed at a rugby event in Broadmeadows on Saturday.

Crime is set to be a key issue in next year's state election, and speaking to Today, Battin claimed he would take a hard line where he believes Labor has been soft.

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"The government weakened these laws and won't return them to the position they were in 2023," he said.

"Since then, that's when we've seen the crime increase."

"It is getting to a stage that this is the only topic people are talking about. And that's a huge concern because then the perception becomes reality and people feel unsafe in their own community."

"We've had 25 to 30 victims under the age of 25 who have died in the knife crisis here in Victoria, and they [the government] continue to have their head in the sand and won't answer the real questions of fixing the bail system, bringing in something like break bail, face jail and ensuring we have violent offenders off the street."

Battin said if the Liberals were returned to government, he would put laws in place that bar courts from granting bail to some offenders.

"One of the key points is 'break bail, face jail'. Those that are committing violent offences shouldn't continue to get bail," he said.

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"We'll ensure we'll tighten the laws to make sure that the judges don't have the choice to give them bail, that they have to keep them on remand rather than back out into the community."

Battin's comments come as senior police in Victoria call for greater government support.

Victoria Police Commander Wayne Cheeseman claimed the department was having to draft in police officers from regional areas of the state to police protests in Melbourne CBD.

One such protest last week left two police officers in hospital.

Battin said he would also increase funding to the state's police, claiming the overstretched department was equipped enough to deal with crime in Victoria.

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"Mike Bush [Victoria's chief police commissioner] has got over 1100 vacancies on the roster," Battin claimed.

"He can't just invent police, he needs funding to ensure they get there."

Battin said until the issue is fixed, a growing number of Victorians will not feel safe in their own home.

"It is getting to a stage that this is the only topic people are talking about," he said.

"And that's a huge concern because then the perception becomes reality and people feel unsafe in their own community."

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set for a week of high-level diplomacy with regional leaders, even as domestic controversy over ambassador Kevin Rudd persists.

After visiting Uluru to mark 40 year since the handback, Albanese landed in Malaysia tonight to meet with Pacific leaders at ASEAN.

"Jobs, security will be my focus in the coming days," he said.

The prime minister is buoyed by new opportunities stemming from the critical minerals deal signed in the White House.

"This is a program that could set us up for success. Just as iron ore and our resources have been in the last century," he said.

"This is absolutely critical."

After ASEAN comes the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Seoul, South Korea, and the week culminates in a summit of superpowers between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Nationals Leader David Littleproud said: "There's an opportunity for us to take a leadership role – particularly between the United States and China.

Close calls in the Pacific, the war in Ukraine and escalating tariffs are on the agenda.

"When you see two large trading partners going toe-to-toe there is a contagion impact that flows through to Australia as well," Littleproud said.

Rudd won't be there this time around. He'll remain in Washington – where Trump has forgiven but not forgotten

"I think a long time ago he said something bad. When they say bad about me I don't forget," Trump said this weekend.

Labor minister Murray Watt backed Rudd in.

"We measure these these things by results that are actually delivered. Ambassador Rudd is clearly done an excellent job," he said.

But the Coalition was seemingly back out on the ambassador

Deputy Nationals leader Susan McDonald called it "the biggest diplomatic slap down I can think of".

"He is trying to flag how impossible the situation is," she said.

When asked if he needed to "sub Kevin Rudd out", Albanese said no.

The service was scrapped after a paedophile tried to write to his pen pal’s daughter.

The Louvre jewellery heist, where $157 million of artefacts were stolen in a brazen daylight robbery, may have been an inside job, according to detectives.

Last weekend, thieves broke into the world-famous museum in Paris, and stole priceless jewels after using a freight lift to break into a second-storey window.

The raid lasted just four minutes, with the thieves then making their escape on motorcycles.

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It's a heist that experts say would have required 'military style precision', and sources close to investigators in Paris believe the plotters may have had help from someone on the inside.

According to The Telegraph, the gang was given information about the Louvre's security system ahead of the raid.

"There is digital forensic evidence that shows there was co-operation with one of the museum's security guards and the thieves," the source said.

"Sensitive information was passed on about the museum's security, which is how they were aware of the breach."

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It is a major claim against security at the museum, which had a widescale security overhaul in January, which included a new command post and expanded camera grid.

However, the cultural ministry of France said it was still being rolled out, and the director of the Louvre earlier this week admitted there wasn't CCTV coverage in the area where the heist took place.

"Unfortunately, on the Apollo gallery side, the only camera installed faces west and therefore does not cover the balcony affected by the break-in," Laurence des Cars told a French Senate Committee.

The culprits still haven't been identified, and there are now grave fears the priceless jewels, some dating back to the Napoleonic era, will never be recovered.

