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Police say "disappointing" images showing the moments before two officers were shot dead came from a member of accused gunman Dezi Freeman's family.

Freeman allegedly gunned down officers Neal Thompson, 59, and Vadim De Waart-Hottart, 34, and injured a third in the ambush at this property in Porepunkah in Victoria's high country on August 26.

Previously unseen vision obtained by Daily Mail Australia shows Freeman, his wife Amalia and their two-year-old son barricading themselves on a bus as police tried to execute a warrant.

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Freeman reportedly called officers "psychopaths" and "Nazis" and accused them of trespassing.

In the vision, it has been reported he also told the officers to "leave us alone" several times.

His wife was also reportedly heard asking police not to force entry into the bus.

Two loud noises believed to be gunshots then rang out.

The footage ended as officers are seen running for cover.

Victoria Police Detective Superintendent Jason Kelly told media today the images were taken by a member of Freeman's family.

"That footage is not Victoria Police footage, is it not body-worn, it is by a member of the family of Desmond Freeman," Kelly said.

"From a Victoria Police point of view, it is both distressing and disappointing

"I can only imagine the impact that has had on the family of Neal and Vadim and the colleagues that were present."

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Reward boosts tips from the public

The vision from August 26 has emerged as the manhunt for Freeman enters its 16th day.

Police have confirmed there has been no official sighting of the accused gunman during this time.

A $1 million bounty was offered earlier this week for anyone with information which leads to the arrest of the accused gunman, the largest ever offered in the state.

Superintendent Craig Darlow today said police have been given 200 tips since the reward was announced.

"We are exploring a number of matters, out of 1000 tips, a number are sightings, but not confirmed," Darlow said.

Detective Inspector Dean Thomas said on the weekend that he remains open to all possibilities in regards to the whereabouts of Freeman and said the reward was "just another avenue" in the hunt.

Police have received over 1000 tips from the public so far.

Police searching caves and mineshafts for Freeman

The 16-day search for the accused gunman has involved mineshafts, caves, huts and properties.

Police said there have been over 4000 shifts and 2000 members of Victoria Police and other crews have taken part in the manhunt so far.

Of the theories about where Freeman is and if he is still alive, Darlow said "everything is on the table".

"Including whether he has taken his own life, if he is up in the hills secreted away, if he is able to get out, we havent closed our minds to any possibility at the moment," he added.

"We will leave no stone unturned, he's killed two of our members and shot a third."

Kelly said police are prepared to continue searching for Freeman for "as long as it takes".

"History sggests these types of operations take significant time," he said.

"We need to be present, and we need to continue the search for him."

Vadim De Waart-Hottart's family visit Porepunkah

The family of slain officer Vadim De Waart-Hottart, 34, today arrived in Porepunkah for the first time since the shooting.

Kelly said his parents visited Bright Police Station, where Waart-Hottart had been temporarily seconded, and spoke with some of their son's police colleagues.

"The attendance today was a real boost, if you like," he said.

"It's been a week of emotion for Victoria Police but I believe Vaidm's parents' attendance will hopefully assist them.

"It's been a very distressing time for them, very emotional."

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‘I think they’re going to create division. I just don’t think there’s any place for them.’

Melbourne is bracing for a possible repeat of the violent protest clashes seen in the city less than two weeks ago with multiple demonstrations planned for the CBD.

Victoria Police is planning a significant operational response, including specialist resources and additional search powers.

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Among the groups expected to rally are members of the National Socialist Network.

An 'Australia unites against government corruption" rally and an anti-immigration "Save Australia" tally will start simultaneously.

A 'rally against racism' and 'Sovereignty never ceded' rallies will also take place.

It is expected more officers will be deployed to this weekend's protests including members from the public order response team, mounted branches and critical incident response team.

Officers are set to monitor Camp Sovereignty after it was attacked by members of the National Socialist Network.

"I can give them the assurance that the safety of Camp Sovereignty is foremost in our mind," Papworth said.

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Twenty people were arrested or charged after the protest 10 days ago.

They are now not allowed in the CBD as a condition of their bail.

