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NSW Premier Chris Minns has announced a major rezoning plan along a stretch of Parramatta Road in Sydney's Inner West, delivering up to 8000 new homes and breathing life into a tired stretch of the city.

The effort is the latest to solve the two issues, with Sydney being the second least affordable city in the world to live in.

Speaking to media today, Minns admitted there was work to be done, but claimed his government was ready to meet the challenge and to give young people the chance to own homes close to the city.

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"At the moment, we are so far behind," he said. "Many people may not know this but Sydney is the 800th densest city in the world.

"That doesn't mean we're going to turn it into Tokyo overnight, but there is a halfway house where we have appropriate development in the right spots so that young people can move in.

"At the same time we can get a bit of vibrancy and energy for the next generation [and say] 'we're not shutting the door on you.'" 

The rezoning effort will stretch from Leichhardt near the light rail line all the way to Camperdown at Pyrmont Bridge Road.

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There are similar efforts in neighbouring councils in Burwood and Canada Bay, while a similar rezoning effort in the Woollahra council area in Sydney's eastern suburbs has also been proposed.

Minns said the effort to spread the development over multiple areas close to the city is intentional to spread the burden and to ensure development is fair and equal across the city.

"If everyone can take a bit, no one's going to do too much. In the past, we've asked some councils to do all the heavy lifting, while everyone else got a free ride," he said.

Parramatta Road is an important and busy road, connecting the city to the sprawling west, but many of the buildings are rundown and there is currently little scope for housing development.

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However, it is also close to major public transport connections in trains, buses and light rail, and the government believes now is the time to capitalise.

"Cities aren't museums, they change and grow and they evolve," Planning Minister Paul Scully said.

"This is an opportunity for us to get the settings right and turn this tired throughfare into the vibrant community we know it can and should be."

The Property Council of Australia welcomed the move, but warned investment in infrastructure and transport must follow.

"Turning plans into homes means will require further investment in transport, community facilities and streamlined approvals to ensure the Parramatta Road corridor grows into a place that provides housing, jobs, services and vibrant neighbourhoods," Property Council NSW Executive Director Katie Stevenson said.

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A London march organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson drew more than 110,000 people and became unruly as a small group of his supporters clashed with police officers who were separating them from counterprotesters.

Several officers were punched, kicked and struck by bottles tossed by people at the fringes of the “Unite the Kingdom” rally on Saturday (local time – overnight Australian time), the Metropolitan Police said. Reinforcements with helmets and riot shields were deployed to support the 1000-plus officers on duty.

Twenty-six police officers were injured — four who were seriously hurt, including broken teeth and a concussion, a possible broken nose and a spinal injury. At least 25 people were arrested for offences including violent disorder, assaults and criminal damage, and the investigation continues, police said.

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“There is no doubt that many came to exercise their lawful right to protest, but there were many who came intent on violence," Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said.

“They confronted officers, engaging in physical and verbal abuse and making a determined effort to breach cordons in place to keep everyone safe.”

The rally drew an estimated crowd of between 110,000 and 150,000 people, far surpassing expectations, police said. The rival “March Against Fascism” protest organised by Stand Up To Racism had about 5000 marchers.

Anti-migrant theme

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, founded the nationalist and anti-Islam English Defence League and is one of the most influential far-right figures in Britain.

The march was billed as a demonstration in support of free speech — with much of the rhetoric by influencers and several far-right politicians from across Europe aimed largely at the perils of migration, a problem much of the continent is struggling to control.

“We are both subject to the same process of the great replacement of our European people by peoples coming from the south and of Muslim culture, you and we are being colonised by our former colonies,” far-right French politician Eric Zemmour said.

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Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO and owner of the X platform who has waded into British politics several times this year, was beamed in by video and condemned the left-leaning UK government.

“There’s something beautiful about being British and what I see happening here is a destruction of Britain, initially a slow erosion, but rapidly increasing erosion of Britain with massive uncontrolled migration," he said.

Robinson told the crowd in a hoarse voice that migrants now had more rights in court than the “British public, the people that built this nation".

The marches come at a time when the UK has been divided by debate over migrants crossing the English Channel in overcrowded inflatable boats to arrive on shore without authorisation.

Numerous anti-migrant protests were held this summer outside hotels housing asylum-seekers following the arrest of an Ethiopian man who was later convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in a London suburb. Some of those protests became violent and led to arrests.