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Among the stolen items were a sapphire diadem, necklace and single earring from a matching set linked to 19th-century French queens Marie-Amélie and Hortense; an emerald necklace and earrings from the matching set of Empress Marie-Louise, Napoleon Bonaparte's second wife; a reliquary brooch; Empress Eugénie's diadem; and her large corsage-bow brooch – a prized 19th-century imperial ensemble.

This is because experts believe the jewels will be broken down.

"I think that the pieces are already abroad," Natailie Goulet of the French Senate said. "I think it's lost forever."

Christopher Marinello, the founder of Art Recovery International, believes the gang may look to break them down or recut the stones without regard for their rarity.

It led to him issuing a warning: "We need to break up these gangs and find another approach, or we're going to lose things that we are never going to see again."

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A man has died and another remains in hospital after a stabbing in a popular nightlife district in Hobart.

Police were called to the Morrison Street car park in Salamanca last night after reports of a fight between two groups.

During the incident, two men, one aged 20 and one aged 23, were stabbed.

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The 20-year-old man died at the scene, and the 23-year-old man remains in hospital.

His injuries are non-life-threatening.

The Salamanca district in Hobart is well known as a tourist attraction in the city, with many pubs, bars and nightclubs in the area.

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One 20-year-old was taken into police custody and is assisting with authorities.

The person has not been charged yet, and police say they are still searching for other people involved in the incident.

Despite this, police believe it was an isolated incident, and may have been linked to a previous incident involving a person from each group.

Anyone with information in relation to the incident is asked to contact police on 131 444, or to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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President Donald Trump said he plans to hike tariffs on imports of Canadian goods by an extra 10 per cent because of an anti-tariff television ad aired by the province of Ontario.

The ad used the words of former President Ronald Reagan to criticise US tariffs, angering Trump who said he would end trade talks with Canada.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he would pull the ad after the weekend, and it ran Friday night during the first game of the World Series.

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“Their Advertisement was to be taken down, IMMEDIATELY, but they let it run last night during the World Series, knowing that it was a FRAUD,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform as he flew aboard Air Force One to Malaysia.

"Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10 per cent over and above what they are paying now.”

It was unclear what legal authority Trump would use to impose the additional import taxes.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on when the 10 per cent hike would come into effect, and whether it would apply to all Canadian goods.

Canada's economy has been hit hard by Trump's tariffs, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has been trying to work with Trump to lower them.

More than three-quarters of Canadian exports go to the U.S., and nearly $3.6 billion Canadian ($3.9 billion AUD) worth of goods and services cross the border daily.

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A spokesperson for Carney didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Many Canadian products have been hit with a 35 per cent tariff, while steel and aluminium face rates of 50 per cent.

Energy products have a lower rate of 10 per cent, while the vast majority of goods are covered by the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Agreement, and are exempt from tariffs.

That trade agreement is slated for review. Trump negotiated the deal in his first term, but has since soured on it.

Trump and Carney will both attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Malaysia. But Trump told reporters traveling with him that he had no intention of meeting Carney there.

Trump said the ad misrepresented the position of Reagan, a two-term president and a beloved figure in the Republican Party. But Reagan was wary of tariffs and used much of the 1987 address featured in Ontario's ad spelling out the case against tariffs.

Trump has complained the ad was aimed at influencing the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of arguments scheduled for next month that could decide whether Trump has the power to impose his sweeping tariffs, a key part of his economic strategy.

Lower courts had ruled he had exceeded his authority.

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Marcelle Cooper knew something was wrong when she looked down at her beautiful, giggling, baby and felt absolutely nothing.

In the years beforehand, Cooper had suffered six miscarriages, endured IVF and all kinds of alternative therapies, as she and husband Steve tried desperately to have a baby.

And then, a year after the couple from North Sydney stopped trying, their "beautiful miracle girl" Skye arrived.

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"She was perfectly healthy and thriving," Cooper said.

"We were in our love bubble, it was so special and she was reaching every milestone effortlessly.

"But around the 12-week mark, I came tumbling down, like a brick wall."

"I was absolutely riddled with fear and dread so deep in my bones that I could barely eat and I couldn't sleep.

Cooper describes the emotional rollercoaster of having tried for a baby for so long, and then deciding to stop trying, only to then fall pregnant unexpectedly and carry a baby to term, as being completely overwhelming.

"You so desperately want answers, but there are none to give," she said.

"There's the hope and the grief and the anxiety and the shame, and that real feeling of failure, and almost desperation of like, 'my body is meant to be able to do this, why can't it?'

"We were broken, we were worn out physically and emotionally, and we sort of came to a place of surrender and acceptance."

It was after a year of travelling and rekindling their relationship that Cooper unexpectedly fell pregnant again, but she was immediately anxious.

"Given my history, I pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I was just gonna wait for (another) miscarriage, essentially.

