Australian nutritionist and food influencer Stacey Hatfield has died from an "extremely rare complication" during childbirth, her heartbroken husband says.

The 30-year-old from Melbourne, known as @naturalspoonfuls on social media, gained more than 17,100 followers by promoting a toxin-free lifestyle and natural recipes.

She was pregnant and just two months shy of her first wedding anniversary with husband Nathan Warnecke when she went into labour on September 29.

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Hatfield gave birth at home to a healthy baby boy named Axel.

But moments later, the "unimaginable" happened.

Warnecke said an "unforeseen and extremely rare complication" arose.

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She was rushed to hospital, where she died.

"Hospital staff were amazing and did the utmost to help, but ultimately nothing could be done despite their best efforts," he said in a social media post yesterday.

"Words can't do justice to how devastating this is for myself and everyone that knew and loved her.

"It was her life's biggest dream to be a mum. She did it. On her terms, exactly the way she always dreamed of doing it.

"She loved being pregnant and over the last 9 months told our son she loved him everyday.

"She held Axel when he was born, nursed him, saw that he was a boy and loved him.

"She loved him so much and still, continues to love him."

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Warnecke said her last moments were the "happiest I've ever seen her", as he paid tribute to his "beautiful wife, soul mate and best friend".

"I knew Stace for nine amazing years, she was the light of my life and the reason I got up in the morning. Words can't do justice to how devastating this is for myself and everyone that knew and loved her," he said.

"She was my lighthouse in the storm, and the world is less bright without her in it. As her husband, I couldn't ask for a better partner.

"She was the most beautiful, loving, caring, hardworking, disciplined, intelligent and trustworthy human being I've ever known."

Family, friends and the community have rallied behind Warnecke and Axel, raising more than $20,000 to help support the family pay for the funeral, childcare costs, household bills, and to take time off work.

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NSW residents have been warned to be on the lookout for counterfeit cash after police seized $2600 in fake notes.

The notes were handed to businesses in the state's Hunter Valley region at businesses in Cessnock, Kurri Kurri, Muswellbrook, Scone, Singleton, Blandford, Cliftleigh, Glendon, Merriwa and Middle Falbrook between May and this month.

Police are now investigating the source of the notes.

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Police have urged people to be aware of the signs of a fake note.

If you suspect you have counterfeit cash in your possession, it is important to feel the note as genuine cash is printed on special plastic polymer and is difficult to tear, officers said.

A telltale sign of a fake is if words such as "prop" or "specimen" mark the note.

You should also hold the note to the light and look for the Australian coat of arms.

This is generally located to the left of the clear window or denomination numeral when looking at the front of the note.

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Another way to tell the difference is to compare the background printing, looking for any distortions or less clearly defined patterns.

Feel for slightly raised printing on the main design of the note and look for the seven-pointed star inside a circle.

Check that the note has a clear window and that it has a clear printed image.

The $50 note has the Southern Cross and the $100 note has the lyrebird.

If possible, look under a UV light to locate the serial numbers.

In recent months, counterfeit cash has also been found in other states, including South Australia and Tasmania.

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It comes a week and a half after the Reserve Bank cut the OCR down to 2.5%.

A young child told police of hearing screams while in bed before waking the next day to find a woman dead on a couch.

Tatiana "Tanya" Dokhotaru, 34, was pronounced dead by paramedics attending her apartment in south-west Sydney on a Saturday in May 2023.

Her ex-partner Danny Zayat, 30, has been accused of murdering her the day before, shortly after she made a triple-zero call.

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A NSW Supreme Court jury has heard of threats, abuse and violence during the volatile relationship.

Footage of police interviews with a young child, who found the business owner's body in the Liverpool complex, was played to jurors today.

In interviews conducted the day after Dokhotaru's death, the child – who cannot be legally identified – told officers they found the 34-year-old on the couch with blood coming out of her nose.

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The child tried to rouse Dokhotaru before Zayat arrived and called police and paramedics.

"No waking up," the youngster said during the interview.

Officers were told about an argument between the couple the previous night when a television and glass flower vase were broken.

The child was again interviewed in September 2025, telling police there had been no blood on Dokhotaru.

They said they heard the woman "screaming … 'help me, help me'."