The CBD will be declared a designated area, which will give police extra powers to search people for weapons and ask them to remove face coverings. 

This includes Spring Street, Flinders Street, Spencer Street and La Trobe Street.

Despite the expectation things may turn violent, police aren't warning the general public who aren't attending the protest to stay away from the city, instead to just plan ahead and expect a heavy police presence.

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The federal government will spend $1.7 billion over the next five years to acquire a fleet of Australian-made and designed underwater drones.

The "ghost shark" will enter service for the Royal Australian Navy at the start of next year after the Department of Defence signed a contract with manufacturer Anduril Australia to deliver, maintain and continue developing the unmanned submarines over the next half-decade.

Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles announced the deal this morning, saying the new fleet will deliver Australia "world-leading", long-range stealth capabilities.

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"There is a lot of advancement in technology about making submarines harder to detect," he said.

"We are really confident about the program that we are on in terms of giving Australia a highly capable, long-range submarine capability in the future."

The drones will conduct intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and strike operations once they enter service.

However, the government is staying tight-lipped about the exact number of ghost sharks it will acquire under the deal – other than saying it will be dozens – as well as their specific capabilities, range and how they will be used.

"This is a high capability platform, but what defines it is stealth," Marles said.

"And, as a result, what you will find from me and others in the future giving press conferences like this, is we will be very coy indeed in describing what these will do."

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The $1.7 billion deal will create about 750 new jobs in Australia, according to the government, as well as supporting a further 120 jobs.

The government had previously invested around $140 million into Anduril for the development of the ghost shark since 2022.

The announcement comes after a major military parade in Beijing to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II last week, in which a host of drone capabilities were on display, including unmanned submarines and so-called "robot wolves".

It also comes as Australia is seeking to entrench itself as the dominant security partner for Pacific nations, even as China seeks to gain more influence in the region.

Yesterday, a $500 million agreement between Canberra and Vanuatu stalled over concerns it would prevent the latter from accessing funding from Beijing for critical infrastructure projects.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said he remains confident of the deal being signed despite the delay.

Three years ago, China signed a security pact with the Solomon Islands, raising concerns that the People's Liberation Army Navy could get a foothold in the South Pacific, in one of Australia's closest neighbours.

Asked about whether it was inevitable that Beijing would get a security presence in the region, Marles said the Pacific was becoming more contested but that Australia remained in a good place to respond to challenges in the area.

"I'm really confident that we have been able to make progress in that and that we are the first partner of choice in terms of security for the nations of the Pacific," he said.

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The animal most likely to land Aussies in the emergency department is usually found in suburban backyards, not the outback or ocean.

New data from iSelect revealed that animal-related injuries accounted for almost six per cent of hospital admissions between 2023 and 2024.

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But the animals most responsible for sending Aussies to hospital might not be what you'd expect.

Dogs topped the list after causing 10,345 hospitalisations between 2023 and 2024.

In fact, dogs made up more than 30 per cent of all recorded animal-related hospitalisations in that period.

Other mammals, including cats, horses and other farm animals, ranked second with 5306 hospitalisations.

More than 2200 Aussies were hospitalised after being bitten or crushed by reptiles other than venomous snakes, which came in fourth place and accounted for 802 hospitalisations.

Non-venomous insects and arthropods ranked fifth, followed by spiders in sixth place and venomous marine animals and plants in seventh.

Contact with plant thorns and spines and sharp leaves (which count as living things) was eighth with more than 400 hospitalisations.

Sharks were way down the bottom of the list, lumped in with other marine animals at ninth place with 270 hospitalisations total.

Of course, the effects from a shark bite can be catastrophic, with an average of just under three fatalities per year from attacks over the last decade.

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Finally, contact with venomous arthropods, excluding spiders, ranked tenth.

So while sharks may seem scary, it's actually Fido landing most Aussies in the emergency department.

And that probably shouldn't come as a surprise.

Australia Post revealed in June that posties experienced 44 dog attacks every week in the first six months of 2025 – equivalent to nine daily.

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Data released last year from the National Coronial Information System revealed that dogs are among the deadliest animals in Australia.