"And then she actually arrived and she was this perfect baby.

"I was like, 'Oh my God, I don't know what to do. I can't stuff this up… I've got to do right by her'."

Skye was born during the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning the Coopers could not have visits from family.

"It was just the two of us battling away, and we had absolutely no idea what we were doing," Cooper said.

"Around the six-month mark, I really distinctly remember my husband was at work and Skye was on the change table, and she was trying so hard to like babble and giggle and engage with me and I remember looking at her, and it was just nothing there, it was just emptiness.

"It was just this devastating feeling of 'this poor baby deserves so much more than me as her mum'."

At that point, Cooper knew she needed help and had a telehealth consult with her GP, who referred her to the Gidget Foundation.

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Gidget Foundation Australia is a not-for-profit organisation that supports expectant, new and potential parents who may be experiencing perinatal depression or anxiety with specialist care, including up to 10 bulk-billed, face-to-face, individual psychological counselling sessions for clients referred by their GP with a mental health care plan.

"It was just an instant sense of relief," Cooper said.

"I was so ashamed and felt so guilty and like I was such a failure and I thought I was the only person in the world that ever felt like that."

She began fortnightly consults with a Gidget clinician, via videolink due to the on-going pandemic.

"They really grounded me and it never felt overwhelming… it was so self-paced.

"I felt like I could share my worries with someone without feeling like I was burdening my loved ones because they felt quite helpless as well."

According to Gidget Foundation, one-in-five mums and one-in-10 dads will be diagnosed with perinatal depression and anxiety.

The foundation is the largest supplier of perinatal mental health support services but they only see 4.5 per cent of the 100,000 parents diagnosed annually.

"We know that there's roughly 95 per cent of people (who) are either trying to source out a private psychologist, which is rare and hard to find with specialist skills, but also probably going without, so we know the demand is really significant," Gidget Foundation CEO Arabella Gibson said.

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Early intervention is critical to changing the trajectory of families experiencing perinatal depression and anxiety, Gibson said.

"Having a baby, the identity change that brings, the responsibility that brings, the pressures, financially, personally, from a relationship perspective, there's so many changes that we go through..

"So many people will go on for years feeling horrific and terrible and resorting to drugs, alcohol, gambling, whatever, when in fact, if we got in early, got them the support they need, gave them the tools and talked through the issues, we could actually capture a whole lot of heartache within a matter of months and have them back on track again.

"I know that probably sounds really simple, but in actual fact, it is that simple, because there is still a stigma around perinatal mental health, because it's meant to be a time of joy but actually it can quite often be incredibly challenging and the weight of bringing a new human into the world can be very heavy."

There are now 39 Gidget Houses across Australia – including the latest location which opened at Stockland Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast last week.

The Gidget Foundation was named after a young mother who took her own life while experiencing postnatal depression.

"(Gidget) had the beautiful marriage and the beautiful home, and the great job and the beautiful friends and everything like that," Cooper said.

"It doesn't discriminate.

"Asking for help isn't a weakness, that's the strength, and that was definitely the scariest and most courageous thing I did.

"But it wasn't until I did reach out that everything changed."

Baby Skye is now about to turn five, and will start school next year.

"She's so caring and she's super sensitive to everyone else's feelings," Cooper said.

"We look at each other sometimes and we're like, wow, this little human is so lovely."

Gidget Foundation Australia is not a crisis support service.

Perinatal mental health support is available from the PANDA National Helpline on 1300 726 306.

The Red Nose Grief and Loss Support Line is available 24/7 for anyone affected by the loss of a pregnancy, stillbirth or death of a baby or child on 1300 308 307.

Readers seeking support can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636. In an emergency, dial Triple Zero (000).

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Australian teachers and parents are concerned young students could develop unhealthy emotional attachments to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots.

We are now at the dawn of a rapidly evolving AI revolution and the line between internet and reality is becoming increasingly blurred.

It's started to ring some faint alarm bells in schools across the country: are young Australians in danger of falling into an AI blackhole?

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Two players from the Australian women's cricket team have allegedly been followed and harassed by a man in the Indian city of Indore.

The female players, who are in Indore for the ICC Women's World Cup, were on their way to a café when they were allegedly "approached and touched inappropriately" by a man on a motorbike, Cricket Australia confirmed in a statement.

"The matter was reported by team security to police who are handling the matter," a Cricket Australia spokesperson said.

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CCTV circulating on Indian media outlets shows a man on a moped who may be connected to the incident.

A man has been arrested and is facing charges including stalking, according to The Time of India.

It's understood Indian authorities have assured the team of their safety for the remainder of the tour.

Currently the world's number one team, the Aussie women are preparing to take on South Africa tonight at Indore's Holkar stadium.

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