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Sea of flags

Participants in the “Unite the Kingdom” march carried the St George’s red-and-white flag of England and the Union Jack and chanted “we want our country back.”

UK flags have proliferated this summer across the country — at events and on village lampposts — in what some have said is a show of national pride and others said reflects a tilt toward nationalism.

Supporters held signs saying “stop the boats,” “send them home,” and “enough is enough, save our children".

At the counterprotest, the crowd held signs saying “refugees welcome” and ”smash the far right,” and shouted “stand up, fight back".

Robinson supporters chanted crude refrains about UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the leader of the centre-left Labour Party, and also shouted messages of support for slain US conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Several speakers paid tribute to Kirk, who was remembered in a moment of silence, followed by a bagpiper playing Amazing Grace.

One demonstrator held a sign saying: “Freedom of speech is dead. RIP Charlie Kirk.”

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Crowd covered blocks of London

The crowd at one point stretched from Big Ben across the River Thames and around the corner beyond Waterloo train station, a distance of about a kilometre.

The marches had been mostly peaceful, but toward the late afternoon, “Unite the Kingdom” supporters threw items at the rival rally and tried to break through barriers set up to separate the groups, police said. Officers had to use force to keep a crowd-control fence from being breached.

Counterprotesters heckled a man with blood pouring down his face who was being escorted by police from the group of Robinson supporters. It wasn’t immediately clear what happened to him.

While the crowd was large, it fell far short of one of the biggest recent marches when a pro-Palestinian rally drew an estimated 300,000 people in November 2023.

Robinson had planned a “Unite the Kingdom” rally last October, but couldn’t attend after being jailed for contempt of court for violating a 2021 High Court order barring him from repeating libellous allegations against a Syrian refugee who successfully sued him. He previously served jail time for assault and mortgage fraud.

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Dozens of social media posts and messages about the murder of Charlie Kirk, including some that celebrated his death, are being spotlighted by conservative activists, Republican elected officials and a doxxing website as part of an online campaign to punish the posters behind the messages.

Prominent far-right influencer Laura Loomer, a US senator, and a site called "Expose Charlie's Murderers" have all drawn attention to people who have posted messages about Kirk's Wednesday assassination.

The campaigns show how social media posts or personal messages — even by accounts with few followers or from people who are not public figures — could easily be surfaced and publicised, and people's personal information can be spread across the internet at a time when doxxing is easier than ever.

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The Charlie's Murderers site, whose domain was registered anonymously and which says it is not a doxxing site, claims it has "received nearly 30,000 submissions," according to a message on the site's front page on midday Saturday. Currently, there are a few dozen submissions published on the site. "This website will soon be converted into a searchable database of all 30,000 submissions, filterable by general location and job industry. This is a permanent and continuously-updating archive of Radical activists calling for violence."

Most people whose messages have been posted on the site do not seem to refer to themselves as activists, nor did it seem many were calling for violence. Administrators for the site did not respond to a request for comment. The site also opened an X account on Friday.

Loomer posted on X on Wednesday, hours after the fatal shooting, that "I will be spending my night making everyone I find online who celebrates his death Famous, so prepare to have your whole future professional aspirations ruined if you are sick enough to celebrate his death." CNN was unable to reach Loomer for comment.

On X, one account has begun a running "Trophy Case" — a "mega-thread of all of the people Twitter gets fired, updated live as the news comes in," with dozens of entries of people it claims have lost their jobs.

And after MSNBC fired senior political analyst Matthew Dowd after he said Kirk's rhetoric might have contributed to his shooting, President Donald Trump himself weighed in.

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"They fired this guy, Dowd from (MSNBC), who's a terrible guy, terrible human being, but they fired him. I hear they're firing other people," Trump said on Fox News on Friday morning. On his Substack after the firing, Dowd said the "Right Wing media mob" attacked him on several platforms. CNN has reached out to Dowd for comment.

Some of the people whose posts have been highlighted say they're now receiving a barrage of harassment and are worried about becoming the victims of violence.

For example, Canadian independent journalist Rachel Gilmore posted that she is "terrified" about retaliation from Kirk's "far-right fans" after the shooting. That post is the first listed on the anonymous website, including a part where Gilmore said she hoped Kirk survives. She said in a video online that she did not celebrate Kirk's death and said she hoped he survives in another post. She also said she received a "tsunami" of threats and called the last 48 hours of her life "a living hell."