They contributed to 82 deaths from 2001 to 2021, 38 of those due to bites.

The only animals that recorded more deaths in that period were cows and horses.

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A deer has been spotted by astonished residents on Sydney's upper north shore, as the wild animal continues to encroach on the city's suburbs in greater numbers.

The deer was photographed by a resident peering through a fence at a sports oval on Kissing Point Road in Turramurra last Monday evening.

The photo shows the deer's antlers rising above the oval's chain link fence.

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In a post on a Turramurra Facebook group, another resident said two highway patrol officers had visited his home on the same day, looking for the deer after it had been spotted near the Comenarra Parkway.

Feral deer numbers have exploded across Australia over the past few decades, with the increase described by the Invasive Species Council as the country's worst emerging animal pest problem.

Speaking in March during this year's deer breeding season, Centre for Invasive Species Solutions CEO Shauna Chadlowe warned that extreme weather events – such as droughts, floods and fires – were pushing deer into new areas.

"It's astonishing – deer have now spread to every state and territory in Australia. In fact, nearly a quarter of New South Wales and Tasmania, and almost half of Victoria are now home to established populations," she said. 

"Their numbers have increased tenfold in recent decades," she said.

According to the National Deer Action Plan, deer were introduced to Australia from Europe in the 19th century but the local population really took off in the 1990s.

Deer numbers in Australia have grown from 200,000 in 2002 to up to 2 million in 2022, according to estimates in the action plan.

The Centre for Invasive Species Solutions reports that damage caused by feral deer cost the Australian economy about $91.3 million in 2021, including $69.1 million in agricultural losses and $3.3 million in motor vehicle impacts, and $1.2 million in train collisions.

Anyone who spots a deer can report it to the federal monitoring service, DeerScan.

Poland's military says it has shot down drones that violated its airspace during a Russian attack on neighbouring Ukraine, in what is potentially a major provocation for Europe.

"Weapons have been deployed, and services are actively working to locate the downed objects," said a statement from Poland's Operational Command posted on X.

The statement said a military operation was ongoing and urged residents to stay in their homes.

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Additional information about the "drone-type objects" was not provided.

Poland is a member of the NATO alliance, a transatlantic defence pact involving the US that employs the principle that an attack on one is an attack on all.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told CNN that he has been briefed on reports of Russian drones over Poland.

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"Yes," he said when asked by CNN if he had received a briefing, as he left a dinner with President Donald Trump.

Earlier, Polish authorities closed Warsaw International Airport and the military said Polish and NATO aircraft have been scrambled as reports have surfaced of Russian drones over the country.

The Polish military's Operational Command said in a statement that "ground-based air defence and radar reconnaissance systems have reached the highest level of alert" after Russia launched massive airstrikes on Ukrainian territory.

"To ensure the security of Polish airspace, the Operational Commander of the Polish Armed Forces has activated all necessary procedures," the statement said, adding that the Polish military is "fully prepared for immediate response".

A Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) posted on the US Federal Aviation Administration's website said Warsaw Chopin Airport and at least two other airports in Poland were unavailable "due to unplanned military activity related to ensuring state security".

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Earlier, the Ukrainian Air Force said on the Telegram messaging app that drones were heading west and threatening the city of Zamosc in Poland, but the statement has since been deleted, Reuters reported.

It was not immediately clear how many drones were in Poland's airspace.

Ukrainian media reported that at least one drone was heading towards the western Polish city of Rzeszow.

CNN cannot independently verify the reports.

Rzeszów–Jasionka Airport, in the south-east of Poland, has also been closed, according to a NOTAM.

The airport has been a logistics hub for NATO aid to Ukraine, though the United States pulled its forces from the base earlier this year.

The airport in Lublin, Poland, southeast of Warsaw, was also unavailable due to military activity, another NOTAM said.

Poland earlier announced it was closing its eastern border with Russian ally Belarus, due to joint Russian-Belarusian military exercises beginning on Friday, Reuters reported.

The Zapad 25 large-scale exercises, which will take place in western Russia and Belarus, have raised security concerns not only in Poland but also in the neighbouring NATO countries on Lithuania and Latvia, according to Reuters.

