Hamilton’s Māori ward looks safe, with ‘keep’ votes ahead by more than 1000.

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The teens were all sat on a single mattress when the girl said things went too far.

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A man who denies killing his former partner during a violent argument was heard wailing incomprehensibly as he tried to resuscitate her the next day.

Danny Zayat, 30, had been in a volatile relationship with 34-year-old Tatiana Dokhotaru before she was found dead in her south-west Sydney apartment on a Saturday in May 2023.

Zayat is accused of murdering her the previous night after a physically violent and verbally abusive argument heard by neighbours on the 22nd floor of the Liverpool complex.

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Two phone calls the concreter made to triple zero the day after the alleged murder were played to his NSW Supreme Court jury trial today.

During the calls, he can be heard at times wailing and speaking incoherently as the operator gave directions on how to administer CPR.

"She's not breathing, she's got blood coming out of her nose," he said during the call.

"It looks like she's been dead for a while."

Police officers and paramedics arrived to find him crying and pleading for someone to help his ex-partner as she lay on the floor of her apartment.

Paramedics attempted to revive her but she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Before calling triple zero, Zayat was heard by neighbours running up and down the corridor outside calling for help.

Leo Nguyen lived in the apartment opposite and told the jury that he heard a male shouting and banging on the apartment doors outside.

"It just sounded like someone was in the hallway just crying, distressed," he said from the witness box.

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Zayat told police that Dokhotaru wanted to kill herself about a week before she was found dead in the apartment on May 23.

On police body-worn footage, he was seen asking police to check his phone for video footage taken on May 21.

He claimed the 34-year-old was drunk, tripped over and injured herself on that day before expressing thoughts of suicide.

"I took a video of it just for my own sake," he told officers.

Dokhotaru's next-door neighbours, Saska Simic and Husam Alsadi, told the court they heard expletives and thuds from the woman's unit on the night of the alleged murder.

Alsadi also described muffled voices broken up by a male yelling "you f—— slut" and a woman yelling "get out, get out".

"It sounded like it was very guttural," he said of the male's voice.

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The neighbour went to his front door to check on the corridor and the neighbouring apartment.

When he stepped outside, the noises died down, the jury heard.

The couple then went out to their balcony but didn't see or hear anything further.

Prosecutors allege Zayat had a tendency of violent, abusive behaviour to Dokhotaru which eventually turned deadly.

They have said he ended a 89-second triple-zero call she made on the night she was killed after she provided the street address to her apartment, and then threw the phone off the high-rise balcony.

"Yes, hi. My ex-boyfriend's here and he's trying to kill me," she had earlier told the operator.

An autopsy showed that Dokhotaru died from a brain injury caused by blunt force head trauma.

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Zayat has pleaded not guilty to murder and denies being violent towards his former partner or having anything to do with her death.

He also faces an alternative charge of manslaughter.

The trial continues.

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A Victorian national park that has been closed for seven weeks during the hunt for alleged gunman Dezi Freeman has finally been reopened, but with restrictions.

It has been 49 days since Freeman allegedly opened fire and killed Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart and Detective Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson, who went to execute a search warrant at his remote property in Porepunkah on August 26.

He was last seen fleeing into the bush around Mount Buffalo, with the nearby national park becoming a focus for officers and search crews.

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The Mount Buffalo National Park has remained shut ever since due to the ongoing police operation, but has been partially reopened today after staff checked all the facilities.

Most of the popular visitor sites, trails and roads are now accessible to the public, but some areas still remain restricted and prohibited.

Victoria Police said the park's reopening "does not signify the end of the search for Freeman", and officers will maintain a presence in the area.

"Despite these extensive searches and enquiries, police have not located Desmond Freeman. This work has, however, given Victoria Police the confidence that the park can now reopen, as we know how important it is for the local community," Victoria Police said in a statement.

"With the park reopening, police are urging anyone with hunting or trail cameras to check their footage and share any information that may assist investigators."

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Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush admitted that investigators were unsure whether Freeman was even alive.

"Is he still alive? We don't know. Is he alive and still in the area? We have no real information to suggest that it's occurred, but we never discount. Or has he been unable to leave the area and is being looked after by others? We don't know," he said at a press conference yesterday.

"All of those are assumptions, possibilities, and we plan and resource for those three."

Freeman, born as Desmond Christopher Filby, is a conspiracy theorist and self-described sovereign citizen with what police said is an extensive knowledge of the bush and survival.

The 56-year-old has been known to police for a while and holds anti-police and government beliefs.

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Australian and New Zealand police have been working together to search for him since the double-fatal shooting on August 26.

Large areas of Porepunkah and the Mount Buffalo National Park have been searched, more than 800 people have been questioned by police, and investigators have followed more than 1600 clues and tip-offs, according to Victoria Police.

But there is still no sign of Freeman.

A $1 million reward remains for any information that can lead to his arrest.

Police urge anyone with information or who sees suspicious behaviour at the national park to contact Crime Stoppers.

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The arrested man is due to appear in Kaikohe District Court on October 28.

A new ad campaign is set to roll out to sell Australia's world-leading social media ban to both the parents and kids it will impact.

The ban is set to take effect on December 10 and starting this Sunday, the federal government is rolling out a campaign to increase awareness of the rules for under-16s.

The campaign also aims to explain how the ban will work to both parents and kids.

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It will be rolled out on television, radio and social media, as well as billboards close to schools.

"Until the 10th of December, it is legal for kids to be on social media, and if that's where they are, that's where we need to talk to them about what this means and why we're doing it," Communications Minister Anika Wells said.

This week, Wells met with YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok and Meta to ensure that regulations will be in place for these bans.

But the platforms included in the ban are still not yet final.

"This is definitely not set and forget laws, obviously, this is a fast-evolving space, and we will keep attuned to minimising online harm," she said.

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The beloved kuia from James and Isey has died peacefully at her Kawakawa home.