Rebekah Jones, a former Florida coronavirus data scientist who in 2022 claimed the state of Florida pressured her to manipulate pandemic data, said she contacted the police twice about death threats and about the "hit list," her name for the anonymous site. Jones posted about Kirk on Wednesday, writing: "Save your sympathies for the innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire of MAGA's violent political messaging machine." The website republished that post along with other pieces of Jones' personal information.

"It is absolutely fair to call it a coordinated harassment campaign," said Laura Edelson, assistant professor at Northeastern University and director of the Cybersecurity for Democracy Project. "That's absolutely why it exists, to coordinate and target the harassment toward the selected individuals."

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Who is getting fired?

Some Republican elected officials are also publicising people who posted about Kirk's murder, including some public-sector employees like teachers.

Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said a Middle Tennessee State University employee should be removed after writing they had "ZERO sympathy" for Kirk's death. The university confirmed to CNN in a statement that the employee was fired "effective immediately."

"No university employee who celebrates the assassination of Charlie Kirk should be trusted to shape the minds of the next generation in the classroom. The firing of this MTSU employee was the right decision, and it sends a clear message that this kind of reprehensible behaviour must not be tolerated," Blackburn said in a statement to CNN.

GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina also encouraged the firing of a public school teacher, whom the school district later confirmed to local news was no longer employed with the district.

And private companies, such as Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers and the Carolina Panthers, have also let employees go for their social media posts about Kirk.

DC Comics cancelled the just-released "Red Hood" comic book series after its author, Gretchen Felker-Martin, made comments about Kirk's death on social media.

In since-deleted posts captured in screengrabs shared by other social media users, Felker-Martin allegedly wrote on social media after news of Kirk's death: "Hope the bullet's OK".

"At DC Comics, we place the highest value on our creators and community and affirm the right to peaceful, individual expression of personal viewpoints. Posts or public comments that can be viewed as promoting hostility or violence are inconsistent with DC's standards of conduct," the company, which like CNN is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, said in a statement. CNN has reached out to representatives for Felker-Martin for comment.

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In most places, private companies can fire employees for any reason — and that includes crass social media posts, said Jeffrey Hirsch, a professor of labour and employment law at the University of North Carolina. It's a little trickier for public sector employees, but their firings are also justified if the speech is "so egregious it disrupts operations."

In a 1987 case, the Supreme Court decided that it was constitutionally protected speech, and not grounds for firing, for a government employee to tell her co-workers she was sorry that a would-be assassin failed to kill President Reagan.

And it's extra sensitive for teachers, Hirsch said, since they work with young people, especially if the posts are applauding political violence. "The reality of the situation is, if they're getting flooded, even if it's from one political wing, with complaints, it's likely to push an employer to fire somebody," he said.

A range of posts

In other cases, some social media users highlighted Kirk's pro-Second Amendment stance, including past news reports that he said some gun deaths were "unfortunately" worth it to keep the Second Amendment.

The highlighted social media entries span a range of responses to Kirk's shooting. One post, for example, simply noted the world continued on.

The website says its explicit aim is to get the people it spotlights fired. It was registered through a privacy service with an address in Iceland.

And the site's name already implies that the people whose information it shares are responsible for Kirk's murder, paving the way for harassment, Hank Teran, CEO at open-source threat intelligence platform Open Measures, told CNN. The website also echoes back to the Kirk-founded conservative group Turning Point's "Professor Watchlist," whose purpose was to unmask what it called "radical professors," but often led to harassment and violent threats directed toward people named on that list.

Altogether, "it could be reasonable to conclude that there's some intent to incite harassment," Teran said.

High political tensions across the country are ramping up people's emotional responses, said Edelson, the Northeastern professor, and it "creates a need to do something."

The blanket blame on "the left" in some cases extends the blame past the shooter into an amorphous enemy, Whitney Phillips, assistant professor of information politics and ethics at the University of Oregon, told CNN.

"Attempts to call out people designated as being celebratory of Kirk's death, or merely critical of Kirk's life, work to give shape and weight to that enemy," Philips said.

That feeds into "a false culture war framing". As a result, she said, disconnected groups can be perceived as "a downright spiritual enemy of conservatives, and by extension, of America itself."

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Like thousands of Americans captivated by the manhunt for the shooter who killed conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, a Utah father had seen the photos and video footage of the suspect released by authorities.

The man in the images, dressed in a black T-shirt plastered with an eagle and American flag, could be seen jumping off the roof of a Utah university building after the shooting and running into a wooded area. His face was partially concealed by a dark pair of sunglasses and a baseball cap.