During questioning today, the child said Zayat did not break the television or vase but he had been "fake crying" when police arrived.

"He was crying but he wasn't sad," the child told defence barrister Madeleine Avenell SC.

Jurors also heard of injuries and threats to Dokhotaru in the year before she died.

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Her mother Olya Dokhotaru and stepfather Denis Thievin, who both live in Canada, recounted their daughter's visit in 2022 during which she spoke to Zayat almost daily over the phone.

Olya said she heard the concreter threaten to kill his ex-partner if she didn't return home, while calling her a "f—— fat slut" and a "white f—— bitch".

"I can't imagine that a young man can speak like that with his wife," she said.

Thievin said there was a lot of screaming during these calls and his stepdaughter was typically crying.

"These were not pleasant phone calls," he said.

When Dokhotaru returned to Australia, she moved into an apartment instead of a house so she could be around neighbours for safety, the court heard.

Weeks before she was found dead, the 34-year-old sent a video to her mother – played to the court – which showed bruises around her throat.

"You can see the fingerprints around her neck," Olya said.

The day before her body was discovered, Dokhotaru told her mother via text that she was at the doctor with "bad bruising".

She said she had fallen over her vacuum cleaner and hit the table.

Zayat has pleaded not guilty to murder, denying his involvement in his ex-partner's death or being responsible for any physical violence towards her in their relationship.

He faces an alternative charge of manslaughter.

The concreter called triple zero the day after her alleged murder, attempted CPR, and was seen crying and wailing when police attended the Liverpool unit.

He said Dokhotaru previously expressed thoughts of suicide and had been depressed when he left her the night before.

An autopsy revealed she died from blunt-force head trauma.

Her death was hastened but not caused by various substances in her system, the jury heard.

The trial continues tomorrow.

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Future tax cuts will be put on the table by Opposition Leader Sussan Ley as she attempts to guide the Coalition back to government.

In a speech to conservative think tank the Centre for Independent Studies this afternoon, the Liberal leader pledged to offer up income tax cuts before the next federal election and reduce budget deficits as the opposition's main priorities.

"We'll start where the pressure is greatest – low and middle-income earners who are feeling the squeeze from higher prices and rising living costs," Ley said.

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"This is not a passing policy preference.

"It's more than just a commitment to lower taxes, I have never been more convinced, more determined and more passionate about anything I have ever done in public life than I am today in making this pledge to the Australian people."

That's a departure from the policy the Coalition took to the last election, when it promised to repeal Labor's "top up" tax cuts under previous leader Peter Dutton.

However, Ley's pledge was met with scepticism by Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

"They're promising more spending and smaller deficits, Australians deserve to know how they're going to do it. This can only mean savage cuts to Medicare and other essential services to pay for their promises," he claimed.

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Ley didn't outline a specific tax cut, instead saying the Coalition would work on its policy platform and unveil it before the next election.

"Whilst early work on our tax cuts plan has already begun, we will determine the scale and scope of our eventual package as the final budget position becomes clearer over the next two and a half years," she said.

However, she added the Coalition would focus on reducing regulation and making government smaller in order to be able to afford any tax cuts while improving the budget position.

The government should "do fewer things and do them better", she said.

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Ley also promised to wind back regulation and flagged a potential fight with Labor over industrial relations laws introduced over the past three-and-a-half years.

However, she sought to allay any fears that could include stopping people working from home, after a plan to force public servants back to the office backfired badly on Dutton and the Coalition at the last election.

"We believe in enterprise-level bargaining – where businesses and their staff can strike agreements that reward higher performance and suit their circumstances – rather than industry-wide decrees," she said.

"I want to give Australian workers this assurance: flexibility does not mean stripping away worker protections."

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The address was the latest in a series of speeches by Ley as she seeks to haul the Coalition back from its disastrous performance in the May election, but comes amid the backdrop of more internal party turmoil.

Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce is believed to be weighing up a switch to One Nation after announcing he will quit the Nationals – and a number of other Coalition MPs are reportedly being eyed off by the minor party.

That, in turn, came after prominent shadow ministers Andrew Hastie and Jacinta Price quit Ley's front bench; Hastie stepping down due to disagreements over immigration policy, and Price dumped amid the fallout from her damaging comments about Indian migrants.

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