"On Friday, Russian-Belarusian maneuvers, very aggressive from a military doctrine perspective, begin in Belarus, very close to the Polish border," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told a government meeting, Reuters reported.

"Therefore, for national security reasons, we will close the border with Belarus, including railway crossings, in connection with the Zapad maneuvers on Thursday at midnight," Tusk said.

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Corrie Chabau had just renewed his home insurance when the letter arrived last week.

Printed under a crisp council letterhead were details of updated flood risk mapping that could send his already expensive premium through the roof.

But Chabau is one of the lucky ones; some of his neighbours' homes could be rendered uninsurable under the proposed changes.

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Logan City Council is working on a new town plan that includes updated flood risk mapping as required by the Queensland government.

Two rivers and almost 90 creeks run through the region, which has experienced severe flooding as recently as 2022.

"This risk-based mapping considers a range of floods, from common to extremely rare, and their potential impact," Mayor Jon Raven told 9news.com.au.

"We can't stop floods but we can better understand and plan for them."

The new mapping published as part of the draft town plan last week identified areas of low, moderate and high flood risk.

About 20,000 letters were sent out to residents with properties in moderate and high-risk areas in late August.

Chabau, who has lived in Logan for more than 13 years, was one of them.

But he said the new mapping doesn't reflect his experience of floods in the area, especially on his own property.

"I get stormwater runoff in the back of my place … but that's stormwater," he said.

"That's not river flooding.

"Even through Cyclone Debbie, when we had 400mm in 20 hours, by the next day, you would not even know we had the rain.

"All the water's gone."

He fears the new flood mapping will do more harm than good by making home insurance premiums spike.

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More than half a million Australian homes are at high risk of becoming uninsurable for flood damage by 2030, according to a 2024 Climate Valuation report.

And 13 suburbs were identified as "black zone" suburbs where more than 80 per cent of homes risk becoming uninsurable by 2030.

Those black zone suburbs included Tweed Heads South and Chinderah, less than two hours away from Logan by car.

One in five homes will also have exposure to some level of riverine flooding by 2030, which could affect insurance premiums.

Since moving to Logan in the early 2010s, Chabau's premium has skyrocketed to more than $5000 a year.

The cost jumped by $1200 at his last renewal.

By comparison, the average cost for home and contents insurance in Queensland is $2735 according to Canstar, almost half of what Chabau now pays.

Some Logan residents claimed they had been quoted $17,000 to more than $30,000 for home insurance based on the new flood mapping.

Others fear their homes will become uninsurable for flood damage.

And anyone looking to sell could face new challenges in light of the changes.

"A lot of people are furious about it," Chabau said.

"They've just destroyed everyone's livelihoods.

"All the houses are basically worth nothing now, and we can't insure them."

He said that if his home insurance hits five digits, he may have to run the risk of going uninsured, as he simply can't afford the cost.

Raven, the Logan City mayor, responded to these concerns by telling 9news.com.au council has "no control" over insurance premiums.

"While flood risk may be a consideration, there are many factors driving up the value of premiums across the country, not just in Logan," he said.

Council has begun public consultation on its draft town plan, which will run for nine weeks until October 31.

It is holding more than 50 engagement events and inviting submissions from residents in response to the updated flood risk mapping.

Each submission will be reviewed and used to inform a consultation report, which will be provided to the Queensland government with the updated town plan next year.

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"The Logan Plan will be refined based on feedback where appropriate, noting there are significant legislative and policy constraints in this process," Ryan added.

But Chabau said that even if the mapping is changed, the damage has been done.

"The insurers go 'well, it says here that it might flood' and the premiums won't ever come down. It's just going to destroy everyone."

Last night, a meeting was held in Logan to discuss the proposed changes.

"To say the place was packed would be an understatement," Chabau said.

He claimed the meeting was tense and said he and other residents were unhappy with the council's response to questions about the new mapping and insurance implications.

"The worst part was as I was walking in, I heard a very elderly couple say, 'We are going to lose everything because of this,'" he added.

"That made me see red.

"How dare they cause this stress on all these people?"

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