But the father recognised the man.

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"Tyler, is this you? This looks like you," he asked his son, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation.

His son, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, confessed to his father that he had shot Kirk, the official told CNN.

"I would rather kill myself than turn myself in," Robinson responded when his father urged him to turn himself in to authorities, the source said.

The father persuaded Robinson to confide in a youth pastor who works with the Washington County Sheriff's Office and the US Marshal's Service, the law enforcement source said.

A family friend ultimately contacted the Washington County Sheriff's Office – over three hours away from the shooting scene in Orem, Utah. The office relayed the tip to authorities in Utah County and the FBI.

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That night – hours after authorities said they had "no idea" where exactly the suspect had gone – Robinson was in custody. It was 10pm Thursday in Utah, and state and federal officials had about two hours earlier given a news conference asking the public for help finding the suspect.

"We got him," Utah Governor Spencer Cox said at a news conference on Friday morning.

The FBI had at that point received more than 7000 leads and tips – the most the agency received since the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, the governor said. But that one tip from Robinson's father and family friend led to a major break in the massive manhunt.

It had taken authorities more than 30 hours to track down Robinson, who they allege shot Kirk from a roof above a 3000-person event at Utah Valley University, striking him in the neck from about 189 metres away and killing him.

After nearly 200 interviews, the collaboration of 20 law enforcement agencies, a $US100,000 reward announcement and a back-and-forth search in which two people were questioned and released, the FBI and the Utah Department of Public Safety finally believed they caught the perpetrator of the targeted attack.

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The 30-hour search for a suspect

Across the country, the killing of the prominent political figure and media personality – the latest in a string of political violence incidents – had sowed shock and confusion. A gruesome video of the shooting that sent the crowd screaming and fleeing spread through social media. In Utah and elsewhere, many waited for a suspect to be named in a case that had a series of twists and turns.

On Wednesday, hours after the attack, authorities believed they had a suspect in custody. That person was questioned and later released, and so was another taken into custody later that day.

As a massive manhunt for the suspect dragged on, authorities shared videos and stills of a suspect, asking for tips from the public to help with the search.

"We cannot do our job without the public's help," Cox said on Thursday night, hours before Robinson was taken into custody.

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US President Donald Trump, who has credited Kirk with galvanising and mobilising the youth vote for him, said on Thursday that investigators were "making big progress" in the search for the suspect.

"Whoever did this: We will find you, we will try you, and we will hold you accountable to the furthest extent of the law," Cox vowed.

Investigators with the FBI had evaluated forensic evidence and combed through over 11,000 leads. About 40 hours after the shooting, authorities announced they were able to fulfil Cox's promise through Robinson's father.

"Essentially somebody that was very close to him turned him in," Trump said on Fox and Friends on Friday morning.

A dinner conversation and comments on Discord

Several clues pointed authorities to Robinson: his clothing, a dinner conversation he had with a relative and comments he made on a messaging platform.

Less than four hours before the campus event that featured Kirk as a speaker began, Robinson arrived at UVU in a grey Dodge Challenger wearing a plain maroon T-shirt, light-coloured shorts, a black hat and light-coloured shoes, Cox said, citing UVU surveillance footage.

He later changed his clothes on the roof and then jumped down, leaving palm impressions, smudges that authorities hoped to collect DNA from and a shoe imprint, according to a police affidavit. At some point, Robinson changed back into the same clothes he arrived in.

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The next day – when authorities had taken the suspect into custody – Robinson was wearing an outfit that was similar to the one seen in surveillance video. And a relative confirmed Robinson had a grey Dodge Challenger.

"When he was arrested, the clothing matched the clothing he had on before the shooting here at UVU," Cox said.

Robinson – a third-year student in an electrical apprenticeship program who grew up in the small suburban community of Washington, Utah – had in recent years become more political, one of his relatives told investigators, according to the affidavit.

At a family dinner, Robinson had told his relatives that Kirk would be speaking at UVU and that he didn't agree with his views, one relative told investigators. Robinson had no party affiliation and didn't vote in the two most recent elections, voter registration records show.

Messages Robinson is believed to have sent on messaging platform Discord stated a need to retrieve a rifle from a pick-up point, leaving the rifle in a bush, watching the area where a rifle was left and having wrapped the rifle in a towel, according to the affidavit.

The messages, which Robinson's roommate showed investigators, also refer to engraving bullets and mention a scope and rifle being unique, officials said. Another message stated that he had changed outfits.

Investigators later discovered a bolt-action rifle wrapped in a towel. Inscriptions that read "Hey, fascist! CATCH!" and "If you read This, you are GAY. Lmao," were engraved on unfired casings found with the rifle, officials said.

Suspect is not speaking to investigators

Robinson is now being held without bail at Utah County Jail on several initial charges, including aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm and obstruction of justice, according to officials. He is expected to face formal charges and will make his first court appearance on Tuesday.

Following his arrest, Robinson initially spoke with some law enforcement officers but quickly went silent on Friday morning after hiring a lawyer, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Cox had said on Wednesday that officials would pursue the death penalty against the shooting suspect.

"There is one person responsible for what happened here, and that person is now in custody and will be charged soon and will be held accountable," Cox said.

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A South-East Queensland family has been left feeling unsafe all over again, months after being confronted by an alleged armed intruder.

After moving house, to escape the trauma, their new home was broken into this morning and ransacked while they slept.

It wasn't even a year ago the young family fell victim to a terrifying alleged South Ripley home invasion.

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"They came in and held a gun to my head in front of my 9-year-old son," the female occupant, who didn't want to be identified, told 9News.

"It's totally shaken up our lives."

They were left so shaken, they had just move more than 30 kilometres away, to Drewvale.

But after only a month in their new home, they're already replacing doors and locks.

"We thought we were better off here but it looks like it happens anywhere," a man, who didn't want to be identified, told 9News.

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The woman added that it felt "like nowhere is safe".

CCTV captured a group of offenders moving in and out of their garage and backyard, early this morning.

Keys were taken while the family slept, along with handbags and a wallet which was on a bench right next to where one resident says he was sleeping on the couch.

One offender was later seen returning to the street for a motorbike, they'd been unable to get started.

"It's such a brazen, disgusting act," the woman said.

The couple's children are so shaken by the violation, they've now gone to stay with their grandparents.

"My son actually has PTSD," the woman claimed.

"It's just sad because he was just starting to feel better. It breaks my heart, it absolutely breaks my heart."

The same car was spotted on other nearby home security cameras, where residents believe the same group of offenders were behind a number of attempted break-ins but police say there's nothing to indicate it's linked to any other incidents.

"We won't be sleeping tonight because we'll be afraid they're gonna come back," the woman said.

"All you want is for your child to feel safe."

Investigations are underway.

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Police allege the men discussed sourcing Australian military firearms.

The polls have now closed in Kiama after thousands of residents voted on their new representative to replace former MP Gareth Ward.

The disgraced state parliamentarian was forced to resign after being convicted of sex offences and then losing a fight to prevent his expulsion from parliament. 

Officials have begun counting as of 6pm today, with results expected later tonight. 

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According to the NSW Electoral Commission, more than 21,000 residents voted early at pre-polling booths and through postal voting.

The race is looking to be largely between Labor candidate Katelin McInerney and Liberal candidate Serena Copley, who had their last-minute pitches to voters.

"This is about representing the community with a strong local voice who understands their needs," Copley said.

While McInerney said her focus was on education and infrastructure.

"I can tell you what the top line for people are. It's getting Tripoli Way built, it's getting a public school happening in Coldwood," she said.

"It's making sure that we are not letting our schools get back to the state of disrepair."

Thirteen candidates are on the ballot, including Greens candidate Tonia Gray.

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Major parties and independent candidates were out on the campaign trail yesterday in a bid to secure votes.

Premier Chris Minns and Opposition Leader Mark Speakman both toured the South Coast alongside their party's candidates in a show of support. 

Minns admitted he was "nervous" about the race.

Whoever wins will have less than 18 months to win the trust of voters until the next state election.

But early predictions say Labor, which held the seat since its creation in 1981 until losing it to Ward in 2011, is looking at a landslide win.

Today's by-election was triggered by Ward's abrupt resignation as Kiama MP on August 8, moments before his colleagues were set to vote on the first motion of expulsion in parliament in 107 years.

He had lost his legal bid to delay the state's parliamentarians from tabling the motion.

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The 44-year-old was convicted in July of four sex offences against two young men in 2013 and 2015.

Ward has held the Kiama since 2011, winning three elections under the Liberal banner before securing the 2023 poll as an independent.

He won the last election despite being charged with sex offences. 

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